Nine current or former UVM students are taking part in the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina, Italy. Five days into the competition, two of those athletes have medaled.

Cross-country skier Ben Ogden ’22, appearing in his second Winter Olympics, won the silver medal in the cross-country sprint event on Tuesday, becoming 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. 

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 race.

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.

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.