The Men's Super G competition of the Calgary 1988 Olympics was held at Nakiska on Sunday, February 21. This was the Olympic debut of the event.
The defending world champion was Pirmin Zurbriggen of Switzerland, who was also the defending World Cup Super G champion and led the current season.
France's Franck Piccard won the gold medal, Helmut Mayer of Austria took the silver, and Lars-Börje Eriksson of Sweden was the bronze medalist. Zurbriggen tied for fifth, more than two seconds behind. Italy's Alberto Tomba lasted three gates and did not finish. It was the first Olympic alpine gold for France in twenty years, since the sweep by Jean-Claude Killy in 1968.
The course started at an elevation of above sea level with a vertical drop of and a course length of . Piccard's winning time was 99.66 seconds, yielding an average 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, it was snowing, the temperature was , and the snow condition was hard. The temperature at the finish was . Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference 5 Franck Piccard 1:39.66 — 10 Helmut Mayer 1:40.96 +1.30 1 Lars-Börje Eriksson 1:41.08 +1.42 4 17 Hubert Strolz 1:41.11 +1.45 5 14 Pirmin Zurbriggen 1:41.96 +2.30 5 7 Günther Mader 1:41.96 +2.30 7 23 Luc Alphand 1:42.27 +2.61 8 8 Leonhard Stock 1:42.36 +2.70 9 25 Tomaž Čižman 1:42.47 +2.81 10 20 Ivano Camozzi 1:42.66 +3.00 11 4 Heinz Holzer 1:42.88 +3.22 12 13 Andreas Wenzel 1:43.00 +3.34 13 37 Jim Read 1:43.01 +3.35 14 27 Shinya Chiba 1:43.03 +3.37 15 15 Franz Heinzer 1:43.32 +3.66 16 32 Klemen Bergant 1:43.41 +3.75 17 19 Günther Marxer 1:44.16 +4.50 18 35 Tiger Shaw 1:44.26 +4.60 19 12 Felix Belczyk 1:44.31 +4.65 20 36 Niklas Lindqvist 1:44.88 +5.22 20 28 Yves Tavernier 1:44.88 +5.22 22 40 Rob Boyd 1:45.04 +5.38 23 31 Adrian Bireš 1:45.33 +5.67 24 52 Matthias Hubrich 1:45.46 +5.80 24 29 Jeff Olson 1:45.46 +5.80 26 33 Carlo Gerosa 1:45.82 +6.16 27 38 Peter Jurko 1:46.03 +6.37 28 49 Silvio Wille 1:46.08 +6.42 29 48 Nigel Smith 1:47.15 +7.49 30 34 Bill Hudson 1:47.29 +7.63 31 60 Richard Biggins 1:47.38 +7.72 32 84 Elias Majdalani 1:47.58 +7.92 33 61 Juan Pablo Santiagos 1:48.74 +9.08 34 26 Martin Bell 1:48.82 +9.16 35 53 Graham Bell 1:48.98 +9.32 36 58 Jorge Pujol 1:49.33 +9.67 37 63 Paulo Oppliger 1:49.71 +10.05 38 59 Nahum Orobitg 1:53.22 +13.56 39 65 Jorge Birkner 1:53.79 +14.13 40 67 Park Jae-hyuk 1:53.89 +14.23 41 87 Hur Seung-Wook 1:55.13 +15.47 42 66 Hubertus von Hohenlohe 1:56.03 +16.37 43 94 Resul Sare 1:57.65 +17.99 44 90 Yakup Kadri Birinci 1:59.32 +19.66 45 72 Nicola Ercolani 1:59.70 +20.04 46 77 Ioannis Kapraras 2:02.06 +22.40 47 93 Göksay Demirhan 2:02.22 +22.56 48 68 Sokratis Aristodimou 2:03.10 +23.44 49 83 Alex Christian Benoit 2:05.80 +26.14 50 88 Christian Bruderer 2:05.99 +26.33 51 73 Fabio Guardigli 2:06.59 +26.93 52 89 Jason Edelmann 2:09.93 +30.27 53 91 Patrice Martell 2:10.69 +31.03 54 86 Fabrice Notari 2:11.73 +32.07 55 99 Ong Ching-Ming 2:17.22 +37.56 56 78 Walter Sandza 2:25.95 +46.29 57 82 Lin Chi-Liang 2:30.81 +51.15 - 98 Carlos Andrés Bruderer DNF - - 97 Nam Won-gi DNF - - 85 Daníel Hilmarsson DNF - - 80 Javier Rivara DNF - - 79 Federico van Ditmar DNF - - 86 Félix Flechas DNF - - 75 Kevin Wilson DNF - - 70 Kang Nak-youn DNF - - 69 Alekhis Fotiadis DNF - - 62 Gerard Escoda DNF - - 56 Delfin Campo DNF - - 55 Nils Linneberg DNF - - 54 Konstantin Chistyakov DNF - - 51 Alain Villiard DNF - - 50 Frank Wörndl DNF - - 47 Sergey Petrik DNF - - 46 Simon Wi Rutene DNF - - 45 Finn Christian Jagge DNF - - 43 Niklas Henning DNF - - 42 Robert Büchel DNF - - 41 Katsuhito Kumagai DNF - - 39 Luis Fernández Ochoa DNF - - 30 Philippe Verneret DNF - - 24 Steven Lee DNF - - 22 Atle Skårdal DNF - - 21 Jan Einar Thorsen DNF - - 18 Daniel Mahrer DNF - - 16 Martin Hangl DNF - - 11 Alberto Tomba DNF - - 9 Peter Roth DNF - - 6 Markus Wasmeier DNF - - 3 Marc Girardelli DNF - - 2 Michael Eder DNF - - 96 Tang Wei-tsu DQ - - 81 Ignacio Birkner DQ - - 74 Riccardo Stacchini DQ - - 44 A. J. Kitt DQ - 100 F. Alfredo Rego DNS 95 Ahmet Demir DNS 92 Carlos Pruneda DNS 71 Giannis Stamatiou DNS 64 Mauricio Rotella DNS 57 Ronald Duncan DNS
References
External links FIS results