# Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's super-G

The men's super-G competition of the Nagano 1998 Olympics was held at Hakuba on Monday, February 16.
The defending world champion was Atle Skardal of Norway, France's Luc Alphand was the defending World Cup Super G champion, and Markus Wasmeier of Germany was the defending Olympic champion; all three had since retired from competition.
Just three days after a spectacular crash in the downhill, Austria's Hermann Maier returned to win the gold medal, and teammate Hans Knauss tied for the silver with Didier Cuche of Switzerland.
The course started at an elevation of 1,490 m (4,888 ft) above sea level with a vertical drop of 650 m (2,133 ft) and a course length of 2.407 km (1.50 mi). Maier's winning time of 94.82 seconds yielded an average course speed of 91.386 km/h (56.8 mph), with an average vertical descent rate of 6.855 m/s (22.5 ft/s).

## Results

The race was started at 08:45 local time, (UTC +9). At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was −3.2 °C (26.2 °F), and the snow condition was hard; the temperature at the finish at −2.5 °C (27.5 °F).
| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Difference |
| | 8 | Hermann Maier | Austria | 1:34.82 | — |
| | 17 | Hans Knauss | Austria | 1:35.43 | +0.61 |
| | 6 | Didier Cuche | Switzerland | 1:35.43 | +0.61 |
| 4 | 24 | Alessandro Fattori | Italy | 1:35.61 | +0.79 |
| 5 | 15 | Kjetil André Aamodt | Norway | 1:35.67 | +0.85 |
| 6 | 13 | Patrik Järbyn | Sweden | 1:35.72 | +0.90 |
| 7 | 11 | Daron Rahlves | United States | 1:35.96 | +1.14 |
| 8 | 22 | Tommy Moe | United States | 1:35.97 | +1.15 |
| 9 | 5 | Lasse Kjus | Norway | 1:36.25 | +1.43 |
| 10 | 14 | Fredrik Nyberg | Sweden | 1:36.31 | +1.49 |
| 11 | 16 | Bruno Kernen | Switzerland | 1:36.37 | +1.55 |
| 12 | 36 | Brian Stemmle | Canada | 1:36.40 | +1.58 |
| 13 | 25 | Kyle Rasmussen | United States | 1:36.52 | +1.70 |
| 14 | 12 | Steve Locher | Switzerland | 1:36.62 | +1.80 |
| 15 | 3 | Werner Perathoner | Italy | 1:36.64 | +1.82 |
| 16 | 9 | Kristian Ghedina | Italy | 1:36.70 | +1.88 |
| 17 | 30 | Jernej Koblar | Slovenia | 1:36.84 | +2.02 |
| 18 | 2 | Paul Accola | Switzerland | 1:36.87 | +2.05 |
| 19 | 10 | Peter Runggaldier | Italy | 1:37.00 | +2.18 |
| 19 | 4 | Andreas Schifferer | Austria | 1:37.00 | +2.18 |
| 21 | 28 | Andrey Filichkin | Russia | 1:37.29 | +2.47 |
| 22 | 32 | Enis Bećirbegović | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1:37.58 | +2.76 |
| 23 | 18 | Peter Pen | Slovenia | 1:37.81 | +2.99 |
| 24 | 33 | Tsuyoshi Tomii | Japan | 1:37.86 | +3.04 |
| 25 | 1 | Jean-Luc Crétier | France | 1:37.95 | +3.13 |
| 26 | 26 | Jürgen Hasler | Liechtenstein | 1:38.32 | +3.50 |
| 27 | 31 | Yasuyuki Takishita | Japan | 1:38.39 | +3.57 |
| 28 | 27 | Aleš Brezavšček | Slovenia | 1:38.54 | +3.72 |
| 29 | 38 | Vasily Bezsmelnitsyn | Russia | 1:39.39 | +4.57 |
| 30 | 37 | Vedran Pavlek | Croatia | 1:39.63 | +4.81 |
| 31 | 39 | Graham Bell | Great Britain | 1:39.80 | +4.98 |
| 32 | 40 | Renato Gašpar | Croatia | 1:39.85 | +5.03 |
| 33 | 35 | Andrew Freshwater | Great Britain | 1:39.89 | +5.07 |
| 34 | 29 | Chad Fleischer | United States | 1:40.19 | +5.37 |
| 35 | 42 | Tejs Broberg | Denmark | 1:41.09 | +6.27 |
| 36 | 45 | Igor Yudin | Belarus | 1:45.92 | +11.10 |
| 37 | 47 | Marcelo Apovian | Brazil | 1:49.43 | +14.61 |
| | 20 | Frédéric Marin-Cudraz | France | DNF | |
| | 41 | Thomás Grob | Chile | DNF | |
| | 43 | Zurab Dzhidzhishvili | Georgia | DNF | |
| | 44 | Victor Gómez | Andorra | DNF | |
| | 46 | Alex Heath | South Africa | DNF | |
| | 7 | Stephan Eberharter | Austria | DSQ | |
| | 27 | Nicolas Burtin | France | DSQ | |
| | 23 | Ed Podivinsky | Canada | DSQ | |
| | 19 | Adrien Duvillard | France | DNS | |
| | 34 | Thomas Lödler | Croatia | DNS | |
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