Alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics – Men's super-G


The Men's Super G competition of the Calgary 1988 Olympics was held at Nakiska on Sunday, February 21. This was the Olympic debut of the event.
The defending world champion was Pirmin Zurbriggen of Switzerland, who was also the defending World Cup Super G champion and led the current season.
France's Franck Piccard won the gold medal, Helmut Mayer of Austria took the silver, and Lars-Börje Eriksson of Sweden was the bronze medalist. Zurbriggen tied for fifth, more than two seconds behind. Italy's Alberto Tomba lasted three gates and did not finish. It was the first Olympic alpine gold for France in twenty years, since the sweep by Jean-Claude Killy in 1968.
The course started at an elevation of above sea level with a vertical drop of and a course length of. Piccard's winning time was 99.66 seconds, yielding an average speed of, with an average vertical descent rate of.

Results

The race was started at 10:00 local time,. At the starting gate, it was snowing, the temperature was, and the snow condition was hard. The temperature at the finish was.
RankBibNameCountryTimeDifference
5Franck Piccard1:39.66—
10Helmut Mayer1:40.96+1.30
1Lars-Börje Eriksson1:41.08+1.42
417Hubert Strolz1:41.11+1.45
514Pirmin Zurbriggen1:41.96+2.30
57Günther Mader1:41.96+2.30
723Luc Alphand1:42.27+2.61
88Leonhard Stock1:42.36+2.70
925Tomaž Čižman1:42.47+2.81
1020Ivano Camozzi1:42.66+3.00
114Heinz Holzer1:42.88+3.22
1213Andreas Wenzel1:43.00+3.34
1337Jim Read1:43.01+3.35
1427Shinya Chiba1:43.03+3.37
1515Franz Heinzer1:43.32+3.66
1632Klemen Bergant1:43.41+3.75
1719Günther Marxer1:44.16+4.50
1835Tiger Shaw1:44.26+4.60
1912Felix Belczyk1:44.31+4.65
2036Niklas Lindqvist1:44.88+5.22
2028Yves Tavernier1:44.88+5.22
2240Rob Boyd1:45.04+5.38
2331Adrian Bireš1:45.33+5.67
2452Matthias Hubrich1:45.46+5.80
2429Jeff Olson1:45.46+5.80
2633Carlo Gerosa1:45.82+6.16
2738Peter Jurko1:46.03+6.37
2849Silvio Wille1:46.08+6.42
2948Nigel Smith1:47.15+7.49
3034Bill Hudson1:47.29+7.63
3160Richard Biggins1:47.38+7.72
3284Elias Majdalani1:47.58+7.92
3361Juan Pablo Santiagos1:48.74+9.08
3426Martin Bell1:48.82+9.16
3553Graham Bell1:48.98+9.32
3658Jorge Pujol1:49.33+9.67
3763Paulo Oppliger1:49.71+10.05
3859Nahum Orobitg1:53.22+13.56
3965Jorge Birkner1:53.79+14.13
4067Park Jae-hyuk1:53.89+14.23
4187Hur Seung-Wook1:55.13+15.47
4266Hubertus von Hohenlohe1:56.03+16.37
4394Resul Sare1:57.65+17.99
4490Yakup Kadri Birinci1:59.32+19.66
4572Nicola Ercolani1:59.70+20.04
4677Ioannis Kapraras2:02.06+22.40
4793Göksay Demirhan2:02.22+22.56
4868Sokratis Aristodimou2:03.10+23.44
4983Alex Christian Benoit2:05.80+26.14
5088Christian Bruderer2:05.99+26.33
5173Fabio Guardigli2:06.59+26.93
5289Jason Edelmann2:09.93+30.27
5391Patrice Martell2:10.69+31.03
5486Fabrice Notari2:11.73+32.07
5599Ong Ching-Ming2:17.22+37.56
5678Walter Sandza2:25.95+46.29
5782Lin Chi-Liang2:30.81+51.15
-98Carlos Andrés BrudererDNF-
-97Nam Won-giDNF-
-85Daníel HilmarssonDNF-
-80Javier RivaraDNF-
-79Federico van DitmarDNF-
-86Félix FlechasDNF-
-75Kevin WilsonDNF-
-70Kang Nak-younDNF-
-69Alekhis FotiadisDNF-
-62Gerard EscodaDNF-
-56Delfin CampoDNF-
-55Nils LinnebergDNF-
-54Konstantin ChistyakovDNF-
-51Alain VilliardDNF-
-50Frank WörndlDNF-
-47Sergey PetrikDNF-
-46Simon Lyle Wi RuteneDNF-
-45Finn Christian JaggeDNF-
-43Niklas HenningDNF-
-42Robert BüchelDNF-
-41Katsuhito KumagaiDNF-
-39Luis Fernández OchoaDNF-
-30Philippe VerneretDNF-
-24Steven LeeDNF-
-22Atle SkårdalDNF-
-21Jan Einar ThorsenDNF-
-18Daniel MahrerDNF-
-16Martin HanglDNF-
-11Alberto TombaDNF-
-9Peter RothDNF-
-6Markus WasmeierDNF-
-3Marc GirardelliDNF-
-2Michael EderDNF-
-96Tang Wei-tsuDQ-
-81Ignacio BirknerDQ-
-74Riccardo StacchiniDQ-
-44A. J. KittDQ-
100F. Alfredo RegoDNS
95Ahmet DemirDNS
92Carlos PrunedaDNS
71Giannis StamatiouDNS
64Mauricio RotellaDNS
57Ronald DuncanDNS