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Super G, Men1

Date18 February 2006 — 14:45
StatusOlympic
LocationSestriere Borgata (Kandahar Banchetta)
Participants63 from 27 countries
Course SetterAndreas EversAUT
DetailsGates: 39
Length: 2325 m
Start Altitude: 2536 m
Vertical Drop: 650 m

The men’s Super G was started, but in heavy snow, and after 15 skiers, the run was cancelled and held later in the day. Bode Miller (USA) was the 2005 World Cup Champion and World Champion, but Austrian Hermann Maier was back, probably the greatest ever Super G skier, five-time World Cup champion in the event, including 2004, who had now fully recovered from a terrifying motorcycle accident in 2001 that had kept him out of the Salt Lake City Olympics. Miller went off 23rd, among the 30 seeds, but straddled a gate and did not finish – the Torino Olympics were not going well for him. Two skiers later, the venerable Kjetil André Aamodt came down in 1:30.65 to take the lead. Maier was off last of the seeds, and was close to Aamodt, posing 1:30.78, but the Norwegian had his fourth Olympic Alpine gold medal, and eighth medal overall, both Olympic records. Aamodt retired early in 2007, after an international ski career that first started in 1987.

PosNumberCompetitorNOCTime
125Kjetil André AamodtNOR1:30.65Gold
230Hermann MaierAUT1:30.78Silver
322Ambrosi HoffmannSUI1:30.98Bronze
427Erik GuayCAN1:31.08
528Aksel Lund SvindalNOR1:31.10
619Marco BüchelLIE1:31.22
715Scott MacartneyUSA1:31.23
816François BourqueCAN1:31.27
929Daron RahlvesUSA1:31.37
1026Hannes ReicheltAUT1:31.39
119Antoine DénériazFRA1:31.49
1212Didier CucheSUI1:31.50
1318Peter FillITA1:31.54
1414Lasse KjusNOR1:31.79
1533Andrej ŠpornSLO1:31.84
1620Didier DéfagoSUI1:31.90
1711Patrick StaudacherITA1:31.91
1817Bruno KernenSUI1:31.95
1921Christoph GruberAUT1:32.00
203Manuel Osborne-ParadisCAN1:32.02
2124Benjamin RaichAUT1:32.05
=227John KuceraCAN1:32.10
=224Finlay MickelGBR1:32.10
=2413Patrik JärbynSWE1:32.21
=242Yannick BertrandFRA1:32.21
2610Bjarne SolbakkenNOR1:32.90
2746Konstantin SatsRUS1:33.14
2837Andrej JermanSLO1:33.20
=2940Pavel ShestakovRUS1:33.48
=2931Massimiliano BlardoneITA1:33.48
3135Ivica KostelićCRO1:33.53
3232Petr ZáhrobskýCZE1:33.70
3347Aleš GorzaSLO1:33.77
3439Kryštof KrýzlCZE1:34.20
3538Natko Zrnčić-DimCRO1:34.49
3643Ivan RatkićCRO1:34.77
3736Roger CruickshankGBR1:34.87
3841Martin VráblíkCZE1:34.90
391Gauthier de TessièresFRA1:34.94
4057Jaroslav BabušiakSVK1:35.41
4152Aleksandr KhoroshilovRUS1:35.51
4245Anton KonovalovRUS1:35.72
438Steve NymanUSA1:36.22
4454Duncan GrobCHI1:36.24
4553Michał KałwaPOL1:36.25
4644Ivan HeimschildSVK1:36.58
4748Maui GaymeCHI1:36.85
4859Olivier JenotMON1:37.03
4955Ivan OlivariCRO1:37.43
5058Alex HeathRSA1:37.77
5160Andrey DryginTJK1:37.85
5251Ivars CiagunsLAT1:38.18
5356Mykola SkriabinUKR1:38.86
5450Mikael GaymeCHI1:39.68
5563Leyti SeckSEN1:42.87
5662Erjon TolaALB1:44.27
DNF5AJ BearAUS
DNF6Pierre-Emmanuel DalcinFRA
DNF23Bode MillerUSA
DNF34Claudio SprecherLIE
DNF42Ondřej BankCZE
DNF49Alex AntorAND
DNF61Nikolai HentschBRA

Cancelled Round

Date18 February 2006 — 11:00
PosNumberCompetitorNOCTime
16Pierre-Emmanuel DalcinFRA1:31.49
23Manuel Osborne-ParadisCAN1:31.85
37John KuceraCAN1:32.41
48Steve NymanUSA1:32.63
510Bjarne SolbakkenNOR1:32.70
616François BourqueCAN1:32.80
74Finlay MickelGBR1:33.00
85AJ BearAUS1:33.13
91Gauthier de TessièresFRA1:33.18
1015Scott MacartneyUSA1:33.27
1112Didier CucheSUI1:33.62
1213Patrik JärbynSWE1:34.05
139Antoine DénériazFRA1:34.10
1411Patrick StaudacherITA1:35.33
1514Lasse KjusNOR1:36.80
DNF2Yannick BertrandFRA
DNF17Bruno KernenSUI