The Men's

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competition of the Salt Lake 2002 Olympics was held at

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on Saturday, February 16. The defending world champion was

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of the United States, Austria's Hermann Maier was the defending Olympic and

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super-G champion, and teammate Stephan Eberharter led the current season. Maier was out for the season after a serious motorcycle accident in August. Ten years after his first Olympic title in

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of Norway won his second

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 ...

gold, and his second gold of the 2002 Games. Eberharter took the silver, and teammate Andreas Schifferer was the bronze medalist; Rahlves was eighth. The 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 of 81.58 seconds yielded an average course speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of .

Results

The race was started at 10:00 local time, (

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−7). At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was , and the snow condition was hard; the temperature at the finish was lower at .

References

External links

Official Olympic ReportResults
{{DEFAULTSORT:Alpine Skiing At The 2002 Winter Olympics - Men's super-G