Super-G · speed event

Super-G ski game

Race super-G free in your browser: 3 courses from green to black and 1 quick drill, each with medal times, a Course Setter to beat and a world record to set.

Race super-G

Super-G courses

Green to black, each with its world record. Free to race in your browser, no download.

Super-G drills

DrillCommitA big Super-G delay, then a glide: take the high line and tuck
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Super-G in CarveMania

In CarveMania, super-G is about the line: take a high line into the big turns so you’re not braking at the pole, then tuck through the glides. The Course Setter tops 79 mph on Cornice.

What is super-G?

Super-G, short for super giant slalom, is the younger of the two speed events: it joined the World Cup in the 1982–83 season and the Olympics in 1988. It mixes downhill speed with giant slalom turns, on a long, fast course with the gates set far apart, raced in a single run.

There are no training runs. Racers inspect the course on the morning of the race, slipping down it beside the gates, then race it: the first time they ski the line is at race speed.

Super-G rules

One run; the fastest time wins.
No training runs: course inspection only.
Men’s World Cup courses drop 350–650 m (350–600 m for women).
Turning poles of successive gates are at least 25 m apart.

What’s the difference between super-G and downhill?

Downhill is longer and faster, with fewer turns, bigger jumps and training runs on the days before the race. Super-G has more gates and more turning, a shorter course and no training runs. Both are one-run speed events: super-G averages about 53 mph (86 km/h) in men’s World Cup races, downhill about 60 mph (96 km/h).

See how all four events compare, or race the others: Slalom, Giant Slalom, Downhill.

Real-world figures are men’s World Cup unless noted. Sources: Slalom skiing (Wikipedia), Giant slalom (Wikipedia), Super-G (Wikipedia), Downhill (Wikipedia), Speed in World Cup alpine ski racing, Gilgien et al., Fastest World Cup downhill skiing speed (Guinness World Records).