Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill

Men's Downhill
at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue Hakuba
Date February 13
Competitors 43 from 18 nations
Winning time 1:50.11
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) Jean-Luc Crétier  France
2nd, silver medalist(s) Lasse Kjus  Norway
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Hannes Trinkl  Austria

The Men's Downhill competition of the Nagano 1998 Olympics was held at Hakuba.[1][2]

The reigning world champion was Bruno Kernen of Switzerland, while France's Luc Alphand was the reigning World Cup downhill champion. [3][4]

Results

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Rank BibNameCountryTimeBehind
1st, gold medalist(s) 3Jean-Luc Crétier France1:50.11
2nd, silver medalist(s) 10 Lasse Kjus Norway1:50.51+0.40
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 8 Hannes Trinkl Austria1:50.63+0.52
4 24 Jürg Grünenfelder Switzerland1:50.64+0.53
5 25 Ed Podivinsky Canada1:50.71+0.60
6 7 Kristian Ghedina Italy1:50.76+0.65
7 5 Andreas Schifferer Austria1:50.77+0.66
8 9 Didier Cuche Switzerland1:50.91+0.80
9 26 Kyle Rasmussen United States1:51.09+0.98
10 23 Patrik Järbyn Sweden1:51.22+1.11
11 2 Fritz Strobl Austria1:51.34+1.23
12 17 Tommy Moe United States1:51.43+1.32
13 11 Kjetil André Aamodt Norway1:51.72+1.61
14 1 Franco Cavegn Switzerland1:51.74+1.63
15 30 Jason Rosener United States1:52.33+2.22
16 12 Werner Perathoner Italy1:52.36+2.25
17 21 Tsuyoshi Tomii Japan1:52.62+2.51
18 33 Andrey Filichkin Russia1:52.65+2.54
19 22 Kevin Wert Canada1:52.67+2.56
20 31 Jernej Koblar Slovenia1:52.79+2.68
21 36 Enis Bećirbegović Bosnia and Herzegovina1:53.47+3.36
22 43 Andrzej Bachleda-Curuś Poland1:53.62+3.51
23 35 Graham Bell Great Britain1:53.93+3.82
24 38 Vasily Bezsmelnitsyn Russia1:54.27+4.16
25 37 Linas Vaitkus Lithuania1:56.22+6.11
26 39 Nils Linneberg Chile1:56.59+6.48
27 42 Patrick-Paul Schwarzacher-Joyce Ireland1:58.71+8.60
28 41 Rainer Grob Chile1:58.75+8.64
4 Hermann Maier AustriaDNF
6 Nicolas Burtin FranceDNF
13 Bruno Kernen SwitzerlandDNF
14 Luca Cattaneo ItalyDNF
15 Peter Runggaldier ItalyDNF
16 Luke Sauder CanadaDNF
18 Aleš Brezavšček SloveniaDNF
19 A J Kitt United StatesDNF
20 Brian Stemmle CanadaDNF
27 Adrien Duvillard FranceDNF
28 Peter Pen SloveniaDNF
29 Jürgen Hasler LiechtensteinDNF
32 Andrew Freshwater Great BritainDNF
34 Yasuyuki Takishita JapanDNF
40 Thomás Grob ChileDNF

References

  1. 1 2 "Nagano 1998 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2008. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
  2. "Alpine Skiing at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games: Men's Downhill". Sports Reference. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  3. "1997 World Cup standings". FIS. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
  4. "1997 World Championships results". FIS. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
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