| Event: | Men's super-G |
| Games: | 2006 Winter |
| Venue: | Sestriere |
| Date: | February 18 |
| Competitors: | 63 |
| Nations: | 27 |
| Win Value: | 1:30.65 |
| Gold: | Kjetil André Aamodt |
| Goldnoc: | NOR |
| Silver: | Hermann Maier |
| Silvernoc: | AUT |
| Bronze: | Ambrosi Hoffmann |
| Bronzenoc: | SUI |
| Prev: | 2002 |
| Next: | 2010 |
| Men's Super-G | |
| Location: | Sestriere Kandahar Banchetta |
| Vertical: | 650m (2,130feet) |
| Top Elevation: | 2536m (8,320feet) |
| Base Elevation: | 1886m (6,188feet) |
The Men's Super-G competition of the Torino 2006 Olympics was held at Sestriere, Italy, on Saturday, February 18.
In super-G competitions, skiers must navigate between gates at high speed, and the gates are further apart than in slalom and giant slalom competitions. As in the downhill, there is only one run of the super-G.[1]
The defending World Cup and world champion in super-G was Bode Miller of the United States, Austria's Hermann Maier led the current season and won the Olympic gold medal in 1998; the defending Olympic champion was Kjetil André Aamodt of Norway.
Aamodt won the gold medal again, Maier took the silver, and the bronze medalist was Ambrosi Hoffmann of Switzerland; Miller did not finish. Through 2018, this is the only successful Olympic title defense in a men's alpine speed event. It was Aamodt's third victory in the Olympic super-G (1992, 2002, 2006) and eighth Olympic medal.
Held on the Kandahar Banchetta piste, the course started at an elevation of 2536m (8,320feet) above sea level with a vertical drop of 650m (2,130feet) and a course length of 2.325km (01.445miles). Aamodt's winning time of 90.65 seconds yielded an average course speed of 92.333km/h, with an average vertical descent rate of 7.17m/s.
The race was started at 14:45 local time, (UTC+1). At the starting gate, the sky was mostly cloudy, the temperature was -6.5C, and the snow condition was packed; the temperature at the finish was -0.5C.
| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Difference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 1:30.65 | — | ||||
| 30 | 1:30.78 | +0.13 | ||||
| 22 | Ambrosi Hoffmann | 1:30.98 | +0.33 | |||
| 27 | 1:31.08 | +0.43 | ||||
| 28 | 1:31.10 | +0.45 | ||||
| 19 | 1:31.22 | +0.57 | ||||
| 15 | 1:31.23 | +0.58 | ||||
| 16 | 1:31.27 | +0.62 | ||||
| 29 | 1:31.37 | +0.72 | ||||
| 10 | 26 | 1:31.39 | +0.74 | |||
| 11 | 9 | 1:31.49 | +0.84 | |||
| 12 | 12 | 1:31.50 | +0.85 | |||
| 13 | 18 | 1:31.54 | +0.89 | |||
| 14 | 14 | 1:31.79 | +1.14 | |||
| 15 | 33 | 1:31.84 | +1.19 | |||
| 16 | 20 | 1:31.90 | +1.25 | |||
| 17 | 11 | 1:31.91 | +1.26 | |||
| 18 | 17 | 1:31.95 | +1.30 | |||
| 19 | 21 | 1:32.00 | +1.35 | |||
| 20 | 3 | 1:32.02 | +1.37 | |||
| 21 | 24 | 1:32.05 | +1.40 | |||
| 22 | 7 | 1:32.10 | +1.45 | |||
| 4 | ||||||
| 24 | 13 | 1:32.21 | +1.56 | |||
| 2 | ||||||
| 26 | 10 | 1:32.90 | +2.25 | |||
| 27 | 46 | 1:33.14 | +2.49 | |||
| 28 | 37 | 1:33.20 | +2.55 | |||
| 29 | 40 | 1:33.48 | +2.83 | |||
| 31 | ||||||
| 31 | 35 | 1:33.53 | +2.88 | |||
| 32 | 32 | 1:33.70 | +3.05 | |||
| 33 | 47 | 1:33.77 | +3.12 | |||
| 34 | 39 | 1:34.20 | +3.55 | |||
| 35 | 38 | 1:34.49 | +3.84 | |||
| 36 | 43 | 1:34.77 | +4.12 | |||
| 37 | 36 | 1:34.87 | +4.22 | |||
| 38 | 41 | 1:34.90 | +4.25 | |||
| 39 | 1 | 1:34.94 | +4.29 | |||
| 40 | 57 | 1:35.41 | +4.76 | |||
| 41 | 52 | 1:35.51 | +4.86 | |||
| 42 | 45 | 1:35.72 | +5.07 | |||
| 43 | 8 | 1:36.22 | +5.57 | |||
| 44 | 54 | 1:36.24 | +5.59 | |||
| 45 | 53 | 1:36.25 | +5.60 | |||
| 46 | 44 | 1:36.58 | +5.93 | |||
| 47 | 48 | 1:36.85 | +6.20 | |||
| 48 | 59 | 1:37.03 | +6.38 | |||
| 49 | 55 | 1:37.43 | +6.78 | |||
| 50 | 58 | 1:37.77 | +7.12 | |||
| 51 | 60 | 1:37.85 | +7.20 | |||
| 52 | 51 | 1:38.18 | +7.53 | |||
| 53 | 56 | 1:38.86 | +8.21 | |||
| 54 | 50 | 1:39.68 | +9.03 | |||
| 55 | 63 | 1:42.87 | +12.22 | |||
| 56 | 62 | 1:44.27 | +13.62 | |||
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| 61 |