The women's
super-G
Super giant slalom, or super-G, is a racing discipline of alpine skiing. Along with the faster downhill, it is regarded as a "speed" event, in contrast to the technical events giant slalom and slalom. It debuted as an official World Cup event ...
competition of the
Nagano 1998 Olympics was held at
Hakuba on Wednesday, February 11.
The defending
world champion was
Isolde Kostner
Isolde Kostner (born 20 March 1975) is an Italian former Alpine skiing, Alpine skier who won two bronze medals at the 1994 Winter Olympics, 1994 Winter Olympics and a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics, 2002 Winter Olympics. She was the It ...
of Italy, while Germany's
Hilde Gerg was the defending
World Cup
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Super G champion.
Defending Olympic champion
Diann Roffe had retired from competition in 1994. This was the opening women's alpine event of these Olympics.
Picabo Street of the United States won the gold medal by one-hundredth of a second, Austria's
Michaela Dorfmeister
Michaela Dorfmeister (born 25 March 1973) is an Austrian former alpine skiing, alpine ski racer who competed in the Olympic Games and FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup. Her specialities were both the downhill and the super-G disciplines, althou ...
took the silver, and the bronze medalist was
Alexandra Meissnitzer, also of Austria.
Gerg was tenth and Kostner eleventh, while
downhill gold medalist
Katja Seizinger was sixth.
Street had never won a super-G event, though she had two World Cup podiums; her nine World Cup wins were all in downhill. Returning from injuries,
[ this was the final podium of her career; she was sixth in the downhill, then broke her leg a month later in Switzerland,]elevation
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of above sea level
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with a vertical drop of and a length of . Street's winning time was 78.02 seconds, yielding an average course speed of
, with an average vertical descent rate of .
Results
The race was started at 13:00 local time, ( UTC +9). At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was , and the snow condition was hard; the temperature at the finish was .
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References
External links
FIS resultsResults
{{DEFAULTSORT:Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics - Women's super-G
Women's super-G
Olymp
Women's events at the 1998 Winter Olympics