Alpine skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill
Men's downhill at the XVI Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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Alpine skiing | |||||||||||||
Venue | La face de Bellevarde Val-d'Isère, France | ||||||||||||
Date | 9 February 1992 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 55 from 24 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 1:50.37 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Men's Downhill | |
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Location | La face de Bellevarde Val d'Isère, France |
Vertical | 973 m (3,192 ft) |
Top elevation | 2,809 m (9,216 ft) |
Base elevation | 1,836 m (6,024 ft) |
Longest run | 3.048 km (1.894 mi) |
The Men's Downhill competition of the Albertville 1992 Olympics was held at Val d'Isère on Sunday, 9 February.[1][2]
The defending world champion was Franz Heinzer of Switzerland, who was also the defending World Cup downhill champion and led the current season.[3][4] 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.[5][6] 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 2,809 m (9,216 ft) above sea level with a vertical drop of 973 m (3,192 ft) and a course length of 3.048 km (1.89 mi). Ortlieb's winning time of 110.37 seconds yielded an average course speed of 99.418 km/h (61.8 mph), with an average vertical descent rate of 8.816 m/s (28.9 ft/s).
Results
The race was started at 12:15 local time, (UTC +1). At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was 5.0 °C (41 °F), and the snow condition was hard; the temperature at the finish was lower, at 3.0 °C (37 °F).
Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Difference |
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1 | Patrick Ortlieb | Austria | 1:50.37 | — | |
23 | Franck Piccard | France | 1:50.42 | +0.05 | |
14 | Günther Mader | Austria | 1:50.47 | +0.10 | |
4 | 2 | Markus Wasmeier | Germany | 1:50.62 | +0.25 |
5 | 6 | Jan Einar Thorsen | Norway | 1:50.79 | +0.42 |
6 | 12 | Franz Heinzer | Switzerland | 1:51.39 | +1.02 |
7 | 3 | Hansjörg Tauscher | Germany | 1:51.49 | +1.12 |
8 | 5 | Lasse Arnesen | Norway | 1:51.63 | +1.26 |
9 | 15 | A J Kitt | United States | 1:51.98 | +1.61 |
10 | 22 | Franco Colturi | Italy | 1:52.07 | +1.70 |
11 | 13 | Kristian Ghedina | Italy | 1:52.28 | +1.91 |
12 | 16 | Luc Alphand | France | 1:52.34 | +1.97 |
13 | 4 | Daniel Mahrer | Switzerland | 1:52.39 | +2.02 |
14 | 30 | Gianfranco Martin | Italy | 1:52.48 | +2.11 |
15 | 7 | Xavier Gigandet | Switzerland | 1:52.50 | +2.13 |
16 | 28 | Kyle Rasmussen | United States | 1:52.71 | +2.34 |
17 | 10 | Helmut Höflehner | Austria | 1:53.10 | +2.73 |
18 | 26 | Felix Belczyk | Canada | 1:53.37 | +3.00 |
19 | 11 | Berni Huber | Germany | 1:53.38 | +3.01 |
20 | 21 | Tommy Moe | United States | 1:53.40 | +3.03 |
21 | 34 | Vitaly Andreyev | Unified Team | 1:53.52 | +3.15 |
22 | 33 | Aleksey Maslov | Unified Team | 1:53.68 | +3.31 |
23 | 8 | Brian Stemmle | Canada | 1:53.77 | +3.40 |
24 | 32 | Konstantin Chistyakov | Unified Team | 1:53.93 | +3.56 |
25 | 39 | Tsuyoshi Tomii | Japan | 1:54.23 | +3.86 |
26 | 37 | Kjetil André Aamodt | Norway | 1:54.24 | +3.87 |
27 | 25 | Denis Rey | France | 1:54.28 | +3.91 |
28 | 24 | Reggie Crist | United States | 1:54.54 | +4.17 |
29 | 38 | Martin Bell | Great Britain | 1:54.83 | +4.46 |
30 | 45 | Ricardo Campo | Spain | 1:54.89 | +4.52 |
31 | 19 | Boris Duncan | Great Britain | 1:54.95 | +4.58 |
32 | 40 | Tom Stiansen | Norway | 1:55.62 | +5.25 |
33 | 35 | Graham Bell | Great Britain | 1:55.82 | +5.45 |
34 | 41 | Marián Bíreš | Czechoslovakia | 1:56.21 | +5.84 |
35 | 42 | Paulo Oppliger | Chile | 1:56.30 | +5.93 |
36 | 36 | Steven Lee | Australia | 1:58.55 | +8.18 |
37 | 50 | Petar Dichev | Bulgaria | 2:01.21 | +10.84 |
38 | 48 | Hubertus von Hohenlohe | Mexico | 2:02.98 | +12.61 |
39 | 54 | Choi Yong-hee | South Korea | 2:04.85 | +14.48 |
40 | 47 | Alexis Racloz | Chile | 2:05.61 | +15.24 |
41 | 46 | Lothar Christian Munder | Brazil | 2:07.34 | +16.97 |
42 | 55 | Emilian Focşeneanu | Romania | 2:08.81 | +18.44 |
43 | 51 | Péter Kristály | Hungary | 2:09.88 | +19.51 |
44 | 56 | Aurel Foiciuc | Romania | 2:09.94 | +19.57 |
45 | 52 | Lamine Guèye | Senegal | 2:12.84 | +22.47 |
- | 9 | Leonhard Stock | Austria | DNF | - |
- | 17 | Danilo Sbardellotto | Italy | DNF | - |
- | 18 | Marc Girardelli | Luxembourg | DNF | - |
- | 20 | Adrien Duvillard | France | DNF | - |
- | 27 | Paul Accola | Switzerland | DNF | - |
- | 31 | Roman Torn | Canada | DNF | - |
- | 43 | Markus Foser | Liechtenstein | DNF | - |
- | 44 | Nils Linneberg | Chile | DNF | - |
- | 53 | Alphonse Gomis | Senegal | DNF | - |
- | 29 | Cary Mullen | Canada | DQ | - |
Source:[1]
References
- ^ a b "Albertville 1992 Official Report" (PDF). Le Comite d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques Albertville. LA84 Foundation. 1992. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2008. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
- ^ "Alpine Skiing at the 1992 Albertville Winter Games: Men's Downhill". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
- ^ "1991 World Cup standings". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
- ^ "1991 World Championships results". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
- ^ "It's all downhill for Austria's alpine gold medalist". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. 10 February 1992. p. 1D.
- ^ Johnson, William Oscar (February 17, 1992). "La Face job". Sports Illustrated. p. 36.
External links
- FIS results