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 February 13–27; weather delayed the first event, the men's downhill, two days until Monday, February 15.

Alpine skiing at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Whistler Creekside Whistler, British Columbia  Canada
Dates	February 15–27, 2010
No. of events	10
Competitors	309 from 71 nations

Vancouver 

Location in Canada

Whistler

Vancouver

Locations in British Columbia

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.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	3	0	0	3
2	United States (USA)	2	3	3	8
3	Switzerland (SUI)	2	0	1	3
4	Norway (NOR)	1	2	1	4
5	Austria (AUT)	1	1	2	4
6	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
7	Croatia (CRO)	0	2	0	2
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	2	0	2
9	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	2	2
10	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 nations)		10	10	10	30

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Downhill	Didier Défago  Switzerland	1:54.31	Aksel Lund Svindal  Norway	1:54.38	Bode Miller  United States	1:54.40
Super-G	Aksel Lund Svindal  Norway	1:30.34	Bode Miller  United States	1:30.62	Andrew Weibrecht  United States	1:30.65
Giant slalom	Carlo Janka  Switzerland	2:37.83	Kjetil Jansrud  Norway	2:38.22	Aksel Lund Svindal  Norway	2:38.44
Slalom	Giuliano Razzoli  Italy	1:39.32	Ivica Kostelić  Croatia	1:39.48	André Myhrer  Sweden	1:39.76
Super combined	Bode Miller  United States	2:44.92	Ivica Kostelić  Croatia	2:45.25	Silvan Zurbriggen  Switzerland	2:45.32

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Downhill	Lindsey Vonn  United States	1:44.19	Julia Mancuso  United States	1:44.75	Elisabeth Görgl  Austria	1:45.65
Super-G	Andrea Fischbacher  Austria	1:20.14	Tina Maze  Slovenia	1:20.63	Lindsey Vonn  United States	1:20.88
Giant slalom	Viktoria Rebensburg  Germany	2:27.11	Tina Maze  Slovenia	2:27.15	Elisabeth Görgl  Austria	2:27.25
Slalom	Maria Riesch  Germany	1:42.89	Marlies Schild  Austria	1:43.32	Šárka Záhrobská  Czech Republic	1:43.90
Super combined	Maria Riesch  Germany	2:09.14	Julia Mancuso  United States	2:10.08	Anja Pärson  Sweden	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	1,678 m (5,505 ft)	825 m (2,707 ft)	853 m (2,799 ft)	3.105 km (1.929 mi)	27.5%
Wed 17-Feb	Downhill – women	1,595 m (5,233 ft)	825 m (2,707 ft)	770 m (2,526 ft)	2.939 km (1.826 mi)	26.2%
Sun 21-Feb	Downhill – (SC) – men	1,678 m (5,505 ft)	825 m (2,707 ft)	853 m (2,799 ft)	3.105 km (1.929 mi)	27.5%
Thu 18-Feb	Downhill – (SC) – women	1,500 m (4,921 ft)	825 m (2,707 ft)	675 m (2,215 ft)	2.500 km (1.553 mi)	27.0%
Fri 19-Feb	Super-G – men	1,440 m (4,724 ft)	825 m (2,707 ft)	615 m (2,018 ft)	2.200 km (1.367 mi)	28.0%
Sat 20-Feb	Super-G – women	1,425 m (4,675 ft)	825 m (2,707 ft)	600 m (1,969 ft)	2.005 km (1.246 mi)	29.9%
Tue 23-Feb	Giant slalom – men	1,210 m (3,970 ft)	805 m (2,641 ft)	405 m (1,329 ft)	1.512 km (0.940 mi)	26.8%
Wed 24-Feb	Giant slalom – women	1,177 m (3,862 ft)	805 m (2,641 ft)	372 m (1,220 ft)	1.309 km (0.813 mi)	28.4%
Sat 27-Feb	Slalom – men	985 m (3,232 ft)	805 m (2,641 ft)	180 m (591 ft)	0.610 km (0.379 mi)	29.5%
Fri 26-Feb	Slalom – women	985 m (3,232 ft)	805 m (2,641 ft)	180 m (591 ft)
Sun 21-Feb	Slalom – (SC) – men	1,005 m (3,297 ft)	805 m (2,641 ft)	200 m (656 ft)	0.733 km (0.455 mi)	27.3%
Thu 18-Feb	Slalom – (SC) – women	974 m (3,196 ft)	805 m (2,641 ft)	169 m (554 ft)	0.785 km (0.488 mi)	21.5%

• The finish area was above the base area of Whistler Creekside, which is at an elevation of 655 metres (2,150 ft) 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.[2]

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.[3]

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).[3]

Competing nations

The following nations have entered the following number of alpine skiers.[2]

NOC	Men	Women	Total
Albania	1		1
Andorra	2	2	4
Argentina	2	3	5
Armenia	1	1	2
Australia	2		2
Austria	11	8	19
Azerbaijan	1	1	2
Belarus		2	2
Belgium	2	1	3
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1	2	3
Belgium	1	1	2
Brazil	1	1	2
Bulgaria	2	1	3
Canada	12	9	21
Cayman Islands	1		1
Chile	2	1	3
China	1	1	2
Colombia		1	1
Croatia	5	5	10
Cyprus	1	1	2
Czech Republic	5	3	8
Denmark	2	1	3
Estonia	1	1	2
Finland	2	2	4
France	10	12	22
Georgia	2	1	3
Germany	2	7	9
Ghana	1		1
Great Britain	3	1	4
Greece	2	1	3
Hungary	1	2	3
Iceland	3	1	4
India	1		1
Iran	2	1	3
Ireland	1	1	2
Israel	1		1
Italy	12	9	21
Japan	2	1	3
Kazakhstan	1	1	2
Kyrgyzstan	1		1
Latvia	2	1	3
Lebanon	1	2	3
Liechtenstein	1	2	3
Lithuania	1		1
Macedonia	1		1
Mexico	1		1
Moldova	2		2
Monaco		1	1
Montenegro	1		1
Morocco	1		1
New Zealand	2		2
Norway	5	1	6
Pakistan	1		1
Peru	1	1	2
Poland		1	1
Romania	2	1	3
Russia	3	2	5
San Marino	1		1
Senegal	1		1
Serbia		3	3
Slovenia	10	3	13
Slovakia	1	2	3
South Africa	1		1
South Korea	2	1	3
Spain	2	3	5
Sweden	7	5	12
Switzerland	9	5	14
Tajikistan	1		1
Turkey	1	1	2
Ukraine	1	2	3
United States	10	10	20
Uzbekistan	1	1	2
Total athletes	176	131	309
Total NOCs	66	51	71

See also

• Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Paralympics

References

1. FIS-ski.com - 2010 Winter Olympics - results
2. FIS 18 January 2010 Quota for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Archived 4 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
3. Alpine Skiing Athletes: Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics

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

External links

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