Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill
| Men's Downhill at the XIII Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Whiteface Mountain Wilmington, New York, U.S. | ||||||||||||
| Date | February 14, 1980 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 47 from 22 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 1:45.50 | ||||||||||||
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| Location | Whiteface Mountain |
| Vertical | 832 m (2,730 ft) |
| Top elevation | 1,313 m (4,308 ft) |
| Base elevation | 481 m (1,578 ft) |
The Men's Downhill competition of the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid was held at Whiteface Mountain on Thursday, February 14.[1][2][3]
The defending world champion was Josef Walcher of Austria, while Switzerland's Peter Müller was the defending World Cup downhill champion and led the 1980 World Cup.[4][5] Defending Olympic champion Franz Klammer did not compete; he was not selected to the Austrian Olympic team in 1980.[6]
Gold medalist Leonhard Stock was an alternate on the Austrian downhill team, at the Olympics for the slalom. His fast training times earned him a spot on the four-man team, displacing Walcher, the reigning world champion.[7][8][9] All four Austrians in the race finished in the top ten and Müller was fourth.
The course started at an elevation of 1,313 m (4,308 ft) above sea level with a vertical drop of 832 m (2,730 ft) and a length of 3.009 km (1.87 mi). Stock's winning time was 105.50 seconds, yielding an average speed of 102.677 km/h (63.8 mph), with an average vertical descent rate of 7.886 m/s (25.9 ft/s).
Results
The race was started at 11:30 local time, (UTC −5). At the starting gate, the skies were broken overcast and snowing, the temperature was −10.0 °C (14.0 °F), wind speed was 53 km/h (33 mph) and the snow condition was hard packed.
| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Difference |
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 | 9 | Leonhard Stock |  Austria | 1:45.50 | - |
 | 13 | Peter Wirnsberger | Austria | 1:46.12 | +0.62 |
 | 15 | Steve Podborski |  Canada | 1:46.62 | +1.12 |
| 4 | 10 | Peter Müller |  Switzerland | 1:46.75 | +1.25 |
| 5 | 23 | Pete Patterson |  United States | 1:47.04 | +1.54 |
| 6 | 3 | Herbert Plank |  Italy | 1:47.13 | +1.63 |
| 7 | 12 | Werner Grissmann | Austria | 1:47.21 | +1.71 |
| 8 | 19 | Valeri Tsyganov |  Soviet Union | 1:47.34 | +1.84 |
| 9 | 1 | Harti Weirather | Austria | 1:47.70 | +2.20 |
| 10 | 11 | Dave Murray | Canada | 1:47.95 | +2.45 |
| 11 | 16 | Dave Irwin | Canada | 1:48.12 | +2.62 |
| 12 | 27 | Konrad Bartelski |  Great Britain | 1:48.53 | +3.03 |
| 13 | 30 | Bohumír Zeman |  Czechoslovakia | 1:48.65 | +3.15 |
| 14 | 25 | Phil Mahre | United States | 1:48.88 | +3.38 |
| 15 | 6 | Giuliano Giardini | Italy | 1:48.98 | +3.48 |
| 16 | 21 | Andy Mill | United States | 1:49.07 | +3.57 |
| 17 | 5 | Erik Håker |  Norway | 1:49.09 | +3.59 |
| 18 | 17 | Urs Räber | Switzerland | 1:49.16 | +3.66 |
| 19 | 26 | Arnt Erik Dale | Norway | 1:49.26 | +3.76 |
| 20 | 20 | Andreas Wenzel |  Liechtenstein | 1:49.71 | +4.21 |
| 21 | 22 | Mikio Katagiri |  Japan | 1:49.77 | +4.27 |
| 22 | 4 | Vladimir Makeyev | Soviet Union | 1:49.87 | +4.37 |
| 23 | 2 | Michael Veith |  West Germany | 1:50.00 | +4.50 |
| 24 | 7 | Erwin Josi | Switzerland | 1:50.03 | +4.53 |
| 25 | 24 | Philippe Pugnat |  France | 1:50.13 | +4.63 |
| 26 | 28 | Antony Guss |  Australia | 1:50.22 | +4.72 |
| 27 | 29 | Francisco Fernández Ochoa |  Spain | 1:50.69 | +5.19 |
| 28 | 32 | Ross Blyth | Great Britain | 1:51.12 | +5.62 |
| 29 | 31 | David Cargill | Great Britain | 1:52.02 | +6.52 |
| 30 | 33 | Alan Stewart | Great Britain | 1:53.41 | +7.91 |
| 31 | 36 | Norberto Quiroga |  Argentina | 1:54.31 | +8.81 |
| 32 | 35 | Stuart Blakely |  New Zealand | 1:55.41 | +9.91 |
| 33 | 34 | Henri Mollin |  Belgium | 1:55.83 | +10.33 |
| 34 | 37 | Didier Lamont | Belgium | 1:57.57 | +12.07 |
| 35 | 47 | Carlos Font |  Andorra | 1:57.81 | +12.31 |
| 36 | 46 | Marcelo Martínez | Argentina | 1:58.04 | +12.54 |
| 37 | 38 | Janez Flere | Argentina | 1:59.01 | +13.51 |
| 38 | 43 | Guillermo Giumelli | Argentina | 2:00.10 | +14.60 |
| 39 | 39 | Miguel Font | Andorra | 2:02.01 | +16.51 |
| 40 | 41 | Hong In-gi |  South Korea | 2:03.08 | +17.58 |
| 41 | 45 | Arturo Kinch |  Costa Rica | 2:12.24 | +26.74 |
| 42 | 44 | Billy Farwig |  Bolivia | 2:12.66 | +27.16 |
| - | 40 | Patrick Toussaint | Andorra | DNF | - |
| - | 18 | Karl Anderson | United States | DNF | - |
| - | 14 | Ken Read | Canada | DNF | - |
| - | 8 | Toni Bürgler | Switzerland | DNF | - |
| - | 42 | Scott Alan Sánchez | Bolivia | DQ | - |
Source:[1]
References
- ^ a b "The Official Report of the XIIIth Olympic Winter Games Lake Placid 1980 - Official Results" (PDF). Lake Placid Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1980. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
- ^ "Alpine Skiing at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Games: Men's Downhill". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
- ^ Johnson, William Oscar (February 11, 1980). "The Downhill: Majesty and Madness". Sports Illustrated. (Olympic preview). p. 84.
- ^ "1979 World Cup standings". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
- ^ "1978 World Championships results". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
- ^ Anderson, Dave (February 14, 1980). "Klammer Olympic absentee". Palm Beach Post. (New York Times). p. D1.
- ^ "For Stock, it was an uphill battle". St. Petersburg Independent. (Florida). Associated Press. February 15, 1980. p. 5C.
- ^ Mizell, Hubert (February 15, 1980). "Unknown Austrian skier Stock suddenly is hero". St. Petersburg Times. (Florida). p. 1C.
- ^ Johnson, William Oscar (February 25, 1980). "Austria storms the hill". Sports Illustrated. p. 22.
External links
- FIS results
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