Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill
The men's downhill of the 2006 Winter Olympics was held at Sestriere, Italy, on Sunday, 12 February.
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Pictogram for alpine skiing | |||||||||||||
Venue | Sestriere | ||||||||||||
Date | February 12 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 55 from 25 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 1:48.80 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics | ||
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Combined | men | women |
Downhill | men | women |
Giant slalom | men | women |
Slalom | men | women |
Super-G | men | women |
Men's Downhill | |
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Location | Sestriere Kandahar Banchetta |
Vertical | 914 m (2,999 ft) |
Top elevation | 2,800 m (9,186 ft) |
Base elevation | 1,886 m (6,188 ft) |
The men's downhill competition is the marquee outdoor event of the Winter Olympics, and is the first alpine event on the schedule. It consists of a single high-speed run down a challenging slope, with a vertical drop exceeding 800 meters (2,625 ft).[1]
The defending Olympic champion was Fritz Strobl of Austria, the reigning world champion was Bode Miller of the United States; Austrian Michael Walchhofer was the defending World Cup downhill champion and led the current season entering the Olympics, ahead of Strobl and American Daron Rahlves.[2]
The thirtieth racer on the course, Antoine Dénériaz of France won the gold medal, Walchhofer took the silver, and the bronze medalist was Bruno Kernen of Switzerland; Miller was fifth, Strobl eighth, and Rahlves tenth.[3][4][5] Dénériaz's surprise win was by a margin of 0.72 seconds, the largest in this event in 42 years.[3] He had entered the Olympics tied for tenth in the World Cup downhill standings; his best finish was seventh at Val Gardena in mid-December.
Held on the Kandahar Banchetta piste, the course started at an elevation of 2,800 m (9,186 ft) above sea level with a vertical drop of 914 m (2,999 ft) and a length of 3.299 km (2.05 mi). Dénériaz's winning time of 108.80 seconds yielded an average course speed of 109.158 km/h (67.8 mph), with an average vertical descent speed of 8.401 m/s (27.6 ft/s).
Results
The race was started at 12:00 local time, (UTC +1). At the starting gate, the skies were partly cloudy, the temperature was −5.6 °C (22 °F), and the snow condition was hard; the temperature at the finish was 2.1 °C (36 °F).
Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Difference |
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30 | Antoine Dénériaz | 1:48.80 | — | ||
10 | Michael Walchhofer | 1:49.52 | +0.72 | ||
14 | Bruno Kernen | 1:49.82 | +1.02 | ||
4 | 17 | Kjetil André Aamodt | 1:49.88 | +1.08 | |
5 | 18 | Bode Miller | 1:49.93 | +1.13 | |
6 | 15 | Hermann Maier | 1:50.00 | +1.20 | |
7 | 28 | Marco Büchel | 1:50.04 | +1.24 | |
8 | 4 | Fritz Strobl | 1:50.12 | +1.32 | |
9 | 25 | Patrick Staudacher | 1:50.29 | +1.49 | |
10 | 20 | Daron Rahlves | 1:50.33 | +1.53 | |
11 | 22 | Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin | 1:50.35 | +1.55 | |
12 | 3 | Tobias Grünenfelder | 1:50.44 | +1.64 | |
13 | 29 | Manuel Osborne-Paradis | 1:50.45 | +1.65 | |
14 | 8 | Lasse Kjus | 1:50.64 | +1.84 | |
15 | 23 | Scott Macartney | 1:50.68 | +1.88 | |
16 | 11 | François Bourque | 1:50.70 | +1.90 | |
17 | 13 | Ambrosi Hoffmann | 1:50.72 | +1.92 | |
18 | 6 | Kurt Sulzenbacher | 1:50.84 | +2.04 | |
19 | 27 | Steve Nyman | 1:50.88 | +2.08 | |
19 | Peter Fill | ||||
21 | 26 | Aksel Lund Svindal | 1:50.90 | +2.10 | |
22 | 21 | Klaus Kröll | 1:50.91 | +2.11 | |
23 | 12 | Kristian Ghedina | 1:50.98 | +2.18 | |
24 | 16 | Yannick Bertrand | 1:51.37 | +2.57 | |
25 | 2 | Finlay Mickel | 1:51.48 | +2.68 | |
26 | 24 | Didier Défago | 1:51.51 | +2.71 | |
27 | 7 | John Kucera | 1:51.55 | +2.75 | |
28 | 32 | Andrej Jerman | 1:51.70 | +2.90 | |
29 | 9 | Bjarne Solbakken | 1:51.72 | +2.92 | |
30 | 38 | Pavel Chestakov | 1:51.93 | +3.13 | |
31 | 34 | Andrej Šporn | 1:52.17 | +3.37 | |
32 | 1 | Craig Branch | 1:52.55 | +3.75 | |
33 | 31 | Patrik Järbyn | 1:52.87 | +4.07 | |
34 | 39 | Petr Záhrobský | 1:52.90 | +4.10 | |
35 | 35 | Claudio Sprecher | 1:53.34 | +4.54 | |
36 | 36 | Bořek Zakouřil | 1:54.07 | +5.27 | |
37 | 33 | Roger Cruickshank | 1:54.65 | +5.85 | |
38 | 42 | Aleksandr Khoroshilov | 1:54.70 | +5.90 | |
39 | 37 | Alex Antor | 1:55.01 | +6.21 | |
40 | 41 | Konstantin Sats | 1:55.03 | +6.23 | |
41 | 47 | Mikael Gayme | 1:55.73 | +6.93 | |
42 | 40 | Maui Gayme | 1:56.10 | +7.30 | |
43 | 45 | Nikolai Hentsch | 1:56.58 | +7.78 | |
44 | 49 | Michał Kałwa | 1:56.81 | +8.01 | |
45 | 54 | Jaroslav Babušiak | 1:57.45 | +8.65 | |
46 | 43 | Renārs Doršs | 1:57.54 | +8.74 | |
47 | 51 | Nikolay Skriabin | 1:57.56 | +8.76 | |
48 | 46 | Sindri Már Pálsson | 1:57.69 | +8.89 | |
49 | 50 | Jorge Mandrú | 1:58.77 | +9.97 | |
50 | 48 | Roger Vidosa | 1:59.24 | +10.44 | |
51 | 52 | Andrei Drygin | 1:59.41 | +10.61 | |
52 | 53 | Alexander Heath | 1:59.79 | +10.99 | |
53 | 44 | Florentin Nicolae | 2:00.93 | +12.13 | |
5 | Ondřej Bank | DNF | |||
55 | Ivan Heimschild | DNF |
References
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- Fendrich, Howard (February 13, 2006). "Sacré bleu! Deneriaz springs surprise". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. p. D5.
- "Olympic report: Alpine skiing". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). wire services. February 13, 2006. p. C3.
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