Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's super-G


The Men's Super-G competition of the Salt Lake 2002 Olympics was held at Snowbasin on Saturday, February 16.
The defending world champion was Daron Rahlves of the United States, Austria's Hermann Maier was the defending Olympic and World Cup Super G champion, and teammate Stephan Eberharter led the current season. Maier was out for the season after a serious motorcycle accident in August.
Ten years after his first Olympic title in 1992, Kjetil André Aamodt of Norway won his second super-G gold, and his second gold of the 2002 Games. Eberharter took the silver, and teammate Andreas Schifferer was the bronze medalist; Rahlves was eighth.
The course started at an elevation of above sea level with a vertical drop of and a course length of. Aamodt's winning time of 81.58 seconds yielded an average course speed of, with an average vertical descent rate of.

Results

The race was started at 10:00 local time,. At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was, and the snow condition was hard; the temperature at the finish was lower at.
RankBibNameCountryTimeDifference
3Kjetil André Aamodt1:21.58—
7Stephan Eberharter1:21.68+0.10
11Andreas Schifferer1:21.83+0.25
10Fritz Strobl1:21.92+0.34
15Bjarne Solbakken1:22.10+0.52
13Didier Défago1:22.27+0.69
8Christoph Gruber1:22.35+0.77
4Daron Rahlves1:22.48+0.90
33Thomas Vonn1:23.22+1.64
101Paul Accola1:23.33+1.75
1125Patrik Järbyn1:23.40+1.82
1228Tobias Grünenfelder1:23.43+1.85
1330Gregor Sparovec1:23.52+1.94
132Marco Büchel1:23.52+1.94
1529Jernej Koblar1:23.82+2.24
1520Sébastien Fournier1:23.82+2.24
1722Roland Fischnaller1:23.87+2.29
1818Patrick Staudacher1:23.95+2.37
1914Kenneth Sivertsen1:24.16+2.58
2023Christophe Saioni1:24.28+2.70
2117Andrej Jerman1:24.35+2.77
2216Max Rauffer1:24.54+2.96
2340Pavel Chestakov1:25.16+3.58
2443Petr Záhrobský1:25.67+4.09
2534Scott Macartney1:25.80+4.22
2624Kurt Sulzenbacher1:26.44+4.86
2739Craig Branch1:27.15+5.57
2842Ivan Heimschild1:27.74+6.16
2953Nikolay Skriabin1:27.84+6.26
3045Nicolas Arsel1:28.55+6.97
3150Duncan Grob1:30.35+8.77
3252Agustín García1:30.59+9.01
3354Paul Schwarzacher-Joyce1:31.30+9.72
3456Péter Vincze1:50.40+28.82
6Fredrik Nyberg
9Lasse Kjus
12Alessandro Fattori
19Claude Crétier
21Darin McBeath
26Jürgen Hasler
31Marco Sullivan
32Thomas Grandi
36Michael Riegler
37Borek Zakouril
38Ed Podivinsky
41Andrey Filichkin
44Yasuyuki Takishita
46Mikael Gayme
48Sergey Komarov
49Maui Gayme
51Vassilis Dimitriadis
55Andrei Drygin
5Didier Cuche
27Peter Pen
35A. J. Bear
47Ondřej Bank