Olympic Winter Games 1984 / Alpine Skiing - Downhill (Men)

sport	Alpine skiing
discipline	Departure
gender	Men
Attendees	61 athletes from 25 countries
Competition location	Bjelašnica
Competition phase	February 16, 1984
Winning time	1: 45.59 min
Medalist  Bill Johnson ( USA )  Peter Müller ( SUI )  Anton Steiner ( AUT )
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Competitions in alpine skiing at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Departure	Women	Men
Giant slalom	Women	Men
slalom	Women	Men

The downhill run for men in alpine skiing at the 1984 Winter Olympics was initially postponed from February 9th to February 12th and ultimately to February 16th due to weather conditions and took place on the same day as the women's downhill run . The venue was the Bjelašnica . The difference in altitude between the start and finish was 803 meters and was 3.066 kilometers long.

Bill Johnson became an Olympic champion and won the first ever US men's medal in a speed discipline. Silver went to the Swiss Peter Müller and the Austrian Anton Steiner went to bronze.

Results

rank	#	athlete	nation	Time (min)	Deficit (s)
1	6th	Bill Johnson	United States	1: 45.59
2	11	Peter Müller	Switzerland	1: 45.86	+0.27
3	13	Anton Steiner	Austria	1: 45.95	+0.36
4th	2	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Switzerland	1: 46.05	+0.46
5	9	Urs Räber	Switzerland	1: 46.32	+0.73
5	7th	Helmut Höflehner	Austria	1: 46.32	+0.73
7th	14th	Sepp Wildgruber	BR Germany	1: 46.53	+0.94
8th	12	Steve Podborski	Canada	1: 46.59	+1.00
9	15th	Todd Brooker	Canada	1: 46.64	+1.05
10	3	Franz Klammer	Austria	1: 47.04	+1.45
11	10	Erwin Resch	Austria	1: 47.06	+1.47
12	21st	Klaus Gattermann	BR Germany	1: 47.12	+1.53
13	25th	Günther Marxer	Liechtenstein	1: 47.43	+1.84
14th	5	Conradin Cathomen	Switzerland	1: 47.63	+2.04
15th	4th	Michael Mair	Italy	1: 47.70	+2.11
16	18th	Vladimir Makeyev	Soviet Union	1: 47.87	+2.28
	16	Alberto Ghidoni	Italy	1: 47.87	+2.28
18th	26th	Martin Bell	Great Britain	1: 48.00	+2.41
19th	8th	Steven Lee	Australia	1: 48.02	+2.43
20th	27	Franck Piccard	France	1: 48.06	+2.47
	19th	Danilo Sbardellotto	Italy	1: 48.06	+2.47
22nd	24	Herbert Renoth	BR Germany	1: 48.39	+2.80
23	20th	Valery Zyganov	Soviet Union	1: 48.46	+2.87
24	22nd	Doug Lewis	United States	1: 48.49	+2.90
25th	31	Michel Vion	France	1: 48.68	+3.09
26th	1	Gary Athans	Canada	1: 48.79	+3.20
27	30th	Janež Pleteršek	Yugoslavia	1: 48.97	+3.38
28	28	Shinya Chiba	Japan	1: 49.02	+3.43
29	23	Philippe Verneret	France	1: 49.30	+3.71
30th	32	Tomaž Jemc	Yugoslavia	1: 49.68	+4.09
31	38	Bruce Grant	New Zealand	1: 49.94	+4.35
32	29	Graham Bell	Great Britain	1: 50.06	+4.47
33	34	Connor O'Brien	Great Britain	1: 50.36	+4.77
34	35	Alistair cast	Australia	1: 50.57	+4.98
35	37	Markus Hubrich	New Zealand	1: 50.77	+5.18
36	36	Hubert Hilti	Liechtenstein	1: 50.94	+5.35
37	33	Frederick Burton	Great Britain	1: 51.15	+5.56
38	41	Hubertus of Hohenlohe	Mexico	1: 51.57	+5.98
39	43	Dieter Linneberg	Chile	1: 51.68	+6.09
40	40	Pierre Couquelet	Belgium	1: 52.40	+6.81
41	42	Andres Figueroa	Chile	1: 52.97	+7.38
42	44	Hans Kossmann	Chile	1: 54.36	+8.77
43	45	Scott Alan Sánchez	Bolivia	1: 54.75	+9.16
44	48	Miguel Purcell	Chile	1: 54.91	+9.32
45	46	Jorge Birkner	Argentina	1: 54.92	+9.33
46	39	Henri Mollin	Belgium	1: 55.72	+10.13
47	50	David Lajoux	Monaco	1: 56.95	+11.36
48	57	Albert Llovera	Andorra	1: 57.88	+12.29
49	47	Nicolas van Ditmar	Argentina	1: 58.86	+13.27
50	56	Jordi Torres	Andorra	1: 59.06	+13.47
51	49	Lamine Guèye	Senegal	1: 59.64	+14.05
52	60	Park Byung-ro	South Korea	1: 59.74	+14.15
53	52	Enrique de Ridder	Argentina	1: 59.76	+14.17
54	51	Américo Astete	Argentina	2: 01.60	+16.01
55	58	Giannis Stamatiou	Greece	2: 01.79	+16.20
56	53	Andreas Pantelidis	Greece	2: 01.88	+16.29
57	59	Kim Jin-hae	South Korea	2: 01.96	+16.37
58	54	Eu woo-youn	South Korea	2: 02.67	+17.08
59	55	Lazaros Arkhontopoulos	Greece	2: 03.93	+18.34
60	61	Jamil El-Reedy	Egypt	3: 13.86	+88.27
	17th	Peter Dürr	BR Germany	DNF

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