Men's downhill at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2021
Location	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
Date	14 February
Competitors	42 from 17 nations
Winning time	1:37.79
Medalists
Vincent Kriechmayr    Austria   Andreas Sander    Germany   Beat Feuz     Switzerland
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FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2021
Combined	men	women
Downhill	men	women
Giant slalom	men	women
Slalom	men	women
Super-G	men	women
Parallel giant slalom	men	women
Team	mixed
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The Men's downhill competition at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2021 was held on 14 February 2021.^[1][2][3]

Austria's Vincent Kriechmayr won the gold medal, Andreas Sander of Germany took the silver, and the bronze medalist was Beat Feuz of Switzerland.^[3]

The race course was 2.610 km (1.62 mi) in length, with a vertical drop of 840 m (2,756 ft) from a starting elevation of 2,400 m (7,874 ft) above sea level. Kriechmayr's winning time of 97.79 seconds yielded an average speed of 96.083 km/h (59.7 mph) and an average vertical descent rate of 8.590 m/s (28.2 ft/s).^[3]

The race started at 11:00 CET (UTC+1) under clear skies. The air temperature was −12 °C (10 °F) at the starting gate and −10 °C (14 °F) at the finish.^[3]

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Diff
	1	Vincent Kriechmayr	Austria	1:37.79	—
	2	Andreas Sander	Germany	1:37.80	+0.01
	7	Beat Feuz	Switzerland	1:37.97	+0.18
4	3	Dominik Paris	Italy	1:38.44	+0.65
4	18	Marco Odermatt	Switzerland	1:38.44	+0.65
6	15	Christof Innerhofer	Italy	1:38.69	+0.90
7	12	Nils Allègre	France	1:38.76	+0.97
8	17	Kjetil Jansrud	Norway	1:38.81	+1.02
9	11	Carlo Janka	Switzerland	1:38.87	+1.08
10	4	Bryce Bennett	United States	1:38.89	+1.10
10	21	Henrik Røa	Norway	1:38.89	+1.10
12	14	Travis Ganong	United States	1:39.03	+1.24
13	10	Max Franz	Austria	1:39.04	+1.25
14	13	Romed Baumann	Germany	1:39.09	+1.30
15	22	Boštjan Kline	Slovenia	1:39.24	+1.45
16	9	Johan Clarey	France	1:39.29	+1.50
17	23	Felix Monsén	Sweden	1:39.31	+1.52
18	6	Thomas Dreßen	Germany	1:39.47	+1.68
19	19	Otmar Striedinger	Austria	1:39.63	+1.84
20	16	Jared Goldberg	United States	1:39.74	+1.95
21	29	James Crawford	Canada	1:39.78	+1.99
22	26	Dominik Schwaiger	Germany	1:39.90	+2.11
23	31	Miha Hrobat	Slovenia	1:39.99	+2.20
24	24	Matteo Marsaglia	Italy	1:40.18	+2.39
25	20	Matthieu Bailet	France	1:40.22	+2.43
26	25	Jeffrey Read	Canada	1:40.34	+2.55
27	36	Marco Pfiffner	Liechtenstein	1:41.05	+3.26
28	38	Arnaud Alessandria	Monaco	1:41.57	+3.78
29	32	Broderick Thompson	Canada	1:41.96	+4.17
30	40	Barnabás Szőllős	Israel	1:42.46	+4.67
31	37	Martin Bendík	Slovakia	1:43.02	+5.23
32	41	Juan Pablo Vallecillo	Argentina	1:43.48	+5.69
33	39	Marcus Vorre	Denmark	1:45.17	+7.38
34	42	Benjamin Szőllős	Israel	1:49.71	+11.92
	5	Matthias Mayer	Austria	Did not finish
	8	Maxence Muzaton	France
	27	Brodie Seger	Canada
	28	Florian Schieder	Italy
	30	Niels Hintermann	Switzerland
	33	Olle Sundin	Sweden
	34	Adur Etxezarreta	Spain
	35	Nejc Naraločnik	Slovenia