Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill

The Men's Downhill competition of the Grenoble 1968 Olympics was held at Chamrousse on Friday, 9 February.^[1][2][3]

Men's downhill at the X Olympic Winter Games
Alpine skiing
Venue	Chamrousse
Date	February 9, 1968
Competitors	86 from 29 nations
Winning time	1:59.85
Medalists
Jean-Claude Killy  France Guy Périllat  France Jean-Daniel Dätwyler  Switzerland
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Men's Downhill
Location	Chamrousse
Vertical	840 m (2,756 ft)
Top elevation	2,252 m (7,388 ft)
Base elevation	1,412 m (4,633 ft)

The defending world champion was Jean-Claude Killy of France, who was also the defending World Cup downhill champion and Austria's Gerhard Nenning led the current season.^[4][5]

Killy won the gold medal, teammate Guy Périllat took the silver, and Jean-Daniel Dätwyler of Switzerland won the bronze.^[3][6]

The starting gate was at an elevation of 2,252 m (7,388 ft) above sea level, with a vertical drop of 840 m (2,756 ft).^[1] The course length was 2.890 km (1.80 mi) and Killy's winning run of 119.85 seconds resulted in an average speed of 86.8085 km/h (53.9 mph), with an average vertical descent rate of 7.009 m/s (23.0 ft/s).

Results

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Difference
	14	Jean-Claude Killy	France	1:59.85	—
	1	Guy Périllat	France	1:59.93	+0.08
	4	Jean-Daniel Dätwyler	Switzerland	2:00.32	+0.47
4	9	Heini Messner	Austria	2:01.03	+1.18
5	11	Karl Schranz	Austria	2:01.89	+2.04
6	3	Ivo Mahlknecht	Italy	2:02.00	+2.15
7	21	Gerhard Prinzing	West Germany	2:02.10	+2.25
8	13	Bernard Orcel	France	2:02.22	+2.37
9	10	Gerhard Nenning	Austria	2:02.31	+2.46
10	2	Edy Bruggmann	Switzerland	2:02.36	+2.51
11	6	Gerhard Mussner	Italy	2:02.50	+2.65
12	28	Luggi Leitner	West Germany	2:02.54	+2.69
13	5	Egon Zimmermann	Austria	2:02.55	+2.70
14	8	Jos Minsch	Switzerland	2:02.76	+2.91
15	7	Franz Vogler	West Germany	2:02.94	+3.09
16	27	Dumeng Giovanoli	Switzerland	2:02.98	+3.13
17	24	Bjarne Strand	Norway	2:03.20	+3.35
18	12	Billy Kidd	United States	2:03.40	+3.55
19	19	Dieter Fersch	West Germany	2:03.41	+3.56
20	15	Léo Lacroix	France	2:03.86	+4.01
21	20	Dennis McCoy	United States	2:04.82	+4.97
22	23	Teresio Vachet	Italy	2:04.90	+5.05
23	44	Jon Terje Øverland	Norway	2:05.34	+5.49
24	30	Malcolm Milne	Australia	2:05.36	+5.51
25	42	Jeremy Palmer-Tomkinson	Great Britain	2:05.43	+5.58
26	57	Andrzej Bachleda-Curuś	Poland	2:05.48	+5.63
27	48	Wayne Henderson	Canada	2:05.56	+5.71
28	18	Renato Valentini	Italy	2:05.61	+5.76
29	41	Rune Lindström	Sweden	2:05.69	+5.84
30	40	Ulf Ekstam	Finland	2:06.14	+6.29
31	31	Gerry Rinaldi	Canada	2:06.30	+6.45
32	45	Aurelio García	Spain	2:06.84	+6.99
33	47	Josef Gassner	Liechtenstein	2:06.91	+7.06
34	63	Lasse Hamre	Norway	2:06.93	+7.08
35	43	Milan Pažout	Czechoslovakia	2:07.45	+7.60
36	38	Jaroslav Janda	Czechoslovakia	2:07.71	+7.86
37	50	Wolfgang Ender	Liechtenstein	2:08.08	+8.23
38	62	Francisco Fernández Ochoa	Spain	2:08.67	+8.82
39	53	Luciano del Cacho	Spain	2:08.85	+9.00
40	92	Viktor Belyakov	Soviet Union	2:09.32	+9.47
41	46	Andrej Klinar	Yugoslavia	2:09.61	+9.76
42	54	Robert Palmer	New Zealand	2:09.79	+9.94
43	68	Per-Olov Richardsson	Sweden	2:09.83	+9.98
44	61	Ian Todd	Great Britain	2:10.00	+10.15
45	73	Tsuneo Noto	Japan	2:10.32	+10.47
46	71	Mario Vera	Chile	2:10.44	+10.59
47	69	Jože Gazvoda	Yugoslavia	2:10.51	+10.66
48	64	Ryszard Ćwikła	Poland	2:10.63	+10.78
49	72	Andrey Belokrinkin	Soviet Union	2:10.98	+11.13
50	67	Luke O'Reilly	Great Britain	2:10.99	+11.14
51	58	Blaž Jakopič	Yugoslavia	2:11.00	+11.15
52	56	Antonio Campaña	Spain	2:11.11	+11.26
53	70	Jeremy Bujakowski	India	2:11.82	+11.97
54	74	Yoshiharu Fukuhara	Japan	2:14.09	+14.24
55	96	Gustavo Ezquerra	Argentina	2:17.11	+17.26
56	59	David Borradaile	Great Britain	2:17.31	+17.46
57	90	Roberto Thostrup	Argentina	2:17.35	+17.50
58	86	Richard Leatherbee	Chile	2:17.86	+18.01
59	93	Hitonari Maruyama	Japan	2:18.04	+18.19
60	87	Félipe Briones	Chile	2:18.07	+18.22
61	91	Thomas Huppert	New Zealand	2:18.29	+18.44
62	98	Dan Cristea	Romania	2:18.52	+18.67
63	89	Petar Angelov	Bulgaria	2:18.71	+18.86
64	88	Juichi Maruyama	Japan	2:19.33	+19.48
65	78	Dorin Munteanu	Romania	2:22.53	+22.68
66	81	Lotfollah Kia Shemshaki	Iran	2:23.60	+23.75
67	100	Özer Ateşçi	Turkey	2:25.18	+25.33
68	103	Fayzollah Band Ali	Iran	2:27.07	+27.22
69	102	Ovaness Meguerdonian	Iran	2:30.25	+30.40
70	97	Athanasios Tsimikalis	Greece	2:36.93	+37.08
71	101	Mehmet Yıldırım	Turkey	2:40.79	+40.94
72	79	Dimitrios Pappos	Greece	2:44.10	+44.25
73	82	Ali Saveh	Iran	2:47.88	+48.03
-	17	Jere Elliott	United States	DNF	-
-	22	Rod Hebron	Canada	DNF	-
-	26	Jim Barrows	United States	DNF	-
-	29	Eberhard Riedel	East Germany	DNF	-
-	49	Otto Tschudi	Norway	DNF	-
-	60	Hans-Walter Schädler	Liechtenstein	DNF	-
-	80	Arnold Beck	Liechtenstein	DNF	-
-	83	Bahattin Topal	Turkey	DNF	-
-	99	Mehmet Gökcan	Turkey	DNF	-
-	25	Peter Duncan	Canada	DQ	-
-	39	Raimo Manninen	Finland	DQ	-
-	55	Vasily Melnikov	Soviet Union	DQ	-
-	95	Murray Gardner	New Zealand	DQ	-
-	77	Hernan Briones	Chile	DNS	-
-	94	Michael Dennis	New Zealand	DNS	-

Source:^[1]