Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill
| Men's downhill at the XX Olympic Winter Games | ||||||||||
 Pictogram for alpine skiing | ||||||||||
| Venue | Sestriere | |||||||||
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| 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 | ||
The men's downhill competition is one of the marquee events 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 2624 feet (800 m).
The defending Olympic champion was Fritz Strobl of Austria, and the reigning world champion was Bode Miller of the U.S., who won the downhill at the 2005 World Championships. Austrian Michael Walchhofer led the downhill World Cup entering the Olympics, ahead of Strobl and American Daron Rahlves.[1]
At the 2006 Olympics, the men's downhill started at an elevation of 9186 feet (2800 m) above sea level and descended 2999 feet (914 m), at a course length of 2.05 miles (3.30 km). The winning time of Antoine Dénériaz of France was 108.8 seconds, an average course speed of 67.8 mph (109.2 km/h), with an average vertical descent speed of 27.6 ft/s (8.4 m/s).
Results
The results of the men's downhill event in Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
| Rank | Name | Country | Time | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Antoine Dénériaz |  France |
1:48.80 | |
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Michael Walchhofer |  Austria |
1:49.52 | +0.72 |
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Bruno Kernen |  Switzerland |
1:49.82 | +1.02 |
| 4 | Kjetil André Aamodt |  Norway |
1:49.88 | +1.08 |
| 5 | Bode Miller |  United States |
1:49.93 | +1.13 |
| 6 | Hermann Maier | Austria |
1:50.00 | +1.20 |
| 7 | Marco Büchel |  Liechtenstein |
1:50.04 | +1.24 |
| 8 | Fritz Strobl | Austria |
1:50.12 | +1.32 |
| 9 | Patrick Staudacher |  Italy |
1:50.29 | +1.49 |
| 10 | Daron Rahlves | United States |
1:50.33 | +1.53 |
| 11 | Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin | France |
1:50.35 | +1.55 |
| 12 | Tobias Grünenfelder | Switzerland |
1:50.44 | +1.64 |
| 13 | Manuel Osborne-Paradis |  Canada |
1:50.45 | +1.65 |
| 14 | Lasse Kjus | Norway |
1:50.64 | +1.84 |
| 15 | Scott Macartney | United States |
1:50.68 | +1.88 |
| 16 | François Bourque | Canada |
1:50.70 | +1.90 |
| 17 | Ambrosi Hoffmann | Switzerland |
1:50.72 | +1.92 |
| 18 | Kurt Sulzenbacher | Italy |
1:50.84 | +2.04 |
| 19 | Steve Nyman | United States |
1:50.88 | +2.08 |
| Peter Fill | Italy | |||
| 21 | Aksel Lund Svindal | Norway |
1:50.90 | +2.10 |
| 22 | Klaus Kröll | Austria |
1:50.91 | +2.11 |
| 23 | Kristian Ghedina | Italy |
1:50.98 | +2.18 |
| 24 | Yannick Bertrand | France |
1:51.37 | +2.57 |
| 25 | Finlay Mickel |  Great Britain |
1:51.48 | +2.68 |
| 26 | Didier Défago | Switzerland |
1:51.51 | +2.71 |
| 27 | John Kucera | Canada |
1:51.55 | +2.75 |
| 28 | Andrej Jerman |  Slovenia |
1:51.70 | +2.90 |
| 29 | Bjarne Solbakken | Norway |
1:51.72 | +2.92 |
| 30 | Pavel Chestakov |  Russia |
1:51.93 | +3.13 |
| 31 | Andrej Šporn | Slovenia |
1:52.17 | +3.37 |
| 32 | Craig Branch |  Australia |
1:52.55 | +3.75 |
| 33 | Patrik Järbyn |  Sweden |
1:52.87 | +4.07 |
| 34 | Petr Záhrobský |  Czech Republic |
1:52.90 | +4.10 |
| 35 | Claudio Sprecher | Liechtenstein |
1:53.34 | +4.54 |
| 36 | Bořek Zakouřil | Czech Republic |
1:54.07 | +5.27 |
| 37 | Roger Cruickshank | Great Britain |
1:54.65 | +5.85 |
| 38 | Aleksandr Khoroshilov | Russia |
1:54.70 | +5.90 |
| 39 | Alex Antor |  Andorra |
1:55.01 | +6.21 |
| 40 | Konstantin Sats | Russia |
1:55.03 | +6.23 |
| 41 | Mikael Gayme |  Chile |
1:55.73 | +6.93 |
| 42 | Maui Gayme | Chile |
1:56.10 | +7.30 |
| 43 | Nikolai Hentsch |  Brazil |
1:56.58 | +7.78 |
| 44 | Michał Kałwa |  Poland |
1:56.81 | +8.01 |
| 45 | Jaroslav Babušiak |  Slovakia |
1:57.45 | +8.65 |
| 46 | Renārs Doršs |  Latvia |
1:57.54 | +8.74 |
| 47 | Nikolay Skriabin |  Ukraine |
1:57.56 | +8.76 |
| 48 | Sindri M. Pálsson |  Iceland |
1:57.69 | +8.89 |
| 49 | Jorge Mandrú | Chile |
1:58.77 | +9.97 |
| 50 | Roger Vidosa | Andorra |
1:59.24 | +10.44 |
| 51 | Andrei Drygin |  Tajikistan |
1:59.41 | +10.61 |
| 52 | Alexander Heath |  South Africa |
1:59.79 | +10.99 |
| 53 | Florentin-Daniel Nicolae |  Romania |
2:00.93 | +12.13 |
| Ondřej Bank | Czech Republic |
DNF | ||
| Ivan Heimschild | Slovakia |
DNF |
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