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

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

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
1st place, gold medalist(s) 19 Aksel Lund Svindal  Norway 1:30.34
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 11 Bode Miller  United States 1:30.62 +0.28
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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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