Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's super-G

The men's super-G competition of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics was held at Whistler Creekside in Whistler, British Columbia, on Friday, February 19.

Men's super-G
at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for alpine skiing
VenueWhistler Creekside
DateFebruary 19
Competitors64 from 28 nations
Winning time1:30.34
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Aksel Lund Svindal  Norway
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Bode Miller  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Andrew Weibrecht  United States
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Men's super-G
LocationWhistler Creekside
Dave Murray Super-G
Vertical   615 m (2,018 ft)
Top elevation1,440 m (4,724 ft)  
Base elevation   825 m (2,707 ft)

The defending Olympic champion was Kjetil André Aamodt of Norway, since retired, and the reigning world champion was Didier Cuche of Switzerland. Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal was the defending World Cup Super-G champion and led the current season, ahead of Michael Walchhofer of Austria and Cuche.

Svindal won the gold medal, Bode Miller of the United States took the silver, and the bronze medalist was U.S. teammate Andrew Weibrecht; Cuche was tenth and Walchhofer was 21st. Svindal and Miller had both medaled in the downhill, each one place lower, behind Didier Défago, who was fifteenth in the super-G.

The vertical drop of the Dave Murray Super-G course was 615 m (2,018 ft), starting at an elevation of 1,440 m (4,724 ft) above sea level, with a length of 2.200 km (1.37 mi). Svindal's winning time of 90.34 seconds yielded an average course speed of 87.669 km/h (54.5 mph), with an average vertical descent speed of 6.808 m/s (22.3 ft/s).

The course was labelled as technically difficult, and eighteen did not finish the race. Patrik Järbyn of Sweden crashed badly during the race, flying in the air and landing heavily on his back. He suffered a concussion and was transferred to a hospital.[1]

Results

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The race was started at 11:30 local time, (UTC −8). At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was 3.5 °C (38 °F), and the snow condition was hard packed; the temperature at the finish was 9.1 °C (48 °F).

Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference
  19 Aksel Lund Svindal   Norway 1:30.34
  11 Bode Miller   United States 1:30.62 +0.28
  3 Andrew Weibrecht   United States 1:30.65 +0.31
4 18 Werner Heel   Italy 1:30.67 +0.33
5 20 Erik Guay   Canada 1:30.68 +0.34
6 13 Christof Innerhofer   Italy 1:30.73 +0.39
7 9 Patrick Staudacher   Italy 1:30.74 +0.40
8 15 Carlo Janka   Switzerland 1:30.83 +0.49
9 14 Tobias Grünenfelder   Switzerland 1:30.90 +0.56
10 16 Didier Cuche   Switzerland 1:31.06 +0.72
11 6 Aleš Gorza   Slovenia 1:31.07 +0.73
12 1 Kjetil Jansrud   Norway 1:31.21 +0.87
13 7 Adrien Théaux   France 1:31.24 +0.90
14 17 Benjamin Raich   Austria 1:31.35 +1.01
15 22 Didier Défago   Switzerland 1:31.43 +1.09
16 23 Ivica Kostelić   Croatia 1:31.47 +1.13
17 24 Georg Streitberger   Austria 1:31.49 +1.15
18 28 Andrej Šporn   Slovenia 1:31.58 +1.24
19 8 Ted Ligety   United States 1:31.70 +1.36
20 10 Mario Scheiber   Austria 1:31.93 +1.59
21 21 Michael Walchhofer   Austria 1:32.00 +1.66
22 36 Guillermo Fayed   France 1:32.03 +1.69
23 26 Marco Sullivan   United States 1:32.09 +1.75
32 Jan Hudec   Canada
25 39 Lars Elton Myhre   Norway 1:32.36 +2.02
26 43 Ivan Ratkić   Croatia 1:32.67 +2.33
27 42 Ferran Terra   Spain 1:32.75 +2.41
28 53 Aleksandr Khoroshilov   Russia 1:32.84 +2.50
29 40 Craig Branch   Australia 1:32.89 +2.55
30 34 Jono Brauer   Australia 1:32.92 +2.58
31 5 Gauthier de Tessieres   France 1:33.17 +2.83
32 33 Edward Drake   Great Britain 1:33.20 +2.86
33 57 Roger Vidosa   Andorra 1:33.65 +3.31
34 31 Petr Záhrobský   Czech Republic 1:33.83 +3.49
35 52 Paul de la Cuesta   Spain 1:34.03 +3.69
36 50 Stepan Zuev   Russia 1:34.13 +3.79
37 51 Jaroslav Babušiak   Slovakia 1:35.25 +4.91
38 45 Tim Cafe   New Zealand 1:35.55 +5.21
39 64 Kevin Esteve Rigail   Andorra 1:35.67 +5.33
40 48 Johnny Albertsen   Denmark 1:35.69 +5.35
41 58 Stefan Georgiev   Bulgaria 1:36.32 +5.98
42 44 Maui Gayme   Chile 1:36.56 +6.22
43 60 Igor Zakurdaev   Kazakhstan 1:36.97 +6.63
44 59 Andrei Drygin   Tajikistan 1:38.03 +7.69
45 62 Stefan Jon Sigurgeirsson   Iceland 1:39.12 +8.78
2 Stephan Keppler   Germany DNF
12 Manuel Osborne-Paradis   Canada DNF
25 Andrej Jerman   Slovenia DNF
27 Robbie Dixon   Canada DNF
29 Patrik Järbyn   Sweden DNF
30 Marco Büchel   Liechtenstein DNF
37 Natko Zrnčić-Dim   Croatia DNF
38 Hans Olsson   Sweden DNF
41 David Poisson   France DNF
46 Andreas Romar   Finland DNF
47 Benjamin Griffin   New Zealand DNF
54 Truls Ove Karlsen   Norway DNF
55 Sergei Maitakov   Russia DNF
61 Jorge Mandrú   Chile DNF
63 Arni Thorvaldsson   Iceland DNF
4 Peter Fill   Italy DSQ
35 Andrej Križaj   Slovenia DSQ
56 Martin Vráblík   Czech Republic DSQ
49 Cristian Javier Simari Birkner   Argentina DNS

References

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  1. ^ "NBC Olympics: 40-year-old Swede crashes badly in super-G". Archived from the original on 2010-02-20. Retrieved 2010-02-20.
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