The women's

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of the

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was held at

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, on Monday, 20 February; it was delayed a day due to poor weather conditions. Defending Olympic champion

Daniela Ceccarelli Daniela Ceccarelli (born 25 September 1975) is an Italian alpine skiing coach and former World Cup Alpine skier. In 2002, she won a surprise gold medal in the Super-G competition in Salt Lake City. After her retirement, she started her own ski c ...

was 37th in the current season's

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downhill standings, headed by

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from Austria, followed by teammate

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, ...

Anja Pärson Anja Sofia Tess Pärson (; born 25 April 1981) is a Swedish former alpine skier. She is an Olympic gold medalist, seven-time gold medalist at the World Championships, and two-time overall Alpine Skiing World Cup champion. This included winning ...

of Sweden was defending

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and was fourth in the current season's super-G standings. Dorfmeister won the gold medal,

Janica Kostelić Janica Kostelić (; born 5 January 1982) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and four-time Olympic gold medalist from Croatia. In addition to the Olympics, she won five gold medals at the World Championships. In World Cup competition, she w ...

of Croatia took the silver, and Meissnitzer was the bronze medalist; Pärson was twelfth and Ceccarelli was 31st. Dorfmeister had also won the

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gold medal five days earlier, and Kostelic's medal was her sixth at the Olympics. The ''Fraiteve Olympique'' course started at an

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of above

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with a vertical drop of and a course length of . Dorfmeister's winning time was 92.47 seconds, yielding an average course speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of .

Results

''Monday, 20 February 2006'' The race was started at 14:45

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, ( UTC +1). At the starting gate, the skies were mostly cloudy, the temperature was , and the snow condition was packed; the temperature at the finish was .

References

External links

Official Olympic Report

Results

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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 d ...