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Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's super-G

Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's super-G

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The men's super-G competition of the Sochi 2014 Olympics was held at the Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort, near Krasnaya Polyana, Russia, on Sunday, 16 February.[1]

Kjetil Jansrud of Norway won the gold medal and Andrew Weibrecht of the United States took the silver. Two bronze medals were awarded for the third-place tie between Jan Hudec of Canada and Bode Miller of the U.S.[2]

The vertical drop of the course was 622 m (2,041 ft), starting at an elevation of 1,592 m (5,223 ft) above sea level, with a length of 2.096 km (1.30 mi). Jansrud's winning time of 78.14 seconds yielded an average course speed of 96.565 km/h (60.0 mph), with an average vertical descent rate of 7.960 m/s (26.1 ft/s).

Jansrud's win was the fourth straight in this event for Norway, following Kjetil André Aamodt (2002, 2006) and Aksel Lund Svindal (2010).

Results

The race was started at 10:00 local time, (UTC+4). At the starting gate, the skies were partly cloudy, the temperature was 1.0 °C (34 °F), and the snow condition was hard. The temperature at the finish was 5.1 °C (41 °F).[3]

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References

  1. [1]
    "Competition Schedule". SOCOG. Archived from the original on 20 March 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  2. [2]
    Ng, Curtis (16 February 2014). "Jan Hudec bronze snaps Canadian alpine medal drought". CBC. Archived from the original on 2014-02-16. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
  3. [3]
    Final Results


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