Carrabassett Valley native Sam Morse placed 23rd in the men’s super-G on Wednesday at Stelvio Ski Centre in Bormio, Italy.
Morse finished in 1 minute, 27.12 seconds.
Franjo von Allmen of Switzerland won the gold medal with a time of 1:25.32. It was the third Olympic gold for Allmen in five days.
American Ryan Cochran-Siegle won silver for a second straight Olympics and Switzerland’s Marco Odermatt took home the bronze.
The 24-year-old von Allmen became the third men’s Alpine racer to win three events at one Winter Olympics. The other two are legends of the sport, Jean-Claude Killy of France at the 1968 Grenoble Games, and Austria’s Anton “Toni” Sailer at the 1956 Games in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.
Von Allmen won the downhill on Saturday and paired with Tanguy Nef to win the inaugural team combined event Monday.
“I have to be very honest, as a boy that was not necessarily my dream to become a winner at the Olympics,” von Allmen recently told the Associated Press. “I was a skier because I really enjoyed it.”
Morse, who secured his spot on Team USA in January, made his Olympic debut at these Games. He finished 19th in the downhill on Saturday.
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