Alpine skiing at the 1984 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill


The Men's downhill competition of the 1984 Winter Olympics was held at Bjelašnica, Yugoslavia. Due to weather delays, it was run on Thursday, February 16, a full week after originally scheduled.
The reigning world champion was Harti Weirather of Austria, while teammate Franz Klammer was the reigning World Cup downhill champion and Switzerland's Urs Räber led the current season.
Similar to 1980, the defending Olympic downhill champion was from Austria and did not compete; Leonhard Stock was injured a month earlier in early January.
In order to meet the minimum vertical drop requirement of, the starting gate was in a newly-constructed summit lodge and restaurant, with a connecting ramp to the mountain proper.
Bill Johnson of the United States became the first from outside the Alps to win an Olympic downhill. In his first full World Cup season, he was a top "glider" and made up time on the flatter lower third of the course. The previous best finishes for an American man in an Olympic downhill was fifth, and sixth ; American women had won three medals, but never a gold.
The course started at an elevation of above sea level with a vertical drop of and a length of. Johnson's winning time was 105.59 seconds, yielding an average speed of, with an average vertical descent rate of.

Results

The race was started at 12:00 local time,. At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was, and the snow condition was "good."
RankBibNameCountryTimeDifference
6Bill Johnson1:45.59–
11Peter Müller1:45.86+0.27
13Anton Steiner1:45.95+0.36
42Pirmin Zurbriggen1:46.05+0.46
59Urs Räber1:46.32+0.73
57Helmut Höflehner1:46.32+0.73
714Sepp Wildgruber1:46.53+0.94
812Steve Podborski1:46.59+1.00
915Todd Brooker1:46.64+1.05
103Franz Klammer1:47.04+1.45
1110Erwin Resch1:47.06+1.47
1221Klaus Gattermann1:47.12+1.53
1325Günther Marxer1:47.43+1.84
145Conradin Cathomen1:47.63+2.04
154Michael Mair1:47.70+2.11
1618Vladimir Makeyev1:47.87+2.28
1616Alberto Ghidoni1:47.87+2.28
1826Martin Bell1:48.00+2.41
198Steven Lee1:48.02+2.43
2027Franck Piccard1:48.06+2.47
2019Danilo Sbardellotto1:48.06+2.47
2224Herbert Renoth1:48.39+2.80
2320Valeri Tsyganov1:48.46+2.87
2422Doug Lewis1:48.49+2.90
2531Michel Vion1:48.68+3.09
261Gary Athans1:48.79+3.20
2730Janež Pleteršek1:48.97+3.38
2828Shinya Chiba1:49.02+3.43
2923Philippe Verneret1:49.30+3.71
3032Tomaž Jemc1:49.68+4.09
3138Bruce Grant1:49.94+4.35
3229Graham Bell1:50.06+4.47
3334Connor O'Brien1:50.36+4.77
3435Alistair Guss1:50.57+4.98
3537Markus Hubrich1:50.77+5.18
3636Hubert Hilti1:50.94+5.35
3733Frederick Burton1:51.15+5.56
3841Hubertus von Fürstenberg1:51.57+5.98
3943Dieter Linneberg1:51.68+6.09
4040Pierre Couquelet1:52.40+6.81
4142Andres Figueroa1:52.97+7.38
4244Hans Kossmann1:54.36+8.77
4345Scott Alan Sánchez1:54.75+9.16
4448Miguel Purcell1:54.91+9.32
4546Jorge Birkner1:54.92+9.33
4639Henri Mollin1:55.72+10.13
4750David Lajoux1:56.95+11.36
4857Albert Llovera1:57.88+12.29
4947Nicolas van Ditmar1:58.86+13.27
5056Jordi Torres1:59.06+13.47
5149Lamine Guèye1:59.64+14.05
5260Park Byung-ro1:59.74+14.15
5352Enrique de Ridder1:59.76+14.17
5451Américo Astete2:01.60+16.01
5558Giannis Stamatiou2:01.79+16.20
5653Andreas Pantelidis2:01.88+16.29
5759Kim Jin-hae2:01.96+16.37
5854Eu Woo-youn2:02.67+17.08
5955Lazaros Arkhontopoulos2:03.93+18.34
6061Jamil El-Reedy3:13.86+88.27
–17Peter DürrDNF–