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
Sochi 2014 Olympics was held at the
Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort
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near
Krasnaya Polyana
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Modern localities Amur Oblast
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,
Russia
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, on Saturday, 15 February.
Anna Fenninger
Anna Veith (née Fenninger; born 18 June 1989) is an Austrian former Alpine skiing, alpine ski racer and Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's super-G, Olympic gold medalist. She was the overall World Cup champion for the 2014 Al ...
from Austria won the race, getting her first Olympic medal.
Maria Höfl-Riesch
Maria Höfl-Riesch (; née Riesch, born 24 November 1984) is a German former alpine ski racer. She is a three-time Olympic champion, two-time World champion, an overall World Cup champion and five-time World junior champion.
Höfl-Riesch mad ...
of Germany won the silver medal, and
Nicole Hosp
Nicole Hosp (; born 6 November 1983) is an Austrian former FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup Alpine skiing, alpine ski racer. She competed in all five disciplines and was a FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2007 – Women's giant slalom, worl ...
of Austria finished third. Of the 2010 medalists, only
Tina Maze
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participated and finished fifth.
Summary
The race course was in length, with a vertical drop of and a starting
elevation
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of above
sea level
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.
[ Fenninger's winning time of 85.52 seconds yielded an average speed of and an average vertical descent rate of .
Eighteen of the 49 competitors did not finish, including seven of the first eight racers on the course.]Chelyabinsk meteor
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to commemorate the first anniversary of this meteor strike.
Results
The race was started at 11:00 local time, (UTC
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+4). At the starting gate, the skies were partly cloudy, the temperature was , and the snow condition was hard.
The temperature at the finish was .Final Results
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References
External links
– 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's Super G
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 ...