Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill


The men's downhill competition of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympics was held on Thursday, 15 February, at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre in PyeongChang. Scheduled for Sunday, 11 February, winds in excess of forced officials to postpone the race four days.

Summary

The defending champion was Matthias Mayer. Other competitors included the 2014 silver medalist Christof Innerhofer, the bronze medalist Kjetil Jansrud, as well as the 2010 silver medalist Aksel Lund Svindal. Through 2018, the Olympic men's downhill has yet to have a repeat champion.
Aksel Lund Svindal won the gold medal, with a slight advantage over Kjetil Jansrud and Beat Feuz, who gained his first Olympic medal.
The race course was in length, with a vertical drop of from a starting elevation of above sea level. Svindal had an average speed of and an average vertical descent rate of.

Qualification

A total of up to 320 alpine skiers qualified across all eleven events. Athletes qualified for this event by having met the A qualification standard only, which meant having 80 or less FIS Points and being ranked in the top 500 in the Olympic FIS points list. The Points list takes into average the best results of athletes per discipline during the qualification period. Countries received additional quotas by having athletes ranked in the top 30 of the current World Cup season. After the distribution of B standard quotas, the remaining quotas were distributed using the Olympic FIS Points list, with each athlete only counting once for qualification purposes. A country could only enter a maximum of four athletes for the event.

Results

The race was started at 11:30 local time,. At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was, and the snow condition was hard.
RankBibNameCountryTimeBehind
7Aksel Lund Svindal1:40.25
9Kjetil Jansrud1:40.37+0.12
5Beat Feuz1:40.43+0.18
3Dominik Paris1:40.79+0.54
1Thomas Dreßen1:41.03+0.78
13Peter Fill1:41.08+0.83
17Vincent Kriechmayr1:41.19+0.94
4Brice Roger1:41.39+1.14
11Matthias Mayer1:41.46+1.21
106Andreas Sander1:41.62+1.37
1116Max Franz1:41.75+1.50
1215Hannes Reichelt1:41.76+1.51
138Mauro Caviezel1:41.86+1.61
142Manuel Osborne-Paradis1:41.89+1.64
1512Aleksander Aamodt Kilde1:42.18+1.93
1614Bryce Bennett1:42.22+1.97
1718Christof Innerhofer1:42.23+1.98
1810Johan Clarey1:42.39+2.14
1928Martin Čater1:42.53+2.28
2027Jared Goldberg1:42.59+2.34
2123Marc Gisin1:42.82+2.57
2225Emanuele Buzzi1:42.84+2.59
2334Ryan Cochran-Siegle1:42.96+2.71
2321Maxence Muzaton1:42.96+2.71
2529Josef Ferstl1:42.98+2.73
2619Adrien Théaux1:42.99+2.74
2724Boštjan Kline1:43.03+2.78
2822Benjamin Thomsen1:43.19+2.94
2939Miha Hrobat1:43.61+3.36
3030Wiley Maple1:43.72+3.47
3136Andreas Romar1:43.78+3.53
3235Dustin Cook1:43.80+3.55
3320Gilles Roulin1:43.88+3.63
3440Henrik von Appen1:44.02+3.77
3526Broderick Thompson1:44.37+4.12
3638Christoffer Faarup1:44.48+4.23
3737Joan Verdu1:44.65+4.40
3842Filip Forejtek1:44.79+4.54
3948Igor Zakurdayev1:45.01+4.76
4045Christopher Hörl1:45.21+4.96
4132Marko Vukićević1:45.36+5.11
4241Michał Kłusak1:45.42+5.17
4349Marco Pfiffner1:45.61+5.36
4450Yuri Danilochkin1:45.86+5.61
4546Jan Hudec1:46.42+6.17
4647Jan Zabystřan1:46.60+6.35
4757Simon Breitfuss Kammerlander1:47.87+7.62
4853Kim Dong-woo1:47.99+7.74
4951Ivan Kovbasnyuk1:48.57+8.32
5055Albin Tahiri1:48.81+8.56
5156Marko Stevović1:49.50+9.25
5252Patrick McMillan1:49.98+9.73
5354Márton Kékesi1:51.72
31Klemen Kosi
43Marc Oliveras
33Natko Zrnčić-Dim
44Ondřej Berndt