Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's super-G

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Men's Super-G
at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
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Alpine skiing
VenueHakuba
DateFebruary 16
Competitors45 from 22 nations
Winning time1:34.82
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Hermann Maier  Austria
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Hans Knauss  Austria
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Didier Cuche  Switzerland
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Alpine skiing at the
1998 Winter Olympics
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Men's Super-G
LocationHakuba – Happo-One
Olympic Course I
Vertical   650 m (2,133 ft)
Top elevation1,490 m (4,888 ft)  
Base elevation   840 m (2,756 ft)

The Men's Super-G competition of the Nagano 1998 Olympics was held at Hakuba on Monday, February 16.[1][2]

The defending world champion was Atle Skardal of Norway, France's Luc Alphand was the defending World Cup Super G champion,[3][4] and Markus Wasmeier of Germany was the defending Olympic champion; all three had since retired from competition.

Just three days after a spectacular crash in the downhill, Austria's Hermann Maier returned to win the gold medal, and teammate Hans Knauss tied for the silver with Didier Cuche of Switzerland.[5][6]

The course started at an elevation of 1,490 m (4,888 ft) above sea level with a vertical drop of 650 m (2,133 ft) and a course length of 2.407 km (1.50 mi). Maier's winning time of 94.82 seconds yielded an average course speed of 91.386 km/h (56.8 mph), with an average vertical descent rate of 6.855 m/s (22.5 ft/s).

Results[]

The race was started at 08:45 local time, (UTC +9). At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was −3.2 °C (26.2 °F), and the snow condition was hard; the temperature at the finish at −2.5 °C (27.5 °F).

Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference
1st place, gold medalist(s) 8 Hermann Maier  Austria 1:34.82 —
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 17 Hans Knauss  Austria 1:35.43 +0.61
6 Didier Cuche  Switzerland
4 24 Alessandro Fattori  Italy 1:35.61 +0.79
5 15 Kjetil André Aamodt  Norway 1:35.67 +0.85
6 13 Patrik Järbyn  Sweden 1:35.72 +0.90
7 11 Daron Rahlves  United States 1:35.96 +1.14
8 22 Tommy Moe  United States 1:35.97 +1.15
9 5 Lasse Kjus  Norway 1:36.25 +1.43
10 14 Fredrik Nyberg  Sweden 1:36.31 +1.49
11 16 Bruno Kernen  Switzerland 1:36.37 +1.55
12 36 Brian Stemmle  Canada 1:36.40 +1.58
13 25 Kyle Rasmussen  United States 1:36.52 +1.70
14 12 Steve Locher  Switzerland 1:36.62 +1.80
15 3 Werner Perathoner  Italy 1:36.64 +1.82
16 9 Kristian Ghedina  Italy 1:36.70 +1.88
17 30 Jernej Koblar  Slovenia 1:36.84 +2.02
18 2 Paul Accola  Switzerland 1:36.87 +2.05
19 10 Peter Runggaldier  Italy 1:37.00 +2.18
4 Andreas Schifferer  Austria
21 28 Andrey Filichkin  Russia 1:37.29 +2.47
22 32 Enis Bećirbegović  Bosnia and Herzegovina 1:37.58 +2.76
23 18 Peter Pen  Slovenia 1:37.81 +2.99
24 33 Tsuyoshi Tomii  Japan 1:37.86 +3.04
25 1 Jean-Luc Crétier  France 1:37.95 +3.13
26 26 Jürgen Hasler  Liechtenstein 1:38.32 +3.50
27 31 Yasuyuki Takishita  Japan 1:38.39 +3.57
28 27 Aleš Brezavšček  Slovenia 1:38.54 +3.72
29 38 Vasily Bezsmelnitsyn  Russia 1:39.39 +4.57
30 37 Vedran Pavlek  Croatia 1:39.63 +4.81
31 39 Graham Bell  Great Britain 1:39.80 +4.98
32 40 Renato Gašpar  Croatia 1:39.85 +5.03
33 35 Andrew Freshwater  Great Britain 1:39.89 +5.07
34 29 Chad Fleischer  United States 1:40.19 +5.37
35 42 Tejs Broberg  Denmark 1:41.09 +6.27
36 45 Igor Yudin  Belarus 1:45.92 +11.10
37 47 Marcelo Apovian  Brazil 1:49.43 +14.61
20 Frédéric Marin-Cudraz  France DNF
41 Thomás Grob  Chile DNF
43 Zurab Dzhidzhishvili  Georgia DNF
44 Victor Gómez  Andorra DNF
46 Alex Heath  South Africa DNF
7 Stephan Eberharter  Austria DSQ
27 Nicolas Burtin  France DSQ
23 Ed Podivinsky  Canada DSQ
19 Adrien Duvillard  France DNS
34 Thomas Lödler  Croatia DNS
Source:[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Nagano 1998 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2008. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
  2. ^ "Alpine Skiing at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games: Men's Super G". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
  3. ^ "1997 World Cup standings". FIS. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
  4. ^ "1997 World Championships results". FIS. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
  5. ^ Layden, Tim (February 23, 1998). "Street fighting". Sports Illustrated. p. 40.
  6. ^ Baum, Bob (February 16, 1998). "'Herminator' comes to life again". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. p. 1B.

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