Super G, Men

Held as the third men’s Alpine skiing event at MiCo26 the Super G took place on the traditional slope in Bormio, which usually hosted World Cup races in December. The ongoing Super G World Cup had seen five different winners and 10 different skiers placing in the top three. The winners were Vincent Kriechmayr (Beaver Creek), Jan Zabystřan (Val Gardena), Marco Schwarz (Livigno), and Giovanni Franzoni (Wengen), while Marco Odermatt (SUI) was the only skier to win two events, Copper Mountain and the final race before the Games in Kitzbühel. Odermatt and Switzerland’s Franjo von Allmen were the only racers to make three podiums in the 2025/26 season. This also gave Odermatt the lead in the ongoing Super G World Cup followed by three Austrians – Kriechmayr, Stefan Babinsky, and Raphael Haaser. The winner of the 2025 Super G race in Bormio was Fredrik Møller, securing his maiden World Cup win, while in 2022 and 2023 the winner was Odermatt. Odermatt also won the last three Super G Crystal Globes (2023-25) and was the reigning World Champion from 2025.

The early pace was set by France’s Nils Allègre (bib #1) and American Ryan Cochran-Siegle (bib #3), as the race day saw warm and sunny weather with difficult snow conditions, making it difficult for the higher bib numbers. Only von Allmen (bib #7), who started first of the favourites, was able to better the time set by Cochran-Siegle. Three starters later and under even more difficult circumstances Odermatt (bib #10) managed the third best time, giving him bronze this time after finishing fourth in the downhill and winning silver in the team combined.

Von Allmen became the first ever Olympic champion in men’s Super G for Switzerland and became the first ever skier to win the speed double (downhill and Super G) at the same Games. He also became the third male Alpine skier to win three gold medals at the same Games, after Toni Sailer (1956) and Jean-Claude Killy (1968), also achieved by Croatian Janica Kostelić in 2002.

Only 42 competitors started the race which made it the smallest field ever, less than the 45 starters from Nagano 1998. Von Allmen won the race with an average speed of 101.86 km/hr and was 3.67 metres ahead of Cochran-Siegle. Von Allmen and Cochran-Siegle also gave manufacturer Head a one-two finish with Stöckli adding another medal with bronze.