The Swiss Franjo von Allmen won a new Olympic gold medal on Wednesday by winning the super-G, signing a historic hat-trick on the Stelvio in Bormio where he also won the downhill on Saturday and the team combined on Monday. The Frenchman Nils Allègre failed at the foot of the podium.

Published on: 02/11/2026 - 2:00 p.m.

The Swiss Franjo von Allmen is unstoppable at the 2026 Winter Games. The skier won a third gold medal by winning the super-G event on Wednesday February 11 on the Stelvio in Bormio where he also won the downhill on Saturday and the team combined on Monday.

At 24 years old and for his first Olympics, he beat the American Ryan Cochran-Siegle (+13/100th) and his Swiss teammate Marco Odermatt (+28/100th) on Wednesday. The Frenchman Nils Allègre took a frustrating 4th place, three hundredths from bronze (+31/100th).

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A name in ski legend

By winning his third Olympic title in just five days, Franjo von Allmen joins skiing legends Toni Sailer (1956) and Jean-Claude Killy (1968), the only ones before him to have achieved a hat-trick in alpine skiing in the same edition of the Games. At the time there were only three disciplines on the program (downhill, giant, slalom).

On cloud nine since his downhill title on Saturday, placed squarely in orbit after his victory in the team combined on Monday, Von Allmen set off on Wednesday with a smile on his face. Not as imperial as on the downhill, he still rode on the confidence accumulated in recent days to manage to open a small gap and get ahead of the American Cochran-Siegle at the wire. Seeing his provisional lead, Von Allmen initially shook his head in the finish area, not sure that his performance today was enough to win.

But behind him, not helped by the snow which quickly warmed up on the Stelvio, the other favorites did not do better. World number 1 Marco Odermatt, a knife between his teeth to win his first title of the fortnight after his disappointment in the downhill (4th) and silver in the team combined, did not find a solution. Well off to a good start, he finally finished 28 hundredths behind Von Allmen and left the track in disappointment.

Allègre's tears

The Italians Giovanni Franzoni (6th at 63/100) and Dominik Paris (fall and retirement) also missed out. The most frustrated will undoubtedly be the Frenchman Nils Allègre, who fails in fourth place.

Starting with bib 1, the skier from Serre-Chevalier had a clean and solid round but the hundredths did not go in his favor. “Today, I am inconsolable,” declared Nils Allègre, totally dejected after his fourth place, “the hardest moment of (his) career”.

In tears several times during his media journey transformed into a station of the cross, the skier from Serre-Chevalier failed just three hundredths behind the third place of the Swiss Marco Odermatt and 31/100th from the gold won by Franjo von Allmen. “Three hundredths, we can find them everywhere, if I look at the detail with the camera, but that doesn't interest me. The harsh reality of high-level sport is that today there are three guys on the box and there is a guy who is 4th, and that one is me, at three hundredths, and it's hard,” he said, his eyes red, in the mixed zone.

"It's extremely hard sportingly. It's the hardest moment of my career. Today I'm inconsolable," he added. If Allègre, 32, was so dejected it is because he came within a hair's breadth of great happiness with his bib 1. But also, and perhaps even above all, because it is not the first time that this has happened to him.

Winner of a super-G in the World Cup in 2024, he has accumulated places of honor in recent months with two fourth places in December (the "idiot's place", he said then) and a 5th place in the Kitzbühel downhill in January. In Bormio, after a good 8th place in the downhill on Saturday, he finished fifth again, 13/100ths off the podium, in the team combined on Monday with Clément Noël.

“I finished fourth three times this year, fifth twice, it’s very hard to swallow. I feel frustration, disappointment, anger and still pride in my state of mind for the week, in my commitment, in my courage. But I am angry at the twist of fate,” he said again, before setting off again with heavy steps.

With AFP

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