FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009 – Men's downhill

Men's downhill
at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009
VenueLa face de Bellevarde
LocationVal-d'Isère, France
Dates7 February
Competitors38 from 15 nations
Winning time2:07.01
Medalists
gold medal John Kucera   Canada
silver medal Didier Cuche    Switzerland
bronze medal Carlo Janka    Switzerland
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Men's Downhill
LocationLa face de Bellevarde
Val-d'Isère, France
Vertical   959 m (3,146 ft)
Top elevation2,807 m (9,209 ft)
Base elevation1,848 m (6,063 ft)
Longest run2.988 km (1.86 mi)

The Men's downhill competition of the 2009 World Championships at Val-d'Isère, France, was run on Saturday, February 7, the fourth race of the championships.

Canada's John Kucera won the gold medal, Didier Cuche of Switzerland took the silver, and the bronze medalist was Carlo Janka, also of Switzerland.

The La face de Bellevarde race course was 2.988 km (1.86 mi) in length, with a vertical drop of 959 m (3,146 ft) from a starting elevation of 2,807 m (9,209 ft) above sea level. Kucera's winning time of 127.01 seconds yielded an average speed of 84.6925 km/h (52.6 mph) and an average vertical descent rate of 7.5506 m/s (24.8 ft/s).

Results

The race started at 11:00 CET (UTC+1) under partly cloudy skies. The air temperature was −7 °C (19 °F) at the starting gate and −1 °C (30 °F) at the finish.

Rank Name Country Time Diff.
1st place, gold medalist(s) John Kucera  Canada 2:07.01 —
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Didier Cuche  Switzerland 2:07.05 +0.04
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Carlo Janka  Switzerland 2:07.18 +0.17
4 Marco Büchel  Liechtenstein 2:07.53 +0.52
5 Adrien Théaux  France 2:07.95 +0.94
6 Hermann Maier  Austria 2:08.19 +1.18
7 Werner Heel  Italy 2:08.21 +1.20
8 Bode Miller  United States 2:08.38 +1.37
9 Klaus Kröll  Austria 2:08.61 +1.60
10 Christof Innerhofer  Italy 2:08.62 +1.61
11 Aksel Lund Svindal  Norway 2:08.71 +1.70
12 Michael Walchhofer  Austria 2:08.85 +1.84
13 Andrej Jerman  Slovenia 2:08.98 +1.97
14 Peter Fill  Italy 2:09.13 +2.12
15 Stephan Keppler  Germany 2:09.31 +2.30
16 Stefan Thanei  Italy 2:10.00 +2.99
17 Ambrosi Hoffmann  Switzerland 2:10.12 +3.11
18 Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin  France 2:10.68 +3.67
19 Natko Zrnčić-Dim  Croatia 2:10.83 +3.82
20 Niklas Rainer  Sweden 2:11.02 +4.01
21 Douglas Crawford  United Kingdom 2:11.31 +4.30
22 Rok Perko  Slovenia 2:11.57 +4.56
23 Tin Široki  Croatia 2:11.78 +4.77
24 Petr Záhrobský  Czech Republic 2:11.84 +4.83
25 Marco Sullivan  United States 2:12.16 +5.15
26 Paul de la Cuesta  Spain 2:13.03 +6.02
27 Edward Drake  United Kingdom 2:14.47 +7.46
28 Ferran Terra  Spain 2:16.23 +9.22
– Christoph Gruber  Austria DNF –
– Jan Hudec  Canada DNF –
– Manuel Osborne-Paradis  Canada DNF –
– Erik Guay  Canada DNF –
– Didier Défago  Switzerland DNF –
– David Poisson  France DNF –
– Andrew Weibrecht  United States DNF –
– Hans Olsson  Sweden DNF –
– Lars Elton Myhre  Norway DNF –
– Erik Fisher  United States DNF –

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