The men's super-G competition of the Albertville 1992 Olympics was held at Val-d'Isère on Sunday, 16 February.
The defending world champion was Stephan Eberharter of Austria, while Switzerland's Franz Heinzer was the defending World Cup super-G champion, and his countryman Paul Accola was leading the current season.
Norway captured three of the top four spots: Kjetil André Aamodt was the champion, Jan Einar Thorsen was the bronze medalist, and Ole Kristian Furuseth was fourth. Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg took the silver; Tom Stiansen, the fourth, and final, entrant of Norway, was eighth. Accola was tenth, Heinzer did not finish, and Eberharter was not selected for the Austrian Olympic team.
The Face de Bellevarde course started at an elevation of above sea level, with a vertical drop of , and a course length of . Aamodt's winning time was 73.04 seconds, yielding an average course speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of .
Aamodt became the first Scandinavian to win an Olympic alpine speed event. The medals were the first for Norway in alpine skiing in forty years, since Stein Eriksen won gold and silver on home country snow in 1952. Girardelli's silver was Luxembourg's first-ever Winter Olympic medal, and the country's first Olympic medal since Josy Barthel won gold in 1500 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Results The race was started at 11:30 local time (UTC +1). At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was , and the snow condition was hard; the temperature at the finish was at . Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference 3 Kjetil André Aamodt 1:13.04 — 4 Marc Girardelli 1:13.77 +0.73 12 Jan Einar Thorsen 1:13.83 +0.79 4 7 Ole Kristian Furuseth 1:13.87 +0.83 5 16 Josef Polig 1:13.88 +0.84 6 2 Marco Hangl 1:13.90 +0.86 7 6 Günther Mader 1:14.08 +1.04 8 17 Tom Stiansen 1:14.51 +1.47 9 1 Markus Wasmeier 1:14.58 +1.54 10 5 Paul Accola 1:14.60 +1.56 11 26 Fredrik Nyberg 1:14.61 +1.57 12 29 Gianfranco Martin 1:14.81 +1.77 13 23 Jeff Olson 1:15.06 +2.02 14 10 Urs Kälin 1:15.22 +2.18 15 19 Rainer Salzgeber 1:15.31 +2.27 16 9 Luc Alphand 1:15.39 +2.35 17 27 Kyle Rasmussen 1:15.58 +2.54 18 21 Patrick Ortlieb 1:15.66 +2.62 19 15 Alberto Senigagliesi 1:15.70 +2.66 20 41 Gregor Grilc 1:15.71 +2.67 21 11 Hansjörg Tauscher 1:15.98 +2.94 22 24 Konstantin Chistyakov 1:16.14 +3.10 23 28 A. J. Kitt 1:16.31 +3.27 24 20 Hubert Strolz 1:16.36 +3.32 24 18 Jean-Luc Crétier 1:16.36 +3.32 26 34 Günther Marxer 1:16.48 +3.44 27 33 Mitja Kunc 1:16.49 +3.45 28 25 Tommy Moe 1:16.54 +3.50 29 32 Jure Košir 1:16.56 +3.52 30 30 Steven Lee 1:16.58 +3.54 31 31 Berni Huber 1:16.78 +3.74 32 35 Paulo Oppliger 1:16.81 +3.77 33 83 Kiminobu Kimura 1:17.06 +4.02 34 46 Ricardo Campo 1:17.11 +4.07 35 60 Jorge Pujol 1:17.15 +4.11 36 42 Marco Büchel 1:17.25 +4.21 37 48 Marián Bíreš 1:17.47 +4.43 38 45 Vicente Tomas 1:17.54 +4.50 39 52 Peter Jurko 1:17.68 +4.64 40 37 Boris Duncan 1:17.76 +4.72 41 54 Takuya Ishioka 1:17.81 +4.77 42 40 Simon Wi Rutene 1:17.86 +4.82 43 58 Kristinn Björnsson 1:17.89 +4.85 44 50 Gavin Forsyth 1:17.91 +4.87 45 56 Petar Dichev 1:18.87 +5.83 46 62 Federico Van Ditmar 1:19.07 +6.03 47 61 Ramon Rossell 1:19.10 +6.06 48 63 Willy Raine 1:19.12 +6.08 49 53 Aleksey Maslov 1:19.71 +6.67 50 43 Martin Bell 1:19.74 +6.70 51 73 Örnólfur Valdimarsson 1:20.64 +7.60 52 78 Borislav Dimitrachkov 1:20.67 +7.63 53 44 Graham Bell 1:20.87 +7.83 54 68 Hur Seung-wook 1:20.96 +7.92 55 77 Lothar Christian Munder 1:21.07 +8.03 56 69 Attila Bónis 1:21.10 +8.06 57 71 Pierre Kőszáli 1:21.45 +8.41 58 80 Elias Majdalani 1:22.13 +9.09 59 64 Mauricio Rotella 1:22.30 +9.26 60 79 Agustín Neiman 1:22.47 +9.43 61 74 Gáston Begue 1:22.52 +9.48 62 72 Carlos Espiasse 1:22.68 +9.64 63 110 Choi Yong-hee 1:22.75 +9.71 64 66 Alexis Racloz 1:23.26 +10.22 65 81 Péter Kristály 1:23.47 +10.43 66 75 Nicola Ercolani 1:23.72 +10.68 67 112 Enis Bećirbegović 1:24.15 +11.11 68 89 Aurel Foiciuc 1:24.62 +11.58 69 76 Edin Terzić 1:24.70 +11.66 70 82 Hubertus von Hohenlohe 1:24.79 +11.75 71 85 Thomas Lefousi 1:25.01 +11.97 72 99 Zoran Perušina 1:25.23 +12.19 73 92 Ioannis Kapraras 1:26.47 +13.43 74 86 John Campbell 1:26.83 +13.79 75 97 Sérgio Schuler 1:27.41 +14.37 76 96 Marcelo Apovian 1:27.87 +14.83 77 113 Taner Üstündağ 1:28.24 +15.20 78 90 Lamine Guèye 1:29.18 +16.14 79 100 Keith Fraser 1:29.39 +16.35 80 98 Sokratis Aristodimou 1:30.13 +17.09 81 101 Alekhis Fotiadis 1:30.31 +17.27 82 102 Yakup Kadri Birinci 1:30.40 +17.36 83 114 Mourad Guerri 1:32.76 +19.72 84 108 Andreas Vasili 1:32.78 +19.74 85 104 Íñigo Domenech 1:35.29 +22.25 86 93 Hans Egger 1:35.88 +22.84 87 118 Eduardo Ampudia 1:36.86 +23.82 88 115 Cevdet Can 1:37.97 +24.93 89 116 Brahim Ait Sibrahim 1:38.60 +25.56 90 109 Kamel Guerri 1:38.94 +25.90 91 111 El-Hassan Mahta 1:41.06 +28.02 92 119 Brahim Id Abdellah 1:49.65 +36.61 93 107 Brahim Izdag 2:08.31 +55.27 - 8 Franz Heinzer DNF - - 13 Franck Piccard DNF - - 14 Patrick Holzer DNF - - 22 Armand Schiele DNF - - 36 Rob Crossan DNF - - 38 Achim Vogt DNF - - 39 Daniel Vogt DNF - - 49 Tsuyoshi Tomii DNF - - 51 Vitaly Andreyev DNF - - 65 Vedran Pavlek DNF - - 70 Marcin Szafrański DNF - - 84 Alphonse Gomis DNF - - 87 Carlos Mier y Terán DNF - - 88 Emilian Focşeneanu DNF - - 94 Jason Gasperoni DNF - - 95 Balázs Tornay DNF - - 103 Tang Wei-Tsu DNF - - 105 Ahmet Demir DNF - - 106 Igor Latinović DNF - - 117 Jakub Malczewski DNF - - 47 Xavier Ubeira DQ - - 55 Gerard Escoda DQ - - 57 Nahum Orobitg DQ - - 59 Lyubomir Popov DQ - - 67 Victor Gómez DQ - - 91 Stergios Pappos DNS -
References
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