Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's super-G


The Men's Super-G competition of the Nagano 1998 Olympics was held at Hakuba on Monday, February 16.
The defending world champion was Atle Skardal of Norway, France's Luc Alphand was the defending World Cup Super G champion, and Markus Wasmeier of Germany was the defending Olympic champion; all three had since retired from competition.
Just three days after a spectacular crash in the downhill, Austria's Hermann Maier returned to win the gold medal, and teammate Hans Knauss tied for the silver with Didier Cuche of Switzerland.
The course started at an elevation of above sea level with a vertical drop of and a course length of. Maier's winning time of 94.82 seconds yielded an average course speed of, with an average vertical descent rate of.

Results

The race was started at 08:45 local time,. At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was, and the snow condition was hard; the temperature at the finish at.
RankBibNameCountryTimeDifference
8Hermann Maier1:34.82—
17Hans Knauss1:35.43+0.61
6Didier Cuche1:35.43+0.61
424Alessandro Fattori1:35.61+0.79
515Kjetil André Aamodt1:35.67+0.85
613Patrik Järbyn1:35.72+0.90
711Daron Rahlves1:35.96+1.14
822Tommy Moe1:35.97+1.15
95Lasse Kjus1:36.25+1.43
1014Fredrik Nyberg1:36.31+1.49
1116Bruno Kernen1:36.37+1.55
1236Brian Stemmle1:36.40+1.58
1325Kyle Rasmussen1:36.52+1.70
1412Steve Locher1:36.62+1.80
153Werner Perathoner1:36.64+1.82
169Kristian Ghedina1:36.70+1.88
1730Jernej Koblar1:36.84+2.02
182Paul Accola1:36.87+2.05
1910Peter Runggaldier1:37.00+2.18
194Andreas Schifferer1:37.00+2.18
2128Andrey Filichkin1:37.29+2.47
2232Enis Bećirbegović1:37.58+2.76
2318Peter Pen1:37.81+2.99
2433Tsuyoshi Tomii1:37.86+3.04
251Jean-Luc Crétier1:37.95+3.13
2626Jürgen Hasler1:38.32+3.50
2731Yasuyuki Takishita1:38.39+3.57
2827Aleš Brezavšček1:38.54+3.72
2938Vasily Bezsmelnitsyn1:39.39+4.57
3037Vedran Pavlek1:39.63+4.81
3139Graham Bell1:39.80+4.98
3240Renato Gašpar1:39.85+5.03
3335Andrew Freshwater1:39.89+5.07
3429Chad Fleischer1:40.19+5.37
3542Tejs Broberg1:41.09+6.27
3645Igor Yudin1:45.92+11.10
3747Marcelo Apovian1:49.43+14.61
20Frédéric Marin-CudrazDNF
41Thomás GrobDNF
43Zurab DzhidzhishviliDNF
44Victor GómezDNF
46Alex HeathDNF
7Stephan EberharterDSQ
27Nicolas BurtinDSQ
23Ed PodivinskyDSQ
19Adrien DuvillardDNS
34Thomas LödlerDNS