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Men's Downhill
Men's Downhill
Location	La face de Bellevarde; Val d'Isère, France
Vertical	973 m (3,192 ft)
Top elevation	2,809 m (9,216 ft)
Base elevation	1,836 m (6,024 ft)
Longest run	3.048 km (1.894 mi)

Men's downhill
at the XVI Olympic Winter Games
Men's downhill; at the XVI Olympic Winter Games
	Alpine skiing
Venue	La face de Bellevarde; Val-d'Isère, France
Date	9 February 1992
Competitors	55 from 24 nations
Winning time	1:50.37
Medalists
	← 1988 1994 →

The Men's Downhill competition of the Albertville 1992 Olympics was held at Val d'Isère on Sunday, 9 February.^[1]^[2]

The defending world champion was Franz Heinzer of Switzerland, who was also the defending World Cup downhill champion and led the current season.^[3]^[4] Defending Olympic champion Pirmin Zurbriggen of Switzerland had retired from competition two years earlier; this was the fourth consecutive Olympics without the defending champion in the field.

The race was run on a new course on La face de Bellevarde, designed by 1972 champion Bernhard Russi. Austria's Patrick Ortlieb, who had yet to win a World Cup event, won the gold medal; Franck Piccard of France was only 0.05 seconds back to take the silver, and the bronze medalist was Günther Mader of Austria.^[5]^[6] Ortlieb was first racer on the course, and he became the fifth Austrian to win the event, in its twelfth edition. Heinzer was sixth, more than a second back.

The course started at an elevation of 2,809 m (9,216 ft) above sea level with a vertical drop of 973 m (3,192 ft) and a course length of 3.048 km (1.89 mi). Ortlieb's winning time of 110.37 seconds yielded an average course speed of 99.418 km/h (61.8 mph), with an average vertical descent rate of 8.816 m/s (28.9 ft/s).

Results

The race was started at 12:15 local time, (UTC +1). At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was 5.0 °C (41 °F), and the snow condition was hard; the temperature at the finish was lower, at 3.0 °C (37 °F).

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Difference
	1	Patrick Ortlieb	Austria	1:50.37	—
	23	Franck Piccard	France	1:50.42	+0.05
	14	Günther Mader	Austria	1:50.47	+0.10
4	2	Markus Wasmeier	Germany	1:50.62	+0.25
5	6	Jan Einar Thorsen	Norway	1:50.79	+0.42
6	12	Franz Heinzer	Switzerland	1:51.39	+1.02
7	3	Hansjörg Tauscher	Germany	1:51.49	+1.12
8	5	Lasse Arnesen	Norway	1:51.63	+1.26
9	15	A J Kitt	United States	1:51.98	+1.61
10	22	Franco Colturi	Italy	1:52.07	+1.70
11	13	Kristian Ghedina	Italy	1:52.28	+1.91
12	16	Luc Alphand	France	1:52.34	+1.97
13	4	Daniel Mahrer	Switzerland	1:52.39	+2.02
14	30	Gianfranco Martin	Italy	1:52.48	+2.11
15	7	Xavier Gigandet	Switzerland	1:52.50	+2.13
16	28	Kyle Rasmussen	United States	1:52.71	+2.34
17	10	Helmut Höflehner	Austria	1:53.10	+2.73
18	26	Felix Belczyk	Canada	1:53.37	+3.00
19	11	Berni Huber	Germany	1:53.38	+3.01
20	21	Tommy Moe	United States	1:53.40	+3.03
21	34	Vitaly Andreyev	Unified Team	1:53.52	+3.15
22	33	Aleksey Maslov	Unified Team	1:53.68	+3.31
23	8	Brian Stemmle	Canada	1:53.77	+3.40
24	32	Konstantin Chistyakov	Unified Team	1:53.93	+3.56
25	39	Tsuyoshi Tomii	Japan	1:54.23	+3.86
26	37	Kjetil André Aamodt	Norway	1:54.24	+3.87
27	25	Denis Rey	France	1:54.28	+3.91
28	24	Reggie Crist	United States	1:54.54	+4.17
29	38	Martin Bell	Great Britain	1:54.83	+4.46
30	45	Ricardo Campo	Spain	1:54.89	+4.52
31	19	Boris Duncan	Great Britain	1:54.95	+4.58
32	40	Tom Stiansen	Norway	1:55.62	+5.25
33	35	Graham Bell	Great Britain	1:55.82	+5.45
34	41	Marián Bíreš	Czechoslovakia	1:56.21	+5.84
35	42	Paulo Oppliger	Chile	1:56.30	+5.93
36	36	Steven Lee	Australia	1:58.55	+8.18
37	50	Petar Dichev	Bulgaria	2:01.21	+10.84
38	48	Hubertus von Hohenlohe	Mexico	2:02.98	+12.61
39	54	Choi Yong-hee	South Korea	2:04.85	+14.48
40	47	Alexis Racloz	Chile	2:05.61	+15.24
41	46	Lothar Christian Munder	Brazil	2:07.34	+16.97
42	55	Emilian Focşeneanu	Romania	2:08.81	+18.44
43	51	Péter Kristály	Hungary	2:09.88	+19.51
44	56	Aurel Foiciuc	Romania	2:09.94	+19.57
45	52	Lamine Guèye	Senegal	2:12.84	+22.47
-	9	Leonhard Stock	Austria	DNF	-
-	17	Danilo Sbardellotto	Italy	DNF	-
-	18	Marc Girardelli	Luxembourg	DNF	-
-	20	Adrien Duvillard	France	DNF	-
-	27	Paul Accola	Switzerland	DNF	-
-	31	Roman Torn	Canada	DNF	-
-	43	Markus Foser	Liechtenstein	DNF	-
-	44	Nils Linneberg	Chile	DNF	-
-	53	Alphonse Gomis	Senegal	DNF	-
-	29	Cary Mullen	Canada	DQ	-

Source:^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "Albertville 1992 Official Report" (PDF). Le Comite d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques Albertville. LA84 Foundation. 1992. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2008. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
^ "Alpine Skiing at the 1992 Albertville Winter Games: Men's Downhill". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
^ "1991 World Cup standings". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
^ "1991 World Championships results". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
^ "It's all downhill for Austria's alpine gold medalist". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. 10 February 1992. p. 1D.
^ Johnson, William Oscar (February 17, 1992). "La Face job". Sports Illustrated. p. 36.