Olympic Winter Games 2010 / Alpine skiing

Alpine skiing at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games
information
venue	Whistler
Competition venue	Whistler-Blackcomb
Nations	71
Athletes	309 (176 , 133 )
date	15-25 February 2010
decisions	10
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At the XXI. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver ( Canada ), ten competitions (five each for men and women) were held in alpine skiing . The venue was Whistler-Blackcomb near Whistler , around 125 km north of Vancouver.

Balance sheet

Medal table

Women's Super G race on the "Franz's Downhill" piste

space	country				total
1	Germany	3	-	-	3
2	United States	2	3	3	8th
3	Switzerland	2	-	1	3
4th	Norway	1	2	1	4th
5	Austria	1	1	2	4th
6th	Italy	1	-	-	1
7th	Croatia	-	2	-	2
	Slovenia	-	2	-	2
9	Sweden	-	-	2	2
10	Czech Republic	-	-	1	1

Medalist

Men competitor gold silver bronze Departure Didier Defago Aksel Lund Svindal Bode Miller Super G Aksel Lund Svindal Bode Miller Andrew Weibrecht Giant slalom Carlo Janka Kjetil Jansrud Aksel Lund Svindal slalom Giuliano Razzoli Ivica Kostelić André Myhrer combination Bode Miller Ivica Kostelić Silvan Zurbriggen

Women competitor gold silver bronze Departure Lindsey Vonn Julia Mancuso Elisabeth Görgl Super G Andrea Fischbacher Tina Maze Lindsey Vonn Giant slalom Viktoria Rebensburg Tina Maze Elisabeth Görgl slalom Maria Höfl-Riesch Marlies shield Šárka Strachová combination Maria Höfl-Riesch Julia Mancuso Anja Pärson

Results men

Departure

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	SUI	Didier Defago	1: 54.31
2	NOR	Aksel Lund Svindal	1: 54.38
3	United States	Bode Miller	1: 54.40
4th	AUT	Mario Scheiber	1: 54.52
5	CAN	Erik Guay	1: 54.64
6th	SUI	Didier Cuche	1: 54.67
7th	FRA	David Poisson	1: 54.82
8th	LIE	Marco Büchel	1: 54.84
9	AUT	Klaus Kroell	1: 54.87
10	AUT	Michael Walchhofer	1: 54.88
11	SUI	Carlo Janka	1: 55.02
12	ITA	Werner Heel	1: 55.19
15th	ITA	Peter Fill	1: 55.29
18th	ITA	Christof Innerhofer	1: 55.58
22nd	AUT	Hans Grugger	1: 55.81
23	SUI	Ambrosi Hoffmann	1: 56.04
24	GER	Stephan Keppler	1: 56.11

Date: February 15, 2010, 7:30 pm (10:30 am local time)
Course: “ Dave Murray ”
Start: 1678 m, Finish: 825 m
Difference in altitude: 853 m, distance: 3105 m
Average speed of the winner: 97.8 km / h
Course setter: Helmuth Schmalzl , 41 goals

64 participants from 26 countries, 59 in the rating.

The men's descent should originally have taken place on February 13th, but had to be postponed by two days due to warm temperatures and rain in the lower part of the route. The slope presented itself unevenly and was accordingly difficult to drive on. In contrast to the days before, it was sunshine and all drivers benefited from the same conditions.

The first serious target time set up Bode Miller , who took the lead with starting number 8. Aksel Lund Svindal (No. 16) was able to undercut Miller's time by two hundredths of a second and took the lead. Didier Défago , winner of the Lauberhorn and Streif the previous season , was seven hundredths faster with starting number 18 and achieved a best time that no one could beat. Only in 1992 and 1994 was there a closer decision in an Olympic Downhill. Didier Cuche (No. 22), one of the most popular favorites due to his training performance, was on the medal course until the lowest intermediate time, but chose the wrong line in the last left turn and fell back to sixth place. Other favorites such as No. 17 Michael Walchhofer , No. 20 Carlo Janka or No. 19 Manuel Osborne-Paradis also received no medal.

Super G

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	NOR	Aksel Lund Svindal	1: 30.34
2	United States	Bode Miller	1: 30.62
3	United States	Andrew Weibrecht	1: 30.65
4th	ITA	Werner Heel	1: 30.67
5	CAN	Erik Guay	1: 30.68
6th	ITA	Christof Innerhofer	1: 30.73
7th	ITA	Patrick Staudacher	1: 30.74
8th	SUI	Carlo Janka	1: 30.83
9	SUI	Tobias Grünenfelder	1: 30.90
10	SUI	Didier Cuche	1: 31.06
14th	AUT	Benjamin Raich	1: 31.35
15th	SUI	Didier Defago	1: 31.43
17th	AUT	Georg Streitberger	1: 31.49
20th	AUT	Mario Scheiber	1: 31.93
21st	AUT	Michael Walchhofer	1: 32.00

Date: February 19, 2010, 8:30 p.m. CET (11:30 a.m. local time)
Course: "Dave Murray"
Start: 1440 m, Finish: 825 m
Difference in altitude: 615 m, distance: 2200 m
Average speed of the winner: 87.6 km / h
course setter: Giovanni Rulfi, 44 goals

64 participants from 28 countries, 45 in the ranking. Retired u. a .: Marco Büchel (LIE), Robbie Dixon (CAN), Peter Fill (ITA), Patrik Jrebsyn (SWE), Andrej Jerman (SLO), Stephan Keppler (GER), Hans Olsson (SWE), Manuel Osborne-Paradis ( CAN), David Poisson (FRA), Natko Zrnčić-Dim (CRO).

The race was held in ideal weather conditions (sunshine, temperatures around 0 ° C). With start number 3, Andrew Weibrecht (so far ranked 11th as the best World Cup result) set a time at which the following athletes surprisingly failed in a row, sometimes extremely tightly. Only Bode Miller (No. 11) managed to beat his teammate by three hundredths of a second. In the end, Aksel Lund Svindal (No. 19) prevailed with 0.28 seconds and no one could beat his time. This was the fourth Norwegian victory in the seventh Olympic Super-G: Kjetil André Aamodt won the gold medal in 1992, 2002 and 2006 . The race was overshadowed by a serious fall by Patrik Järyn : The Swede remained unconscious and had to be transported by helicopter. In the hospital, he was diagnosed with a slight concussion and skin abrasions on his face.

Giant slalom

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	SUI	Carlo Janka	2: 37.83
2	NOR	Kjetil Jansrud	2: 38.22
3	NOR	Aksel Lund Svindal	2: 38.44
4th	AUT	Marcel Hirscher	2: 38.52
5	AUT	Romed Baumann	2: 38.80
6th	AUT	Benjamin Raich	2: 38.83
7th	CRO	Ivica Kostelić	2: 38.88
8th	GER	Felix Neureuther	2: 39.06
9	United States	Ted Ligety	2: 39.11
10	SLO	Aleš Gorza	2: 39.21
12	AUT	Philipp Schörghofer	2: 39.35
14th	SUI	Didier Cuche	2: 39.45
15th	SUI	Sandro Viletta	2: 39.54
29	SUI	Marc Berthod	2: 42.10

Date: February 23, 2010
1st run: 7:00 p.m. CET (10:00 a.m. local time)
2nd run: 10:45 p.m. CET (1:45 p.m. local time)

Course: "Dave Murray"
Start: 1210 m, Finish: 805 m
Difference in altitude: 405 m, route length: 1512 m
Course setter 1st run: David Chastan (FRA), 52 goals Course setter
2nd run: Matteo Guadagnini (ITA), 55 goals

103 participants from 60 countries, 89 in the rating. Retired u. a .: 1st run: Thomas Mermillod Blondin (FRA), Bode Miller (USA); 2nd run: André Myhrer (SWE), Cyprien Richard (FRA), Marcus Sandell (FIN), Gauthier de Tessières (FRA).

The race was originally scheduled for February 21st, but postponements in previous races made it necessary to adjust the program. Light snowfall, which turned into sleet in the lower part of the route, made the slope conditions difficult. The first run resulted in relatively tight time gaps at the top of the rankings. No less than 13 drivers classified themselves within a second and thus still had realistic chances of winning a medal. The fastest was the Swiss Carlo Janka with a lead of 0.02 seconds over the Austrian Romed Baumann and 0.16 seconds over the Norwegian Aksel Lund Svindal . They were followed by two more Austrians, Marcel Hirscher and Benjamin Raich , the 2006 Olympic champion.

Kjetil Jansrud , still in 11th place after the first run, set the clear best time in the second run and overtook almost all of the competitors ahead of him. Only Carlo Janka was able to defy the Norwegian and also won the Olympic giant slalom gold medal with a controlled drive to World Cup gold in 2009. Svindal claimed his third place. The Austrians were not fortunate enough, they all fell back and finished in 4th (Hirscher), 5 (Baumann) and 6 (Raich) places.

slalom

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	ITA	Giuliano Razzoli	1: 39.32
2	CRO	Ivica Kostelić	1: 39.48
3	SWE	André Myhrer	1: 39.76
4th	AUT	Benjamin Raich	1: 39.81
5	AUT	Marcel Hirscher	1: 40.20
6th	SLO	Mitja Valenčič	1: 40.35
7th	ITA	Manfred Mölgg	1: 40.45
8th	CAN	Julien Cousineau	1: 40.66
9	FRA	Julien Lizeroux	1: 40.72
10	AUT	Reinfried Herbst	1: 40.78
12	SUI	Silvan Zurbriggen	1: 40.83
15th	SUI	Marc Gini	1: 41.35

Date: February 27, 2010
1st run: 7:00 p.m. CET (10:00 a.m. local time)
2nd run: 10:45 p.m. CET (1:45 p.m. local time)

Course: "Dave Murray"
Start: 985 m, Finish: 805 m Difference in
altitude: 180 m
Course setter 1st run: Dusan Grasic (CAN) 66 goals Course setter
2nd run: Christian Höflehner (AUT) 63 goals

102 participants from 56 countries, 54 in the rating. Retired u. a .: Axel Bäck (SWE), Marc Berthod (SUI), Jimmy Cochran (USA), Urs Imboden (MDA), Ted Ligety (USA), Bode Miller (USA), Steve Missillier (FRA), Lars Elton Myhre (NOR ), Felix Neureuther (GER), Manfred Pranger (AUT), Patrick Thaler (ITA), Bernard Vajdič (SLO), Sandro Viletta (SUI).

The Olympic slalom race was characterized by extremely unfavorable conditions: continuous rain had softened the slope, and thick fog at times made visibility poor. In the first run Giuliano Razzoli coped best with this situation. He was leading 0.43 seconds ahead of Mitja Valenčič and 0.54 seconds ahead of Benjamin Raich . Another seven drivers still had realistic medals. André Myhrer , who is in 10th place, set the fastest time in the second run and moved up to third place, which he had missed by 0.03 seconds four years ago in Turin . The fourth-placed Ivica Kostelić improved to second place. Razzoli was able to defend his lead and won (overall somewhat surprisingly, although he had won in Zagreb at the beginning of January) the gold medal as the third Italian after Piero Gros (1976) and Alberto Tomba (1988), who was present as a spectator .

The Austrians, who provided the strongest slalom team, could not achieve their goal of winning a medal in the last competition. Benjamin Raich missed the bronze medal by 0.05 seconds, Reinfried Herbst , who was the leader in the Slalom World Cup , was tenth. In the fifth Olympic race, too, the Austrian men failed to win a medal, which resulted in the worst result in their Olympic history. Before that, there had only been no medalist in 1936: At that time, the Austrians did not even run because the IOC had banned ski instructors from starting. Behind the Austrians, the two remaining Swiss and Kilian Albrecht from Vorarlberg, starting for Bulgaria, landed. The 51-year-old Prince Hubertus von Hohenlohe, the oldest participant in these games, was also able to place in the rankings at his second start.

Super combination

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	United States	Bode Miller	2: 44.92
2	CRO	Ivica Kostelić	2: 45.25
3	SUI	Silvan Zurbriggen	2: 45.32
4th	SUI	Carlo Janka	2: 45.54
5	United States	Ted Ligety	2: 45.82
6th	AUT	Benjamin Raich	2: 46.13
7th	CZE	Ondřej Bank	2: 46.19
8th	ITA	Christof Innerhofer	2: 46.45
9	NOR	Kjetil Jansrud	2: 46.50
10	United States	Will Brandenburg	2: 47.06
14th	SUI	Sandro Viletta	2: 48.19
22nd	GER	Stephan Keppler	2: 49.79

Date: February 21, 2010
Course: "Dave Murray"

Departure: 6:30 p.m. CET (9:30 a.m. local time),
start: 1678 m, finish: 825 m,
altitude difference: 853 m, route length: 3105 m
Course setter: Helmuth Schmalzl , 41 gates

Slalom: 9:15 p.m. CET (12:15 p.m. local time)
Start: 1005 m, Finish: 805 m
Height difference: 200 m
Course setter: Ante Kostelić (CRO), 69 goals

52 participants from 22 countries, 34 in the rating. Retired u. a .: Romed Baumann (AUT), Johan Clarey (FRA), Didier Défago (SUI), Peter Fill (ITA), Manfred Mölgg (ITA), Hans Olsson (SWE), Andrej Šporn (SLO), Georg Streitberger (AUT) , Aksel Lund Svindal (NOR).

The super combination was originally planned for February 16, 2010, but postponements of other races meant that the competition could only be held five days later. With sunshine and temperatures around freezing point, the external conditions were ideal. The descent, the first part of the super combination, could be held on the uncut route. To the top of sat Aksel Lund Svindal before the surprising Dominik Paris . Carlo Janka and Didier Défago followed on the other places . Of the slalom specialists, Bode Miller , Ivica Kostelić , Silvan Zurbriggen and Benjamin Raich , who was the only one of the Austrians who only entered the slalom with three drivers (Streitberger who did without rank 22 in the downhill), were in the most promising position. The slalom part (one run) followed just under three hours later. Kostelić was initially able to take the lead on the course set by his father, but was beaten by Miller by 0.33 seconds shortly afterwards. Zurbriggen improved from tenth to third place. As expected, Paris fell far behind, while Svindal, who was leading after the descent, was eliminated in the slalom. Miller was now the Olympic champion.

Results women

Departure

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	United States	Lindsey Vonn	1: 44.19
2	United States	Julia Mancuso	1: 44.75
3	AUT	Elisabeth Görgl	1: 45.65
4th	AUT	Andrea Fischbacher	1: 45.68
5	SUI	Fabienne Suter	1:46:17
6th	CAN	Britt Janyk	1: 46.21
7th	FRA	Marie Marchand-Arvier	1: 46.22
8th	GER	Maria Riesch	1: 46.26
9	ITA	Lucia Recchia	1: 46.50
10	GER	Gina Stechert	1: 46.93
12	SUI	Nadia Styger	1: 47.22
14th	AUT	Regina Mader	1: 47.53
19th	SUI	Nadja Kamer	1: 48.14
22nd	ITA	Johanna Schnarf	1: 48.77
25th	AUT	Anna Fenninger	1: 49.95

Downhill medal winners: Julia Mancuso (left), Lindsey Vonn (middle), Elisabeth Görgl (right)

Date: February 17, 2010, 8:00 p.m. CET (11:00 a.m. local time)
Course: "Franz's Downhill"
Start: 1595 m, Finish: 825 m
Difference in altitude: 770 m, Length: 2939 m
Average speed of the winner: 101.5 km / h course
setter: Jan Tischhauser, 43 goals

45 participants from 22 countries, 37 in the rating. Eliminated: Elena Fanchini (ITA), Dominique Gisin (SUI), Daniela Merighetti (ITA), Anja Pärson (SWE), Marion Rolland (FRA). Disqualified: Alice McKennis (USA). Not at the start: Georgia Simmerling (CAN).

The women's descent, which was postponed by three days due to bad weather, was very uneven and exhausting, but could be carried out under fair conditions (sunshine, temperatures slightly above freezing point). To make matters worse, none of the riders had been able to complete an entire training run beforehand. Instead, a training session was split in half. Due to the lack of preparation, there were some dramatic scenes in the race. Anja Pärson fell after a nearly 60 meter flight at the target jump, up to then the Swede was on the medal course with the second best intermediate time. Dominique Gisin and Daniela Merighetti also fell at the target jump, but like Pärson were without serious injuries. In contrast, Edit Miklós , who fell into the safety fences in the middle section, and Marion Rolland , who tore a cruciate ligament in a harmless-looking fall a few meters after the start (got the sticks between the skis), were injured. The slope was then sometimes criticized as too dangerous, but several athletes described Franz's Downhill as an Olympic-worthy challenge.

Elisabeth Görgl drove a first serious target time with starting number 5 and clearly took the lead. Julia Mancuso caused a surprise and was 0.9 seconds faster; in the previous two years she had been far from top form and had never been on the podium. Lindsey Vonn , who won five of the six World Cup runs this winter, was the only one to live up to her role as a favorite . Withstanding the pressure exerted by the American media, she beat Mancuso's time by 0.56 seconds and took the victory. Görgl continued a family tradition: Her mother Traudl Hecher had won bronze downhill runs in 1960 and 1964.

Super G

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	AUT	Andrea Fischbacher	1: 20.14
2	SLO	Tina Maze	1: 20.63
3	United States	Lindsey Vonn	1: 20.88
4th	ITA	Johanna Schnarf	1: 20.99
5	AUT	Elisabeth Görgl	1: 21.14
6th	SUI	Nadia Styger	1: 21.25
7th	ITA	Lucia Recchia	1: 21.43
8th	GER	Maria Riesch	1: 21.46
9	United States	Julia Mancuso	1: 21.50
10	FRA	Ingrid Jacquemod	1: 21.77
12	SUI	Andrea Dettling	1: 22.03
13	SUI	Fabienne Suter	1: 22.16
15th	GER	Gina Stechert	1: 22.21
16	AUT	Anna Fenninger	1: 22.30
28	GER	Viktoria Rebensburg	1: 25.23

Medal winners of the Super-G on the Medal Plaza: Tina Maze (left), Andrea Fischbacher (middle), Lindsey Vonn (right)

Date: February 20, 2010, 7:00 p.m. CET (10:00 a.m. local time)
Course: "Franz's Downhill"
Start: 1425 m, Finish: 825 m
Difference in altitude: 600 m, length of the course: 2005 m
Average speed of the winner: 90.1 km / h course
setter: Jürgen Kriechbaum (AUT), 41 goals

53 participants from 27 countries, 38 in the rating. Retired u. a .: Emily Brydon (CAN), Maruša Ferk (SLO), Nadja Kamer (SUI), Marie Marchand-Arvier (FRA), Chelsea Marshall (USA), Daniela Merighetti (ITA), Shona Rubens (CAN), Nicole Schmidhofer ( AUT).

In sunshine and temperatures slightly above freezing point, the slope presented itself in a compact state. The course setting turned out to be technically demanding, which is why numerous drivers missed a goal. Julia Mancuso (USA) opened the race; her time of 1: 21.50 minutes was enough for ninth place. Elisabeth Görgl was the first of the favorites to start the race; she took the lead but then dropped back to fifth. Lindsey Vonn , who started after her and won the Super-G world title a year earlier, was the biggest favorite (also because of her gold medal in the downhill run a few days ago); she drove 0.26 seconds faster and looked like the sure winner. But then Andrea Fischbacher surprised , who was already ahead in the interim measurements and clearly undercut Vonn's time by 0.74 seconds. Finally Tina Maze moved up to second place ahead of Vonn. Fischbacher's gold medal was the only one for Austria's Alpine. The Swiss women, the strongest Super-G team in the current World Cup season, remained without a medal.

Giant slalom

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	GER	Viktoria Rebensburg	2: 27.11
2	SLO	Tina Maze	2: 27.15
3	AUT	Elisabeth Görgl	2: 27.25
4th	SUI	Fabienne Suter	2: 27.52
5	AUT	Kathrin Zettel	2: 27.53
6th	GER	Kathrin Hölzl	2: 27.58
7th	AUT	Eva-Maria Brem	2: 27.62
8th	United States	Julia Mancuso	2: 27.66
9	FRA	Taïna Barioz	2: 27.79
10	GER	Maria Riesch	2: 27.97
15th	AUT	Michaela Kirchgasser	2: 28.40
17th	ITA	Manuela Mölgg	2: 28.66

Date: February 24, 2010
1st run: 7:00 p.m. CET (10:00 a.m. local time)
2nd run: February 25, 2010, 6:30 p.m. CET (9:30 a.m. local time)

Course: “Franz's Downhill”
Start: 1177 m, Finish: 805 m
Difference in altitude: 372 m
Course setter 1st run: Christian Schwaiger (GER), 49 goals
Course setter 2nd run: Anders Pärson (SWE) 47 goals

86 participants from 47 countries, 60 in the evaluation. Retired u. a .: 1st run: Lindsey Vonn (USA), Mona Løseth (NOR), Andrea Dettling (SUI). Not started for the 2nd run: Šárka Záhrobská (CZE), Veronika Zuzulová (SVK), Ana Jelušić (CRO), Nika Fleiss (CRO).

The giant slalom for women was by far the most affected by the extremely changeable weather. The first run could still be carried out under normal conditions with light snowfall. Austrians got along best with the course: Elisabeth Görgl led the surprising French Taïna Barioz and Kathrin Zettel ; a third Austrian, Eva-Maria Brem, was fourth. Lindsey Vonn fell into the safety fence and broke her little finger. Julia Mancuso , who started after her , Olympic champion in 2006, had to break off the journey. The second run was initially postponed several times because of the increasingly thick fog and finally scheduled for the next day.

The weather improved only slightly, but the second run could be carried out without any problems. Viktoria Rebensburg , who was in sixth intermediate rank, took the lead. None of the competitors following her could undercut her overall time. Tina Maze came next , who lost a total of 0.04 seconds and came in second. Third place went to Görgl, who was leading at halftime, pushing Fabienne Suter off the podium. Rebensburg is the first German giant slalom Olympic champion in 54 years: In 1956, Ossi Reichert was the fastest. The seventh time in the second round, which was won by Denise Karbon (ITA), was enough for Rebensburg. But just like Karbon (rank 30 after the 1st run, ultimately rank 23), these other runners were already too far behind after the first run. Only Fabienne Suter had hopes when she was in the lead for a long time (up to Rebensburg and Maze) after finishing 11th in the first run. Tina Maze drove 11th time in the second run, Elisabeth Görgl 15th.

Rebensburg first caught the eye of a large international audience on February 13, 2007, when the giant slalom was being driven at the World Championships in Aare and, with the third-best running time of the second round, it advanced from 21st to 8th place. She achieved her best World Cup result so far at RTL on January 24, 2010 in Cortina d'Ampezzo with third place.

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slalom

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	GER	Maria Riesch	1: 42.89
2	AUT	Marlies shield	1: 43.32
3	CZE	Šárka Záhrobská	1: 43.90
4th	SWE	Maria Pietilä Holmner	1: 44.22
5	FRA	Sandrine Aubert	1: 44.46
6th	FIN	Tanja Poutiainen	1: 44.93
7th	AUT	Elisabeth Görgl	1: 44.97
8th	ITA	Nicole Gius	1: 45.01
9	SLO	Tina Maze	1: 45.09
10	SVK	Veronika Zuzulová	1: 45.14
11	ITA	Manuela Mölgg	1: 45.31
13	AUT	Kathrin Zettel	1: 45.59
14th	GER	Christina Geiger	1: 45.62
15th	SWE	Frida Hansdotter	1: 45.67
22nd	LIE	Marina nigg	1: 46.83

Date: February 26, 2010
1st run: 7:00 p.m. CET (10:00 a.m. local time)
2nd run: 10:30 p.m. CET (1:30 p.m. local time)

Course: "Dave Murray"
Start: 985 m, Finish: 805 m
Difference in altitude: 180 m
Course setter 1st run: Klemen Bergant (SLO) 62 goals
Course setter 2nd run: Günter Obkircher (AUT) 64 goals

87 participants from 47 countries, 70 in the evaluation. Retired u. a. in the first run: Lindsey Vonn (USA), Ana Drev (SLO); in the 2nd run: Fanny Chmelar (GER), Chiara Costazza (ITA), Michaela Kirchgasser (AUT), Megan McJames (USA), Mona Løseth (NOR), Susanne Riesch (GER), Anja Pärson (SWE).

With heavy cloud cover and occasional light snowfall, the race could be carried out without any problems. Maria Riesch , who was one of the favorites before the race, set the fastest time in the first run. Šárka Záhrobská , Marlies Schild (in their comeback season after injury) and younger sister Susanne Riesch followed on the other places . The drivers in positions three to nine were less than half a second apart. In the second run there was only a small change in the lead when Záhrobská was overtaken by Schild. Maria Riesch was able to safely manage her lead of four tenths of a second in the second run and won the second gold medal after the super combination, while Susanne Riesch was eliminated. After 2006, the women's slalom was the only alpine ski race without Swiss participation, as none of the athletes had met the required qualification criteria. Záhrobská won the first alpine Olympic medal for the Czech Republic.

Super combination

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	GER	Maria Riesch	2: 09.14
2	United States	Julia Mancuso	2: 10.08
3	SWE	Anja Pärson	2: 10.19
4th	AUT	Kathrin Zettel	2: 10.50
5	SLO	Tina Maze	2: 10.53
6th	SUI	Fabienne Suter	2: 10.85
7th	CZE	Šárka Záhrobská	2: 11.02
8th	ITA	Johanna Schnarf	2: 11.29
9	AUT	Michaela Kirchgasser	2: 11.35
10	FRA	Marie Marchand-Arvier	2: 11.82
16	AUT	Anna Fenninger	2: 13.27
18th	AUT	Elisabeth Görgl	2: 13.58
23	SUI	Andrea Dettling	2: 14.44

Date: February 18, 2010
Course: "Franz's Downhill"

Departure: 6:30 p.m. CET (9:30 a.m. local time),
start: 1500 m, finish: 825 m,
altitude difference: 675 m, route length: 2500 m
Course setter: Jan Tischhauser, 36 gates

Slalom: 9:30 p.m. CET (12:30 p.m. local time)
Start: 974 m, Finish: 805 m
Difference in altitude: 169 m
Course setter: Klemen Bergant (SLO), 55 goals

35 participants from 19 countries, 28 in the evaluation. Retired u. a .: Nadja Kamer (SUI), Daniela Merighetti (ITA), Gina Stechert (GER), Lindsey Vonn (USA).

The super combination had to be postponed by four days because of the persistently bad weather at the beginning of the first week and the lack of training drives. The combination run was shortened by a little more than 400 meters compared to the special run. In addition, the "Hot Air" target jump, where there had been some serious falls, was defused. Fastest in the descent was Lindsey Vonn , 0.33 seconds ahead of Maria Riesch and 0.8 seconds ahead of the again surprising Julia Mancuso .

Šárka Záhrobská , Michaela Kirchgasser and Sandrine Aubert set the fastest times in the slalom . After the descent, however, they were too far behind to be able to advance into the medal ranks. Riesch won the gold medal with the seventh best running time (it was her first Olympic medal after she was missing in 2006 due to injury) ahead of Mancuso (9th in the slalom) and Anja Pärson (5th). Pärson's bronze medal in particular was a surprise, as the Swede had suffered numerous bruises in her spectacular fall on the descent the day before . Vonn retired in the slalom with the second-best overall time.

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Web links

Commons : Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Overview of all races in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

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