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Men's downhill at the X Olympic Winter Games
Alpine skiing
Venue	Chamrousse
Date	February 9, 1968
Competitors	86 from 29 nations
Winning time	1:59.85
Medalists
Jean-Claude Killy  France Guy Périllat  France Jean-Daniel Dätwyler  Switzerland
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Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics
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The Men's Downhill competition of the Grenoble 1968 Olympics was held at Chamrousse on Friday, 9 February.

The defending world champion was Jean-Claude Killy of France, who was also the defending World Cup downhill champion and Austria's Gerhard Nenning led the current season.

Killy won the gold medal, teammate Guy Périllat took the silver, and Jean-Daniel Dätwyler of Switzerland won the bronze.

The starting gate was at an elevation of 2,252 m (7,388 ft) above sea level, with a vertical drop of 840 m (2,756 ft). The course length was 2.890 km (1.80 mi) and Killy's winning run of 119.85 seconds resulted in an average speed of 86.8085 km/h (53.9 mph), with an average vertical descent rate of 7.009 m/s (23.0 ft/s).

Results

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Difference
	14	Jean-Claude Killy	France	1:59.85	—
	1	Guy Périllat	France	1:59.93	+0.08
	4	Jean-Daniel Dätwyler	Switzerland	2:00.32	+0.47
4	9	Heini Messner	Austria	2:01.03	+1.18
5	11	Karl Schranz	Austria	2:01.89	+2.04
6	3	Ivo Mahlknecht	Italy	2:02.00	+2.15
7	21	Gerhard Prinzing	West Germany	2:02.10	+2.25
8	13	Bernard Orcel	France	2:02.22	+2.37
9	10	Gerhard Nenning	Austria	2:02.31	+2.46
10	2	Edy Bruggmann	Switzerland	2:02.36	+2.51
11	6	Gerhard Mussner	Italy	2:02.50	+2.65
12	28	Luggi Leitner	West Germany	2:02.54	+2.69
13	5	Egon Zimmermann	Austria	2:02.55	+2.70
14	8	Jos Minsch	Switzerland	2:02.76	+2.91
15	7	Franz Vogler	West Germany	2:02.94	+3.09
16	27	Dumeng Giovanoli	Switzerland	2:02.98	+3.13
17	24	Bjarne Strand	Norway	2:03.20	+3.35
18	12	Billy Kidd	United States	2:03.40	+3.55
19	19	Dieter Fersch	West Germany	2:03.41	+3.56
20	15	Léo Lacroix	France	2:03.86	+4.01
21	20	Dennis McCoy	United States	2:04.82	+4.97
22	23	Teresio Vachet	Italy	2:04.90	+5.05
23	44	Jon Terje Øverland	Norway	2:05.34	+5.49
24	30	Malcolm Milne	Australia	2:05.36	+5.51
25	42	Jeremy Palmer-Tomkinson	Great Britain	2:05.43	+5.58
26	57	Andrzej Bachleda-Curuś	Poland	2:05.48	+5.63
27	48	Wayne Henderson	Canada	2:05.56	+5.71
28	18	Renato Valentini	Italy	2:05.61	+5.76
29	41	Rune Lindström	Sweden	2:05.69	+5.84
30	40	Ulf Ekstam	Finland	2:06.14	+6.29
31	31	Gerry Rinaldi	Canada	2:06.30	+6.45
32	45	Aurelio García	Spain	2:06.84	+6.99
33	47	Josef Gassner	Liechtenstein	2:06.91	+7.06
34	63	Lasse Hamre	Norway	2:06.93	+7.08
35	43	Milan Pažout	Czechoslovakia	2:07.45	+7.60
36	38	Jaroslav Janda	Czechoslovakia	2:07.71	+7.86
37	50	Wolfgang Ender	Liechtenstein	2:08.08	+8.23
38	62	Francisco Fernández Ochoa	Spain	2:08.67	+8.82
39	53	Luciano del Cacho	Spain	2:08.85	+9.00
40	92	Viktor Belyakov	Soviet Union	2:09.32	+9.47
41	46	Andrej Klinar	Yugoslavia	2:09.61	+9.76
42	54	Robert Palmer	New Zealand	2:09.79	+9.94
43	68	Per-Olov Richardsson	Sweden	2:09.83	+9.98
44	61	Ian Todd	Great Britain	2:10.00	+10.15
45	73	Tsuneo Noto	Japan	2:10.32	+10.47
46	71	Mario Vera	Chile	2:10.44	+10.59
47	69	Jože Gazvoda	Yugoslavia	2:10.51	+10.66
48	64	Ryszard Ćwikła	Poland	2:10.63	+10.78
49	72	Andrey Belokrinkin	Soviet Union	2:10.98	+11.13
50	67	Luke O'Reilly	Great Britain	2:10.99	+11.14
51	58	Blaž Jakopič	Yugoslavia	2:11.00	+11.15
52	56	Antonio Campaña	Spain	2:11.11	+11.26
53	70	Jeremy Bujakowski	India	2:11.82	+11.97
54	74	Yoshiharu Fukuhara	Japan	2:14.09	+14.24
55	96	Gustavo Ezquerra	Argentina	2:17.11	+17.26
56	59	David Borradaile	Great Britain	2:17.31	+17.46
57	90	Roberto Thostrup	Argentina	2:17.35	+17.50
58	86	Richard Leatherbee	Chile	2:17.86	+18.01
59	93	Hitonari Maruyama	Japan	2:18.04	+18.19
60	87	Félipe Briones	Chile	2:18.07	+18.22
61	91	Thomas Huppert	New Zealand	2:18.29	+18.44
62	98	Dan Cristea	Romania	2:18.52	+18.67
63	89	Petar Angelov	Bulgaria	2:18.71	+18.86
64	88	Juichi Maruyama	Japan	2:19.33	+19.48
65	78	Dorin Munteanu	Romania	2:22.53	+22.68
66	81	Lotfollah Kia Shemshaki	Iran	2:23.60	+23.75
67	100	Özer Ateşçi	Turkey	2:25.18	+25.33
68	103	Fayzollah Band Ali	Iran	2:27.07	+27.22
69	102	Ovaness Meguerdonian	Iran	2:30.25	+30.40
70	97	Athanasios Tsimikalis	Greece	2:36.93	+37.08
71	101	Mehmet Yıldırım	Turkey	2:40.79	+40.94
72	79	Dimitrios Pappos	Greece	2:44.10	+44.25
73	82	Ali Saveh	Iran	2:47.88	+48.03
-	17	Jere Elliott	United States	DNF	-
-	22	Rod Hebron	Canada	DNF	-
-	26	Jim Barrows	United States	DNF	-
-	29	Eberhard Riedel	East Germany	DNF	-
-	49	Otto Tschudi	Norway	DNF	-
-	60	Hans-Walter Schädler	Liechtenstein	DNF	-
-	80	Arnold Beck	Liechtenstein	DNF	-
-	83	Bahattin Topal	Turkey	DNF	-
-	99	Mehmet Gökcan	Turkey	DNF	-
-	25	Peter Duncan	Canada	DQ	-
-	39	Raimo Manninen	Finland	DQ	-
-	55	Vasily Melnikov	Soviet Union	DQ	-
-	95	Murray Gardner	New Zealand	DQ	-
-	77	Hernan Briones	Chile	DNS	-
-	94	Michael Dennis	New Zealand	DNS	-

Source:

References

1. ^ "Rapport Officiel Xes Jeux Olympiques D'Hiver 1968 Grenoble" (PDF). Comité d'organisation des Xemes jeux olympiques d'hiver. LA84 Foundation. 1968. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
2. "Alpine Skiing at the 1968 Grenoble Winter Games: Men's Downhill". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
3. ^ "Ski champ idol of France". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). Associated Press. February 9, 1968. p. 13.
4. "1967 World Cup standings". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
5. "1966 World Championships results". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
6. Jenkins, Dan (February 19, 1968). "Breakneck time in France: over the scattered bones came Jean-Claude". Sports Illustrated. p. 12.

External links

• FIS results

• Downhill at the Alpine World Ski Championships
• Men's alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics
• 1968 in alpine skiing