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.
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, starting at an elevation of above sea level, with a length of. Svindal's winning time of 90.34 seconds yielded an average course speed of, with an average vertical descent speed of.
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.

Results

The race was started at 11:30 local time,. At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was, and the snow condition was hard packed; the temperature at the finish was.
RankBibNameCountryTimeDifference
19Aksel Lund Svindal1:30.34
11Bode Miller1:30.62+0.28
3Andrew Weibrecht1:30.65+0.31
18Werner Heel1:30.67+0.33
20Erik Guay1:30.68+0.34
13Christof Innerhofer1:30.73+0.39
9Patrick Staudacher1:30.74+0.40
15Carlo Janka1:30.83+0.49
14Tobias Grünenfelder1:30.90+0.56
16Didier Cuche1:31.06+0.72
6Aleš Gorza1:31.07+0.73
1Kjetil Jansrud1:31.21+0.87
7Adrien Théaux1:31.24+0.90
17Benjamin Raich1:31.35+1.01
22Didier Défago1:31.43+1.09
23Ivica Kostelić1:31.47+1.13
24Georg Streitberger1:31.49+1.15
28Andrej Šporn1:31.58+1.24
8Ted Ligety1:31.70+1.36
10Mario Scheiber1:31.93+1.59
21Michael Walchhofer1:32.00+1.66
36Guillermo Fayed1:32.03+1.69
26Marco Sullivan1:32.09+1.75
32Jan Hudec1:32.09+1.75
39Lars Elton Myhre1:32.36+2.02
43Ivan Ratkić1:32.67+2.33
42Ferran Terra1:32.75+2.41
53Aleksandr Khoroshilov1:32.84+2.50
40Craig Branch1:32.89+2.55
34Jono Brauer1:32.92+2.58
5Gauthier de Tessieres1:33.17+2.83
33Edward Drake1:33.20+2.86
57Roger Vidosa1:33.65+3.31
31Petr Záhrobský1:33.83+3.49
52Paul de la Cuesta1:34.03+3.69
50Stepan Zuev1:34.13+3.79
51Jaroslav Babušiak1:35.25+4.91
45Tim Cafe1:35.55+5.21
64Kevin Esteve Rigail1:35.67+5.33
48Johnny Albertsen1:35.69+5.35
58Stefan Georgiev1:36.32+5.98
44Maui Gayme1:36.56+6.22
60Igor Zakurdaev1:36.97+6.63
59Andrei Drygin1:38.03+7.69
62Stefan Jon Sigurgeirsson1:39.12+8.78
2Stephan Keppler
12Manuel Osborne-Paradis
25Andrej Jerman
27Robbie Dixon
29Patrik Järbyn
30Marco Büchel
37Natko Zrnčić-Dim
38Hans Olsson
41David Poisson
46Andreas Romar
47Benjamin Griffin
54Truls Ove Karlsen
55Sergei Maitakov
61Jorge Mandrú
63Arni Thorvaldsson
4Peter Fill
35Janez Ibrahimović
56Martin Vráblík
49Cristian Javier Simari Birkner