Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's super-G
Women's super-G at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Jeongseon Alpine Centre, Gangwon Province, South Korea | ||||||||||||
Date | 17 February | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 44 from 23 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 1.21.11 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics | ||
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Qualification
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Combined | men | women |
Downhill | men | women |
Giant slalom | men | women |
Slalom | men | women |
Super-G | men | women |
Team event | mixed | |
Women's Super-G | |
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Location | Jeongseon Alpine Centre |
Vertical | 585 m (1,919 ft) |
Top elevation | 1,130 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
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]
Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Behind |
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26 | Ester Ledecká | Czech Republic | 1:21.11 | — | |
15 | Anna Veith | Austria | 1:21.12 | +0.01 | |
7 | Tina Weirather | Liechtenstein | 1:21.22 | +0.11 | |
4 | 5 | Lara Gut |
Switzerland | 1:21.23 | +0.12 |
5 | 3 | Johanna Schnarf | Italy | 1:21.27 | +0.16 |
6 | 11 | Federica Brignone | Italy | 1:21.49 | +0.38 |
1 | Lindsey Vonn | United States | |||
8 | 19 | Cornelia Hütter | Austria | 1:21.54 | +0.43 |
9 | 16 | Michelle Gisin | Switzerland | 1:21.57 | +0.46 |
10 | 14 | Viktoria Rebensburg | Germany | 1:21.62 | +0.51 |
11 | 13 | Sofia Goggia | Italy | 1:21.65 | +0.54 |
12 | 4 | Nadia Fanchini | Italy | 1:21.88 | +0.77 |
13 | 17 | Ragnhild Mowinckel | Norway | 1:22.00 | +0.89 |
14 | 28 | Breezy Johnson | United States | 1:22.14 | +1.03 |
15 | 12 | Laurenne Ross | United States | 1:22.17 | +1.06 |
16 | 27 | Alice McKennis |
United States | 1:22.20 | +1.09 |
17 | 6 | Corinne Suter | Switzerland | 1:22.24 | +1.13 |
18 | 9 | Nicole Schmidhofer | Austria | 1:22.30 | +1.19 |
19 | 20 | Romane Miradoli | France | 1:22.36 | +1.25 |
20 | 22 | Jennifer Piot | France | 1:22.38 | +1.27 |
21 | 18 | Tamara Tippler | Austria | 1:22.50 | +1.39 |
22 | 10 | Tiffany Gauthier | France | 1:22.56 | +1.45 |
23 | 23 | Valérie Grenier | Canada | 1:22.77 | +1.66 |
24 | 25 | Lisa Hörnblad | Sweden | 1:22.79 | +1.68 |
25 | 30 | Maruša Ferk |
Slovenia | 1:23.18 | +2.07 |
26 | 33 | Maryna Gąsienica-Daniel | Poland | 1:23.21 | +2.10 |
27 | 8 | Jasmine Flury | Switzerland | 1:23.30 | +2.19 |
28 | 2 | Tessa Worley | France | 1:23.54 | +2.43 |
29 | 24 | Candace Crawford | Canada | 1:23.69 | +2.58 |
30 | 32 | Alexandra Coletti | Monaco | 1:24.01 | +2.90 |
31 | 35 | Greta Small | Australia | 1:24.09 | +2.98 |
32 | 31 | Petra Vlhová | Slovakia | 1:24.26 | +3.15 |
33 | 36 | Kateřina Pauláthová | Czech Republic | 1:24.48 | +3.37 |
34 | 38 | Tina Robnik | Slovenia | 1:24.49 | +3.38 |
35 | 34 | Barbara Kantorová | Slovakia | 1:25.30 | +4.19 |
36 | 43 | Ania Monica Caill | Romania | 1:25.74 | +4.63 |
37 | 29 | Roni Remme | Canada | 1:25.90 | +4.79 |
38 | 41 | Sabrina Simader | Kenya | 1:26.25 | +5.14 |
39 | 37 | Noelle Barahona | Chile | 1:27.16 | +6.05 |
40 | 40 | Kim Vanreusel | Belgium | 1:27.60 | +6.49 |
41 | 39 | Sarah Schleper | Mexico | 1:27.93 | +6.82 |
42 | 42 | Elvedina Muzaferija | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1:27.97 | +6.86 |
43 | 45 | Olha Knysh | Ukraine | 1:30.60 | +9.49 |
21 | Kira Weidle | Germany | DNF | ||
44 | Maria Shkanova | Belarus | DNS |
References
- ^ "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.
- ^ Start list
- International Ski Federation(FIS). 16 August 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Mulvenney, Nick (17 November 2018). "Czech snowboarder Ledecka stuns Alpine world with super-G gold". Reuters. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
- ^ Final results