Alpine skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics – Women's super-G
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The women's super-G competition of the Albertville 1992 Olympics was held at Meribel on Tuesday, 18 February.[1][2]
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Venue | Meribel | ||||||||||||
Date | February 18 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 59 from 26 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 1:21.22 | ||||||||||||
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Location | Meribel – Piste du Corbey |
Vertical | 498 m (1,634 ft) |
Top elevation | 1,930 m (6,332 ft) |
Base elevation | 1,432 m (4,698 ft) |
The defending world champion was Ulrike Maier of Austria, while France's Carole Merle was the defending World Cup Super-G champion, and shared the lead in the current season with Heidi Zeller.[3][4]
Deborah Compagnoni of Italy won the gold medal, Merle took the silver, and Katja Seizinger of Germany was the bronze medalist.[5] Maier was fifth, downhill champion Kerrin Lee-Gartner was sixth, and Zeller was eleventh. The winning margin was 1.41 seconds; through 2018, it remains the largest in the event's Olympic history. On the same day at Val-d'Isère, compatriot Alberto Tomba successfully defended his men's giant slalom title.
The Piste du Corbey course started at an elevation of 1,930 m (6,332 ft) above sea level with a vertical drop of 498 m (1,634 ft) and a course length of 1.510 km (0.94 mi). Campagnoni's winning time was 81.22 seconds, yielding an average course speed of 66.929 km/h (41.6 mph), with an average vertical descent rate of 6.13 m/s (20.1 ft/s).