The women's

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competition of the Nagano 1998 Olympics was held at

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on Wednesday, February 11. The defending

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was

Isolde Kostner Isolde Kostner (born 20 March 1975) is an Italian former Alpine skier who won two bronze medals at the 1994 Winter Olympics and a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics. She was the Italian flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2002 Olym ...

of Italy, while Germany's

Hilde Gerg Mathilde Gerg (born 19 October 1975) is a German former alpine skier. Career She was Olympic Champion in the Slalom at the 1998 Winter Olympics, an astounding win as most of her career she was known as predominantly a speed specialist; with 1998 ...

was the defending

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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.

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of the United States won the gold medal by one-hundredth of a second, Austria's

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took the silver, and the bronze medalist was

Alexandra Meissnitzer Alexandra Meissnitzer (born 18 June 1973) is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria. Her specialities were the downhill, super-G, and giant slalom disciplines. From Abtenau, Salzburg, her father, Hans Meissnitzer, a mechanic by trade, ...

, also of Austria. Gerg was tenth and Kostner eleventh, while

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gold medalist

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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

, then broke her leg a month later in Switzerland, which ended her presence as a top competitor. The ''Olympic Course II'' started at an

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of above

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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

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, ( 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 . :

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