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 1490 m above sea level with a vertical drop of 650 m and a course length of 2.407 km. Maier's winning time of 94.82 seconds yielded an average course speed of 91.386 km/h, with an average vertical descent rate of 6.855 m/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, and the snow condition was hard; the temperature at the finish at -2.5 C.
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