FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2019 – Men's downhill
| Men's downhill at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2019 | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Åre ski resort | |||||||||
| Location | Åre, Sweden | |||||||||
| Dates | 9 February | |||||||||
| Competitors | 58 from 25 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 1:19.98 | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| Men's Downhill | |
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| Location | Olympia Åre, Sweden |
| Vertical | 637 m (2,090 ft) |
| Top elevation | 1,033 m (3,389 ft) |
| Base elevation | 396 m (1,299 ft) |
| Longest run | 2.172 km (1.35 mi) |
The Men's downhill competition at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2019 was held on Saturday, 9 February.[1][2]
In the final event of his international career, Aksel Lund Svindal won the silver medal, two-hundredths of a second behind compatriot and training partner Kjetil Jansrud.[3][4]
The race course was 2.172 km (1.35 mi) in length, with a vertical drop of 637 m (2,090 ft) from a starting elevation of 1,033 m (3,389 ft) above sea level. Jansrud's winning time of 79.98 seconds yielded an average speed of 97.764 km/h (60.7 mph) and an average vertical descent rate of 7.9645 m/s (26.1 ft/s).[5]
Results
Delayed an hour due to weather, the race started at 13:30 CET (UTC+1) under mostly cloudy skies.[5] Snowing during the race, its start was lowered 234 m (768 ft) to the super-G start, shortening the length by 0.95 km (0.59 mi) to 2.172 km (1.35 mi).[2][5] The air temperature was −6 °C (21 °F) at the starting gate and −4 °C (25 °F) at the finish.[5]
| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 6 | Kjetil Jansrud |  Norway | 1:19.98 | — |
 | 9 | Aksel Lund Svindal | Norway | 1:20.00 | +0.02 |
 | 17 | Vincent Kriechmayr |  Austria | 1:20.31 | +0.33 |
| 4 | 15 | Beat Feuz |  Switzerland | 1:20.42 | +0.44 |
| 5 | 5 | Matthias Mayer | Austria | 1:20.63 | +0.65 |
| 6 | 13 | Dominik Paris |  Italy | 1:20.72 | +0.74 |
| 7 | 4 | Benjamin Thomsen |  Canada | 1:20.73 | +0.75 |
| 8 | 7 | Aleksander Aamodt Kilde | Norway | 1:20.80 | +0.82 |
| 9 | 11 | Bryce Bennett |  United States | 1:20.81 | +0.83 |
| 9 | 3 | Mauro Caviezel | Switzerland | 1:20.81 | +0.83 |
| 11 | 19 | Christof Innerhofer | Italy | 1:20.97 | +0.99 |
| 12 | 35 | Ryan Cochran-Siegle | United States | 1:21.00 | +1.02 |
| 13 | 23 | Matteo Marsaglia | Italy | 1:21.15 | +1.17 |
| 14 | 30 | Adrian Smiseth Sejersted | Norway | 1:21.18 | +1.20 |
| 15 | 2 | Adrien Théaux |  France | 1:21.23 | +1.25 |
| 16 | 32 | Felix Monsén |  Sweden | 1:21.25 | +1.27 |
| 17 | 28 | Mattia Casse | Italy | 1:21.35 | +1.37 |
| 17 | 14 | Johan Clarey | France | 1:21.35 | +1.37 |
| 19 | 12 | Brice Roger | France | 1:21.38 | +1.40 |
| 20 | 36 | Boštjan Kline |  Slovenia | 1:21.45 | +1.45 |
| 21 | 24 | Niels Hintermann | Switzerland | 1:21.45 | +1.47 |
| 22 | 39 | Christoffer Faarup |  Denmark | 1:21.47 | +1.49 |
| 23 | 20 | Steven Nyman | United States | 1:21.55 | +1.57 |
| 24 | 40 | Henrik von Appen |  Chile | 1:21.56 | +1.58 |
| 25 | 29 | Dominik Schwaiger |  Germany | 1:21.57 | +1.59 |
| 26 | 27 | Travis Ganong | United States | 1:21.63 | +1.65 |
| 27 | 33 | Miha Hrobat | Slovenia | 1:21.70 | +1.82 |
| 28 | 10 | Josef Ferstl | Germany | 1:21.83 | +1.85 |
| 29 | 1 | Hannes Reichelt | Austria | 1:21.87 | +1.89 |
| 30 | 22 | Maxence Muzaton | France | 1:21.90 | +1.92 |
| 31 | 18 | Otmar Striedinger | Austria | 1:21.92 | +1.94 |
| 32 | 25 | Manuel Schmid | Germany | 1:21.95 | +1.97 |
| 33 | 26 | Brodie Seger | Canada | 1:22.03 | +2.05 |
| 34 | 41 | Olle Sundin | Sweden | 1:22.30 | +2.32 |
| 35 | 8 | Carlo Janka | Switzerland | 1:22.38 | +2.40 |
| 36 | 16 | Gilles Roulin | Switzerland | 1:22.39 | +2.41 |
| 37 | 56 | Linus Straßer | Germany | 1:22.45 | +2.47 |
| 38 | 31 | Marko Vukićević |  Serbia | 1:22.46 | +2.48 |
| 39 | 38 | Andreas Romar |  Finland | 1:22.48 | +2.50 |
| 40 | 45 | Adur Etxezarreta |  Spain | 1:22.54 | +2.56 |
| 41 | 42 | Jack Gower |  Great Britain | 1:22.59 | +2.61 |
| 41 | 34 | Jeffrey Read | Canada | 1:22.59 | +2.61 |
| 43 | 21 | Klemen Kosi | Slovenia | 1:22.90 | +2.92 |
| 44 | 43 | Marc Oliveras |  Andorra | 1:23.14 | +3.16 |
| 45 | 49 | Filip Platter | Sweden | 1:23.24 | +3.26 |
| 46 | 37 | Alexander Köll | Sweden | 1:23.29 | +3.31 |
| 47 | 50 | Jan Zabystřan |  Czech Republic | 1:23.33 | +3.35 |
| 48 | 53 | Tomáš Klinský | Czech Republic | 1:23.72 | +3.74 |
| 49 | 58 | Yuri Danilochkin |  Belarus | 1:23.90 | +3.92 |
| 50 | 46 | Ondřej Berndt | Czech Republic | 1:24.06 | +4.08 |
| 51 | 47 | Martin Bendík |  Slovakia | 1:24.12 | +4.14 |
| 52 | 61 | Simon Breitfuss Kammerlander |  Bolivia | 1:24.30 | +4.32 |
| 53 | 54 | Sven von Appen | Chile | 1:24.93 | +4.95 |
| 54 | 57 | Ivan Kovbasnyuk |  Ukraine | 1:25.81 | +5.83 |
| 55 | 60 | Albin Tahiri |  Kosovo | 1:25.84 | +5.86 |
| 56 | 59 | Elvis Opmanis |  Latvia | 1:26.64 | +6.66 |
| 57 | 55 | Ioan Valeriu Achiriloaie |  Romania | 1:27.00 | +7.02 |
| — | 52 | Matej Prieložný | Slovakia | Did not finish | |
| 44 | Natko Zrnčić-Dim |  Croatia | Did not start | ||
| 48 | Filip Zubčić | Croatia | |||
| 51 | Štefan Hadalin | Slovenia | |||
References
- ^ "Schedule" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-01-17. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ^ a b Start list
- ^ "'Like a fairytale': Svindal wins world silver in final ski". ESPN. Associated Press. 9 February 2019.
- ^ "The downhill World Champion title goes to Kjetil Jansrud". FIS-Ski.com. 9 February 2019.
- ^ a b c d Final results
