2006 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Downhill
# 2006 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Downhill

The 2006 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Downhill season involved 10 events at sites in North America and Europe between November 2005 and March 2006. Austria's Michael Walchhofer won the individual title, while his Austrian team took the team title.

## Calendar

| Round | Race No | Place | Country | Date | Winner | Second | Third |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 2 | Lake Louise | Canada | November 26, 2005 | Fritz Strobl | Kjetil André Aamodt | Marco Büchel |
| 2 | 5 | Beaver Creek | United States | December 2, 2005 | Daron Rahlves | Bode Miller | Hans Grugger |
| 3 | 8 | Val d'Isère | France | December 10, 2005 | Michael Walchhofer | Fritz Strobl | Hans Grugger |
| 4 | 12 | Val Gardena | Italy | December 17, 2005 | Marco Büchel | Michael Walchhofer | Erik Guay |
| 5 | 16 | Bormio | Italy | December 29, 2005 | Daron Rahlves | Fritz Strobl | Tobias Gruenenfelder |
| 6 | 20 | Wengen | Switzerland | January 14, 2006 | Daron Rahlves | Michael Walchhofer | Fritz Strobl |
| 7 | 23 | Kitzbühel | Austria | January 21, 2006 | Michael Walchhofer | Marco Büchel | Daron Rahlves |
| 8 | 27 | Garmisch | Germany | January 28, 2006 | Hermann Maier | Klaus Kröll | Andreas Buder |
| 9 | 30 | Chamonix | France | February 4, 2006 | cancelled | cancelled | cancelled |
| 10 | 35 | Åre | Sweden | March 15, 2006 | Aksel Lund Svindal | Bode Miller | Peter Fill |

## Final point standings

In Men's Downhill World Cup 2005/06 all results count.

| Place | Name | Country | Total Points | 2 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 27 | 30 | 35 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Michael Walchhofer | Austria | 522 | 36 | 26 | 100 | 80 | 50 | 80 | 100 | 26 | - | 24 |
| 2 | Fritz Strobl | Austria | 491 | 100 | 50 | 80 | 45 | 80 | 60 | - | 26 | - | 50 |
| 3 | Daron Rahlves | United States | 444 | - | 100 | 18 | 12 | 100 | 100 | 60 | 18 | - | 36 |
| 4 | Marco Büchel | Liechtenstein | 400 | 60 | 22 | 24 | 100 | 45 | 29 | 80 | 40 | - | - |
| 5 | Bode Miller | United States | 340 | 9 | 80 | 36 | 32 | 29 | 24 | 50 | - | - | 80 |
| 6 | Kjetil André Aamodt | Norway | 322 | 80 | 32 | 40 | 40 | - | 45 | - | 45 | - | 40 |
| 7 | Hermann Maier | Austria | 305 | 50 | 12 | 29 | 18 | 20 | 50 | 8 | 100 | - | 18 |
| 8 | Bruno Kernen | Switzerland | 268 | 45 | 45 | 50 | 24 | - | 24 | 14 | 40 | - | 26 |
| 9 | Didier Défago | Switzerland | 246 | 26 | 5 | 8 | 29 | 32 | 32 | 40 | 29 | - | 45 |
| 10 | Kristian Ghedina | Italy | 235 | 4 | 13 | 26 | 50 | 40 | 24 | 36 | 22 | - | 20 |
| 11 | Erik Guay | Canada | 221 | 14 | 40 | 36 | 60 | 15 | 11 | 45 | - | - | - |
| 12 | Klaus Kröll | Austria | 216 | 32 | - | 45 | 9 | 26 | 12 | 12 | 80 | - | - |
| 13 | Aksel Lund Svindal | Norway | 182 | 40 | 7 | 12 | 5 | - | 18 | - | - | - | 100 |
| 14 | Hans Grugger | Austria | 166 | 26 | 60 | 60 | 20 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Peter Fill | Italy | 166 | 5 | 36 | 10 | - | 12 | 40 | 3 | - | - | 60 |
| 16 | Andreas Buder | Austria | 133 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 16 | - | 1 | 32 | 60 | - | - |
| 17 | Yannick Bertrand | France | 127 | 29 | 16 | 16 | - | 15 | - | 7 | 15 | - | 29 |
| 18 | Ambrosi Hoffmann | Switzerland | 126 | 18 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 36 | 9 | 32 | - | - |
| | Didier Cuche | Switzerland | 126 | 11 | 29 | 8 | - | 9 | - | 26 | 11 | - | 32 |
| 20 | Antoine Dénériaz | France | 124 | 22 | 10 | 15 | 36 | 11 | - | 29 | 1 | - | - |
| 21 | Andreas Schifferer | Austria | 111 | 15 | 24 | - | 1 | 22 | 13 | 20 | - | - | 16 |
| 22 | Christoph Gruber | Austria | 102 | 20 | - | 11 | 7 | 2 | 20 | 22 | 20 | - | - |
| 23 | Finlay Mickel | United Kingdom | 92 | 12 | - | 14 | 6 | - | 26 | 6 | 6 | - | 22 |
| 24 | Steven Nyman | United States | 86 | 18 | 8 | - | - | 5 | - | 5 | 50 | - | - |
| 25 | Tobias Grünenfelder | Switzerland | 74 | - | 14 | - | - | 60 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 26 | Scott Macartney | United States | 60 | 7 | - | - | 24 | - | 5 | 11 | 13 | - | - |
| | Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin | France | 60 | - | - | - | - | 36 | 8 | 16 | - | - | - |
| 28 | Benjamin Raich | Austria | 58 | - | 12 | 4 | - | 16 | - | 26 | - | - | - |
| 29 | Manuel Osborne-Paradis | Canada | 50 | - | - | 22 | 15 | 13 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 30 | Kurt Sulzenbacher | Italy | 46 | - | - | 9 | - | 7 | 14 | - | 16 | - | - |
| 31 | Marco Sullivan | United States | 45 | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | 18 | 12 | - | - |
| 32 | François Bourque | Canada | 44 | - | 20 | 6 | - | 18 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 33 | Roland Fischnaller | Italy | 40 | - | - | - | - | 4 | 16 | 15 | 5 | - | - |
| 34 | Hannes Reichelt | Austria | 33 | - | - | - | - | 10 | 10 | 13 | - | - | - |
| 35 | Patrik Järbyn | Sweden | 32 | - | 3 | 2 | 8 | - | - | 4 | 15 | - | - |
| 36 | Jürg Grünenfelder | Switzerland | 31 | 2 | - | 22 | - | - | - | - | 7 | - | - |
| 37 | Norbert Holzknecht | Austria | 26 | - | - | - | 26 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 38 | Andrej Jerman | Slovenia | 25 | - | - | - | 13 | - | 9 | - | 3 | - | - |
| 39 | Bjarne Solbakken | Norway | 20 | - | 18 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - |
| 40 | Alessandro Fattori | Italy | 19 | 1 | 15 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 41 | Lasse Kjus | Norway | 16 | 13 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Werner Heel | Italy | 16 | 8 | - | - | - | 8 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 43 | Konrad Hari | Switzerland | 15 | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | 10 | 2 | - | - |
| 44 | A. J. Bear | Australia | 14 | - | - | - | 14 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Marc Bottollier-Lasquin | France | 14 | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | - | 8 | - | - |
| 46 | Stefan Thanei | Italy | 13 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - |
| 47 | Patrick Staudacher | Italy | 12 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 9 | - | - |
| 48 | Silvan Zurbriggen | Switzerland | 11 | - | - | 1 | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 49 | John Kucera | Canada | 10 | 6 | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | - |
| | Stephan Keppler | Germany | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | - | - |
| 51 | Walter Girardi | Italy | 7 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | - |
| | Nicolas Burtin | France | 7 | - | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Thomas Graggaber | Austria | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | - | - | - | - |
| 54 | Justin Johnson | United States | 4 | - | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - |

Note:

In the last race only the best racers were allowed to compete and only the best 15 finishers were awarded with points.

## Men's Downhill Team Results

bold indicate highest score - italics indicate race wins

| Place | Country | Total Points | 2 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 27 | 30 | 35 | Racers | Wins |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Austria | 2170 | 289 | 193 | 334 | 222 | 226 | 253 | 233 | 312 | - | 108 | 12 | 4 |
| 2 | United States | 979 | 34 | 188 | 54 | 72 | 134 | 144 | 144 | 93 | - | 116 | 7 | 3 |
| 3 | Switzerland | 897 | 102 | 97 | 102 | 77 | 104 | 92 | 99 | 121 | - | 103 | 8 | 0 |
| 4 | Italy | 554 | 21 | 65 | 48 | 52 | 78 | 99 | 55 | 56 | - | 80 | 9 | 0 |
| 5 | Norway | 540 | 133 | 60 | 52 | 45 | - | 63 | 2 | 45 | - | 140 | 4 | 1 |
| 6 | Liechtenstein | 400 | 60 | 22 | 24 | 100 | 45 | 29 | 80 | 40 | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | France | 332 | 51 | 33 | 31 | 36 | 62 | 14 | 52 | 24 | - | 29 | 5 | 0 |
| 8 | Canada | 325 | 20 | 60 | 64 | 75 | 46 | 15 | 45 | - | - | - | 4 | 0 |
| 9 | United Kingdom | 92 | 12 | - | 14 | 6 | - | 26 | 6 | 6 | - | 22 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | Sweden | 32 | - | 3 | 2 | 8 | - | - | 4 | 15 | - | - | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | Slovenia | 25 | - | - | - | 13 | - | 9 | - | 3 | - | - | 1 | 0 |
| 12 | Australia | 14 | - | - | - | 14 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 |
| 13 | Germany | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | - | - | 1 | 0 |
