Men's super-G at the XIX Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Snowbasin | ||||||||||||
Date | February 16, 2002 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 56 from 23 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 1:21.58 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Alpine skiing at the 2002 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 | Snowbasin Grizzly Super-G |
Vertical | 648 m (2,126 ft) |
Top elevation | 2,596 m (8,517 ft) |
Base elevation | 1,948 m (6,391 ft) |
The Men's Super-G competition of the Salt Lake 2002 Olympics was held at Snowbasin on Saturday, February 16.
The defending world champion was Daron Rahlves of the United States, Austria's Hermann Maier was the defending Olympic and World Cup 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 1992, Kjetil André Aamodt of Norway won his second super-G gold, and his second gold of the 2002 Games. [1] Eberharter took the silver, and teammate Andreas Schifferer was the bronze medalist; Rahlves was eighth. [2]
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