Alpine skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill


The Men's Downhill competition of the Albertville 1992 Olympics was held at Val d'Isère on Sunday, 9 February.
The defending world champion was Franz Heinzer of Switzerland, who was also the defending World Cup downhill champion and led the current season. Defending Olympic champion Pirmin Zurbriggen of Switzerland had retired from competition two years earlier; this was the fourth consecutive Olympics without the defending champion in the field.
The race was run on a new course on La Face de Bellevarde, designed by 1972 champion Bernhard Russi. Austria's Patrick Ortlieb, who had yet to win a World Cup event, won the gold medal; Franck Piccard of France was only 0.05 seconds back to take the silver, and the bronze medalist was Günther Mader of Austria. Ortlieb was first racer on the course, and he became the fifth Austrian to win the event, in its twelfth edition. Heinzer was sixth, more than a second back.
The course started at an elevation of above sea level with a vertical drop of and a course length of. Ortlieb's winning time of 110.37 seconds yielded an average course speed of, with an average vertical descent rate of.

Results

The race was started at 12:15 local time,. At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was, and the snow condition was hard; the temperature at the finish was lower, at.
RankBibNameCountryTimeDifference
1Patrick Ortlieb1:50.37—
23Franck Piccard1:50.42+0.05
14Günther Mader1:50.47+0.10
42Markus Wasmeier1:50.62+0.25
56Jan Einar Thorsen1:50.79+0.42
612Franz Heinzer1:51.39+1.02
73Hansjörg Tauscher1:51.49+1.12
85Lasse Arnesen1:51.63+1.26
915A J Kitt1:51.98+1.61
1022Franco Colturi1:52.07+1.70
1113Kristian Ghedina1:52.28+1.91
1216Luc Alphand1:52.34+1.97
134Daniel Mahrer1:52.39+2.02
1430Gianfranco Martin1:52.48+2.11
157Xavier Gigandet1:52.50+2.13
1628Kyle Rasmussen1:52.71+2.34
1710Helmut Höflehner1:53.10+2.73
1826Felix Belczyk1:53.37+3.00
1911Berni Huber1:53.38+3.01
2021Tommy Moe1:53.40+3.03
2134Vitaly Andreyev1:53.52+3.15
2233Aleksey Maslov1:53.68+3.31
238Brian Stemmle1:53.77+3.40
2432Konstantin Chistyakov1:53.93+3.56
2539Tsuyoshi Tomii1:54.23+3.86
2637Kjetil André Aamodt1:54.24+3.87
2725Denis Rey1:54.28+3.91
2824Reggie Crist1:54.54+4.17
2938Martin Bell1:54.83+4.46
3045Ricardo Campo1:54.89+4.52
3119Boris Duncan1:54.95+4.58
3240Tom Stiansen1:55.62+5.25
3335Graham Bell1:55.82+5.45
3441Marián Bíreš1:56.21+5.84
3542Paulo Oppliger1:56.30+5.93
3636Steven Lee1:58.55+8.18
3750Petar Dichev2:01.21+10.84
3848Hubertus von Hohenlohe2:02.98+12.61
3954Choi Yong-hee2:04.85+14.48
4047Alexis Racloz2:05.61+15.24
4146Lothar Christian Munder2:07.34+16.97
4255Emilian Focşeneanu2:08.81+18.44
4351Péter Kristály2:09.88+19.51
4456Aurel Foiciuc2:09.94+19.57
4552Lamine Guèye2:12.84+22.47
-9Leonhard StockDNF-
-17Danilo SbardellottoDNF-
-18Marc GirardelliDNF-
-20Adrien DuvillardDNF-
-27Paul AccolaDNF-
-31Roman TornDNF-
-43Markus FoserDNF-
-44Nils LinnebergDNF-
-53Alphonse GomisDNF-
-29Cary MullenDQ-

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