Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill


The Men's Downhill competition of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics was held at Whistler Creekside in Whistler, British Columbia. The competition was scheduled for Saturday, February 13, but was postponed due to rain and warm temperatures; it was held on Monday, February 15.
The defending Olympic champion was Antoine Dénériaz of France and the reigning world champion was John Kucera of Canada; neither competed as Dénériaz had retired and Kucera was out for the season with a broken leg. Austrian Michael Walchhofer was the defending World Cup downhill champion and Didier Cuche of Switzerland led the current season, ahead of teammate Carlo Janka and Walchhofer.
Switzerland's Didier Défago won the gold medal, Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway took the silver, and the bronze medalist was Bode Miller of the United States; Cuche was sixth, Walchhofer tenth, and Janka eleventh.
The vertical drop of the Dave Murray Downhill course was, starting at an elevation of above sea level, with a length of. Défago's winning time of 114.31 seconds yielded an average course speed of, with an average vertical descent speed of.
This was the seventeenth edition of the men's downhill at the Olympics and the time margins between the medalists were the closest in history; only 0.09 seconds separated gold and bronze.

Results

The race was started at 10:30 local time,. At the starting gate, the skies were cloudy, the temperature was, and the snow condition was granular; the temperature at the finish was.
RankBibNameCountryTimeDifference
18Didier Défago1:54.31
16Aksel Lund Svindal1:54.38+0.07
8Bode Miller1:54.40 +0.09
15Mario Scheiber1:54.52+0.21
9Erik Guay1:54.64+0.33
22Didier Cuche1:54.67 +0.36
3David Poisson1:54.82+0.51
10Marco Büchel1:54.84+0.53
13Klaus Kröll1:54.87+0.56
1017Michael Walchhofer1:54.88+0.57
1120Carlo Janka1:55.02+0.71
1211Hans Olsson1:55.19+0.88
1221Werner Heel1:55.19+0.88
1433Rok Perko1:55.26+0.95
1525Peter Fill1:55.29+0.98
1626Adrien Theaux1:55.40+1.09
1719Manuel Osborne-Paradis1:55.44+1.13
1830Ivica Kostelić1:55.49+1.18
1924Christof Innerhofer1:55.58+1.27
206Steven Nyman1:55.71+1.40
214Andrew Weibrecht1:55.74+1.43
222Hans Grugger1:55.81+1.50
2314Ambrosi Hoffmann1:56.04+1.73
2432Stephan Keppler1:56.11+1.80
2531Jan Hudec 1:56.19+1.88
2634Guillermo Fayed1:56.20+1.89
2728Johan Clarey1:56.29+1.98
2812Andrej Jerman 1:56.35+2.04
291Patrik Järbyn1:56.58+2.27
3038Ondřej Bank1:56.66+2.35
3136Kjetil Jansrud1:56.69+2.38
3142Lars Elton Myhre1:56.69+2.38
335Natko Zrnčić-Dim1:57.02+2.71
3439Craig Branch1:57.19+2.88
3529Patrick Staudacher 1:57.21+2.90
3635Petr Záhrobský1:57.44+3.13
3740Andrej Križaj1:57.72+3.41
3843Edward Drake1:57.91+3.60
3945Jono Brauer 1:58.08+3.77
4048Kryštof Krýzl1:58.43 +4.12
4152Ivan Ratkić1:58.58+4.27
4237Andreas Romar1:58.71+4.40
4350Markus Larsson1:58.82+4.51
4441Ferran Terra 1:58.85+4.54
4551Aleksandr Khoroshilov1:59.21+4.90
4655Truls Ove Karlsen1:59.52+5.21
4754Kevin Esteve Rigail1:59.61+5.30
4858Roger Vidosa1:59.65+5.34
4944Maui Gayme1:59.76+5.45
5046Igor Zakurdaev1:59.80+5.49
5149Paul de la Cuesta1:59.84+5.53
5259Jaroslav Babušiak1:59.99+5.68
5356Johnny Albertsen2:00.12+5.81
5463Stepan Zuev2:00.58+6.27
5547Cristian Javier Simari Birkner2:01.67+7.36
5661Jorge Mandru2:01.72+7.41
5753Filip Trejbal2:02.57+8.26
5857Roberts Rode2:03.36+9.05
5964Andrei Drygin2:04.44+10.13
7Andrej ŠpornDNF
23Robbie DixonDNF
60Dragoș StaicuDNF
62Stefan GeorgievDNF
27Marco SullivanDSQ