1956 Winter Olympics / Alpine Skiing - Downhill (Men)

sport	Alpine skiing
discipline	Departure
gender	Men
Attendees	93 athletes from 27 countries
Competition location	Olimpia delle Tofane
Competition phase	3rd February 1956
Winning time	2: 52.2 min
Medalist  Toni Sailer ( AUT )  Raymond Fellay ( SUI )  Andreas Molterer ( AUT )
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Alpine skiing competitions at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Departure	Women	Men
Giant slalom	Women	Men
slalom	Women	Men

The men's downhill in alpine skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics was held on February 3 at the Olimpia delle Tofane .

The difference in altitude between start and finish was 902 meters and was 3.461 kilometers long. Olympic champion was Toni Sailer from Austria, ahead of Raymond Fellay from Switzerland and his compatriot Andreas Molterer .

Results

rank	#	athlete	nation	Time (min)	Deficit (min)
1	14th	Toni Sailer	Austria	2: 52.2
2	25th	Raymond Fellay	Switzerland	2: 55.7	+0: ​​03.5
3	20th	Andreas Molterer	Austria	2: 56.2	+0: ​​04.0
4th	21st	Roger dust	Switzerland	2: 57.1	+0: ​​04.9
5	7th	Hans-Peter Lanig	Germany	2: 59.8	+0: ​​07.6
6th	11	Gino Burrini	Italy	3: 00.2	+0: ​​08.0
7th	46	Kurt Hennrich	Czechoslovakia	3: 01.5	+0: ​​09.3
8th	17th	Charles Bozon	France	3: 01.9	+0: ​​09.7
9	23	Bruno Burrini	Italy	3: 02.4	+0: ​​10.2
10	9	Stig Sollander	Sweden	3: 05.4	+0: ​​13.2
11	4th	Wallace Werner	United States	3: 05.8	+0: ​​13.6
12	31	Sepp Behr	Germany	3: 07.7	+0: ​​15.5
13	16	Hans Forrer	Switzerland	3: 08.0	+0: ​​15.8
14th	35	Asle Sjåstad	Norway	3: 08.8	+0: ​​16.6
15th	12	Andrzej Gąsienica Roj	Poland	3: 09.3	+0: ​​17.1
16	32	Alexander Filatov	Soviet Union	3: 16.6	+0: ​​24.4
17th	38	Evžen Čermák	Czechoslovakia	3: 18.0	+0: ​​25.8
18th	62	Georgi Dimitrov	Bulgaria	3: 18.1	+0: ​​25.9
19th	29	Karl Zillibiller	Germany	3: 21.6	+0: ​​29.4
20th	1	Josef Schwaiger	Germany	3: 22.2	+0: ​​30.0
21st	15th	Viktor Talyanov	Soviet Union	3: 26.5	+0: ​​34.3
22nd	55	Franc Cvenkelj	Yugoslavia	3: 28.5	+0: ​​36.3
23	50	Kalevi Hakkinen	Finland	3: 29.2	+0: ​​37.0
24	60	Georgi Varoshkin	Bulgaria	3: 30.0	+0: ​​37.8
25th	33	André Bertrand	Canada	3: 31.2	+0: ​​39.0
26th	58	Franz Beck	Liechtenstein	3: 36.8	+0: ​​44.6
27	48	Petar Ivanov Angelov	Bulgaria	3: 38.5	+0: ​​46.3
28	44	Susumu Sugiyama	Japan	3: 39.1	+0: ​​46.9
29	36	Ludvig Dornig	Yugoslavia	3: 41.1	+0: ​​48.9
30th	87	Charlach Mackintosh	Great Britain	3: 41.4	+0: ​​49.2
31	84	Nicolae Pandrea	Romania	3: 46.5	+0: ​​54.3
32	42	Lars Mattsson	Sweden	3: 50.4	+0: ​​58.2
33	63	Muzaffer Demirhan	Turkey	3: 52.2	+1: 00.0
34	45	Nigel Gardner	Great Britain	4: 00.7	+1: 08.5
35	54	Bill Day	Australia	4: 02.0	+1: 09.8
36	53	Francisco Viladomat	Spain	4: 02.1	+1: 09.9
37	91	Luis Molne	Spain	4: 08.9	+1: 16.7
38	89	Denis Feron	Belgium	4: 16.6	+1: 24.4
39	72	Mahmoud Beiglou	Iran	4: 22.0	+1: 29.8
40	85	Leopold Schädler	Liechtenstein	4: 23.7	+1: 31.5
41	79	Vicente Vera	Chile	4: 25.4	+1: 33.2
42	69	Ibrahim Geagea	Lebanon	4: 33.1	+1: 40.9
43	81	Jean Keyrouz	Lebanon	4: 57.6	+2: 05.4
44	77	Benik Amirian	Iran	5: 02.7	+2: 10.5
45	73	Max von Hohenlohe	Liechtenstein	5: 15.8	+2: 23.6
46	90	Aris Vatimbellas	Greece	5: 44.2	+2: 52.0
47	92	Christos Papageorgiou	Greece	8: 03.2	+5: 11.0
	2	Josef Rieder	Austria	DSQ
	3	Ralph Miller	United States	DSQ
	5	Lino Zecchini	Italy	DSQ
	6th	William Beck	United States	DSQ
	8th	Walter Schuster	Austria	DSQ
	10	Chiharu Igaya	Japan	DSQ
	13	René Collet	France	DSQ
	18th	Adrien Duvillard	France	DSQ
	22nd	André Simond	France	DSQ
	24	Andreas Rüedi	Switzerland	DSQ
	30th	Jan Zarycki	Poland	DSQ
	37	Paride Milianti	Italy	DSQ
	39	Marvin Melville	United States	DSQ
	43	Kåre Opdal	Norway	DSQ
	47	Vladimír Krajňák	Czechoslovakia	DSQ
	49	Trygve mountains	Norway	DSQ
	51	Sergei Shustov	Soviet Union	DSQ
	56	Osman Yuce	Turkey	DSQ
	57	Jože Ilija	Yugoslavia	DSQ
	59	Jaroslav Bogdálek	Czechoslovakia	DSQ
	61	Pentti Alonen	Finland	DSQ
	64	Gheorghe Cristoloveanu	Romania	DSQ
	65	Gennady Chertishchev	Soviet Union	DSQ
	71	Robin Brock-Hollinshead	Great Britain	DSQ
	74	Hermann Kindle	Liechtenstein	DSQ
	80	Jaime Talens	Spain	DSQ
	86	Reza Bazargan	Iran	DSQ
	93	Douglas Mackintosh	Great Britain	DSQ

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