Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Short description Template:Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics was held in Canada at Whistler Creekside in Whistler, British Columbia, north of Vancouver. The ten events were scheduled for 13–27 February; weather delayed the first event, the men's downhill, two days until Monday, 15 February.

Medal table

Notably absent from the medals in these Olympics were the Austrian men, who had won 8 medals in 2006 and 7 in 2002. France and host Canada were shut out from the podium, as were the German men and the Swiss and Italian women. The U.S. had its best Olympics ever with eight alpine medals, only the fourth nation to achieve that total in a single Olympics (Austria, France, Switzerland).

Individually, three men and five women won multiple medals; triple medalists were Bode Miller of the U.S. and Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway, who both won a medal of each color. The sole double gold medalist was Maria Riesch of Germany.

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Downhill Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:54.31	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:54.38	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:54.40
Super-G Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:30.34	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:30.62	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:30.65
Giant slalom Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:37.83	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:38.22	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:38.44
Slalom Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:39.32	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:39.48	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:39.76
Super combined Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:44.92	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:45.25	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:45.32

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Downhill Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:44.19	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:44.75	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:45.65
Super-G Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:20.14	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:20.63	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:20.88
Giant slalom Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:27.11	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:27.15	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:27.25
Slalom Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:42.89	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:43.32	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:43.90
Super combined Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:09.14	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:10.08	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:10.19

Competition schedule

Day	Date	Start	Finish	Event	Date run
Day 2	Sat 13 Feb	11:45	13:15	Downhill – men	Mon 15 Feb
Day 3	Sun 14 Feb	10:00	11:30	Super combined – women	Thu 18 Feb
		13:00	14:00
Day 5	Tue 16 Feb	10:00	11:30	Super combined – men	Sun 21 Feb
		13:30	14:30
Day 6	Wed 17 Feb	11:00	12:45	Downhill – women	Wed 17 Feb
Day 8	Fri 19 Feb	11:30	13:00	Super-G – men	Fri 19 Feb
Day 9	Sat 20 Feb	10:00	11:45	Super-G – women	Sat 20 Feb
Day 10	Sun 21 Feb	10:00	11:45	Giant slalom – men	Tue 23 Feb
		13:45	15:00
Day 13	Wed 24 Feb	10:00	11:45	Giant slalom – women	Wed 24 Feb
		13:15	14:30		Thu 25 Feb
Day 15	Fri 26 Feb	10:00	11:45	Slalom – women	Fri 26 Feb
		13:30	14:45
Day 16	Sat 27 Feb	10:00	11:45	Slalom – men	Sat 27 Feb
		13:45	14:45

All times are Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8).

Course information

Date	Race	Start elevation	Finish elevation	Vertical drop	Course length	Average gradient
Mon 15-Feb	Downhill – men
Wed 17-Feb	Downhill – women
Sun 21-Feb	Downhill – (SC) – men
Thu 18-Feb	Downhill – (SC) – women
Fri 19-Feb	Super-G – men
Sat 20-Feb	Super-G – women
Tue 23-Feb	Giant slalom – men
Wed 24-Feb	Giant slalom – women
Sat 27-Feb	Slalom – men
Fri 26-Feb	Slalom – women
Sun 21-Feb	Slalom – (SC) – men
Thu 18-Feb	Slalom – (SC) – women

• The finish area was above the base area of Whistler Creekside, which is at an elevation of above sea level.

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Athletes

Qualification standards

The FIS point list used to determine entry into the Olympics was from 18 January 2010.

There could be a maximum of 320 athletes competing in alpine skiing, with no more than 22 per NOC (there was a further limit of 14 male and 14 female per NOC). Additionally, each NOC could enter a maximum of four skiers per event.

To qualify, the competitor had to reach either the "A" or "B" standard.

• "A" qualification standard: the competitor is in the top 500 of the FIS points list in at least one event. If the event is downhill, super-G or super combined, he or she requires at least 120 FIS points.
• "B" qualification standard: if an NOC does not have a male or female athlete that meets the "A" Standard, then they may enter an athlete of that gender in slalom or giant slalom only, provided that the athlete has at most 140 FIS points in the event and has taken part in the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009.

Demographics

As of 28 February 2010, there were 309 athletes listed as competitors in alpine skiing at the Games, representing 71 countries.

The youngest alpine skier in the 2010 Olympic Games was Ghassan Achi of Lebanon, age 16 at the time of competition (born 28 July 1993). The oldest was Hubertus von Hohenlohe of Mexico, age 51 (born 2 February 1959).

Competing nations

The following nations entered the following number of alpine skiers.

See also

• Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Paralympics

References

• Whistler Weasel Workers – Alpine Race Volunteers for 2010 Olympics
• Alpine Skiing – Sports – Vancouver 2010 Template:Webarchive
• Qualification for skiing.
• Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Competition Schedule v12 Template:Webarchive

External links

• FIS-Ski.com – alpine skiing – 2010 Winter Olympics – Whistler, Canada
• Sports-Reference – 2010 Winter Olympics – Alpine skiing