Tim Cafe (22), Alpine skier
Lives: Queenstown.
Event: Super G incorporates downhill and giant slalom racing.
Skiers negotiate widely-spaced gates but with fewer turns over a longer course and with higher speeds approaching those achieved in downhill.
The minimum number of gates is 35 for men and 30 for women.
Background: Cafe first represented New Zealand in 2001.
He won the Australia & New Zealand Cup in 2008 and finished 28th at the world junior championships in slalom in 2007.
He was 36th in the super G at the world championships in France in February 2009, and sixth in the super G at last year's New Zealand Winter Games.
Chances: Norwegian Aksel Lund Svindal, US skier Bode Miller and Switzerland's Didier Defago are considered the medal prospects in this event.
Cafe was competing well in FIS races in Europe last month and had three top-20 places in super G.
He did not qualify at the recent World Cup at Slovenia.
He will be aiming for a personal best at the Olympics.
Race day: February 19, at Whistler.
