Olympic Winter Games 2006 / Alpine Skiing - Downhill (Men)

sport	Alpine skiing
discipline	Departure
gender	Men
Attendees	55 athletes from 12 countries
Competition location	Sestriere Borgata
Competition phase	February 12, 2006
Winning time	1: 48.80 min
Medalist  Antoine Dénériaz ( FRA )  Michael Walchhofer ( AUT )  Bruno Kernen ( SUI )
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Alpine skiing competitions at the 2006 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 2006 Winter Olympics was held on February 12th in Sestriere Borgata on the Kandahar Banchetta . The difference in altitude between start and finish was 800 meters and was 3.3 kilometers long.

The gold medal was won by the Frenchman Antoine Dénériaz with an average speed of 109.2 km / h. Silver went to the Austrian Michael Walchhofer and bronze to Bruno Kernen from Switzerland.

Results

rank	athlete	nation	Time (min)	Deficit (s)
1	Antoine Dénériaz	France	1: 48.80
2	Michael Walchhofer	Austria	1: 49.52	+0.72
3	Bruno Kernen	Switzerland	1: 49.82	+1.02
4th	Kjetil André Aamodt	Norway	1: 49.88	+1.08
5	Bode Miller	United States	1: 49.93	+1.13
6th	Hermann Maier	Austria	1: 50.00	+1.20
7th	Marco Büchel	Liechtenstein	1: 50.04	+1.24
8th	Fritz Strobl	Austria	1: 50.12	+1.32
9	Patrick Staudacher	Italy	1: 50.29	+1.49
10	Daron Rahlves	United States	1: 50.33	+1.53
11	Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin	France	1: 50.35	+1.55
12	Tobias Grünenfelder	Switzerland	1: 50.44	+1.64
13	Manuel Osborne-Paradis	Canada	1: 50.45	+1.65
14th	Leave kjus	Norway	1: 50.64	+1.84
15th	Scott Macartney	United States	1: 50.68	+1.88
16	François Bourque	Canada	1: 50.70	+1.90
17th	Ambrosi Hoffmann	Switzerland	1: 50.72	+1.92
18th	Kurt Sulzenbacher	Italy	1: 50.84	+2.04
19th	Steven Nyman	United States	1: 50.88	+2.08
	Peter Fill	Italy
21st	Aksel Lund Svindal	Norway	1: 50.90	+2.10
22nd	Klaus Kroell	Austria	1: 50.91	+2.11
23	Kristian Ghedina	Italy	1: 50.98	+2.18
24	Yannick Bertrand	France	1: 51.37	+2.57
25th	Finlay Mickel	Great Britain	1: 51.48	+2.68
26th	Didier Defago	Switzerland	1: 51.51	+2.71
27	John Kucera	Canada	1: 51.55	+2.75
28	Andrei Jerman	Slovenia	1: 51.70	+2.90
29	Bjarne Solbakken	Norway	1: 51.72	+2.92
30th	Pavel Shestakov	Russia	1: 51.93	+3.13
31	Andrej Šporn	Slovenia	1: 52.17	+3.37
32	Craig Branch	Australia	1: 52.55	+3.75
33	Patrik Jarbyn	Sweden	1: 52.87	+4.07
34	Petr Záhrobský	Czech Republic	1: 52.90	+4.10
35	Claudio spokesman	Liechtenstein	1: 53.34	+4.54
36	Bořek Zakouřil	Czech Republic	1: 54.07	+5.27
37	Roger Cruickshank	Great Britain	1: 54.65	+5.85
38	Alexander Khoroshilov	Russia	1: 54.70	+5.90
39	Alex Antor	Andorra	1: 55.01	+6.21
40	Konstantin Saz	Russia	1: 55.03	+6.23
41	Mikael Gayme	Chile	1: 55.73	+6.93
42	Maui Gayme	Chile	1: 56.10	+7.30
43	Nikolai Hentsch	Brazil	1: 56.58	+7.78
44	Michał Kałwa	Poland	1: 56.81	+8.01
45	Jaroslav Babušiak	Slovakia	1: 57.45	+8.65
46	Renārs Doršs	Latvia	1: 57.54	+8.74
47	Mykola Scriabin	Ukraine	1: 57.56	+8.76
48	Sindri Már Pálsson	Iceland	1: 57.69	+8.89
49	Jorge Mandrú	Chile	1: 58.77	+9.97
50	Roger Vidosa	Andorra	1: 59.24	+10.44
51	Andrei Drygin	Tajikistan	1: 59.41	+10.61
52	Alexander Heath	South Africa	1: 59.79	+10.99
53	Florentin Nicolae	Romania	2: 00.93	+12.13
	Ondřej Bank	Czech Republic	DNF
	Ivan Heimschild	Slovakia	DNF

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