Alpine skiing at the 1984 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill

Men's Downhill at the XIV Olympic Winter Games
Alpine skiing
Venue	Bjelašnica, Yugoslavia
Date	February 16, 1984
Competitors	61 from 25 nations
Winning time	1:45.59
Medalists
Bill Johnson   United States   Peter Müller   Switzerland   Anton Steiner   Austria

Alpine skiing at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Downhill		men		women
Giant slalom		men		women
Slalom		men		women

Men's Downhill
Location	Bjelašnica, Yugoslavia
Vertical	803 m (2,635 ft)
Top elevation	2,076 m (6,811 ft)
Base elevation	1,273 m (4,177 ft)

The Men's downhill competition of the 1984 Winter Olympics was held at Bjelašnica, Yugoslavia.^[1] Due to weather delays, it was run on Thursday, February 16, a full week after originally scheduled.

The reigning world champion was Harti Weirather of Austria, while Austria's Franz Klammer was the reigning World Cup downhill champion and Switzerland's Urs Räber led the 1984 World Cup.^[2][3] Similar to 1980, the defending Olympic downhill champion was from Austria and did not compete. Leonhard Stock was injured a month earlier in January.

In order to meet the minimum vertical drop requirement of 800 metres (2,625 feet), the starting gate was in a newly constructed lodge at the mountain's summit, with a connecting ramp to the mountain proper.^[4]

Bill Johnson of the United States became the first from outside the Alps to win an Olympic downhill.^[5][6]

Results

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Difference
	Bill Johnson	United States	1:45.59	-
	Peter Müller	Switzerland	1:45.86	+0.27
	Anton Steiner	Austria	1:45.95	+0.36
4	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Switzerland	1:46.05	+0.46
5	Urs Räber	Switzerland	1:46.32	+0.73
5	Helmut Höflehner	Austria	1:46.32	+0.73
7	Sepp Wildgruber	West Germany	1:46.53	+0.94
8	Steve Podborski	Canada	1:46.59	+1.00
9	Todd Brooker	Canada	1:46.64	+1.05
10	Franz Klammer	Austria	1:47.04	+1.45
11	Erwin Resch	Austria	1:47.06	+1.47
12	Klaus Gattermann	West Germany	1:47.12	+1.53
13	Günther Marxer	Liechtenstein	1:47.43	+1.84
14	Conradin Cathomen	Switzerland	1:47.63	+2.04
15	Michael Mair	Italy	1:47.70	+2.11
16	Vladimir Makeyev	Soviet Union	1:47.87	+2.28
16	Alberto Ghidoni	Italy	1:47.87	+2.28
18	Martin Bell	Great Britain	1:48.00	+2.41
19	Steven Lee	Australia	1:48.02	+2.43
20	Franck Piccard	France	1:48.06	+2.47
20	Danilo Sbardellotto	Italy	1:48.06	+2.47
22	Herbert Renoth	West Germany	1:48.39	+2.80
23	Valeri Tsyganov	Soviet Union	1:48.46	+2.87
24	Doug Lewis	United States	1:48.49	+2.90
25	Michel Vion	France	1:48.68	+3.09
26	Gary Athans	Canada	1:48.79	+3.20
27	Janež Pleteršek	Yugoslavia	1:48.97	+3.38
28	Shinya Chiba	Japan	1:49.02	+3.43
29	Philippe Verneret	France	1:49.30	+3.71
30	Tomaž Jemc	Yugoslavia	1:49.68	+4.09
31	Bruce Grant	New Zealand	1:49.94	+4.35
32	Graham Bell	Great Britain	1:50.06	+4.47
33	Connor O'Brien	Great Britain	1:50.36	+4.77
34	Alistair Guss	Australia	1:50.57	+4.98
35	Markus Hubrich	New Zealand	1:50.77	+5.18
36	Hubert Hilti	Liechtenstein	1:50.94	+5.35
37	Frederick Burton	Great Britain	1:51.15	+5.56
38	Hubertus von Fürstenberg-von Hohenlohe	Mexico	1:51.57	+5.98
39	Dieter Linneberg	Chile	1:51.68	+6.09
40	Pierre Couquelet	Belgium	1:52.40	+6.81
41	Andres Figueroa	Chile	1:52.97	+7.38
42	Hans Kossmann	Chile	1:54.36	+8.77
43	Scott Alan Sánchez	Bolivia	1:54.75	+9.16
44	Miguel Purcell	Chile	1:54.91	+9.32
45	Jorge Birkner	Argentina	1:54.92	+9.33
46	Henri Mollin	Belgium	1:55.72	+10.13
47	David Lajoux	Monaco	1:56.95	+11.36
48	Albert Llovera	Andorra	1:57.88	+12.29
49	Nicolas van Ditmar	Argentina	1:58.86	+13.27
50	Jordi Torres	Andorra	1:59.06	+13.47
51	Lamine Guèye	Senegal	1:59.64	+14.05
52	Park Byung-Ro	South Korea	1:59.74	+14.15
53	Enrique de Ridder	Argentina	1:59.76	+14.17
54	Américo Astete	Argentina	2:01.60	+16.01
55	Giannis Stamatiou	Greece	2:01.79	+16.20
56	Andreas Pantelidis	Greece	2:01.88	+16.29
57	Kim Jin-Hae	South Korea	2:01.96	+16.37
58	Eu Woo-Youn	South Korea	2:02.67	+17.08
59	Lazaros Arkhontopoulos	Greece	2:03.93	+18.34
60	Jamil El-Reedy	Egypt	3:13.86	+88.27
-	Peter Dürr	West Germany	DNF	-

Source:^[1]

References

1. "Sarajevo 1984 Official Report" (PDF). Organising Committee of the XlVth Winter Olympic Games 1984 at Sarajevo. LA84 Foundation. 1984. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
2. "1983 World Cup standings". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
3. "1982 World Championships results". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
4. Ottum, Bob (March 4, 1983). "They were real troopers". Sports Illustrated. p. 82.
5. Johnson, William Oscar (February 27, 1984). "They saved the best for last". Sports Illustrated. p. 14.
6. Clarke, Norm. "Johnson lets his skis do the talking". Spokane Chronicle. Associated Press. p. 41.

External links

Sports-Reference - 1984 Men's Downhill

• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 16 February 2009. Retrieved 13 January 2009.