Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's super-G


The women's super-G competition of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympics was held at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre in PyeongChang on Saturday, 17 February.

Qualification

A total of up to 320 alpine skiers qualified across all eleven events. Athletes qualified for this event by having met the A qualification standard only, which meant having 80 or less FIS Points and being ranked in the top 500 in the Olympic FIS points list. The Points list takes into average the best results of athletes per discipline during the qualification period. Countries received additional quotas by having athletes ranked in the top 30 of the current World Cup season. After the distribution of B standard quotas, the remaining quotas were distributed using the Olympic FIS Points list, with each athlete only counting once for qualification purposes. A country could only enter a maximum of four athletes for the event.

Summary

became the Olympic champion, her first Olympic medal and the first gold medal in alpine skiing for the Czech Republic. The defending champion Anna Veith was second, and Tina Weirather was third, the first Olympic medal for Liechtenstein since 1988. The results were extraordinarily dense, with 0.01 seconds separating gold and silver medals, as well as bronze medal from the fourth place. Ledecká's victory was completely unexpected, as she had been much better known for her snowboarding achievements.
Lindsey Vonn, starting first, was leading until her time was improved by Johanna Schnarf, then Lara Gut. Weirather, skiing seventh, improved Gut's time by 0.01 seconds, pushing Vonn, 0.26 seconds behind, off the podium. Starting 15th, Veith took the lead, with the main competitors either not finishing or posting inferior times, so that she believed her first place was assured, and NBC even announced her as a champion. However, the surprising champion was Ledecká who started 26th and improved Veith's time by 0.01. Ledecká's relative lack of experience in the super-G event might have led to her victory, as she took a more aggressive line that other, more experienced skiers shied away from. After the finish, Ledecká did not believe she won and thought that somebody else's time was shown by mistake.
The race course was in length, with a vertical drop of from a starting elevation of above sea level. Ledecká's winning time of 81.11 seconds yielded an average speed of and an average vertical descent rate of.

Results

The race was started at 12:00 local time,. At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was, and the snow condition was hard.
RankBibNameCountryTimeBehind
26Ester Ledecká1:21.11
15Anna Veith1:21.12+0.01
7Tina Weirather1:21.22+0.11
5Lara Gut1:21.23+0.12
3Johanna Schnarf1:21.27+0.16
11Federica Brignone1:21.49+0.38
1Lindsey Vonn1:21.49+0.38
19Cornelia Hütter1:21.54+0.43
16Michelle Gisin1:21.57+0.46
1014Viktoria Rebensburg1:21.62+0.51
1113Sofia Goggia1:21.65+0.54
124Nadia Fanchini1:21.88+0.77
1317Ragnhild Mowinckel1:22.00+0.89
1428Breezy Johnson1:22.14+1.03
1512Laurenne Ross1:22.17+1.06
1627Alice McKennis1:22.20+1.09
176Corinne Suter1:22.24+1.13
189Nicole Schmidhofer1:22.30+1.19
1920Romane Miradoli1:22.36+1.25
2022Jennifer Piot1:22.38+1.27
2118Tamara Tippler1:22.50+1.39
2210Tiffany Gauthier1:22.56+1.45
2323Valérie Grenier1:22.77+1.66
2425Lisa Hörnblad1:22.79+1.68
2530Maruša Ferk1:23.18+2.07
2633Maryna Gąsienica-Daniel1:23.21+2.10
278Jasmine Flury1:23.30+2.19
282Tessa Worley1:23.54+2.43
2924Candace Crawford1:23.69+2.58
3032Alexandra Coletti1:24.01+2.90
3135Greta Small1:24.09+2.98
3231Petra Vlhová1:24.26+3.15
3336Kateřina Pauláthová1:24.48+3.37
3438Tina Robnik1:24.49+3.38
3534Barbara Kantorová1:25.30+4.19
3643Ania Monica Caill1:25.74+4.63
3729Roni Remme1:25.90+4.79
3841Sabrina Simader1:26.25+5.14
3937Noelle Barahona1:27.16+6.05
4040Kim Vanreusel1:27.60+6.49
4139Sarah Schleper1:27.93+6.82
4242Elvedina Muzaferija1:27.97+6.86
4345Olha Knysh1:30.60+9.49
21Kira Weidle
44Maria Shkanova