Women's super-G at the XXI Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Whistler Creekside | ||||||||||||
Date | February 20 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 53 from 27 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 1:20.14 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics | ||
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Combined | men | women |
Downhill | men | women |
Giant slalom | men | women |
Slalom | men | women |
Super-G | men | women |
Women's super-G | |
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Location | Whistler Creekside Franz's Super-G |
Vertical | 600 m (1,969 ft) |
Top elevation | 1,425 m (4,675 ft) |
Base elevation | 825 m (2,707 ft) |
The women's super-G competition of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics was held at Whistler Creekside in Whistler, British Columbia, on Saturday, February 20.
Andrea Fischbacher of Austria won the gold medal, Tina Maze of Slovenia took the silver, and the bronze medalist was Lindsey Vonn of the United States, who had won gold in the downhill. [1]
The Franz's Super-G course started at an elevation of 1,425 m (4,675 ft) above sea level with a vertical drop of 600 m (1,969 ft) and a length of 2.005 km (1.25 mi). Fischbacher's winning time of 80.14 seconds yielded an average course speed of 90.067 km/h (56.0 mph), with an average vertical descent rate of 7.487 m/s (24.6 ft/s).
Saturday, February 20, 2010
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Lindsey Caroline Vonn is an American former World Cup alpine ski racer on the US Ski Team. She won four World Cup overall championships – third amongst female skiers to Annemarie Moser-Pröll and Mikaela Shiffrin – with three consecutive titles in 2008, 2009, and 2010, plus another in 2012. Vonn won the gold medal in downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first one for an American woman. She also won a record eight World Cup season titles in the downhill discipline, five titles in super-G, and three consecutive titles in the combined (2010–2012). In 2016, she won her 20th World Cup crystal globe title, the overall record for men or women, surpassing Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden, who won 19 globes from 1975 to 1984. She has the third highest super ranking of all skiers, men or women.
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Andrea Fischbacher is a retired alpine ski racer from Austria.
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