Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill
Men's Downhill at the XIII Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue |
Whiteface Mountain Wilmington, New York, U.S. | ||||||||||||
Date | February 14, 1980 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 47 from 22 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 1:45.50 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics | ||
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Downhill | men | women |
Giant slalom | men | women |
Slalom | men | women |
Men's Downhill | |
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Location | Whiteface Mountain |
Vertical | 832 m (2,730 ft) |
Top elevation | 1,313 m (4,308 ft) |
Base elevation | 481 m (1,578 ft) |
The Men's Downhill competition of the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid was held at Whiteface Mountain on Thursday, February 14.[1][2]
The defending world champion was Josef Walcher of Austria, while Switzerland's Peter Müller was the defending World Cup downhill champion and led the 1980 World Cup.[3][4] Defending Olympic champion Franz Klammer did not compete; he was not selected to the Austrian Olympic team in 1980.[5]
Gold medalist Leonhard Stock was an alternate on the Austrian downhill team, at the Olympics for the slalom. His fast training times earned him a spot on the four-man team, displacing Walcher, the reigning world champion.[6][7][8] All four Austrians in the race finished in the top ten and Müller was fourth.
Results
Source:[1]
References
- 1 2 "The Official Report of the XIIIth Olympic Winter Games Lake Placid 1980 - Official Results" (PDF). Lake Placid Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1980. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
- ↑ "Alpine Skiing at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Games: Men's Downhill". Sports Reference. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
- ↑ "1979 World Cup standings". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
- ↑ "1978 World Championships results". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
- ↑ Anderson, Dave (February 14, 1980). "Klammer Olympic absentee". Palm Beach Post. (New York Times). p. D1.
- ↑ "For Stock, it was an uphill battle". St. Petersburg Independent. Associated Press. February 15, 1980. p. 5C.
- ↑ Mizell, Hubert (February 15, 1980). "Unknown Austrian skier Stock suddenly is hero". St. Petersburg Times. p. 1C.
- ↑ Johnson, William Oscar (February 25, 1980). "Austria storms the hill". Sports Illustrated. p. 22.
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