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

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]

Women's super-G
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
VenueJeongseon Alpine Centre, Gangwon Province, South Korea
Date17 February
Competitors44 from 23 nations
Winning time1.21.11
Medalists
Ester Ledecká  Czech Republic
Anna Veith  Austria
Tina Weirather  Liechtenstein
Women's Super-G
LocationJeongseon Alpine Centre
Vertical   585 m (1,919 ft)
Top elevation1,130 m (3,707 ft)  
Base elevation   545 m (1,788 ft)

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.

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 NBC even 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
26Ester Ledecká Czech Republic1:21.11
15Anna Veith Austria1:21.12+0.01
7Tina Weirather Liechtenstein1:21.22+0.11
45Lara Gut Switzerland1:21.23+0.12
53Johanna Schnarf Italy1:21.27+0.16
611Federica Brignone Italy1:21.49+0.38
1Lindsey Vonn United States
819Cornelia Hütter Austria1:21.54+0.43
916Michelle Gisin Switzerland1:21.57+0.46
1014Viktoria Rebensburg Germany1:21.62+0.51
1113Sofia Goggia Italy1:21.65+0.54
124Nadia Fanchini Italy1:21.88+0.77
1317Ragnhild Mowinckel Norway1:22.00+0.89
1428Breezy Johnson United States1:22.14+1.03
1512Laurenne Ross United States1:22.17+1.06
1627Alice McKennis United States1:22.20+1.09
176Corinne Suter Switzerland1:22.24+1.13
189Nicole Schmidhofer Austria1:22.30+1.19
1920Romane Miradoli France1:22.36+1.25
2022Jennifer Piot France1:22.38+1.27
2118Tamara Tippler Austria1:22.50+1.39
2210Tiffany Gauthier France1:22.56+1.45
2323Valérie Grenier Canada1:22.77+1.66
2425Lisa Hörnblad Sweden1:22.79+1.68
2530Maruša Ferk Slovenia1:23.18+2.07
2633Maryna Gąsienica-Daniel Poland1:23.21+2.10
278Jasmine Flury Switzerland1:23.30+2.19
282Tessa Worley France1:23.54+2.43
2924Candace Crawford Canada1:23.69+2.58
3032Alexandra Coletti Monaco1:24.01+2.90
3135Greta Small Australia1:24.09+2.98
3231Petra Vlhová Slovakia1:24.26+3.15
3336Kateřina Pauláthová Czech Republic1:24.48+3.37
3438Tina Robnik Slovenia1:24.49+3.38
3534Barbara Kantorová Slovakia1:25.30+4.19
3643Ania Monica Caill Romania1:25.74+4.63
3729Roni Remme Canada1:25.90+4.79
3841Sabrina Simader Kenya1:26.25+5.14
3937Noelle Barahona Chile1:27.16+6.05
4040Kim Vanreusel Belgium1:27.60+6.49
4139Sarah Schleper Mexico1:27.93+6.82
4242Elvedina Muzaferija Bosnia and Herzegovina1:27.97+6.86
4345Olha Knysh Ukraine1:30.60+9.49
21Kira Weidle GermanyDNF
44Maria Shkanova BelarusDNS

References

  1. "Venues". www.pyeongchang2018.com/. Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Organizing Committee for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Archived from the original on 17 February 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  2. Start list
  3. "Qualification Systems for XXII Olympic Winter Games, PyeongChang 2018 Alpine skiing" (PDF). International Ski Federation (FIS). 16 August 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  4. Graham, Bryan Armen (17 February 2018). "Super-G: snowboarder Ledecka wins shock gold on borrowed skis with Vonn sixth". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  5. Mulvenney, Nick (17 November 2018). "Czech snowboarder Ledecka stuns Alpine world with super-G gold". Reuters. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  6. Final results
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