Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics

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

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Locations in British Columbia

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.

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	3	0	0	3
2	United States	2	3	3	8
3	Switzerland	2	0	1	3
4	Norway	1	2	1	4
5	Austria	1	1	2	4
6	Italy	1	0	0	1
7	Croatia	0	2	0	2
	Slovenia	0	2	0	2
9	Sweden	0	0	2	2
10	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		10	10	10	30

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

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Downhill details	Lindsey Vonn  United States	1:44.19	Julia Mancuso  United States	1:44.75	Elisabeth Görgl  Austria	1:45.65
Super-G details	Andrea Fischbacher  Austria	1:20.14	Tina Maze  Slovenia	1:20.63	Lindsey Vonn  United States	1:20.88
Giant slalom details	Viktoria Rebensburg  Germany	2:27.11	Tina Maze  Slovenia	2:27.15	Elisabeth Görgl  Austria	2:27.25
Slalom details	Maria Riesch  Germany	1:42.89	Marlies Schild  Austria	1:43.32	Šárka Záhrobská  Czech Republic	1:43.90
Super combined details	Maria Riesch  Germany	2:09.14	Julia Mancuso  United States	2:10.08	Anja Pärson  Sweden	2:10.19

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

• 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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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.

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]

The following nations 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

• Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Paralympics

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

• Whistler Weasel Workers – Alpine Race Volunteers for 2010 Olympics
• Alpine Skiing – Sports – Vancouver 2010 Archived 4 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
• Qualification for skiing.
• Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Competition Schedule v12 Archived 12 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine

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