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;Vancouver 2010.com - schedules by sport it was held on Monday, February 15.Vancouver 2010.com - resultsFIS-ski.com 2010 Winter Olympics - Men's Downhill - results
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 .FIS-ski.com - race results .pdf 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, (UTC −8). At the starting gate, the skies were cloudy, the temperature was , and the snow condition was granular; the temperature at the finish was . Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference 18 Didier Défago 1:54.31 16 Aksel Lund Svindal 1:54.38 +0.07 8 Bode Miller 1:54.40 +0.09 15 Mario Scheiber 1:54.52 +0.21 9 Erik Guay 1:54.64 +0.33 22 Didier Cuche 1:54.67 +0.36 3 David Poisson 1:54.82 +0.51 10 Marco Büchel 1:54.84 +0.53 13 Klaus Kröll 1:54.87 +0.56 10 17 Michael Walchhofer 1:54.88 +0.57 11 20 Carlo Janka 1:55.02 +0.7112 11 Hans Olsson 1:55.19 +0.88 21 Werner Heel 14 33 Rok Perko 1:55.26 +0.95 15 25 Peter Fill 1:55.29 +0.98 16 26 Adrien Theaux 1:55.40 +1.09 17 19 Manuel Osborne-Paradis 1:55.44 +1.13 18 30 Ivica Kostelić 1:55.49 +1.18 19 24 Christof Innerhofer 1:55.58 +1.27 20 6 Steven Nyman 1:55.71 +1.40 21 4 Andrew Weibrecht 1:55.74 +1.43 22 2 Hans Grugger 1:55.81 +1.50 23 14 Ambrosi Hoffmann 1:56.04 +1.73 24 32 Stephan Keppler 1:56.11 +1.80 25 31 Jan Hudec 1:56.19 +1.88 26 34 Guillermo Fayed 1:56.20 +1.89 27 28 Johan Clarey 1:56.29 +1.98 28 12 Andrej Jerman 1:56.35 +2.04 29 1 Patrik Järbyn 1:56.58 +2.27 30 38 Ondřej Bank 1:56.66 +2.3531 36 Kjetil Jansrud 1:56.69 +2.38 42 Lars Elton Myhre 33 5 Natko Zrnčić-Dim 1:57.02 +2.71 34 39 Craig Branch 1:57.19 +2.88 35 29 Patrick Staudacher 1:57.21 +2.90 36 35 Petr Záhrobský 1:57.44 +3.13 37 40 Andrej Križaj 1:57.72 +3.41 38 43 Edward Drake 1:57.91 +3.60 39 45 Jono Brauer 1:58.08 +3.77 40 48 Kryštof Krýzl 1:58.43 +4.12 41 52 Ivan Ratkić 1:58.58 +4.27 42 37 Andreas Romar 1:58.71 +4.40 43 50 Markus Larsson 1:58.82 +4.51 44 41 Ferran Terra 1:58.85 +4.54 45 51 Aleksandr Khoroshilov 1:59.21 +4.90 46 55 Truls Ove Karlsen 1:59.52 +5.21 47 54 Kevin Esteve Rigail 1:59.61 +5.30 48 58 Roger Vidosa 1:59.65 +5.34 49 44 Maui Gayme 1:59.76 +5.45 50 46 Igor Zakurdaev 1:59.80 +5.49 51 49 Paul de la Cuesta 1:59.84 +5.53 52 59 Jaroslav Babušiak 1:59.99 +5.68 53 56 Johnny Albertsen 2:00.12 +5.81 54 63 Stepan Zuev 2:00.58 +6.27 55 47 Cristian Javier Simari Birkner 2:01.67 +7.36 56 61 Jorge Mandru 2:01.72 +7.41 57 53 Filip Trejbal 2:02.57 +8.26 58 57 Roberts Rode 2:03.36 +9.05 59 64 Andrei Drygin 2:04.44 +10.13 7 Andrej Šporn DNF 23 Robbie Dixon DNF 60 Dragoș Staicu DNF 62 Stefan Georgiev DNF 27 Marco Sullivan DSQ
References
External links 2010 Winter Olympics results: Men's Downhill, from https://web.archive.org/web/20091025194336/http://www.vancouver2010.com/; retrieved 2010-02-15. FIS results Ski Racing.com - Defago Gets Downhill Gold, Bode Bronze - 2010-02-15