The men's alpine skiing downhill was the third of six events of the alpine skiing programme at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Norway. It was held at Norefjell ski area on Saturday, 16 February, and started at 1 p.m. It followed the women's giant slalom on Thursday and men's giant slalom on Friday.
This was the second Olympic downhill race, first run as a separate event in 1948.
Defending world champion Zeno Colò of Italy won the gold, the only Olympic medal of his career; he was fourth in the other two events. More than a second behind was silver medalist Othmar Schneider, and Christian Pravda took the bronze. Defending Olympic champion Henri Oreiller was over ten seconds back, in a tie for fourteenth place.
The race's starting elevation was above sea level; the course length was , with a vertical drop of . Colò's winning time of 150.8 seconds yielded an average speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of .
Eighty-one alpine skiers from 27 nations competed.
Results Saturday, 16 February 1952The race was started at 13:00 local time, (UTC +1). Place Bib # Competitor Time Difference 5 2:30.8 — 8 2:32.0 +1.2 12 2:32.4 +1.6 4 6 2:32.5 +1.7 5 41 2:33.3 +2.5 6 16 2:33.8 +3.0 7 3 2:35.9 +5.1 8 1 2:36.5 +5.7 9 25 2:37.0 +6.2 10 10 2:37.1 +6.3 11 2 2:38.7 +7.9 12 32 2:39.1 +8.3 13 49 2:40.6 +9.8 14 24 2:41.5 +10.7 15 2:41.5 +10.7 16 22 2:42.8 +12.0 17 39 2:42.9 +12.1 18 9 2:43.2 +12.4 38 2:43.2 +12.4 20 26 2:43.6 +12.8 37 2:43.6 +12.8 22 48 2:44.3 +13.5 23 33 2:44.5 +13.7 24 23 2:45.0 +14.2 25 11 2:45.4 +14.6 26 13 2:46.1 +15.3 27 29 2:47.0 +16.2 28 7 2:47.9 +17.1 29 51 2:49.4 +18.6 30 83 2:49.9 +19.1 31 46 2:51.1 +20.3 32 30 2:52.2 +21.4 69 2:52.2 +21.4 34 44 2:53.4 +22.6 35 27 2:54.4 +23.6 59 2:54.4 +23.6 37 50 2:55.4 +24.6 38 43 2:55.5 +24.7 39 34 2:55.6 +24.8 77 2:55.6 +24.8 41 45 2:56.0 +25.2 42 55 2:56.4 +25.6 43 40 2:58.7 +27.9 44 65 2:59.7 +28.9 45 54 3:00.0 +30.2 46 47 3:01.8 +31.0 47 66 3:02.9 +32.1 48 64 3:05.7 +34.9 49 63 3:06.0 +35.2 50 91 3:06.1 +35.3 51 42 3:07.3 +36.5 52 81 3:08.3 +37.5 53 53 3:09.2 +38.4 54 57 3:10.1 +39.3 67 3:10.1 +39.3 56 89 3:16.2 +45.4 57 76 3:20.2 +49.4 58 58 3:21.5 +50.7 59 92a 3:26.4 +55.6 60 61 3:31.4 +1:00.6 61 60 3:31.5 +1:00.7 62 93 3:34.9 +1:04.1 63 90 3:36.5 +1:05.7 64 70 3:44.5 +1:13.7 65 78 3:44.6 +1:13.8 66 73 3:52.3 +1:21.5 67 74 3:53.1 +1:22.3 68 71 3:53.3 +1:22.5 69 80 3:58.4 +1:27.6 70 92b 4:02.9 +1:32.1 71 88 4:13.5 +1:42.7 72 87 6:10.8 +3:40.0 — 14 DSQ 19 DSQ 31 DSQ 72 DSQ 79 DSQ 82 DSQ 84 DSQ 86 DSQ — 4 DNF DNF
References
External links Official Olympic Report