Alpine skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill

Men's downhill; at the XVI Olympic Winter Games
	Alpine skiing
Venue	Val-d'Isère, France
Date	9 February 1992
Competitors	55 from 24 nations
Winning time	1:50.37
Medalists
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Alpine skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Combined	men	women
Downhill	men	women
Giant slalom	men	women
Slalom	men	women
Super-G	men	women

The Men's Downhill competition of the Albertville 1992 Olympics was held at Val d'Isère.^[1]

The defending world champion was Franz Heinzer of Switzerland, who was also the defending World Cup downhill champion and led the 1992 World Cup,^[2]^[3] but finished sixth.

The race was run on a new course on the Face de Bellevarde designed by Bernhard Russi, and was won by Patrick Ortlieb,^[4] who had yet to win a World Cup event.

Results

Sunday, 9 February 1992
Source:^[1]

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