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, (UTC−7). 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 . Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference 3 Kjetil André Aamodt 1:21.58 — 7 Stephan Eberharter 1:21.68 +0.10 11 Andreas Schifferer 1:21.83 +0.25 10 Fritz Strobl 1:21.92 +0.34 15 Bjarne Solbakken 1:22.10 +0.52 13 Didier Défago 1:22.27 +0.69 8 Christoph Gruber 1:22.35 +0.77 4 Daron Rahlves 1:22.48 +0.90 33 Thomas Vonn 1:23.22 +1.64 10 1 Paul Accola 1:23.33 +1.75 11 25 Patrik Järbyn 1:23.40 +1.82 12 28 Tobias Grünenfelder 1:23.43 +1.8513 30 Gregor Šparovec 1:23.52+1.94 2 Marco Büchel 15 29 Jernej Koblar 1:23.82+2.24 20 Sébastien Fournier 17 22 Roland Fischnaller 1:23.87 +2.29 18 18 Patrick Staudacher 1:23.95 +2.37 19 14 Kenneth Sivertsen 1:24.16 +2.58 20 23 Christophe Saioni 1:24.28 +2.70 21 17 Andrej Jerman 1:24.35 +2.77 22 16 Max Rauffer 1:24.54 +2.96 23 40 Pavel Chestakov 1:25.16 +3.58 24 43 Petr Záhrobský 1:25.67 +4.09 25 34 Scott Macartney 1:25.80 +4.22 26 24 Kurt Sulzenbacher 1:26.44 +4.86 27 39 Craig Branch 1:27.15 +5.57 28 42 Ivan Heimschild 1:27.74 +6.16 29 53 Nikolay Skriabin 1:27.84 +6.26 30 45 Nicolas Arsel 1:28.55 +6.97 31 50 Duncan Grob 1:30.35 +8.77 32 52 Agustín García 1:30.59 +9.01 33 54 Paul Schwarzacher-Joyce 1:31.30 +9.72 34 56 Péter Vincze 1:50.40 +28.82 6 Fredrik Nyberg 9 Lasse Kjus 12 Alessandro Fattori 19 Claude Crétier 21 Darin McBeath 26 Jürgen Hasler 31 Marco Sullivan 32 Thomas Grandi 36 Michael Riegler 37 Borek Zakouril 38 Ed Podivinsky 41 Andrey Filichkin 44 Yasuyuki Takishita 46 Mikael Gayme 48 Sergey Komarov 49 Maui Gayme 51 Vassilis Dimitriadis 55 Andrei Drygin 5 Didier Cuche 27 Peter Pen 35 A. J. Bear 47 Ondřej Bank
References
External links Official Olympic Report Results FIS results