The women's
super-G competition of the
Albertville 1992 Olympics was held at
Meribel on Tuesday, 18 February.
The defending
world champion
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was
Ulrike Maier
Ulrike Maier (22 October 1967 – 29 January 1994) was a World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria, a two-time World Champion in Super-G. She competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics and the 1992 Winter Olympics.
Born in Rauris, Salzburg, where h ...
of Austria, while France's
Carole Merle
Carole Merle (; born 24 January 1964) is a former France, French Alpine skiing, Alpine skier. A specialist of Giant Slalom and Super-G, she won 22 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup races, 6 World Cup season titles and 1 FIS Alpine World Ski Cha ...
was the defending
World Cup Super-G champion, and shared the lead in the
current season with
Heidi Zeller.
Deborah Compagnoni
Deborah Compagnoni (; born 4 June 1970) is an Italian former Alpine skier who won three gold medals at the 1992, 1994, and 1998 Winter Olympics.
Biography
Deborah Compagnoni was born in Bormio, northern Lombardy, and skied with the G.S. Fore ...
of Italy won the gold medal, Merle took the silver, and
Katja Seizinger
Katja Seizinger (; born 10 May 1972) is a former World Cup alpine ski racing champion, Germany's most successful alpine skier.
Biography
Born in Datteln, North Rhine-Westphalia, Seizinger won three Olympic gold and two bronze medals, and won e ...
of Germany was the bronze medalist.
Maier was fifth, downhill champion
Kerrin Lee-Gartner
Kerrin Anne Lee-Gartner (born September 21, 1966) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medallist from Canada.
Born in Trail, British Columbia, she grew up in Rossland and raced as a youngster at Red Mountain. Lee-Gartner ...
was sixth, and Zeller was eleventh. The winning margin was 1.41 seconds; through
2018
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, it remains the largest in the event's Olympic history. On the same day at
Val-d'Isère
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, compatriot
Alberto Tomba
Alberto Tomba (born 19 December 1966 in San Lazzaro di Savena) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Italy. He was the dominant technical skier ( slalom and giant slalom) in the late 1980s and 1990s. At 182 cm and 90 kg, his powerfu ...
successfully defended his
men's giant slalom title.
The ''Piste du Corbey'' course started at an
elevation
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of above
sea level
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with a vertical drop of and a course length of . Campagnoni's winning time was 81.22 seconds, yielding an average course speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of .
Results
The race was started at 12:15
local time, (
UTC +1). At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was , and the snow condition was hard; the temperature at the finish was at .
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References
External links
Results
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