Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's super-G

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Women's super-G
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Alpine skiing pictogram.svg
Venue Jeongseon Alpine Centre, Gangwon Province, South Korea
Date17 February
Competitors44 from 23 nations
Winning time1.21.11
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Ester Ledecká Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic
Silver medal icon.svg Anna Veith Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
Bronze medal icon.svg Tina Weirather Flag of Liechtenstein.svg  Liechtenstein
  2014
2022  
Women's Super-G
Location Jeongseon Alpine Centre
Vertical   585 m (1,919 ft)
Top elevation1,130 m (3,707 ft)  
Base elevation   545 m (1,788 ft)

The women's super-G competition of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympics was held at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre in PyeongChang on Saturday, 17 February. [1] [2]

Qualification

A total of up to 320 alpine skiers qualified across all eleven events. Athletes qualified for this event by having met the A qualification standard only, which meant having 80 or less FIS Points and being ranked in the top 500 in the Olympic FIS points list. The Points list takes into average the best results of athletes per discipline during the qualification period (1 July 2016 to 21 January 2018). Countries received additional quotas by having athletes ranked in the top 30 of the current World Cup season (two per gender maximum, overall across all events). After the distribution of B standard quotas (to nations competing only in the slalom and giant slalom events), the remaining quotas were distributed using the Olympic FIS Points list, with each athlete only counting once for qualification purposes. A country could only enter a maximum of four athletes for the event. [3]

Summary

Ester Ledecká became the Olympic champion, her first Olympic medal and the first gold medal in alpine skiing for the Czech Republic. The defending champion Anna Veith (competing as Fenninger in 2014) was second, and Tina Weirather was third, the first Olympic medal for Liechtenstein since 1988. The results were extraordinarily dense, with 0.01 seconds separating gold and silver medals, as well as bronze medal from the fourth place (Lara Gut). Ledecká's victory was completely unexpected, as she had been much better known for her snowboarding achievements. She subsequently won the parallel giant slalom snowboarding competition at the same Olympics.

Lindsey Vonn, starting first, was leading until her time was improved by Johanna Schnarf, then Lara Gut. Weirather, skiing seventh, improved Gut's time by 0.01 seconds, pushing Vonn, 0.26 seconds behind, off the podium. Starting 15th, Veith took the lead, with the main competitors either not finishing or posting inferior times, so that she believed her first place was assured, and some agencies announced her as a champion. However, the surprising champion was Ledecká who started 26th and improved Veith's time by 0.01. Ledecká's relative lack of experience in the super-G event might have led to her victory, as she took a more aggressive line that other, more experienced skiers shied away from. After the finish, Ledecká did not believe she won and thought that somebody else's time was shown by mistake. [4] [5]

The race course was 2.010 km (1.25 mi) in length, with a vertical drop of 585 m (1,919 ft) from a starting elevation of 1,130 m (3,707 ft) above sea level. Ledecká's winning time of 81.11 seconds yielded an average speed of 89.212 km/h (55.4 mph) and an average vertical descent rate of 7.212 m/s (23.7 ft/s).

Results

The race was started at 12:00 local time, (UTC+9). At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was −9 °C (16 °F), and the snow condition was hard. [6]

RankBibNameCountryTimeBehind
Gold medal icon.svg26 Ester Ledecká Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 1:21.11
Silver medal icon.svg15 Anna Veith Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1:21.12+0.01
Bronze medal icon.svg7 Tina Weirather Flag of Liechtenstein.svg  Liechtenstein 1:21.22+0.11
45 Lara Gut Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 1:21.23+0.12
53 Johanna Schnarf Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:21.27+0.16
611 Federica Brignone Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:21.49+0.38
1 Lindsey Vonn Flag of the United States.svg  United States
819 Cornelia Hütter Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1:21.54+0.43
916 Michelle Gisin Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 1:21.57+0.46
1014 Viktoria Rebensburg Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:21.62+0.51
1113 Sofia Goggia Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:21.65+0.54
124 Nadia Fanchini Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:21.88+0.77
1317 Ragnhild Mowinckel Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 1:22.00+0.89
1428 Breezy Johnson Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:22.14+1.03
1512 Laurenne Ross Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:22.17+1.06
1627 Alice McKennis Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:22.20+1.09
176 Corinne Suter Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 1:22.24+1.13
189 Nicole Schmidhofer Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1:22.30+1.19
1920 Romane Miradoli Flag of France.svg  France 1:22.36+1.25
2022 Jennifer Piot Flag of France.svg  France 1:22.38+1.27
2118 Tamara Tippler Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1:22.50+1.39
2210 Tiffany Gauthier Flag of France.svg  France 1:22.56+1.45
2323 Valérie Grenier Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:22.77+1.66
2425 Lisa Hörnblad Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 1:22.79+1.68
2530 Maruša Ferk Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 1:23.18+2.07
2633 Maryna Gąsienica-Daniel Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1:23.21+2.10
278 Jasmine Flury Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 1:23.30+2.19
282 Tessa Worley Flag of France.svg  France 1:23.54+2.43
2924 Candace Crawford Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:23.69+2.58
3032 Alexandra Coletti Flag of Monaco.svg  Monaco 1:24.01+2.90
3135 Greta Small Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 1:24.09+2.98
3231 Petra Vlhová Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 1:24.26+3.15
3336 Kateřina Pauláthová Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 1:24.48+3.37
3438 Tina Robnik Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 1:24.49+3.38
3534 Barbara Kantorová Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 1:25.30+4.19
3643 Ania Monica Caill Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 1:25.74+4.63
3729 Roni Remme Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:25.90+4.79
3841 Sabrina Simader Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 1:26.25+5.14
3937 Noelle Barahona Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 1:27.16+6.05
4040 Kim Vanreusel Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 1:27.60+6.49
4139 Sarah Schleper Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 1:27.93+6.82
4242 Elvedina Muzaferija Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg  Bosnia and Herzegovina 1:27.97+6.86
4345 Olha Knysh Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 1:30.60+9.49
21 Kira Weidle Flag of Germany.svg  Germany DNF
44 Maria Shkanova Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus DNS

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