The men's super-G competition of the Nagano 1998 Olympics was held at Hakuba on Monday, February 16.
The defending world champion was Atle Skardal of Norway, France's Luc Alphand was the defending World Cup Super G champion, and Markus Wasmeier of Germany was the defending Olympic champion; all three had since retired from competition.
Just three days after a spectacular crash in the downhill, Austria's Hermann Maier returned to win the gold medal, and teammate Hans Knauss tied for the silver with Didier Cuche of Switzerland.
The course started at an elevation of above sea level with a vertical drop of and a course length of . Maier's winning time of 94.82 seconds yielded an average course speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of .
Results The race was started at 08:45 local time, (UTC +9). At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was , and the snow condition was hard; the temperature at the finish at . Rank BibNameCountryTimeDifference 8 Hermann Maier 1:34.82 — 17 Hans Knauss 1:35.43 +0.616 Didier Cuche 4 24 Alessandro Fattori 1:35.61 +0.79 5 15 Kjetil André Aamodt 1:35.67 +0.85 6 13 Patrik Järbyn 1:35.72 +0.90 7 11 Daron Rahlves 1:35.96 +1.14 8 22 Tommy Moe 1:35.97 +1.15 9 5 Lasse Kjus 1:36.25 +1.43 10 14 Fredrik Nyberg 1:36.31 +1.49 11 16 Bruno Kernen 1:36.37 +1.55 12 36 Brian Stemmle 1:36.40 +1.58 13 25 Kyle Rasmussen 1:36.52 +1.70 14 12 Steve Locher 1:36.62 +1.80 15 3 Werner Perathoner 1:36.64 +1.82 16 9 Kristian Ghedina 1:36.70 +1.88 17 30 Jernej Koblar 1:36.84 +2.02 18 2 Paul Accola 1:36.87 +2.0519 10 Peter Runggaldier 1:37.00 +2.184 Andreas Schifferer 21 28 Andrey Filichkin 1:37.29 +2.47 22 32 Enis Bećirbegović 1:37.58 +2.76 23 18 Peter Pen 1:37.81 +2.99 24 33 Tsuyoshi Tomii 1:37.86 +3.04 25 1 Jean-Luc Crétier 1:37.95 +3.13 26 26 Jürgen Hasler 1:38.32 +3.50 27 31 Yasuyuki Takishita 1:38.39 +3.57 28 27 Aleš Brezavšček 1:38.54 +3.72 29 38 Vasily Bezsmelnitsyn 1:39.39 +4.57 30 37 Vedran Pavlek 1:39.63 +4.81 31 39 Graham Bell 1:39.80 +4.98 32 40 Renato Gašpar 1:39.85 +5.03 33 35 Andrew Freshwater 1:39.89 +5.07 34 29 Chad Fleischer 1:40.19 +5.37 35 42 Tejs Broberg 1:41.09 +6.27 36 45 Igor Yudin 1:45.92 +11.10 37 47 Marcelo Apovian 1:49.43 +14.6120 Frédéric Marin-Cudraz DNF 41 Thomás Grob DNF 43 Zurab Dzhidzhishvili DNF 44 Victor Gómez DNF 46 Alex Heath DNF 7 Stephan Eberharter DSQ27 Nicolas Burtin DSQ23 Ed Podivinsky DSQ19Adrien DuvillardDNS34Thomas LödlerDNS
References
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