The women's super-G competition of the Nagano 1998 Olympics was held at Hakuba on Wednesday, February 11.[1][2]
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| Venue | Hakuba | ||||||||||||
| Date | February 11 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 43 from 19 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 1:18.02 | ||||||||||||
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| Location | Hakuba – Happo-One Olympic Course II |
| Vertical | 587 m (1,926 ft) |
| Top elevation | 1,486 m (4,875 ft) |
| Base elevation | 899 m (2,949 ft) |
The defending world champion was Isolde Kostner of Italy, while Germany's Hilde Gerg was the defending World Cup Super G champion. [3][4] Defending Olympic champion Diann Roffe had retired from competition in 1994. This was the opening women's alpine event of these Olympics.
Picabo Street of the United States won the gold medal by one-hundredth of a second, Austria's Michaela Dorfmeister took the silver, and the bronze medalist was Alexandra Meissnitzer, also of Austria.[5][6][7] Gerg was tenth and Kostner eleventh, while downhill gold medalist Katja Seizinger was sixth.
Street had never won a super-G event, though she had two World Cup podiums; her nine World Cup wins were all in downhill. Returning from injuries,[7] this was the final podium of her career; she was sixth in the downhill, then broke her leg a month later in Switzerland,[8] which ended her presence as a top competitor.
The Olympic Course II started at an elevation of 1,486 m (4,875 ft) above sea level with a vertical drop of 587 m (1,926 ft) and a length of 2.115 km (1.31 mi). Street's winning time was 78.02 seconds, yielding an average course speed of 97.590 km/h (60.6 mph), with an average vertical descent rate of 7.524 m/s (24.7 ft/s).
Results
editThe race was started at 13:00 local time, (UTC +9). At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was −4.7 °C (24 °F), and the snow condition was hard; the temperature at the finish was −2.0 °C (28 °F).
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References
edit- ^ a b "Nagano 1998 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2008. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
- ^ "Alpine Skiing at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games: Women's Super-G". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
- ^ "1997 World Cup standings". FIS. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
- ^ "1997 World Championships results". FIS. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
- ^ Dufresne, Chris (February 11, 1998). "Street pulls off miracle". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). (Los Angeles Times). p. 1D.
- ^ Schrader, Steve (February 11, 1998). "U.S. breaks through". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Knight-Ridder. p. C1.
- ^ a b Layden, Tim (February 23, 1998). "Street fighting". Sports Illustrated. p. 40.
- ^ "Street breaks leg in crash". Lodi News Sentinel. (California). Associated Press. March 14, 1998. p. 12.