Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill

Men's Downhill; at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
	Alpine skiing
Venue	Whistler Creekside
Date	February 15, 2010
Competitors	64 from 28 nations
Winning time	1:54.31
Medalists
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Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Combined	men	women
Downhill	men	women
Giant slalom	men	women
Slalom	men	women
Super-G	men	women

The Men's Downhill competition of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics was held at Whistler Creekside in Whistler, British Columbia. The competition was scheduled for Saturday, February 13, but was postponed due to rain and warm temperatures;^[1] it was held on Monday, February 15.^[2]^[3]

The vertical drop of the Dave Murray Downhill course was 853 m (2,799 ft), starting at an elevation of 1,678 m (5,505 ft) above sea level and finishing at 825 m (2,707 ft); the course length was 3.105 km (1.929 mi).^[4]

The time margins between the medalists were the closest in the history of the event in any Olympics; only 0.09 seconds separated gold and bronze.

Didier Défago winning gold
Aksel Lund Svindal racing for the silver medal
Bode Miller, the bronze medalist

Results

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Difference
	18	Didier Défago	Switzerland	1:54.31	0.00
	16	Aksel Lund Svindal	Norway	1:54.38	+0.07
	8	Bode Miller	United States	1:54.40	+0.09
4	15	Mario Scheiber	Austria	1:54.52	+0.21
5	9	Erik Guay	Canada	1:54.64	+0.33
6	22	Didier Cuche	Switzerland	1:54.67	+0.36
7	3	David Poisson	France	1:54.82	+0.51
8	10	Marco Büchel	Liechtenstein	1:54.84	+0.53
9	13	Klaus Kröll	Austria	1:54.87	+0.56
10	17	Michael Walchhofer	Austria	1:54.88	+0.57
11	20	Carlo Janka	Switzerland	1:55.02	+0.71
12	11	Hans Olsson	Sweden	1:55.19	+0.88
12	21	Werner Heel	Italy	1:55.19	+0.88
14	33	Rok Perko	Slovenia	1:55.26	+0.95
15	25	Peter Fill	Italy	1:55.29	+0.98
16	26	Adrien Theaux	France	1:55.40	+1.09
17	19	Manuel Osborne-Paradis	Canada	1:55.44	+1.13
18	30	Ivica Kostelić	Croatia	1:55.49	+1.18
19	24	Christof Innerhofer	Italy	1:55.58	+1.27
20	6	Steven Nyman	United States	1:55.71	+1.40
21	4	Andrew Weibrecht	United States	1:55.74	+1.43
22	2	Hans Grugger	Austria	1:55.81	+1.50
23	14	Ambrosi Hoffmann	Switzerland	1:56.04	+1.73
24	32	Stephan Keppler	Germany	1:56.11	+1.80
25	31	Jan Hudec	Canada	1:56.19	+1.88
26	34	Guillermo Fayed	France	1:56.20	+1.89
27	28	Johan Clarey	France	1:56.29	+1.98
28	12	Andrej Jerman	Slovenia	1:56.35	+2.04
29	1	Patrik Järbyn	Sweden	1:56.58	+2.27
30	38	Ondřej Bank	Czech Republic	1:56.66	+2.35
31	36	Kjetil Jansrud	Norway	1:56.69	+2.38
31	42	Lars Elton Myhre	Norway	1:56.69	+2.38
33	5	Natko Zrnčić-Dim	Croatia	1:57.02	+2.71
34	39	Craig Branch	Australia	1:57.19	+2.88
35	29	Patrick Staudacher	Italy	1:57.21	+2.90
36	35	Petr Záhrobský	Czech Republic	1:57.44	+3.13
37	40	Andrej Križaj	Slovenia	1:57.72	+3.41
38	43	Edward Drake	Great Britain	1:57.91	+3.60
39	45	Jono Brauer	Australia	1:58.08	+3.77
40	48	Kryštof Krýzl	Czech Republic	1:58.43	+4.12
41	52	Ivan Ratkić	Croatia	1:58.58	+4.27
42	37	Andreas Romar	Finland	1:58.71	+4.40
43	50	Markus Larsson	Sweden	1:58.82	+4.51
44	41	Ferran Terra	Spain	1:58.85	+4.54
45	51	Aleksandr Khoroshilov	Russia	1:59.21	+4.90
46	55	Truls Ove Karlsen	Norway	1:59.52	+5.21
47	54	Kevin Esteve Rigail	Andorra	1:59.61	+5.30
48	58	Roger Vidosa	Andorra	1:59.65	+5.34
49	44	Maui Gayme	Chile	1:59.76	+5.45
50	46	Igor Zakurdaev	Kazakhstan	1:59.80	+5.49
51	49	Paul de la Cuesta	Spain	1:59.84	+5.53
52	59	Jaroslav Babušiak	Slovakia	1:59.99	+5.68
53	56	Johnny Albertsen	Denmark	2:00.12	+5.81
54	63	Stepan Zuev	Russia	2:00.58	+6.27
55	47	Cristian Javier Simari Birkner	Argentina	2:01.67	+7.36
56	61	Jorge Mandru	Chile	2:01.72	+7.41
57	53	Filip Trejbal	Czech Republic	2:02.57	+8.26
58	57	Roberts Rode	Latvia	2:03.36	+9.05
59	64	Andrei Drygin	Tajikistan	2:04.44	+10.13
	7	Andrej Šporn	Slovenia	DNF
	23	Robbie Dixon	Canada	DNF
	60	Dragoș Staicu	Romania	DNF
	62	Stefan Georgiev	Bulgaria	DNF
	27	Marco Sullivan	United States	DSQ