Alpine Skiing At The 1992 Winter Olympics – Men's Super-G
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The men'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 Albertville 1992 Olympics was held at
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on Sunday, 16 February. The defending
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was
Stephan Eberharter Stephan "Steff" Eberharter (born 24 March 1969) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria. Biography Born in Brixlegg, Tyrol, Eberharter was the winner of the overall World Cup title in 2002 and 2003, as well as the season titles in ...
of Austria, while Switzerland's
Franz Heinzer Franz Heinzer (born 11 April 1962 in Rickenbach, Schwyz, Switzerland) is a former alpine ski racer, who specialized in downhill. He was World Cup champion in downhill three consecutive seasons (1991, 1992, 1993), second only to Franz Klammer ( ...
was the defending
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super-G champion, and his countryman Paul Accola was leading the current season.
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captured three of the top four spots:
Kjetil André Aamodt Kjetil André Aamodt (born 2 September 1971) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Norway, a champion in the Olympics, World Championships, and World Cup. He is one of the most successful alpine ski racers from Norway. Biography Born ...
was the champion, Jan Einar Thorsen was the bronze medalist, and
Ole Kristian Furuseth Ole Kristian Furuseth (born 7 January 1967) is a retired Norwegian alpine skier. He scored his first World Cup victory in Furano in 1989 and his final World Cup victory in Bormio in 2000, and in total he has three World Cup victories in gian ...
was fourth.
Marc Girardelli Marc Girardelli (born 18 July 1963) is an Austrian–Luxembourgish former alpine ski racer, a five-time World Cup overall champion who excelled in all five alpine disciplines. Biography Born in Lustenau, Austria into a family originally from ...
of
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took the silver; Tom Stiansen, the fourth and final entrant of Norway, was eighth. Accola was tenth, Heinzer did not finish, and Eberharter was not selected for the Austrian Olympic team. The ''Face de Bellevarde'' course started at an
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of above
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with a vertical drop of and a course length of . Aamodt's winning time was 73.04 seconds, yielding an average course speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of . Aamodt became the first
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n to win an Olympic alpine speed event. The medals were the first for Norway in
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in forty years, since
Stein Eriksen Stein Eriksen (11 December 1927 – 27 December 2015) was an alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist from Norway. Following his racing career, he was a ski school director and ambassador at various resorts in the United States. Background ...
won
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and
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on home country snow in
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. Girardelli's silver was Luxembourg's first ever Winter Olympic medal, and the country's first Olympic medal since
Josy Barthel Joseph "Josy" Barthel (24 April 1927 – 7 July 1992) was a Luxembourgish athlete and politician. He was the surprise winner of the Men's 1500 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics, and the only athlete representing Luxembourg to have won a go ...
won gold in
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at the
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.


Results

The race was started at 11:30 local time, (
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+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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ResultsFIS results
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