The Men's Super-G competition of the Torino 2006 Olympics was held at Sestriere, Italy, on Saturday, February 18.
In super-G competitions, skiers must navigate between gates at high speed, and the gates are further apart than in slalom and giant slalom competitions. As in the downhill, there is only one run of the super-G.
The defending World Cup and world champion in super-G was Bode Miller of the United States, Austria's Hermann Maier led the current season and won the Olympic gold medal in 1998; the defending Olympic champion was Kjetil André Aamodt of Norway.
Aamodt won the gold medal again, Maier took the silver, and the bronze medalist was Ambrosi Hoffmann of Switzerland; Miller did not finish. Through 2018, this is the only successful Olympic title defense in a men's alpine speed event. It was Aamodt's third victory in the Olympic super-G (1992, 2002, 2006) and eighth Olympic medal.
Held on the Kandahar Banchetta piste, the course started at an elevation of above sea level with a vertical drop of and a course length of . Aamodt's winning time of 90.65 seconds yielded an average course speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of .
Results The race was started at 14:45 local time, (UTC+1). At the starting gate, the sky was mostly cloudy, the temperature was , and the snow condition was packed; the temperature at the finish was . Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference 25 Kjetil André Aamodt 1:30.65 — 30 Hermann Maier 1:30.78 +0.13 22 Ambrosi Hoffmann 1:30.98 +0.33 27 Erik Guay 1:31.08 +0.43 28 Aksel Lund Svindal 1:31.10 +0.45 19 Marco Büchel 1:31.22 +0.57 15 Scott Macartney 1:31.23 +0.58 16 François Bourque 1:31.27 +0.62 29 Daron Rahlves 1:31.37 +0.72 10 26 Hannes Reichelt 1:31.39 +0.74 11 9 Antoine Dénériaz 1:31.49 +0.84 12 12 Didier Cuche 1:31.50 +0.85 13 18 Peter Fill 1:31.54 +0.89 14 14 Lasse Kjus 1:31.79 +1.14 15 33 Andrej Šporn 1:31.84 +1.19 16 20 Didier Défago 1:31.90 +1.25 17 11 Patrick Staudacher 1:31.91 +1.26 18 17 Bruno Kernen 1:31.95 +1.30 19 21 Christoph Gruber 1:32.00 +1.35 20 3 Manuel Osborne-Paradis 1:32.02 +1.37 21 24 Benjamin Raich 1:32.05 +1.40 22 7 John Kucera 1:32.10 +1.45 4 Finlay Mickel 24 13 Patrik Järbyn 1:32.21 +1.56 2 Yannick Bertrand 26 10 Bjarne Solbakken 1:32.90 +2.25 27 46 Konstantin Sats 1:33.14 +2.49 28 37 Andrej Jerman 1:33.20 +2.55 29 40 Pavel Chestakov 1:33.48 +2.83 31 Massimiliano Blardone 31 35 Ivica Kostelić 1:33.53 +2.88 32 32 Petr Záhrobský 1:33.70 +3.05 33 47 Aleš Gorza 1:33.77 +3.12 34 39 Kryštof Krýzl 1:34.20 +3.55 35 38 Natko Zrnčić -Dim 1:34.49 +3.84 36 43 Ivan Ratkić 1:34.77 +4.12 37 36 Roger Cruickshank 1:34.87 +4.22 38 41 Martin Vráblík 1:34.90 +4.25 39 1 Gauthier de Tessières 1:34.94 +4.29 40 57 Jaroslav Babušiak 1:35.41 +4.76 41 52 Aleksandr Khoroshilov 1:35.51 +4.86 42 45 Anton Konovalov 1:35.72 +5.07 43 8 Steve Nyman 1:36.22 +5.57 44 54 Duncan Grob 1:36.24 +5.59 45 53 Michał Kałwa 1:36.25 +5.60 46 44 Ivan Heimschild 1:36.58 +5.93 47 48 Maui Gayme 1:36.85 +6.20 48 59 Olivier Jenot 1:37.03 +6.38 49 55 Ivan Olivari 1:37.43 +6.78 50 58 Alexander Heath 1:37.77 +7.12 51 60 Andrei Drygin 1:37.85 +7.20 52 51 Ivars Ciaguns 1:38.18 +7.53 53 56 Nikolay Skriabin 1:38.86 +8.21 54 50 Mikael Gayme 1:39.68 +9.03 55 63 Leyti Seck 1:42.87 +12.22 56 62 Erjon Tola 1:44.27 +13.62 5 A. J. Bear 6 Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin 23 Bode Miller 34 Claudio Sprecher 42 Ondřej Bank 49 Alex Antor 61 Nikolai Hentsch
References
External links Official Olympic Report Results FIS results