Olympic Winter Games 1964 / Alpine skiing - Downhill (men)

sport	Alpine skiing
discipline	Departure
gender	Men
Attendees	84 athletes from 27 countries
Competition location	Patscherkofel
Competition phase	January 30, 1964
Winning time	2: 18.16 min
Medalist  Egon Zimmermann ( AUT )  Léo Lacroix ( FRA )  Wolfgang Bartels ( EUA )
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Alpine skiing competitions at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Departure	Women	Men
Giant slalom	Women	Men
slalom	Women	Men

The men's downhill skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics was held on January 30th at 12:00 on the Patscherkofel . The difference in altitude between the start and finish was 867 meters and was 3.120 kilometers long.

The Austrian Egon Zimmermann , who had already set the best time in “non-stop training”, was able to secure the Olympic victory ahead of Léo Lacroix from France. Wolfgang Bartels from the Federal Republic of Germany, who competed for the all-German team, secured the bronze medal.

A total of around 50,000 spectators came to the race. Billy Kidd was the first to start the race at 12:01 p.m. Jean-Claude Killy , who entered the race with car number 9, fell shortly after the start and was left behind. In addition, the French had to replace World Championship runner -up Émile Viollat in the run-up to the race, as his shoulder got caught on a goal post during training on January 27 and his collarbone was broken. Pierre Stamos competed for him .

The Olympic champion Zimmermann gained his lead in the upper part of the route when he was already 0.8 seconds ahead of Lacroix, but lost it almost entirely in the lower section, known as the "Velodrome". He had strapped on a completely new ski model, a metal ski with five grooves (previously tourist and racing models had one longitudinal groove, at most two). Germany impressed as a team, with Willy Bogner instead of Eberhard Riedel being appointed to the team. Dumeng Giovanoli from Switzerland was traded as a secret favorite, but fell short of expectations. In contrast, Guy Périllat (France), Billy Kidd (United States), Gerhard Nenning and Heinrich Messner (both Austria) achieved a result that was in line with their level. There was also a serious accident: Jeremy Bujakowski , a Pole from India , who hit a tree in the upper part of his head after falling and remained unconscious, had to be taken to the Innsbruck University Clinic, where a moderate concussion was diagnosed .

Results

rank	athlete	nation	Time (min)	Deficit (min)
1	Egon Zimmermann	Austria	2: 18.16
2	Léo Lacroix	France	2: 18.90	+0: ​​00.74
3	Wolfgang Bartels	Germany	2: 19.48	+0: ​​01.32
4th	Josef Minsch	Switzerland	2: 19.54	+0: ​​01.38
5	Ludwig Leitner	Germany	2: 19.67	+0: ​​01.51
6th	Guy Périllat	France	2: 19.79	+0: ​​01.63
7th	Gerhard Nenning	Austria	2: 19.98	+0: ​​01.82
8th	Willy Favre	Switzerland	2: 20.23	+0: ​​02.07
9	Willy Bogner	Germany	2: 20.72	+0: ​​02.56
10	Heinrich Messner	Austria	2: 20.74	+0: ​​02.58
11	Karl Schranz	Austria	2: 20.98	+0: ​​02.82
12	Fritz Wagnerberger	Germany	2: 21.03	+0: ​​02.87
13	Dumeng Giovanoli	Switzerland	2: 21.16	+0: ​​03.00
14th	Ni Orsi	United States	2: 21.59	+0: ​​03.43
15th	François Bonlieu	France	2: 21.71	+0: ​​03.55
16	Billy Kidd	United States	2: 21.82	+0: ​​03.66
17th	Wallace Werner	United States	2: 22.05	+0: ​​03.89
18th	Georg Grünenfelder	Switzerland	2: 22.69	+0: ​​04.53
19th	Ivo Mahlknecht	Italy	2: 22.72	+0: ​​04.56
20th	Chuck Ferries	United States	2: 23.00	+0: ​​04.84
21st	Paride Milianti	Italy	2: 23.01	+0: ​​04.85
22nd	Raimo Manninen	Finland	2: 23.94	+0: ​​05.78
23	Bruno Alberti	Italy	2: 25.30	+0: ​​07.14
24	Jerzy Woyna Orlewicz	Poland	2: 25.88	+0: ​​07.72
25th	Jean-Guy Brunet	Canada	2: 26.59	+0: ​​08.43
26th	Ulf Ekstam	Finland	2: 27.31	+0: ​​09.15
27	Martino Fill	Italy	2: 27.33	+0: ​​09.17
28	Gary Battistella	Canada	2: 27.74	+0: ​​09.58
29	Peter Lakota	Yugoslavia	2: 27.82	+0: ​​09.66
30th	Rod Hebron	Canada	2: 27.90	+0: ​​09.74
31	Bengt-Erik Grahn	Sweden	2: 29.29	+0: ​​11.13
32	Jon Terje Øverland	Norway	2: 29.74	+0: ​​11.58
33	Hajime Tomii	Japan	2: 30.02	+0: ​​11.86
34	Peter Duncan	Canada	2: 30.06	+0: ​​11.90
35	Luis Viu	Spain	2: 30.35	+0: ​​12.19
36	Vasily Melnikov	Soviet Union	2: 30.83	+0: ​​12.67
37	Olle Rolén	Sweden	2: 31.14	+0: ​​12.98
38	Arild Holm	Norway	2: 31.32	+0: ​​13.16
39	Radim Koloušek	Czechoslovakia	2: 31.34	+0: ​​13.18
40	Bronislaw Trzebunia	Poland	2: 32.29	+0: ​​14.13
41	Juan Garriga	Spain	2: 32.85	+0: ​​14.69
42	Jean-Claude Killy	France	2: 32.96	+0: ​​14.80
43	Javier Masana	Spain	2: 33.52	+0: ​​15.36
44	John Rigby	Great Britain	2: 34.32	+0: ​​16.16
45	Yoshiharu Fukuhara	Japan	2: 34.55	+0: ​​16.39
46	Tsuneo Noto	Japan	2: 34.76	+0: ​​16.60
47	Tally Monastyryov	Soviet Union	2: 35.27	+0: ​​17.11
48	Hans-Walter Schädler	Liechtenstein	2: 35.84	+0: ​​17.68
49	Andrzej Dereziński	Poland	2: 35.89	+0: ​​17.73
50	Charles Westenholz	Great Britain	2: 36.12	+0: ​​17.96
51	Fric Detiček	Yugoslavia	2: 36.54	+0: ​​18.38
52	August Wolfinger	Liechtenstein	2: 37.25	+0: ​​19.09
53	Josef Gassner	Liechtenstein	2: 37.38	+0: ​​19.22
54	Valery Shein	Soviet Union	2: 38.13	+0: ​​19.97
55	Andrei Klinar	Yugoslavia	2: 39.79	+0: ​​21.63
56	Charles Palmer-Tomkinson	Great Britain	2: 39.97	+0: ​​21.81
57	Yoshihiro Ohira	Japan	2: 40.82	+0: ​​22.66
58	Hernan Boher	Chile	2: 41.67	+0: ​​23.51
59	Prince Karim Aga Khan	Iran	2: 42.59	+0: ​​24.43
60	Petar Angelov	Bulgaria	2: 43.32	+0: ​​25.16
61	Simon Brown	Australia	2: 44.07	+0: ​​25.91
62	Oto Pustoslemšek	Yugoslavia	2: 44.77	+0: ​​26.61
63	Muzaffer Demirhan	Turkey	2: 45.63	+0: ​​27.47
64	Pedro Klempa	Argentina	2: 47.07	+0: ​​28.91
65	Lotfollah Kia Shemshaki	Iran	2: 50.70	+0: ​​32.54
66	Fayzollah Band Ali	Iran	2: 52.44	+0: ​​34.28
67	Nazih Geagea	Lebanon	2: 55.34	+0: ​​37.18
68	Peter Wenzel	Australia	2: 55.58	+0: ​​37.42
69	Ovaness Meguerdonian	Iran	2: 57.10	+0: ​​38.94
70	Osman Yuce	Turkey	3: 03.66	+0: ​​45.50
71	Zeki Şamiloğlu	Turkey	3: 05.71	+0: ​​47.55
72	Abdurrahman Küçük	Turkey	3: 09.99	+0: ​​51.83
73	Konstantinos Karydas	Greece	3: 10.09	+0: ​​51.93
74	Jean Keyrouz	Lebanon	3: 40.44	+1: 22.28
75	Michel Rahme	Lebanon	3: 55.15	+1: 36.99
76	Jorge Abelardo Eiras	Argentina	4: 34.51	+2: 16.35
77	Juan Wood	Chile	4: 51.18	+2: 33.02
	Lindström rune	Sweden	DNF
	Jeremy Bujakowski	India	DNF
	Lars Olsson	Sweden	DNF
	Jorge Rodríguez	Spain	DNF
	Jonathan Taylor	Great Britain	DNF
	Sami Beyroun	Lebanon	DNF
	Claudio Wernli	Chile	DSQ

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Viollat ​​with broken collarbone. In: Sport Zürich, January 27, 1964.
2. ↑ “Zimmermann gilded the Patscherkofel”, “21 runners remained below the previous year's record”, “Indians had an accident”. Kleine Zeitung Graz, January 31, 1964, pp. 12, 13, 14.
3. ^ "3 Austrians among the top ten". Kurier Vienna, January 31, 1964, pp. 7 and 8.
4. ↑ «H. Bonnet disappointed: Only one win counts for him. Schranz not nervous - that's why he drove badly ». Kronen-Zeitung, January 31, 1964, p. 19.
5. ^ "Winner Egon Zimmermann before the second gold medal?" Kronen-Zeitung Vienna, January 31, 1964.