The women's super-g of Alpine Skiing 2018 during the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 17 February 2018 in the Jeongseon Alpine Centre. With 45 athletes competing, the event was won by Ester Ledecka from Czech Republic, with Anna Veith from Austria taking the silver medal and Tina Weirather from Liechtenstein taking bronze.
Format[]
The competition exists out of a single race. The competitor with the fastest time without missing one of the gates is the winner.
Preview[]
Forty-five athletes qualified for the event and based on historical results, Austrian skiers had to highest chance to win a gold medal, after winning gold in the previous three editions of the event, including Anna Veith four years before, though she has had an injury that kept her out of competition for almost the entire season, and Nicole Schmidhofer, who was the reigning world champion. Other favorites included Lindsey Vonn, Lara Gut, and Tina Weirather, with outsiders also including Johanna Schnarf, Federica Brignone, Nadia Fanchini, and Sofia Goggia.
Elvedina Muzaferija from Bosnia and Herzegovina was the youngest competitor and one of two younger than 20 years old, with the other being Sabrina Simader as the first Kenyan alpine skier to compete at the Olympic Games. Kim Vanreusel had just turned 20, but was still 1,5 years younger than Valerie Grenier. Sarah Schleper was the oldest competitor at 38 years old and she would have her 39th birthday two days after the race. She was more than four years older than Alexandra Coletti, and more than five years older than Johanna Schnarf and Lindsey Vonn. Schleper also had the most Olympic experience, having competed back in Nagano in 1998 and retiring in 2011; she competed at her fifth Olympic Games, one more than Noelle Barahona, Coletti, and Vonn. Anna Veith was the only defending medalist who was competing again, after competing as Anna Fenninger in 2014, though Lindsey Vonn won a bronze medal in the event in 2010.
Results[]
Lindsey Vonn was the first skier on the startlist, and she was the fan favorite for this event, after missing out on Sochi 2014. After only three riders, her time of 1:21.49 was already beaten, Johanna Schnarf stealing her chance on a gold medal. Lara Gut was the next to break the time set by Vonn, being 0.04 seconds faster than Schnarf. The only female representative for Liechtenstein, Tina Weirather, went on to have the fastest time after 10 runs with only 0.01 seconds difference with Gut, with Schnarf third, and Vonn fourth. After ten runs, the first one to go was Federica Brignone, who was able to equal the time set by Vonn, getting the fourth time in the intermediate standings. Reigning Olympic champion Anna Veith set the fastest time, being 0.01 seconds faster than Weirather, and with only two seeded skiers to go, a big chance to retain her gold medal. Out of those two seeds, Cornelia Huetter set the best time, only getting 8th place, with 0.05 seconds behind Vonn and Brignone. The biggest surprise was snowboarder Ester Ledecka, who raced to a time 0.01 seconds faster than Veith, and clinched the gold medal when no one thought it possible anymore. Michelle Gisin and Viktoria Rebensburg completed the top ten.
Ester Ledecka, a favorite for the snowboard parallel giant slalom, was the first Czech athlete to win a gold medal in Olympic alpine skiing. Anna Veith, who finished on just a hundredth of a second, therefore wasn't able to defend the title she won four years prior, but was able to win her third Olympic medal. Tina Weirather won her first medal at the Olympic Games. Lara Gut, who already won a bronze medal at the downhill event in 2014 and a fourth-place finish at the Super-G that same year, once against missed the podium, this time with a hundredth of a second. Johanna Schnarf finished fifth after a fourth place in 2014, with the bronze medalist of 2010 Lindsey Vonn finishing behind her.
| Result | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
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Ester Ledecka | Czech Republic | 1:21:11 |
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Anna Veith | Austria | 1:21.12 |
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Tina Weirather | Liechtenstein | 1:21.22 |
| 4 | Lara Gut | Switzerland | 1:21.23 |
| 5 | Johanna Schnarf | Italy | 1:21.27 |
| 6 | Lindsey Vonn | United States | 1:21.49 |
| 7 | Federica Brignone | Italy | 1:21.49 |
| 8 | Cornelia Huetter | Austria | 1:21.54 |
| 9 | Michelle Gisin | Switzerland | 1:21.57 |
| 10 | Viktoria Rebensburg | Germany | 1:21.62 |
| 11 | Sofia Goggia | Italy | 1:21.65 |
| 12 | Nadia Fanchini | Italy | 1:21.88 |
| 13 | Ragnhild Mowinckel | Norway | 1:22.00 |
| 14 | Breezy Johnson | United States | 1:22.14 |
| 15 | Laurenne Ross | United States | 1:22.17 |
| 16 | Alice McKennis | United States | 1:22.20 |
| 17 | Corinne Suter | Switzerland | 1:22.24 |
| 18 | Nicole Schmidhofer | Austria | 1:22.30 |
| 19 | Romane Miradoli | France | 1:22.36 |
| 20 | Jennifer Piot | France | 1:22.38 |
| 21 | Tamara Tippler | Austria | 1:22.50 |
| 22 | Tiffany Gauthier | France | 1:22.56 |
| 23 | Valerie Grenier | Canada | 1:22.77 |
| 24 | Lisa Hoernblad | Sweden | 1:22.79 |
| 25 | Marusa Ferk | Slovenia | 1:23.18 |
| 26 | Maryna Gasienica-Daniel | Poland | 1:23.21 |
| 27 | Jasmine Flury | Switzerland | 1:23.30 |
| 28 | Tessa Worley | France | 1:23.54 |
| 29 | Candace Crawford | Canada | 1:23.69 |
| 30 | Alexandra Coletti | Monaco | 1:24.01 |
| 31 | Greta Small | Australia | 1:24.09 |
| 32 | Petra Vlhova | Slovakia | 1:24.26 |
| 33 | Katerina Paulathova | Czech Republic | 1:24.48 |
| 34 | Tina Robnik | Slovenia | 1:24.49 |
| 35 | Barbara Kantorova | Slovakia | 1:25.30 |
| 36 | Ania Monica Caill | Romania | 1:25.74 |
| 37 | Roni Remme | Canada | 1:25.90 |
| 38 | Sabrina Simader | Kenya | 1:26.25 |
| 39 | Noelle Barahona | Chile | 1:27.16 |
| 40 | Kim Vanreusel | Belgium | 1:27.60 |
| 41 | Sarah Schleper | Mexico | 1:27.93 |
| 42 | Elvedina Muzaferija | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1:27.97 |
| 43 | Olha Knysh | Ukraine | 1:30.60 |
| - | Kira Weidle | Germany | DNF |
| - | Maria Shkanova | Belarus | DNS |
| 2018 Winter Olympic Games | |
|---|---|
| Alpine Skiing 2018 | |
| ← 2014 | 2022 → |
| Men | Women |
| Downhill | Downhill |
| Super-G | Super-G |
| Giant Slalom | Giant Slalom |
| Slalom | Slalom |
| Alpine Combined | Alpine Combined |
| Mixed | |
| Team | |