Ben Ogden '22
Cross-country skier Ben Ogden ’22, appearing in his second Winter Olympics, has won two silver medals, becoming the first Catamount to score multiple podium spots at the same Olympic Games. On Tuesday, Feb. 10, Ogden won the silver medal in the cross-country sprint event, which made him the first U.S. male to medal in the sport since Vermont native Bill Koch won silver at the 1976 Winter Olympics, in Innsbruck, Austria. Eight days later, on Feb. 18, he and his teammate, Gus Schumacher, earned the silver spot in the men's cross-country team sprint.
"It's insane. Man, we proved today and all week we are here to stay and the USA guys are in good form, so it was awesome," Ogden said.
Ogden, a graduate of UVM’s College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences with a degree in mechanical engineering, finished the high-intensity, 1.5-kilometer sprint with a 3:40.61-minute time, finishing just over a second behind gold medalist Johannes Hosflot Klaebo of Norway.
“I wanted to bring it home for my family and bring it home for Vermont,” Ogden said after the Feb. 10 race.
Paula Moltzan
In Alpine skiing on Tuesday, in the inaugural alpine women's team combined event, Paula Moltzan who studied biology at UVM, joined her teammate Jacqueline Wiles to claim the bronze medal in the new event, which combines one downhill run and one slalom run per pair. Moltzan and Wiles narrowly edged out their U.S. teammates Mikaela Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson, who finished fourth in the event. This is Moltzan’s second appearance in a Winter Olympics, and the first time she has medaled.
Ryan Cochran-Siegle
On Wednesday, Ryan Cochran-Siegle, who studied engineering management at UVM, won the silver medal in the men’s super-G event with a time of 1:25:45. There might have been a moment of déjà vu for Cochran-Siegle–he won the silver in the same event at his first Winter Olympic appearance, at Beijing in 2022. And Wednesday’s medal came on the 54th anniversary of his mother, Barbara Cochran ’78 winning the gold medal in slalom at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.
For more up-to-date information on events and UVM athletes, visit the UVM Athletics 2026 Winter Olympics site. More news about Winter Olympic events can be found at NBC’s Olympic site.
