Franjo Von Allmen Makes History at the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games

Franjo von Allmen won the gold medal in the Men’s Super-G at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games. With bib number seven, he completed a flawless run from start to finish on the Stelvio course in Bormio, defeating US skier Ryan Cochran-Siegle and teammate Marco Odermatt to claim his third gold at the Milano Cortina Games.

After winning gold in the Downhill and the Team Combined event, the 24-year-old Swiss skier also won the Super-G to claim the double in the speed events. Only two men, Toni Sailer in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1956 and Jean-Claude Killy in Grenoble in 1968, and one woman, Janica Kostelic in Salt Lake in 2002, have achieved that before him. He is also the first Swiss to win the gold medal in the Super-G event, a discipline that has been part of the program since 1988 in Calgary. Von Allmen is the first Swiss ski racer to win two gold medals at the Winter Games. Now he has three, the first Swiss athlete in history to achieve this feat.

"I still haven’t fully understood what’s happening. It feels like a dream I don’t want to wake up from. Honestly, at the finish line, I was convinced it wouldn’t be enough for the podium. Certainly not for gold. Somehow, I also had luck on my side with my starting number. Everything is coming together perfectly for me right now," Von Allmen said.

Ryan Cochran-Siegle secured his position on the Super-G podium, repeating his result from Beijing 2022. "I was really happy with my ski today. I did not expect this," he said.

Marco Odermatt, the leader of the Alpine Ski World Cup, has returned to the Olympic podium, earning a bronze medal this time after winning a silver in the Team Combined event two days earlier.

"I won bronze, and you have to be happy if you win an Olympic medal for sure. But also I wanted a little bit more today, I wanted the gold medal," Odermatt said.