Olympic Winter Games 1988 / Alpine skiing - Downhill (men)

sport	Alpine skiing
discipline	Departure
gender	Men
Attendees	51 athletes from 18 countries
Competition location	Nakiska
Competition phase	February 15, 1988
Winning time	1: 59.63 min
Medalist  Pirmin Zurbriggen ( SUI )  Peter Müller ( SUI )  Franck Piccard ( FRA )
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Alpine skiing competitions at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Departure	Women	Men
Super G	Women	Men
Giant slalom	Women	Men
slalom	Women	Men
Alpine combination	Women	Men

The men's downhill run in alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics was scheduled to take place on February 14 at 11:30 a.m. However, the start was postponed twice due to strong wind gusts and finally canceled at 12:35 p.m. February 15th was chosen as the new date. Since the Alpine Combination was originally planned to take place on this day , it had to be postponed by one day. The difference in altitude between start and finish was 874 meters and the route was 3147 meters long.

The Olympic champion Pirmin Zurbriggen , who had already dominated in training, was in the lead in all interim measurements. His winning ski was a »hole ski« and had brought him first and second in Val-d'Isère and second in Bad Kleinkirchheim in the current season . Like four years earlier in the downhill race in Sarajevo , Peter Müller won the silver medal.

Results

rank	#	athlete	nation	Time (min)	Deficit (s)
1	14th	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Switzerland	1: 59.63
2	1	Peter Müller	Switzerland	2: 00.14	+0.51
3	15th	Franck Piccard	France	2: 01.24	+1.61
4th	12	Leonhard Stock	Austria	2: 01.56	+1.93
5	21st	Gerhard Pfaffenbichler	Austria	2: 02.02	+2.39
6th	9	Markus Wasmeier	BR Germany	2: 02.03	+ 2.40
7th	10	Anton Steiner	Austria	2: 02.19	+2.56
8th	26th	Martin Bell	Great Britain	2: 02.49	+2.86
9	8th	Marc Girardelli	Luxembourg	2: 02.59	+2.96
10	13	Danilo Sbardellotto	Italy	2: 02.69	+3.06
11	28	Shinya Chiba	Japan	2: 03.16	+3.53
12	3	Daniel Mahrer	Switzerland	2: 03.18	+3.55
13	25th	Hannes Zehentner	BR Germany	2: 03.23	+3.60
14th	35	Mike Carney	Canada	2: 03.25	+3.62
15th	16	Atle Skårdal	Norway	2: 03.26	+3.63
16	7th	Rob Boyd	Canada	2: 03.27	+3.64
17th	6th	Franz Heinzer	Switzerland	2: 03.36	+3.73
18th	11	Felix Belczyk	Canada	2: 03.59	+3.96
19th	37	Günther Mader	Austria	2: 03.96	+4.33
20th	24	Hansjörg Tauscher	BR Germany	2: 04.31	+4.68
21st	20th	Peter Dürr	BR Germany	2: 04.32	+4.69
22nd	30th	Steven Lee	Australia	2: 04.46	+4.83
23	33	Graham Bell	Great Britain	2: 04.56	+4.93
24	19th	Jan Einar Thorsen	Norway	2: 04.77	+5.14
25th	2	Christophe Plé	France	2: 04.78	+5.15
26th	32	AJ putty	United States	2: 04.94	+5.31
27	18th	Lars-Börje Eriksson	Sweden	2: 05.02	+5.39
28	27	Jeff Olson	United States	2: 05.09	+5.46
29	43	Peter Jurko	Czechoslovakia	2: 05.32	+5.69
30th	34	Niklas Henning	Sweden	2: 05.52	+5.89
31	17th	Igor Cigolla	Italy	2: 05.85	+6.22
32	29	Doug Lewis	United States	2: 06.25	+6.62
33	39	Adrian Bireš	Czechoslovakia	2: 06.34	+6.71
34	36	Katsuhito Kumagai	Japan	2: 07.17	+7.54
35	45	Finn Christian Jagge	Norway	2: 07.64	+8.01
36	51	Silvio Wille	Liechtenstein	2: 07.77	+8.14
37	37	Boris Duncan	Great Britain	2: 07.88	+8.25
38	46	Gregor Hoop	Liechtenstein	2: 08.50	+8.87
39	47	Robert Büchel	Liechtenstein	2: 08.66	+9.03
40	44	Niklas Lindqvist	Sweden	2: 09.41	+9.78
41	40	Nils Linneberg	Chile	2: 09.83	+10.20
42	41	Dieter Linneberg	Chile	2: 11.16	+11.53
43	49	Hubertus of Hohenlohe	Mexico	2: 12.58	+12.95
44	48	Jorge Raúl Birkner	Argentina	2: 14.20	+14.57
45	50	Javier Rivara	Argentina	2: 16.79	+17.16
	42	Peter Forras	Australia	DNF
	31	Bill Hudson	United States	DNF
	4th	Luc Alphand	France	DNF
	23	Michael Mair	Italy	DNF
	22nd	Philippe Verneret	France	DSQ
	5	Brian Stemmle	Canada	DSQ

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• Results

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "No wind lottery - Departure moved" and "2.5 seconds ahead," Sports Zurich, February 15, 1988, both p. 3
2. ^ "Olympia-Grafik" and "Zurbriggen won a lonely gold duel" as well as "Our Emperor Pirmin I" and "1.249 million saw Pirmin", all Sport Zurich, February 17, 1988, pp. 1, 3 and 13.