 Next for him was the combined, which consisted of one run of the downhill on 10 February and two slalom runs of 11 February.As he crashed in the downhill segment, he was not allowed to participate in the slalom portions of the competition.In the single leg Super-G held on 16 February, he won his first Olympic medal, finishing second in a time of 1 minute and 11.77 seconds, which was nearly three-quarters of a second behind the gold medallist Kjetil André Aamodt of Norway.