Alpine skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill

Men's downhill at the XVI Olympic Winter Games
Alpine skiing
Venue	Val-d'Isère, France
Date	9 February 1992
Competitors	55 from 24 nations
Winning time	1:50.37
Medalists
Patrick Ortlieb   Austria   Franck Piccard   France   Günther Mader   Austria

Alpine skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Combined		men		women
Downhill		men		women
Giant slalom		men		women
Slalom		men		women
Super-G		men		women

The Men's Downhill competition of the Albertville 1992 Olympics was held at Val d'Isère.^[1]

The defending world champion was Franz Heinzer of Switzerland, who was also the defending World Cup downhill champion and led the 1992 World Cup,^[2][3] but finished sixth.

The race was run on a new course on the Face de Bellevarde designed by Bernhard Russi, and was won by Patrick Ortlieb,^[4] who had yet to win a World Cup event.

Results

Sunday, 9 February 1992
Source:^[1]

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Difference
	Patrick Ortlieb	Austria	1:50.37	-
	Franck Piccard	France	1:50.42	+0.05
	Günther Mader	Austria	1:50.47	+0.10
4	Markus Wasmeier	Germany	1:50.62	+0.25
5	Jan Einar Thorsen	Norway	1:50.79	+0.42
6	Franz Heinzer	Switzerland	1:51.39	+1.02
7	Hansjörg Tauscher	Germany	1:51.49	+1.12
8	Lasse Arnesen	Norway	1:51.63	+1.26
9	A J Kitt	United States	1:51.98	+1.61
10	Franco Colturi	Italy	1:52.07	+1.70
11	Kristian Ghedina	Italy	1:52.28	+1.91
12	Luc Alphand	France	1:52.34	+1.97
13	Daniel Mahrer	Switzerland	1:52.39	+2.02
14	Gianfranco Martin	Italy	1:52.48	+2.11
15	Xavier Gigandet	Switzerland	1:52.50	+2.13
16	Kyle Rasmussen	United States	1:52.71	+2.34
17	Helmut Höflehner	Austria	1:53.10	+2.73
18	Felix Belczyk	Canada	1:53.37	+3.00
19	Berni Huber	Germany	1:53.38	+3.01
20	Tommy Moe	United States	1:53.40	+3.03
21	Vitaly Andreyev	Unified Team	1:53.52	+3.15
22	Aleksey Maslov	Unified Team	1:53.68	+3.31
23	Brian Stemmle	Canada	1:53.77	+3.40
24	Konstantin Chistyakov	Unified Team	1:53.93	+3.56
25	Tsuyoshi Tomii	Japan	1:54.23	+3.86
26	Kjetil André Aamodt	Norway	1:54.24	+3.87
27	Denis Rey	France	1:54.28	+3.91
28	Reggie Crist	United States	1:54.54	+4.17
29	Martin Bell	Great Britain	1:54.83	+4.46
30	Ricardo Campo	Spain	1:54.89	+4.52
31	Boris Duncan	Great Britain	1:54.95	+4.58
32	Tom Stiansen	Norway	1:55.62	+5.25
33	Graham Bell	Great Britain	1:55.82	+5.45
34	Marián Bíreš	Czechoslovakia	1:56.21	+5.84
35	Paulo Oppliger	Chile	1:56.30	+5.93
36	Steven Lee	Australia	1:58.55	+8.18
37	Petar Dichev	Bulgaria	2:01.21	+10.84
38	Hubertus von Fürstenberg-von Hohenlohe	Mexico	2:02.98	+12.61
39	Choi Yong-Hee	South Korea	2:04.85	+14.48
40	Alexis Racloz	Chile	2:05.61	+15.24
41	Lothar Christian Munder	Brazil	2:07.34	+16.97
42	Emilian Focşeneanu	Romania	2:08.81	+18.44
43	Péter Kristály	Hungary	2:09.88	+19.51
44	Aurel Foiciuc	Romania	2:09.94	+19.57
45	Lamine Guèye	Senegal	2:12.84	+22.47
-	Leonhard Stock	Austria	DNF	-
-	Danilo Sbardellotto	Italy	DNF	-
-	Marc Girardelli	Luxembourg	DNF	-
-	Adrien Duvillard	France	DNF	-
-	Paul Accola	Switzerland	DNF	-
-	Roman Torn	Canada	DNF	-
-	Markus Foser	Liechtenstein	DNF	-
-	Nils Linneberg	Chile	DNF	-
-	Alphonse Gomis	Senegal	DNF	-
-	Cary Mullen	Canada	DQ	-

References

1. "Albertville 1992 Official Report" (PDF). Le Comite d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques Albertville. LA84 Foundation. 1992. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
2. "1991 World Cup standings". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
3. "1991 World Championships results". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
4. "It's all downhill for Austria's alpine gold medalist". Eugene Register-Guard. Associated Press. 10 February 1992.

External links

Sports Reference - 1992 Men's Downhill