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

Men's Downhill at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Alpine skiing
Venue	Hakuba
Date	February 13
Competitors	43 from 18 nations
Winning time	1:50.11
Medalists
Jean-Luc Crétier   France   Lasse Kjus   Norway   Hannes Trinkl   Austria

Alpine skiing at the 1998 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 Nagano 1998 Olympics was held at Hakuba. ^[1]

The defending world champion was Bruno Kernen of Switzerland, while France's Luc Alphand was the defending World Cup downhill champion. ^{[2] [3]}

Results

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Rank	Name	Country	Time	Difference
	Jean-Luc Crétier	France	1:50.11	-
	Lasse Kjus	Norway	1:50.51	+0.40
	Hannes Trinkl	Austria	1:50.63	+0.52
4	Jürg Grünenfelder	Switzerland	1:50.64	+0.53
5	Ed Podivinsky	Canada	1:50.71	+0.60
6	Kristian Ghedina	Italy	1:50.76	+0.65
7	Andreas Schifferer	Austria	1:50.77	+0.66
8	Didier Cuche	Switzerland	1:50.91	+0.80
9	Kyle Rasmussen	United States	1:51.09	+0.98
10	Patrik Järbyn	Sweden	1:51.22	+1.11
11	Fritz Strobl	Austria	1:51.34	+1.23
12	Tommy Moe	United States	1:51.43	+1.32
13	Kjetil André Aamodt	Norway	1:51.72	+1.61
14	Franco Cavegn	Switzerland	1:51.74	+1.63
15	Jason Rosener	United States	1:52.33	+2.22
16	Werner Perathoner	Italy	1:52.36	+2.25
17	Tsuyoshi Tomii	Japan	1:52.62	+2.51
18	Andrey Filichkin	Russia	1:52.65	+2.54
19	Kevin Wert	Canada	1:52.67	+2.56
20	Jernej Koblar	Slovenia	1:52.79	+2.68
21	Enis Bećirbegović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:53.47	+3.36
22	Andrzej Bachleda-Curuś	Poland	1:53.62	+3.51
23	Graham Bell	Great Britain	1:53.93	+3.82
24	Vasily Bezsmelnitsyn	Russia	1:54.27	+4.16
25	Linas Vaitkus	Lithuania	1:56.22	+6.11
26	Nils Linneberg	Chile	1:56.59	+6.48
27	Patrick-Paul Schwarzacher-Joyce	Ireland	1:58.71	+8.60
28	Rainer Grob	Chile	1:58.75	+8.64
-	Hermann Maier	Austria	DNF	-
-	Nicolas Burtin	France	DNF	-
-	Bruno Kernen	Switzerland	DNF	-
-	Luca Cattaneo	Italy	DNF	-
-	Peter Runggaldier	Italy	DNF	-
-	Luke Sauder	Canada	DNF	-
-	Aleš Brezavšček	Slovenia	DNF	-
-	A J Kitt	United States	DNF	-
-	Brian Stemmle	Canada	DNF	-
-	Adrien Duvillard	France	DNF	-
-	Peter Pen	Slovenia	DNF	-
-	Jürgen Hasler	Liechtenstein	DNF	-
-	Andrew Freshwater	Great Britain	DNF	-
-	Yasuyuki Takishita	Japan	DNF	-
-	Thomás Grob	Chile	DNF	-

References

1. "Nagano 1998 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1998. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
2. "1997 World Cup standings". FIS. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
3. "1997 World Championships results". FIS. Retrieved November 20, 2013.

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