Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill
# Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill

The men's downhill competition of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympics was held on Thursday, 15 February, at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre in PyeongChang. Scheduled for Sunday, 11 February, winds in excess of 50 km/h (31 mph) forced officials to postpone the race four days.

## Summary

The defending champion was Matthias Mayer. Other competitors included the 2014 silver medalist Christof Innerhofer, the bronze medalist Kjetil Jansrud, as well as the 2010 silver medalist Aksel Lund Svindal. Through 2018, the Olympic men's downhill has yet to have a repeat champion.

Aksel Lund Svindal won the gold medal, with a slight advantage over Kjetil Jansrud (silver) and Beat Feuz (bronze), who gained his first Olympic medal.

The race course was 2.965 km (1.84 mi) in length, with a vertical drop of 825 m (2,707 ft) from a starting elevation of 1,370 m (4,495 ft) above sea level. Svindal had an average speed of 106.474 km/h (66.16 mph) and an average vertical descent rate of 8.229 m/s (27.00 ft/s).

## Qualification

A total of up to 320 alpine skiers qualified across all eleven events. Athletes qualified for this event by having met the A qualification standard only, which meant having 80 or less FIS Points and being ranked in the top 500 in the Olympic FIS points list. The Points list takes into average the best results of athletes per discipline during the qualification period (July 1, 2016 to January 21, 2018). Countries received additional quotas by having athletes ranked in the top 30 of the current World Cup season (two per gender maximum, overall across all events). After the distribution of B standard quotas (to nations competing only in the slalom and giant slalom events), the remaining quotas were distributed using the Olympic FIS Points list, with each athlete only counting once for qualification purposes. A country could only enter a maximum of four athletes for the event.

## Results

The race was started at 11:30 local time, (UTC+9). At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was −3.8 °C (25 °F), and the snow condition was hard.

| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Behind |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 7 | Aksel Lund Svindal | Norway | 1:40.25 | — |
| | 9 | Kjetil Jansrud | Norway | 1:40.37 | +0.12 |
| | 5 | Beat Feuz | Switzerland | 1:40.43 | +0.18 |
| 4 | 3 | Dominik Paris | Italy | 1:40.79 | +0.54 |
| 5 | 1 | Thomas Dreßen | Germany | 1:41.03 | +0.78 |
| 6 | 13 | Peter Fill | Italy | 1:41.08 | +0.83 |
| 7 | 17 | Vincent Kriechmayr | Austria | 1:41.19 | +0.94 |
| 8 | 4 | Brice Roger | France | 1:41.39 | +1.14 |
| 9 | 11 | Matthias Mayer | Austria | 1:41.46 | +1.21 |
| 10 | 6 | Andreas Sander | Germany | 1:41.62 | +1.37 |
| 11 | 16 | Max Franz | Austria | 1:41.75 | +1.50 |
| 12 | 15 | Hannes Reichelt | Austria | 1:41.76 | +1.51 |
| 13 | 8 | Mauro Caviezel | Switzerland | 1:41.86 | +1.61 |
| 14 | 2 | Manuel Osborne-Paradis | Canada | 1:41.89 | +1.64 |
| 15 | 12 | Aleksander Aamodt Kilde | Norway | 1:42.18 | +1.93 |
| 16 | 14 | Bryce Bennett | United States | 1:42.22 | +1.97 |
| 17 | 18 | Christof Innerhofer | Italy | 1:42.23 | +1.98 |
| 18 | 10 | Johan Clarey | France | 1:42.39 | +2.14 |
| 19 | 28 | Martin Čater | Slovenia | 1:42.53 | +2.28 |
| 20 | 27 | Jared Goldberg | United States | 1:42.59 | +2.34 |
| 21 | 23 | Marc Gisin | Switzerland | 1:42.82 | +2.57 |
| 22 | 25 | Emanuele Buzzi | Italy | 1:42.84 | +2.59 |
| 23 | 34 | Ryan Cochran-Siegle | United States | 1:42.96 | +2.71 |
| 23 | 21 | Maxence Muzaton | France | 1:42.96 | +2.71 |
| 25 | 29 | Josef Ferstl | Germany | 1:42.98 | +2.73 |
| 26 | 19 | Adrien Théaux | France | 1:42.99 | +2.74 |
| 27 | 24 | Boštjan Kline | Slovenia | 1:43.03 | +2.78 |
| 28 | 22 | Benjamin Thomsen | Canada | 1:43.19 | +2.94 |
| 29 | 39 | Miha Hrobat | Slovenia | 1:43.61 | +3.36 |
| 30 | 30 | Wiley Maple | United States | 1:43.72 | +3.47 |
| 31 | 36 | Andreas Romar | Finland | 1:43.78 | +3.53 |
| 32 | 35 | Dustin Cook | Canada | 1:43.80 | +3.55 |
| 33 | 20 | Gilles Roulin | Switzerland | 1:43.88 | +3.63 |
| 34 | 40 | Henrik von Appen | Chile | 1:44.02 | +3.77 |
| 35 | 26 | Broderick Thompson | Canada | 1:44.37 | +4.12 |
| 36 | 38 | Christoffer Faarup | Denmark | 1:44.48 | +4.23 |
| 37 | 37 | Joan Verdú | Andorra | 1:44.65 | +4.40 |
| 38 | 42 | Filip Forejtek | Czech Republic | 1:44.79 | +4.54 |
| 39 | 48 | Igor Zakurdayev | Kazakhstan | 1:45.01 | +4.76 |
| 40 | 45 | Christopher Hörl | Moldova | 1:45.21 | +4.96 |
| 41 | 32 | Marko Vukićević | Serbia | 1:45.36 | +5.11 |
| 42 | 41 | Michał Kłusak | Poland | 1:45.42 | +5.17 |
| 43 | 49 | Marco Pfiffner | Liechtenstein | 1:45.61 | +5.36 |
| 44 | 50 | Yuri Danilochkin | Belarus | 1:45.86 | +5.61 |
| 45 | 46 | Jan Hudec | Czech Republic | 1:46.42 | +6.17 |
| 46 | 47 | Jan Zabystřan | Czech Republic | 1:46.60 | +6.35 |
| 47 | 57 | Simon Breitfuss Kammerlander | Bolivia | 1:47.87 | +7.62 |
| 48 | 53 | Kim Dong-woo | South Korea | 1:47.99 | +7.74 |
| 49 | 51 | Ivan Kovbasnyuk | Ukraine | 1:48.57 | +8.32 |
| 50 | 55 | Albin Tahiri | Kosovo | 1:48.81 | +8.56 |
| 51 | 56 | Marko Stevović | Serbia | 1:49.50 | +9.25 |
| 52 | 52 | Patrick McMillan | Ireland | 1:49.98 | +9.73 |
| 53 | 54 | Márton Kékesi | Hungary | 1:51.72 | +11.47 |
| | 31 | Klemen Kosi | Slovenia | DNF | |
| | 43 | Marc Oliveras | Andorra | DNF | |
| | 33 | Natko Zrnčić-Dim | Croatia | DNS | |
| | 44 | Ondřej Berndt | Czech Republic | DNS | |
