Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's super-G


The Men's Super-G competition of the Torino 2006 Olympics was held at Sestriere, Italy, on Saturday, February 18.
In super-G competitions, skiers must navigate between gates at high speed, and the gates are further apart than in slalom and giant slalom competitions. As in the downhill, there is only one run of the super-G.
The defending World Cup and world champion in super-G was Bode Miller of the United States, Austria's Hermann Maier led the current season and won the Olympic gold medal in 1998; the defending Olympic champion was Kjetil André Aamodt of Norway.
Aamodt won the gold medal again, Maier took the silver, and the bronze medalist was Ambrosi Hoffmann of Switzerland; Miller did not finish. Through 2018, this is the only successful Olympic title defense in a men's alpine speed event. It was Aamodt's third victory in the Olympic super-G and eighth Olympic medal.
Held on the Kandahar Banchetta piste, the course started at an elevation of above sea level with a vertical drop of and a course length of. Aamodt's winning time of 90.65 seconds yielded an average course speed of, with an average vertical descent rate of.

Results

The race was started at 14:45 local time,. At the starting gate, the sky was mostly cloudy, the temperature was, and the snow condition was packed; the temperature at the finish was.
RankBibNameCountryTimeDifference
25Kjetil André Aamodt1:30.65—
30Hermann Maier1:30.78+0.13
22Ambrosi Hoffmann1:30.98+0.33
27Erik Guay1:31.08+0.43
28Aksel Lund Svindal1:31.10+0.45
19Marco Büchel1:31.22+0.57
15Scott Macartney1:31.23+0.58
16François Bourque1:31.27+0.62
29Daron Rahlves1:31.37+0.72
1026Hannes Reichelt1:31.39+0.74
119Antoine Dénériaz1:31.49+0.84
1212Didier Cuche1:31.50+0.85
1318Peter Fill1:31.54+0.89
1414Lasse Kjus1:31.79+1.14
1533Andrej Šporn1:31.84+1.19
1620Didier Défago1:31.90+1.25
1711Patrick Staudacher1:31.91+1.26
1817Bruno Kernen1:31.95+1.30
1921Christoph Gruber1:32.00+1.35
203Manuel Osborne-Paradis1:32.02+1.37
2124Benjamin Raich1:32.05+1.40
227John Kucera1:32.10+1.45
224Finlay Mickel1:32.10+1.45
2413Patrik Järbyn1:32.21+1.56
242Yannick Bertrand1:32.21+1.56
2610Bjarne Solbakken1:32.90+2.25
2746Konstantin Sats1:33.14+2.49
2837Andrej Jerman1:33.20+2.55
2940Pavel Chestakov1:33.48+2.83
2931Massimiliano Blardone1:33.48+2.83
3135Ivica Kostelić1:33.53+2.88
3232Petr Záhrobský1:33.70+3.05
3347Aleš Gorza1:33.77+3.12
3439Kryštof Krýzl1:34.20+3.55
3538Natko Zrnčić -Dim1:34.49+3.84
3643Ivan Ratkić1:34.77+4.12
3736Roger Cruickshank1:34.87+4.22
3841Martin Vráblík1:34.90+4.25
391Gauthier de Tessières1:34.94+4.29
4057Jaroslav Babušiak1:35.41+4.76
4152Aleksandr Khoroshilov1:35.51+4.86
4245Anton Konovalov1:35.72+5.07
438Steve Nyman1:36.22+5.57
4454Duncan Grob1:36.24+5.59
4553Michał Kałwa1:36.25+5.60
4644Ivan Heimschild1:36.58+5.93
4748Maui Gayme1:36.85+6.20
4859Olivier Jenot1:37.03+6.38
4955Ivan Olivari1:37.43+6.78
5058Alexander Heath1:37.77+7.12
5160Andrei Drygin1:37.85+7.20
5251Ivars Ciaguns1:38.18+7.53
5356Nikolay Skriabin1:38.86+8.21
5450Mikael Gayme1:39.68+9.03
5563Leyti Seck1:42.87+12.22
5662Erjon Tola1:44.27+13.62
5A. J. Bear
6Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin
23Bode Miller
34Claudio Sprecher
42Ondřej Bank
49Alex Antor
61Nikolai Hentsch