Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's super-G

The Men's Super-G competition of the Torino 2006 Olympics was held at Sestriere, Italy, on Saturday, February 18.

Men's super-G
at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for alpine skiing
VenueSestriere
DateFebruary 18
Competitors63 from 27 nations
Winning time1:30.65
Medalists
Kjetil André Aamodt  Norway
Hermann Maier  Austria
Ambrosi Hoffmann  Switzerland
Men's Super-G
LocationSestriere
Kandahar Banchetta
Vertical   650 m (2,133 ft)
Top elevation2,536 m (8,320 ft)  
Base elevation1,886 m (6,188 ft)

In super-G competitions, skiers must navigate between gates at high speed, and the gates are further apart than in slalom and giant slalom competitions. As in the downhill, there is only one run of the super-G.[1]

The defending World Cup and world champion in super-G was Bode Miller of the United States, Austria's Hermann Maier led the current season and won the Olympic gold medal in 1998; the defending Olympic champion was Kjetil André Aamodt of Norway.

Aamodt won the gold medal again, Maier took the silver, and the bronze medalist was Ambrosi Hoffmann of Switzerland; Miller did not finish. Through 2018, this is the only successful Olympic title defense in a men's alpine speed event. It was Aamodt's third victory in the Olympic super-G (1992, 2002, 2006) and eighth Olympic medal.

Held on the Kandahar Banchetta piste, the course started at an elevation of 2,536 m (8,320 ft) above sea level with a vertical drop of 650 m (2,133 ft) and a course length of 2.325 km (1.44 mi). Aamodt's winning time of 90.65 seconds yielded an average course speed of 92.333 km/h (57.4 mph), with an average vertical descent rate of 7.170 m/s (23.5 ft/s).

Results

The race was started at 14:45 local time, (UTC+1). At the starting gate, the sky was mostly cloudy, the temperature was −6.5 °C (20 °F), and the snow condition was packed; the temperature at the finish was −0.5 °C (31 °F).

RankBibNameCountryTimeDifference
25 Kjetil André Aamodt  Norway 1:30.65
30 Hermann Maier  Austria 1:30.78 +0.13
22 Ambrosi Hoffmann  Switzerland 1:30.98 +0.33
4 27 Erik Guay  Canada 1:31.08 +0.43
5 28 Aksel Lund Svindal  Norway 1:31.10 +0.45
6 19 Marco Büchel  Liechtenstein 1:31.22 +0.57
7 15 Scott Macartney  United States 1:31.23 +0.58
8 16 François Bourque  Canada 1:31.27 +0.62
9 29 Daron Rahlves  United States 1:31.37 +0.72
10 26 Hannes Reichelt  Austria 1:31.39 +0.74
11 9 Antoine Dénériaz  France 1:31.49 +0.84
12 12 Didier Cuche  Switzerland 1:31.50 +0.85
13 18 Peter Fill  Italy 1:31.54 +0.89
14 14 Lasse Kjus  Norway 1:31.79 +1.14
15 33 Andrej Šporn  Slovenia 1:31.84 +1.19
16 20 Didier Défago  Switzerland 1:31.90 +1.25
17 11 Patrick Staudacher  Italy 1:31.91 +1.26
18 17 Bruno Kernen  Switzerland 1:31.95 +1.30
19 21 Christoph Gruber  Austria 1:32.00 +1.35
20 3 Manuel Osborne-Paradis  Canada 1:32.02 +1.37
21 24 Benjamin Raich  Austria 1:32.05 +1.40
22 7 John Kucera  Canada 1:32.10 +1.45
4 Finlay Mickel  Great Britain
24 13 Patrik Järbyn  Sweden 1:32.21 +1.56
2 Yannick Bertrand  France
26 10 Bjarne Solbakken  Norway 1:32.90 +2.25
27 46 Konstantin Sats  Russia 1:33.14 +2.49
28 37 Andrej Jerman  Slovenia 1:33.20 +2.55
29 40 Pavel Chestakov  Russia 1:33.48 +2.83
31 Massimiliano Blardone  Italy
31 35 Ivica Kostelić  Croatia 1:33.53 +2.88
32 32 Petr Záhrobský  Czech Republic 1:33.70 +3.05
33 47 Aleš Gorza  Slovenia 1:33.77 +3.12
34 39 Kryštof Krýzl  Czech Republic 1:34.20 +3.55
35 38 Natko Zrnčić -Dim  Croatia 1:34.49 +3.84
36 43 Ivan Ratkić  Croatia 1:34.77 +4.12
37 36 Roger Cruickshank  Great Britain 1:34.87 +4.22
38 41 Martin Vráblík  Czech Republic 1:34.90 +4.25
39 1 Gauthier de Tessières  France 1:34.94 +4.29
40 57 Jaroslav Babušiak  Slovakia 1:35.41 +4.76
41 52 Aleksandr Khoroshilov  Russia 1:35.51 +4.86
42 45 Anton Konovalov  Russia 1:35.72 +5.07
43 8 Steve Nyman  United States 1:36.22 +5.57
44 54 Duncan Grob  Chile 1:36.24 +5.59
45 53 Michał Kałwa  Poland 1:36.25 +5.60
46 44 Ivan Heimschild  Slovakia 1:36.58 +5.93
47 48 Maui Gayme  Chile 1:36.85 +6.20
48 59 Olivier Jenot  Monaco 1:37.03 +6.38
49 55 Ivan Olivari  Croatia 1:37.43 +6.78
50 58 Alexander Heath  South Africa 1:37.77 +7.12
51 60 Andrei Drygin  Tajikistan 1:37.85 +7.20
52 51 Ivars Ciaguns  Latvia 1:38.18 +7.53
53 56 Nikolay Skriabin  Ukraine 1:38.86 +8.21
54 50 Mikael Gayme  Chile 1:39.68 +9.03
55 63 Leyti Seck  Senegal 1:42.87 +12.22
56 62 Erjon Tola  Albania 1:44.27 +13.62
5 A. J. Bear  Australia DNF
6 Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin  France DNF
23 Bode Miller  United States DNF
34 Claudio Sprecher  Liechtenstein DNF
42 Ondřej Bank  Czech Republic DNF
49 Alex Antor  Andorra DNF
61 Nikolai Hentsch  Brazil DNF

References

  1. "Alpine Skiing at the 2006 Turin Winter Games: Men's Super G". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
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