1976 Winter Olympics / Alpine skiing - Downhill (men)

sport	Alpine skiing
discipline	Departure
gender	Men
Attendees	74 athletes from 27 countries
Competition location	Patscherkofel
Competition phase	5th February 1976
Winning time	1: 45.73 min
Medalist  Franz Klammer ( AUT )  Bernhard Russi ( SUI )  Herbert Plank ( ITA )
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Alpine skiing competitions at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Departure	Women	Men
Giant slalom	Women	Men
slalom	Women	Men

The men's alpine skiing downhill at the 1976 Winter Olympics was held on February 5 on Patscherkofel . The difference in altitude between the start and finish was 870 meters and was 3.020 kilometers long.

The Austrian Franz Klammer , who was already the winner of the World Cup race on Patscherkofel in January, was able to secure the Olympic victory. The Swiss Bernhard Russi won the silver medal ahead of Herbert Plank from Italy.

Results

rank	#	athlete	nation	Time (min)	Deficit (min)
1	15th	Franz Klammer	Austria	1: 45.73
2	3	Bernhard Russi	Switzerland	1: 46.06	+0.33
3	8th	Herbert Plank	Italy	1: 46.59	+0.86
4th	11	Philippe Roux	Switzerland	1: 46.69	+0.96
5	10	Ken Read	Canada	1: 46.83	+1.10
6th	19th	Andy Mill	United States	1: 47.06	+1.33
7th	29	Walter Tresch	Switzerland	1: 47.29	+1.56
8th	13	Dave Irwin	Canada	1: 47.41	+1.68
9	6th	Josef Walcher	Austria	1: 47.45	+1.72
10	5	Jim Hunter	Canada	1: 47.52	+1.79
11	30th	Greg Jones	United States	1: 47.84	+2.11
12	1	René Berthod	Switzerland	1: 47.89	+2.16
13	22nd	Pete Patterson	United States	1: 47.94	+2.21
14th	21st	Roland Thöni	Italy	1: 48.13	+ 2.40
15th	20th	Peter Fischer	BR Germany	1: 48.18	+2.45
16	24	Patrice Pellat-Finet	France	1: 48.34	+2.61
17th	25th	Sepp Ferstl	BR Germany	1: 48.41	+2.68
18th	28	Dave Murray	Canada	1: 48.43	+2.70
19th	4th	Klaus Eberhard	Austria	1: 48.45	+2.72
20th	42	Sumihiro Tomii	Japan	1: 48.88	+3.15
21st	16	Willi Frommelt	Liechtenstein	1: 48.92	+3.19
22nd	31	David handle	Australia	1: 49.02	+3.29
	2	Michael Veith	BR Germany	1: 49.02	+3.29
24	27	Karl Anderson	United States	1: 49.08	+3.35
25th	9	Erik Håker	Norway	1: 49.19	+3.46
26th	14th	Gustav Thöni	Italy	1: 49.25	+3.52
27	18th	Mikio Katagiri	Japan	1: 50.03	+4.30
28	38	Andreas Wenzel	Liechtenstein	1: 50.08	+4.35
29	46	Wolfgang Junginger	BR Germany	1: 50.48	+4.75
30th	37	Alan Stewart	Great Britain	1: 50.56	+4.83
31	44	Luis Rosenkjer	Argentina	1: 50.87	+5.14
32	34	Stuart Fitzsimmons	Great Britain	1: 50.89	+5.16
33	45	Bohumír Zeman	Czechoslovakia	1: 51.27	+5.54
34	35	Kim Clifford	Australia	1: 51.64	+5.91
35	17th	Francisco Fernández Ochoa	Spain	1: 51.91	+6.18
36	36	Juan Manuel Fernández Ochoa	Spain	1: 52.40	+6.67
37	43	Andrej Koželj	Yugoslavia	1: 52.75	+7.02
	33	Peter Fuchs	Great Britain	1: 52.75	+7.02
39	39	Juan Angel Olivieri	Argentina	1: 52.76	+7.03
40	55	Miloslav Sochor	Czechoslovakia	1: 53.48	+7.75
41	32	Jaime Ros	Spain	1: 53.50	+7.77
42	59	Jorge García	Spain	1: 53.55	+7.82
43	58	Didier Xhaet	Belgium	1: 53.56	+7.83
44	49	Vladimir Andreyev	Soviet Union	1: 53.61	+7.88
45	41	Robert Blanchaer	Belgium	1: 54.30	+8.57
46	40	Adjin Pašović	Yugoslavia	1: 54.57	+8.84
47	54	Carlos Alberto Martínez	Argentina	1: 54.62	+8.89
48	56	Ivan Penew	Bulgaria	1: 55.56	+9.83
49	74	Dan Cristea	Romania	1: 55.63	+9.90
50	70	Georgi Kochow	Bulgaria	1: 55.82	+10.09
51	47	José Luis Koifman	Chile	1: 56.30	+10.57
52	50	Roman Dereziński	Poland	1: 56.33	+10.60
53	67	Stuart Blakely	New Zealand	1: 57.91	+12.18
54	52	Antoine Crespo	Andorra	1: 58.72	+12.99
55	53	Gorban Ali Kalhor	Iran	1: 59.15	+13.42
56	62	Mohammad Hadj Kia Shemshaki	Iran	1: 59.44	+13.71
57	68	Ion Cavasi	Romania	2: 00.19	+14.46
58	61	Akbar Kalili	Iran	2: 00.32	+14.59
59	75	Rafael Cañas	Chile	2: 00.39	+14.66
60	69	Brett Kendall	New Zealand	2: 00.57	+14.84
61	63	Fernando Reutter	Chile	2: 01.19	+15.46
62	64	Carlos Font	Andorra	2: 01.75	+16.02
63	65	Ahmet Kıbıl	Turkey	2: 03.74	+18.01
64	73	Mümtaz Demirhan	Turkey	2: 06.01	+20.28
65	71	Thomas Karadimas	Greece	2: 14.69	+28.96
66	66	Spyros Theodorou	Greece	2: 17.08	+31.35
	60	Robin Armstrong	New Zealand	DNF
	57	Mohammad Kalhor	Iran	DNF
	51	Xavier Areny	Andorra	DNF
	48	Adrián Roncallo	Argentina	DNF
	26th	Konrad Bartelski	Great Britain	DNF
	23	Rob McIntyre	Australia	DNF
	12	Anton Steiner	Austria	DNF
	7th	Erwin Stricker	Italy	DNF
	72	Murat Tosun	Turkey	DNS

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