Wood Off To Great Start In Paralympic Games

BEIJING–Spencer Wood got off to a busy and successful start here at the Paralympic Games, competing in three events in the first four days of the games in Para Alpine Skiing.  

Wood competed in the downhill, giant slalom, and super combined events on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday finishing in the top 20 in all races.  He finished 16th in the men's downhill standing race on Saturday, finishing second among five Americans in the race, just one spot behind Andrew Haraghey.  

In Sunday's, Men's Super G Standing race, he finished 12th, the top American, and was just 56-hundredths of a second out of the top 10.   

In his third race in three days Monday, he took part in the Super G Combined Standing event that includes one run of a Super G and one run of slalom.  In the Super G run, he again had the 12th fastest time in the field, and in the slalom run he finished 15th, and overall he took 14th in the competition.  

Wood is in his second Paralympics, also competing in 2018 in PeyongChang while he was a sophomore at CU.  In PeyongChang, he finished 25th in the GS and did not finish the slalom race.  

Wood and CU sophomore Kyle Taulman are CU's representatives at the games, both in Para Alpine Skiing.

The remaining events for the men in Beijing are the giant slalom on Thursday and slalom on Saturday.