Alpine Skiing — Downhill, Men

Times held 20
Total participants 898
Total countries 70

Participants

Year Event Status Participants NOCs
1948 Downhill, Men Olympic 111 25
1952 Downhill, Men Olympic 82 27
1956 Downhill, Men Olympic 75 27
1960 Downhill, Men Olympic 63 21
1964 Downhill, Men Olympic 84 27
1968 Downhill, Men Olympic 86 29
1972 Downhill, Men Olympic 55 20
1976 Downhill, Men Olympic 74 27
1980 Downhill, Men Olympic 47 22
1984 Downhill, Men Olympic 61 25
1988 Downhill, Men Olympic 51 18
1992 Downhill, Men Olympic 55 24
1994 Downhill, Men Olympic 55 26
1998 Downhill, Men Olympic 43 18
2002 Downhill, Men Olympic 54 21
2006 Downhill, Men Olympic 55 25
2010 Downhill, Men Olympic 64 28
2014 Downhill, Men Olympic 49 23
2018 Downhill, Men Olympic 55 26
2022 Downhill, Men Olympic 42 20

Medal winners

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1948 Henri OreillerFRA Franz GablAUT Karl Molitor
Ralph Olinger
SUI
SUI
1952 Zeno ColòITA Othmar SchneiderAUT Christian PravdaAUT
1956 Toni SailerAUT Raymond FellaySUI Anderl MoltererAUT
1960 Jean VuarnetFRA Hanspeter LanigGER Guy PérillatFRA
1964 Egon ZimmermannAUT Léo LacroixFRA Wolfgang BartelsGER
1968 Jean-Claude KillyFRA Guy PérillatFRA Jean-Daniel DätwylerSUI
1972 Bernhard RussiSUI Roland CollombinSUI Heini MessnerAUT
1976 Franz KlammerAUT Bernhard RussiSUI Herbert PlankITA
1980 Leonhard StockAUT Peter WirnsbergerAUT Steve PodborskiCAN
1984 Bill JohnsonUSA Peter MüllerSUI Anton SteinerAUT
1988 Pirmin ZurbriggenSUI Peter MüllerSUI Franck PiccardFRA
1992 Patrick OrtliebAUT Franck PiccardFRA Günther MaderAUT
1994 Tommy MoeUSA Kjetil André AamodtNOR Ed PodivinskyCAN
1998 Jean-Luc CrétierFRA Lasse KjusNOR Hannes TrinklAUT
2002 Fritz StroblAUT Lasse KjusNOR Stephan EberharterAUT
2006 Antoine DénériazFRA Michael WalchhoferAUT Bruno KernenSUI
2010 Didier DéfagoSUI Aksel Lund SvindalNOR Bode MillerUSA
2014 Matthias MayerAUT Christof InnerhoferITA Kjetil JansrudNOR
2018 Aksel Lund SvindalNOR Kjetil JansrudNOR Beat FeuzSUI
2022 Beat FeuzSUI Johan ClareyFRA Matthias MayerAUT

Medals by country

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
Austria AUT 7 4 8 19
France FRA 5 4 2 11
Switzerland SUI 4 5 5 14
United States USA 2 0 1 3
Norway NOR 1 5 1 7
Italy ITA 1 1 1 3
Germany GER 0 1 1 2
Canada CAN 0 0 2 2

Top medallists

Athlete Nat Gold Silver Bronze Total
Bernhard Russi IFR
SUI
1 1 0 2
Aksel Lund Svindal NOR 1 1 0 2
Matthias Mayer AUT 1 0 1 2
Beat Feuz SUI 1 0 1 2
Zeno Colò ITA 1 0 0 1
Jean-Luc Crétier FRA 1 0 0 1
Bill Johnson USA 1 0 0 1
Jean-Claude Killy FRA 1 0 0 1
Franz Klammer AUT 1 0 0 1
Tommy Moe USA 1 0 0 1
Henri Oreiller FRA 1 0 0 1
Patrick Ortlieb AUT 1 0 0 1
Toni Sailer AUT 1 0 0 1
Leonhard Stock AUT 1 0 0 1
Jean Vuarnet FRA 1 0 0 1
Egon Zimmermann AUT 1 0 0 1
Pirmin Zurbriggen SUI 1 0 0 1
Fritz Strobl AUT 1 0 0 1
Antoine Dénériaz FRA 1 0 0 1
Didier Défago SUI 1 0 0 1

Best performance by country

Olympic and Intercalated results only.
Country Games Athlete/Team Placement
Andorra AND 2014 Winter Olympics Kevin Esteve 32 See all
Argentina ARG 1976 Winter Olympics Luis Rosenkjer 31 See all
1980 Winter Olympics Norberto Quiroga 31
Australia AUS 1984 Winter Olympics Steven Lee 19 See all
Austria AUT 1956 Winter Olympics Toni Sailer 1 Gold See all
1964 Winter Olympics Egon Zimmermann 1 Gold
1976 Winter Olympics Franz Klammer 1 Gold
1980 Winter Olympics Leonhard Stock 1 Gold
1992 Winter Olympics Patrick Ortlieb 1 Gold
2002 Winter Olympics Fritz Strobl 1 Gold
2014 Winter Olympics Matthias Mayer 1 Gold
Belarus BLR 2014 Winter Olympics Yury Danilachkin 31 See all
Belgium BEL 1980 Winter Olympics Henri Mollin 33 See all
Bolivia BOL 2022 Winter Olympics Simón Breitfuss Kammerlander 34 See all
Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH 1998 Winter Olympics Enis Bećirbegović 21 See all
Brazil BRA 1992 Winter Olympics Lothar Christian Munder 41 See all
Bulgaria BUL 1956 Winter Olympics Georgi Dimitrov 18 See all
Canada CAN 1980 Winter Olympics Steve Podborski 3 Bronze See all
1994 Winter Olympics Ed Podivinsky 3 Bronze
Chile CHI 1998 Winter Olympics Nils Linneberg 26 See all
Costa Rica CRC 1980 Winter Olympics Arturo Kinch 41 See all
Croatia CRO 2010 Winter Olympics Ivica Kostelić 18 See all
Czechia CZE 2014 Winter Olympics Ondřej Bank 20 See all
Czechoslovakia TCH 1956 Winter Olympics Kurt Hennrich 7 See all
Denmark DEN 2018 Winter Olympics Christoffer Faarup 36 See all
East Germany GDR 1968 Winter Olympics Eberhard Riedel DNF See all
Egypt EGY 1984 Winter Olympics Jamil El-Reedy 60 See all
Estonia EST 1994 Winter Olympics Connor O'Brien DNF See all
Finland FIN 1964 Winter Olympics Raimo Manninen 22 See all
France FRA 1948 Winter Olympics Henri Oreiller 1 Gold See all
1960 Winter Olympics Jean Vuarnet 1 Gold
1968 Winter Olympics Jean-Claude Killy 1 Gold
1998 Winter Olympics Jean-Luc Crétier 1 Gold
2006 Winter Olympics Antoine Dénériaz 1 Gold
Georgia GEO 1994 Winter Olympics Zurab Dzhidzhishvili 47 See all
Germany GER 1960 Winter Olympics Hanspeter Lanig 2 Silver See all
Great Britain GBR 1988 Winter Olympics Martin Bell 8 See all
Greece GRE 1956 Winter Olympics Aris Vatimpella 46 See all
Hungary HUN 1992 Winter Olympics Péter Kristály 43 See all
Iceland ISL 1960 Winter Olympics Jóhann Vilbergsson 33 See all
India IND 1968 Winter Olympics Jeremy Bujakowski 53 See all
Ireland IRL 1998 Winter Olympics Patrick-Paul Schwarzacher-Joyce 27 See all
Islamic Republic of Iran IRI 1956 Winter Olympics Mahmoud Beiglou 39 See all
Israel ISR 2022 Winter Olympics Barnabas Szőllős 30 See all
Italy ITA 1952 Winter Olympics Zeno Colò 1 Gold See all
Japan JPN 1988 Winter Olympics Shinya Chiba 11 See all
Kazakhstan KAZ 2014 Winter Olympics Igor Zakurdayev 33 See all
Kosovo KOS 2022 Winter Olympics Albin Tahiri 35 See all
Latvia LAT 2006 Winter Olympics Renārs Doršs 46 See all
Lebanon LBN 1956 Winter Olympics Ibrahim Geagea 42 See all
Liechtenstein LIE 2006 Winter Olympics Marco Büchel 7 See all
Lithuania LTU 1998 Winter Olympics Linas Vaitkus 25 See all
Luxembourg LUX 1994 Winter Olympics Marc Girardelli 5 See all
Mexico MEX 1984 Winter Olympics Hubertus von Fürstenberg 38 See all
1992 Winter Olympics Hubertus von Hohenlohe 38
Monaco MON 2022 Winter Olympics Arnaud Alessandria 29 See all
Netherlands NED 1952 Winter Olympics Dick Pappenheim 45 See all
New Zealand NZL 1984 Winter Olympics Bruce Grant 31 See all
Norway NOR 2018 Winter Olympics Aksel Lund Svindal 1 Gold See all
People's Republic of China CHN 2022 Winter Olympics Xu Mingfu 36 See all
Poland POL 1956 Winter Olympics Andrzej Gąsienica Roj 15 See all
Portugal POR 1994 Winter Olympics Georges Mendes 41 See all
Republic of Korea KOR 1992 Winter Olympics Choi Yong-Hui 39 See all
Republic of Moldova MDA 2018 Winter Olympics Christopher Hoerl 40 See all
Romania ROU 1956 Winter Olympics Nicolae Pandrea 31 See all
Russian Federation RUS 1998 Winter Olympics Andrey Filichkin 18 See all
Senegal SEN 1992 Winter Olympics Lamine Guèye 45 See all
Serbia SRB 2018 Winter Olympics Marko Vukićević 41 See all
Slovakia SVK 2006 Winter Olympics Jaroslav Babušiak 45 See all
2014 Winter Olympics Martin Bendík 45
Slovenia SLO 2022 Winter Olympics Boštjan Kline 10 See all
South Africa RSA 2002 Winter Olympics Alex Heath 51 See all
Soviet Union URS 1980 Winter Olympics Valery Tsyganov 8 See all
Spain ESP 2022 Winter Olympics Adur Etxezarreta =17 See all
Sweden SWE 2002 Winter Olympics Fredrik Nyberg 7 See all
Switzerland SUI 1972 Winter Olympics Bernhard Russi 1 Gold See all
1988 Winter Olympics Pirmin Zurbriggen 1 Gold
2010 Winter Olympics Didier Défago 1 Gold
2022 Winter Olympics Beat Feuz 1 Gold
Tajikistan TJK 2006 Winter Olympics Andrey Drygin 51 See all
Türkiye TUR 1956 Winter Olympics Muzaffer Demirhan 33 See all
Ukraine UKR 2022 Winter Olympics Ivan Kovbasniuk 33 See all
Unified Team EUN 1992 Winter Olympics Vitaly Andreyev 21 See all
United States USA 1984 Winter Olympics Bill Johnson 1 Gold See all
1994 Winter Olympics Tommy Moe 1 Gold
West Germany FRG 1988 Winter Olympics Markus Wasmeier 6 See all
Yugoslavia YUG 1952 Winter Olympics Janko Štefe 13 See all