Olympic Winter Games 1980 / Alpine skiing - Downhill (men)

sport	Alpine skiing
discipline	Departure
gender	Men
Attendees	47 athletes from 22 countries
Competition location	Whiteface Mountain
Competition phase	February 14, 1980
Winning time	1: 45.50 min
Medalist  Leonhard Stock ( AUT )  Peter Wirnsberger ( AUT )  Steve Podborski ( CAN )
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Competitions in alpine skiing at the 1980 Olympic Winter Games
Departure	Women	Men
Giant slalom	Women	Men
slalom	Women	Men

The men's downhill skiing in alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics was held on February 14th at Whiteface Mountain . The difference in altitude between the start and finish was 832 meters and was 3.009 kilometers long.

The race did not start with Harti Weirather , drawn as No. 1 , but with six so-called star drivers (with No. 42, Bolivian Scott Alan Sánchez was the first to take the route). At temperatures of minus 10 ° C there had been a light drifting snow. But No. 1 was also a bad number that day, Weirather had no chance of a good time.

Due to the current World Cup score , the favorites were Peter Müller , who led with 96 points ahead of Ken Read and Harti Weirather . Behind Walcher and Erik Håker (60 each) were Wirnsberger (57) and Herbert Plank (56); the next was - far away - Podborski (23) - and Stock had only picked up eleven points once (in the first race in Wengen) with fifth place due to his injury story. He had only been nominated as a substitute by the ÖSV , but was able to set the best times in the training sessions and internal qualifications, whereupon he was allowed to go to the start, the originally intended Josef Walcher was left behind. Stock won and it was his first ever big race win. Franz Klammer, the Olympic champion on Patscherkofel in 1976, was not in the Austrian squad due to an almost permanent lack of World Cup results.

Results

rank	#	athlete	nation	Time (min)	Deficit (min)
1	9	Leonhard Stock	Austria	1: 45.50
2	13	Peter Wirnsberger	Austria	1: 46.12	+0.62
3	15th	Steve Podborski	Canada	1: 46.62	+1.12
4th	10	Peter Müller	Switzerland	1: 46.75	+1.25
5	23	Pete Patterson	United States	1: 47.04	+1.54
6th	3	Herbert Plank	Italy	1: 47.13	+1.63
7th	12	Werner Grissmann	Austria	1: 47.21	+1.71
8th	19th	Valery Zyganov	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	30th	Bohumír Zeman	Czechoslovakia	1: 48.65	+3.15
14th	25th	Phil Mahre	United States	1: 48.88	+3.38
15th	6th	Giuliano Giardini	Italy	1: 48.98	+3.48
16	21st	Andy Mill	United States	1: 49.07	+3.57
17th	5	Erik Håker	Norway	1: 49.09	+3.59
18th	17th	Urs Räber	Switzerland	1: 49.16	+3.66
19th	26th	Arnt Erik Dale	Norway	1: 49.26	+3.76
20th	20th	Andreas Wenzel	Liechtenstein	1: 49.71	+4.21
21st	22nd	Mikio Katagiri	Japan	1: 49.77	+4.27
22nd	4th	Vladimir Makeyev	Soviet Union	1: 49.87	+4.37
23	2	Michael Veith	BR Germany	1: 50.00	+4.50
24	7th	Erwin Josi	Switzerland	1: 50.03	+4.53
25th	24	Philippe Pugnat	France	1: 50.13	+4.63
26th	28	Antony cast	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
30th	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
	18th	Karl Anderson	United States	DNF
	14th	Ken Read	Canada	DNF
	8th	Toni Bürgler	Switzerland	DNF
	42	Scott Alan Sánchez	Bolivia	DSQ

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Stocks Triumph Before Wirnsberger" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 15, 1980, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).