Alpine Skiing At The 1992 Winter Olympics – Women's Super-G
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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 Albertville 1992 Olympics was held at Meribel on Tuesday, 18 February. The defending
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was
Ulrike Maier Ulrike Maier (22 October 1967 – 29 January 1994) was a World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria, a two-time World Champion in super-G. She competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics and the 1992 Winter Olympics. Born in Rauris, Salzburg, where her ...
of Austria, while France's
Carole Merle Carole Merle (; born 24 January 1964) is a former French Alpine skier. A specialist of Giant slalom and Super-G, she won 22 World Cup races, 6 World Cup season titles and 1 World Championship gold medal. Skiing career A native of , a ski resor ...
was the defending
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Super-G champion, and shared the lead in the current season with Heidi Zeller.
Deborah Compagnoni Deborah Compagnoni Golden Collar of Sports Merit (born 4 June 1970) is an Italian former Alpine skier who won three gold medals at the 1992, 1994, and 1998 Winter Olympics. Biography Deborah Compagnoni was born in Bormio, northern Lombardy, and ...
of Italy won the gold medal, Merle took the silver, and
Katja Seizinger Katja Seizinger (; born 10 May 1972) is a German former World Cup alpine ski racing champion. She is her country's most successful alpine skier. Biography Born in Datteln, North Rhine-Westphalia, Seizinger won three Olympic gold and two bronze ...
of Germany was the bronze medalist. Maier was fifth, downhill champion
Kerrin Lee-Gartner Kerrin Anne Lee-Gartner (born September 21, 1966) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medallist from Canada. Born in Trail, British Columbia, she grew up in Rossland and raced as a youngster at Red Mountain. Lee-Gartner ...
was sixth, and Zeller was eleventh. The winning margin was 1.41 seconds; through
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, it remains the largest in the event's Olympic history. On the same day at
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, compatriot
Alberto Tomba Alberto Tomba Golden Collar of Sports Merit - Army Gold Cross of Merit (born 19 December 1966) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Italy. He was the dominant technical skier ( slalom and giant slalom) in the late 1980s and 1990s. At 1 ...
successfully defended his men's giant slalom title. The ''Piste du Corbey'' course started at an
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of above
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with a vertical drop of and a course length of . Campagnoni's winning time was 81.22 seconds, yielding an average course speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of .


Results

The race was started at 12:15 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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