FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2013 – Men's downhill
# FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2013 – Men's downhill

The men's downhill competition at the 2013 World Championships was held on Saturday, February 9, with 58 athletes from 27 nations.

Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway won his second world title in downhill and fifth overall, joined on the podium by Dominik Paris of Italy and David Poisson of France.

The Planai race course was 3.334 km (2.07 mi) in length, with a vertical drop of 976 m (3,202 ft) from a starting elevation of 1,753 m (5,751 ft) above sea level. Svindall's winning time of 121.32 seconds yielded an average speed of 98.932 km/h (61.5 mph) and an average vertical descent rate of 8.045 m/s (26.4 ft/s).

## Results

The race was started at 11:00 CET (UTC+1)

| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Difference |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 17 | Aksel Lund Svindal | Norway | 2:01.32 | |
| | 18 | Dominik Paris | Italy | 2:01.78 | +0.46 |
| | 13 | David Poisson | France | 2:02.29 | +0.97 |
| 4 | 22 | Klaus Kröll | Austria | 2:02.67 | +1.35 |
| 5 | 7 | Andreas Romar | Finland | 2:02.68 | +1.36 |
| 6 | 27 | Silvan Zurbriggen | Switzerland | 2:02.69 | +1.37 |
| 7 | 25 | Patrick Küng | Switzerland | 2:02.86 | +1.54 |
| 8 | 12 | Didier Defago | Switzerland | 2:02.91 | +1.59 |
| 9 | 8 | Jan Hudec | Canada | 2:02.99 | +1.67 |
| 10 | 20 | Adrien Theaux | France | 2:03.03 | +1.71 |
| 11 | 6 | Andrej Šporn | Slovenia | 2:03.08 | +1.76 |
| 12 | 14 | Peter Fill | Italy | 2:03.18 | +1.86 |
| 13 | 3 | Matthias Mayer | Austria | 2:03.27 | +1.95 |
| 14 | 21 | Christof Innerhofer | Italy | 2:03.40 | +2.08 |
| 15 | 1 | Brice Roger | France | 2:03.46 | +2.14 |
| 16 | 9 | Werner Heel | Italy | 2:03.50 | +2.18 |
| 17 | 15 | Benjamin Thomsen | Canada | 2:03.54 | +2.22 |
| 18 | 23 | Manuel Osborne-Paradis | Canada | 2:03.58 | +2.26 |
| 19 | 24 | Carlo Janka | Switzerland | 2:03.91 | +2.59 |
| 20 | 2 | Ivica Kostelić | Croatia | 2:04.18 | +2.86 |
| 21 | 29 | Guillermo Fayed | France | 2:04.39 | +3.07 |
| 22 | 37 | Andrew Weibrecht | United States | 2:04.57 | +3.25 |
| 23 | 10 | Max Franz | Austria | 2:04.59 | +3.27 |
| 24 | 5 | Stephan Keppler | Germany | 2:05.00 | +3.68 |
| 25 | 28 | Steven Nyman | United States | 2:05.11 | +3.79 |
| 26 | 31 | Douglas Hedin | Sweden | 2:05.25 | +3.91 |
| 27 | 33 | Ondřej Bank | Czech Republic | 2:05.68 | +4.36 |
| 28 | 32 | Aleksandr Glebov | Russia | 2:05.73 | +4.41 |
| 29 | 36 | Klemen Kosi | Slovenia | 2:06.27 | +4.95 |
| 30 | 38 | Kevin Esteve | Andorra | 2:06.90 | +5.58 |
| 31 | 40 | Ivan Muravyev | Russia | 2:07.11 | +5.79 |
| 32 | 43 | Marc Oliveras | Andorra | 2:07.73 | +6.41 |
| 33 | 35 | Paul de la Cuesta | Spain | 2:08.11 | +6.79 |
| 34 | 53 | Michal Klusak | Poland | 2:09.13 | +7.81 |
| 35 | 42 | Igor Zakurdayev | Kazakhstan | 2:09.18 | +7.86 |
| 36 | 49 | Martin Vráblík | Czech Republic | 2:09.27 | +7.95 |
| 37 | 47 | Christoffer Faarup | Denmark | 2:10.72 | +9.40 |
| 38 | 56 | Willis Feasey | New Zealand | 2:10.99 | +9.67 |
| 39 | 54 | Dmitriy Koshkin | Kazakhstan | 2:11.04 | +9.72 |
| 40 | 50 | Svetoslav Georgiev | Bulgaria | 2:11.05 | +9.73 |
| 41 | 45 | Martin Khuber | Kazakhstan | 2:11.87 | +10.55 |
| 42 | 51 | Roberts Rode | Latvia | 2:12.30 | +10.98 |
| 43 | 57 | Taras Pimenov | Kazakhstan | 2:12.94 | +11.62 |
| 44 | 58 | Rostyslav Feshchuk | Ukraine | 2:13.33 | +12.01 |
| 45 | 46 | Cristian Javier Simari Birkner | Argentina | 2:13.83 | +12.51 |
| 46 | 55 | Ignacio Freeman Crespo | Argentina | 2:14.75 | +13.43 |
| | 39 | Maciej Bydliński | Poland | DNS | |
| | 4 | Marvin van Heek | Netherlands | DNF | |
| | 11 | Marco Sullivan | United States | DNF | |
| | 16 | Erik Guay | Canada | DNF | |
| | 19 | Hannes Reichelt | Austria | DNF | |
| | 26 | Travis Ganong | United States | DNF | |
| | 30 | Boštjan Kline | Slovenia | DNF | |
| | 34 | Ferran Terra | Spain | DNF | |
| | 41 | Yuri Danilochkin | Belarus | DNF | |
| | 44 | Max Ullrich | Croatia | DNF | |
| | 48 | Nikola Chongarov | Bulgaria | DNF | |
| | 52 | Igor Laikert | Bosnia and Herzegovina | DNF | |
