The Men's Super G competition of the Calgary 1988 Olympics was held at

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on Sunday, February 21. This was the Olympic debut of the event. The defending

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was

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of Switzerland, who was also the defending

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Super G champion and led the current season. France's

Franck Piccard Franck Piccard (born 17 September 1965) is a French former Alpine skier. A native of Les Saisies, Piccard won a total of four Alpine skiing World Cup races. At the 1988 Olympics in Calgary he won a gold medal in the Super-G competition (the ...

won the gold medal,

Helmut Mayer Helmut Mayer (born 4 March 1966 in Verditz) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria. At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary he won a silver medal in the Super-G competition at Nakiska. He also won a silver medal in the giant slal ...

of Austria took the silver, and

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of Sweden was the bronze medalist. Zurbriggen tied for fifth, more than two seconds behind. Italy's

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lasted three gates and did not finish. It was the first Olympic alpine gold for France in twenty years, since the sweep by

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. The course started at an

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of above

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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

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, ( UTC −7). At the starting gate, it was snowing, the temperature was , and the snow condition was hard. The temperature at the finish was . :

References

External links

FIS results
{{DEFAULTSORT:Alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics - Men's Super G Men's Super G

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