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, (UTC −8). At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was , and the snow condition was hard packed; the temperature at the finish was . Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference 19 Aksel Lund Svindal 1:30.34 — 11 Bode Miller 1:30.62 +0.28 3 Andrew Weibrecht 1:30.65 +0.31 18 Werner Heel 1:30.67 +0.33 20 Erik Guay 1:30.68 +0.34 13 Christof Innerhofer 1:30.73 +0.39 9 Patrick Staudacher 1:30.74 +0.40 15 Carlo Janka 1:30.83 +0.49 14 Tobias Grünenfelder 1:30.90 +0.56 16 Didier Cuche 1:31.06 +0.72 6 Aleš Gorza 1:31.07 +0.73 1 Kjetil Jansrud 1:31.21 +0.87 7 Adrien Théaux 1:31.24 +0.90 17 Benjamin Raich 1:31.35 +1.01 22 Didier Défago 1:31.43 +1.09 23 Ivica Kostelić 1:31.47 +1.13 24 Georg Streitberger 1:31.49 +1.15 28 Andrej Šporn 1:31.58 +1.24 8 Ted Ligety 1:31.70 +1.36 10 Mario Scheiber 1:31.93 +1.59 21 Michael Walchhofer 1:32.00 +1.66 36 Guillermo Fayed 1:32.03 +1.69 26 Marco Sullivan 1:32.09 +1.75 32 Jan Hudec 39 Lars Elton Myhre 1:32.36 +2.02 43 Ivan Ratkić 1:32.67 +2.33 42 Ferran Terra 1:32.75 +2.41 53 Aleksandr Khoroshilov 1:32.84 +2.50 40 Craig Branch 1:32.89 +2.55 34 Jono Brauer 1:32.92 +2.58 5 Gauthier de Tessieres 1:33.17 +2.83 33 Edward Drake 1:33.20 +2.86 57 Roger Vidosa 1:33.65 +3.31 31 Petr Záhrobský 1:33.83 +3.49 52 Paul de la Cuesta 1:34.03 +3.69 50 Stepan Zuev 1:34.13 +3.79 51 Jaroslav Babušiak 1:35.25 +4.91 45 Tim Cafe 1:35.55 +5.21 64 Kevin Esteve Rigail 1:35.67 +5.33 48 Johnny Albertsen 1:35.69 +5.35 58 Stefan Georgiev 1:36.32 +5.98 44 Maui Gayme 1:36.56 +6.22 60 Igor Zakurdaev 1:36.97 +6.63 59 Andrei Drygin 1:38.03 +7.69 62 Stefan Jon Sigurgeirsson 1:39.12 +8.78 2 Stephan Keppler 12 Manuel Osborne-Paradis 25 Andrej Jerman 27 Robbie Dixon 29 Patrik Järbyn 30 Marco Büchel 37 Natko Zrnčić-Dim 38 Hans Olsson 41 David Poisson 46 Andreas Romar 47 Benjamin Griffin 54 Truls Ove Karlsen 55 Sergei Maitakov 61 Jorge Mandrú 63 Arni Thorvaldsson 4 Peter Fill 35 Andrej Križaj 56 Martin Vráblík 49 Cristian Javier Simari Birkner
References
External links 2010 Winter Olympics results: Men's super-G, from https://web.archive.org/web/20091025194336/http://www.vancouver2010.com/; retrieved 2010-02-19. Results FIS results