The women's

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competition of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics was held at

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, on Saturday, February 20.

Andrea Fischbacher Andrea Fischbacher (born 14 October 1985) is a retired alpine ski racer from Austria. Career Born in Schwarzach im Pongau, Salzburg, Fischbacher now lives in Eben im Pongau. She made her World Cup debut in March 2004 in Sestriere, Italy, wher ...

of Austria won the gold medal,

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of Slovenia took the silver, and the bronze medalist was

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of the United States, who had won gold in the

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. The ''Franz's Super-G'' course started at an

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of above

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with a vertical drop of and a length of . Fischbacher's winning time of 80.14 seconds yielded an average course speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of .

Results

''Saturday, February 20, 2010'' The race was started at 10:00

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, ( UTC −8). At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was , and the snow condition was hard packed. The temperature at the finish was .

References

External links

2010 Winter Olympics results: Ladies' Super-G
from https://web.archive.org/web/20091025194336/http://www.vancouver2010.com/; retrieved 2010-02-19.
Results
{{DEFAULTSORT:Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics - Women's Super-G

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 ...

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