Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill

The men's downhill competition of the 2014 Winter Olympics was held at Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort near Krasnaya Polyana, Russia, on 9 February at 11:15 MSK.^[1] The race course was longer than average at 3.495 km (2.17 mi), with a vertical drop of 1,075 m (3,527 ft).

Men's downhill at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Medalists
Venue	Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort Krasnaya Polyana, Russia
Date	9 February 2014
Competitors	49 from 24 nations
Winning time	2:06.23
Medalists
Matthias Mayer  Austria Christof Innerhofer  Italy Kjetil Jansrud  Norway
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Men's Downhill
Location	Rosa Khutor
Vertical	1,075 m (3,527 ft)
Top elevation	2,045 m (6,709 ft)
Base elevation	970 m (3,182 ft)

Summary

The defending champion was Didier Défago from Switzerland. Aksel Lund Svindal, silver medalist in 2010, and bronze medalist Bode Miller also participated, with Miller posting the best training time. None of the 2010 medalists returned to the podium.

Matthias Mayer of Austria won the gold medal, with Christof Innerhofer from Italy in second and Kjetil Jansrud from Norway taking bronze. Mayer had an average speed of 99.675 km/h (61.94 mph) and an average vertical descent rate of 8.516 m/s (27.94 ft/s).

Third racer on the course was Carlo Janka, who took the early lead, soon pushed to the third position by Travis Ganong and immediately after him by Jansrud. Starting 11th, Mayer overtook Jansrud by 0.10 seconds, and Svindal was 0.19 behind Jansrud. Innerhofer was ahead of Mayer's pace in the first half of the course, but fell back and finished 0.06 seconds behind Mayer, pushing Jansrud to the bronze medal position. No competitor after Innerhofer, including Défago, finished in the top nine.^[2][3]

Results

The race was started at 11:15 local time, (UTC+4). At the starting gate, the skies were partly cloudy, the temperature was −2.0 °C (28.4 °F), and the snow condition was hard.^[4]

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Difference
	11	Matthias Mayer	Austria	2:06.23	—
	20	Christof Innerhofer	Italy	2:06.29	+0.06
	8	Kjetil Jansrud	Norway	2:06.33	+0.10
4	18	Aksel Lund Svindal	Norway	2:06.52	+0.29
5	7	Travis Ganong	United States	2:06.64	+0.41
6	3	Carlo Janka	Switzerland	2:06.71	+0.48
7	14	Peter Fill	Italy	2:06.72	+0.49
8	15	Bode Miller	United States	2:06.75	+0.52
9	9	Max Franz	Austria	2:07.03	+0.80
10	21	Erik Guay	Canada	2:07.04	+0.81
11	17	Dominik Paris	Italy	2:07.13	+0.90
12	10	Werner Heel	Italy	2:07.16	+0.93
13	13	Beat Feuz	Switzerland	2:07.49	+1.26
14	27	Didier Défago	Switzerland	2:07.79	+1.56
15	16	Patrick Küng	Switzerland	2:07.82	+1.59
16	26	David Poisson	France	2:07.83	+1.60
17	23	Georg Streitberger	Austria	2:07.86	+1.63
18	19	Adrien Théaux	France	2:07.89	+1.66
19	6	Benjamin Thomsen	Canada	2:08.00	+1.77
20	29	Ondřej Bank	Czech Republic	2:08.24	+2.01
21	2	Jan Hudec	Canada	2:08.49	+2.26
22	22	Klaus Kröll	Austria	2:08.50	+2.27
23	5	Aleksandr Glebov	Russia	2:08.96	+2.73
24	33	Klemen Kosi	Slovenia	2:08.98	+2.75
25	28	Manuel Osborne-Paradis	Canada	2:09.00	+2.77
26	30	Guillermo Fayed	France	2:09.03	+2.80
27	1	Steven Nyman	United States	2:09.15	+2.92
28	31	Paul de la Cuesta	Spain	2:09.46	+3.23
29	24	Natko Zrnčić-Dim	Croatia	2:09.80	+3.57
30	25	Marco Sullivan	United States	2:10.10	+3.87
31	36	Yuri Danilochkin	Belarus	2:10.58	+4.35
32	34	Kevin Esteve Rigail	Andorra	2:10.80	+4.57
33	35	Igor Zakurdayev	Kazakhstan	2:11.28	+5.05
34	4	Ferran Terra	Spain	2:11.43	+5.20
35	46	Martin Vráblík	Czech Republic	2:11.73	+5.50
36	49	Georgi Georgiev	Bulgaria	2:12.49	+6.26
37	41	Christoffer Faarup	Denmark	2:12.55	+6.32
38	45	Nikola Chongarov	Bulgaria	2:12.57	+6.34
39	39	Arnaud Alessandria	Monaco	2:12.71	+6.48
40	37	Marc Oliveras	Andorra	2:12.76	+6.53
41	42	Henrik von Appen	Chile	2:13.16	+6.93
42	48	Martin Khuber	Kazakhstan	2:13.51	+7.28
43	40	Dmitriy Koshkin	Kazakhstan	2:14.63	+8.40
44	47	Igor Laikert	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:15.07	+8.84
45	43	Martin Bendík	Slovakia	2:15.39	+9.16
46	50	Ioan Valeriu Achiriloaie	Romania	2:17.46	+11.23
47	38	Roberts Rode	Latvia	2:17.50	+11.27
	44	Cristian Javier Simari Birkner	Argentina	DNS
	12	Johan Clarey	France	DNF
	32	Aleksander Aamodt Kilde	Norway	DNF

References

1. "Competition Schedule". SOCOG. Archived from the original on 20 March 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
2. "Mayer produces the run of his life to win Gold". Racer Ready. 9 February 2014. Archived from the original on 9 February 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
3. "Matthias Mayer storms to gold on perilous Rosa Khutor downhill course". Daily Telegraph. 9 February 2014. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
4. Final Results