Olympic Winter Games 1998 / Alpine skiing - Downhill (men)

sport	Alpine skiing
discipline	Departure
gender	Men
Attendees	43 athletes from 18 countries
Competition location	Happo One
Competition phase	February 13, 1998
Winning time	1: 50.11 min
Medalist  Jean-Luc Crétier ( FRA )  Let Kjus ( NOR )  Hannes Trinkl ( AUT )
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Alpine skiing competitions at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Departure	Women	Men
Super G	Women	Men
Giant slalom	Women	Men
slalom	Women	Men
Alpine combination	Women	Men

The men's downhill skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics was held on February 13 in Hakuba in the Happo One ski area . The difference in altitude between the start and finish was 925 meters and was 3.289 kilometers long.

Frenchman Jean-Luc Crétier won the gold medal . Silver went to Lasse Kjus from Norway and bronze went to Austrian Hannes Trinkl .

Results

rank	#	athlete	nation	Time (min)	Deficit (s)
1	3	Jean-Luc Crétier	France	1: 50.11
2	10	Leave kjus	Norway	1: 50.51	+0.40
3	8th	Hannes Trinkl	Austria	1: 50.63	+0.52
4th	24	Jürg Grünenfelder	Switzerland	1: 50.64	+0.53
5	25th	Ed Podivinsky	Canada	1: 50.71	+0.60
6th	7th	Kristian Ghedina	Italy	1: 50.76	+0.65
7th	5	Andreas Schifferer	Austria	1: 50.77	+0.66
8th	9	Didier Cuche	Switzerland	1: 50.91	+0.80
9	26th	Kyle Rasmussen	United States	1: 51.09	+0.98
10	23	Patrik Jarbyn	Sweden	1: 51.22	+1.11
11	2	Fritz Strobl	Austria	1: 51.34	+1.23
12	17th	Tommy Moe	United States	1: 51.43	+1.32
13	11	Kjetil André Aamodt	Norway	1: 51.72	+1.61
14th	1	Franco Cavegn	Switzerland	1: 51.74	+1.63
15th	30th	Jason Rosener	United States	1: 52.33	+2.22
16	12	Werner Perathoner	Italy	1: 52.36	+2.25
17th	21st	Tsuyoshi Tomii	Japan	1: 52.62	+2.51
18th	33	Andrei Filichkin	Russia	1: 52.65	+2.54
19th	22nd	Kevin Worth	Canada	1: 52.67	+2.56
20th	31	Jernej Koblar	Slovenia	1: 52.79	+2.68
21st	36	Enis Bećirbegović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1: 53.47	+3.36
22nd	43	Andrzej Bachleda-Curuś	Poland	1: 53.62	+3.51
23	35	Graham Bell	Great Britain	1: 53.93	+3.82
24	38	Vasily Bessmelnitsyn	Russia	1: 54.27	+4.16
25th	37	Linas Vaitkus	Lithuania	1: 56.22	+6.11
26th	39	Nils Linneberg	Chile	1: 56.59	+6.48
27	42	Patrick-Paul Schwarzacher-Joyce	Ireland	1: 58.71	+8.60
28	41	Rainer Grob	Chile	1: 58.75	+8.64
	4th	Hermann Maier	Austria	DNF
	6th	Nicolas Burtin	France	DNF
	13	Bruno Kernen	Switzerland	DNF
	14th	Luca Cattaneo	Italy	DNF
	15th	Peter Runggaldier	Italy	DNF
	16	Luke Sauder	Canada	DNF
	18th	Aleš Brezavšček	Slovenia	DNF
	19th	AJ putty	United States	DNF
	20th	Brian Stemmle	Canada	DNF
	27	Adrien Duvillard	France	DNF
	28	Peter Pen	Slovenia	DNF
	29	Jürgen Hasler	Liechtenstein	DNF
	32	Andrew Freshwater	Great Britain	DNF
	34	Yasuyuki Takishita	Japan	DNF
	40	Thomás Grob	Chile	DNF

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