Ryan Cochran-Siegle wins silver in the Super G Alpine

Ryan Cochran-Siegle of the United States at Xfinity Birds of Prey Men's Downhill at Beaver Creek Resort on December 4, 2021 in Beaver Creek, Colorado. Photo: dustinsatloff // @usskiteam

BEIJING — Ryan Cochran-Siegle won a silver medal in the Super G alpine discipline at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games. Video coverage of his run.

Super G gates are placed closer together than Downhill gates, yet further apart than Giant Slalom gates, Slalom’s are the closest together. His time last night in the one-run race was 1 minute and 19.98 seconds which put him .04 second behind the winner.

Cochran-Siegle’s mother Barbara Ann Cohran won her own American Alpine Olympic gold medal 50 years ago.

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Cochran-Siegle attends Salt Lake City’s Westminster College where he studies engineering. In a United States Olympic Zoom press conference, he said that studying engineering definitely helps him have a dialed-in understanding of how to get the most efficient, effective speed and power out of his skis, boots, and bindings on race day.

Ryan had to overcome an injury to make it to the 2022 Olympics. He broke his neck in a world cup ski crash last year on the famed Kitzbuel course.

The Super G gold went to Austria’s Matthias Meyer with a bronze for Norweigan Aleksander Aamodt Kilde who is the boyfriend of prolific USA ski racer Mikaela Shiffrin. Shiffrin uncharacteristically missed a gate in her Beijing Olympics Giant Slalom race two days ago but will ski in as many as four more events.