Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill


The men's downhill competition of the 2014 Winter Olympics was held at Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort near Krasnaya Polyana, Russia, on 9 February at 11:15 MSK. The race course was longer than average at, with a vertical drop of.

Summary

The defending champion was Didier Défago from Switzerland. Aksel Lund Svindal, silver medalist in 2010, and bronze medalist Bode Miller also participated, with Miller posting the best training time. None of the 2010 medalists returned to the podium.
Matthias Mayer of Austria won the gold medal, with Christof Innerhofer from Italy in second and Kjetil Jansrud from Norway taking bronze. Mayer had an average speed of and an average vertical descent rate of.
Third racer on the course was Carlo Janka, who took the early lead, soon pushed to the third position by Travis Ganong and immediately after him by Jansrud. Starting 11th, Mayer overtook Jansrud by 0.10 seconds, and Svindal was 0.19 behind Jansrud. Innerhofer was ahead of Mayer's pace in the first half of the course, but fell back and finished 0.06 seconds behind Mayer, pushing Jansrud to the bronze medal position. No competitor after Innerhofer, including Défago, finished in the top nine.

Results

The race was started at 11:15 local time,. At the starting gate, the skies were partly cloudy, the temperature was, and the snow condition was hard.
RankBibNameCountryTimeDifference
11Matthias Mayer2:06.23—
20Christof Innerhofer2:06.29+0.06
8Kjetil Jansrud2:06.33+0.10
18Aksel Lund Svindal2:06.52+0.29
7Travis Ganong2:06.64+0.41
3Carlo Janka2:06.71+0.48
14Peter Fill2:06.72+0.49
15Bode Miller2:06.75+0.52
9Max Franz2:07.03+0.80
1021Erik Guay2:07.04+0.81
1117Dominik Paris2:07.13+0.90
1210Werner Heel2:07.16+0.93
1313Beat Feuz2:07.49+1.26
1427Didier Défago2:07.79+1.56
1516Patrick Küng2:07.82+1.59
1626David Poisson2:07.83+1.60
1723Georg Streitberger2:07.86+1.63
1819Adrien Théaux2:07.89+1.66
196Benjamin Thomsen2:08.00+1.77
2029Ondřej Bank2:08.24+2.01
212Jan Hudec2:08.49+2.26
2222Klaus Kröll2:08.50+2.27
235Aleksandr Glebov2:08.96+2.73
2433Klemen Kosi2:08.98+2.75
2528Manuel Osborne-Paradis2:09.00+2.77
2630Guillermo Fayed2:09.03+2.80
271Steven Nyman2:09.15+2.92
2831Paul de la Cuesta2:09.46+3.23
2924Natko Zrnčić-Dim2:09.80+3.57
3025Marco Sullivan2:10.10+3.87
3136Yuri Danilochkin2:10.58+4.35
3234Kevin Esteve Rigail2:10.80+4.57
3335Igor Zakurdayev2:11.28+5.05
344Ferran Terra2:11.43+5.20
3546Martin Vráblík2:11.73+5.50
3649Georgi Georgiev2:12.49+6.26
3741Christoffer Faarup2:12.55+6.32
3845Nikola Chongarov2:12.57+6.34
3939Arnaud Alessandria2:12.71+6.48
4037Marc Oliveras2:12.76+6.53
4142Henrik von Appen2:13.16+6.93
4248Martin Khuber2:13.51+7.28
4340Dmitriy Koshkin2:14.63+8.40
4447Igor Laikert2:15.07+8.84
4543Martin Bendík2:15.39+9.16
4650Ioan Valeriu Achiriloaie2:17.46+11.23
4738Roberts Rode2:17.50+11.27
44
12Johan Clarey
32Aleksander Aamodt Kilde