Men's super-G at the: XX Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() Pictogram for alpine skiing | |||||||||||||
Venue | Sestriere | ||||||||||||
Date | February 18 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 63 from 27 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 1:30.65 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||
Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics | ||
---|---|---|
![]() | ||
Combined | men | women |
Downhill | men | women |
Giant slalom | men | women |
Slalom | men | women |
Super-G | men | women |
Men's Super-G | |
---|---|
Location | Sestriere Kandahar Banchetta |
Vertical | 650 m (2,133 ft) |
Top elevation | 2,536 m (8,320 ft) |
Base elevation | 1,886 m (6,188 ft) |
The Men's Super-G competition of the Torino 2006 Olympics was held at Sestriere, Italy, "on Saturday," February 18.
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.
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).
References※
- ^ "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.