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 | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Whistler Creekside | ||||||||||||
| Date | February 19 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 64 from 28 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 1:30.34 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Men's super-G | |
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| Location | Whistler Creekside Dave Murray Super-G |
| Vertical | 615 m (2,018 ft) |
| Top elevation | 1,440 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
editThe 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).
References
edit- ^ "NBC Olympics: 40-year-old Swede crashes badly in super-G". Archived from the original on 2010-02-20. Retrieved 2010-02-20.