Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill

Men's Downhill
Men's Downhill
	File:Whiteface Mt and Mt Esther seen from Jay ridge.JPG
Location	Whiteface Mountain
Vertical	832 m (2,730 ft)
Top elevation	1,313 m (4,308 ft)
Base elevation	481 m (1,578 ft)

Men's Downhill; at the XIII Olympic Winter Games
	Alpine skiing
Venue	Whiteface Mountain; Wilmington, New York, U.S.
Date	February 14, 1980
Competitors	47 from 22 nations
Winning time	1:45.50
Medalists
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Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Downhill	men	women
Giant slalom	men	women
Slalom	men	women

The Men's Downhill competition of the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid was held at Whiteface Mountain on Thursday, February 14.^[1]

The defending world champion was Josef Walcher of Austria, while Switzerland's Peter Müller was the defending World Cup downhill champion and led the 1980 World Cup.^[2]^[3] Defending Olympic champion Franz Klammer did not compete; he was not selected to the Austrian Olympic team in 1980.^[4]

Gold medalist Leonhard Stock was an alternate on the Austrian downhill team, at the Olympics for the slalom. His fast training times earned him a spot on the four-man team, displacing Walcher, the reigning world champion.^[5]^[6]^[7] All four Austrians in the race finished in the top ten and Müller was fourth.

Results

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Difference
	9	Leonhard Stock	Austria	1:45.50	-
	13	Peter Wirnsberger	Austria	1:46.12	+0.62
	15	Steve Podborski	Canada	1:46.62	+1.12
4	10	Peter Müller	Switzerland	1:46.75	+1.25
5	23	Pete Patterson	United States	1:47.04	+1.54
6	3	Herbert Plank	Italy	1:47.13	+1.63
7	12	Werner Grissmann	Austria	1:47.21	+1.71
8	19	Valeri Tsyganov	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	30	Bohumír Zeman	Czechoslovakia	1:48.65	+3.15
14	25	Phil Mahre	United States	1:48.88	+3.38
15	6	Giuliano Giardini	Italy	1:48.98	+3.48
16	21	Andy Mill	United States	1:49.07	+3.57
17	5	Erik Håker	Norway	1:49.09	+3.59
18	17	Urs Räber	Switzerland	1:49.16	+3.66
19	26	Arnt Erik Dale	Norway	1:49.26	+3.76
20	20	Andreas Wenzel	23x15px Liechtenstein	1:49.71	+4.21
21	22	Mikio Katagiri	Japan	1:49.77	+4.27
22	4	Vladimir Makeyev	Soviet Union	1:49.87	+4.37
23	2	Michael Veith	West Germany	1:50.00	+4.50
24	7	Erwin Josi	Switzerland	1:50.03	+4.53
25	24	Philippe Pugnat	France	1:50.13	+4.63
26	28	Antony Guss	Australia	1:50.22	+4.72
27	29	Francisco Fernández Ochoa	23x15px 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
30	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	23x15px 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	-
-	18	Karl Anderson	United States	DNF	-
-	14	Ken Read	Canada	DNF	-
-	8	Toni Bürgler	Switzerland	DNF	-
-	42	Scott Alan Sánchez	Bolivia	DQ	-