Men's Super G at the XV Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Nakiska | ||||||||||||
Date | February 21, 1988 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 94 from 34 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 1:39.66 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics | ||
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Combined | men | women |
Downhill | men | women |
Giant slalom | men | women |
Slalom | men | women |
Super-G | men | women |
Men's Super-G | |
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Location | Nakiska |
Vertical | 647 m (2,123 ft) |
Top elevation | 2,179 m (7,149 ft) |
Base elevation | 1,532 m (5,026 ft) |
The Men's Super G competition of the Calgary 1988 Olympics was held at Nakiska on Sunday, February 21. [1] [2] This was the Olympic debut of the event.
The defending world champion was Pirmin Zurbriggen of Switzerland, who was also the defending World Cup Super G champion and led the current season. [3] [4]
France's Franck Piccard won the gold medal, Helmut Mayer of Austria took the silver, and Lars-Börje Eriksson of Sweden was the bronze medalist. Zurbriggen tied for fifth, more than two seconds behind. Italy's Alberto Tomba lasted three gates and did not finish. [5] It was the first Olympic alpine gold for France in twenty years, since the sweep by Jean-Claude Killy in 1968.
The course started at an elevation of 2,179 m (7,149 ft) above sea level with a vertical drop of 647 m (2,123 ft) and a course length of 2.327 km (1.45 mi). Piccard's winning time was 99.66 seconds, yielding an average speed of 84.058 km/h (52.2 mph), with an average vertical descent rate of 6.492 m/s (21.3 ft/s).
The race was started at 10:00 local time, (UTC −7). At the starting gate, it was snowing, the temperature was −3.0 °C (26.6 °F), and the snow condition was hard. The temperature at the finish was 1.0 °C (33.8 °F).
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