The Men's downhill competition of the Calgary 1988 Olympics was held at the newly-developed Nakiska on Mount Allan on Monday, February 15.
The reigning world champion was Peter Müller, while all-around Pirmin Zurbriggen was the defending World Cup downhill champion, led the current season, and was a medal threat in all five alpine events. Defending Olympic champion Bill Johnson did not make the U.S. Olympic team; this was the third of four consecutive Olympics without the defending champion in the field.
The race was postponed a day due to winds that gusted to at the exposed summit; Zurbriggen took the gold and Müller the silver, a half-second behind. More than a second behind the runner-up was bronze medalist Franck Piccard. Leonhard Stock, the 1980 champion, was fourth, but nearly two seconds behind Zurbriggen.
The course started at an elevation of above sea level with a vertical drop of and a course length of . Zurbriggen's winning time of 119.63 seconds yielded an average speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of .
Results The race was started at 11:30 local time, (UTC −7). At the starting gate, the skies were overcast, the temperature was , and the snow condition was hard; the temperature at the finish was . Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference 14 Pirmin Zurbriggen 1:59.63 — 1 Peter Müller 2:00.14 +0.51 15 Franck Piccard 2:01.24 +1.61 4 12 Leonhard Stock 2:01.56 +1.93 5 21 Gerhard Pfaffenbichler 2:02.02 +2.39 6 9 Markus Wasmeier 2:02.03 +2.40 7 10 Anton Steiner 2:02.19 +2.56 8 26 Martin Bell 2:02.49 +2.86 9 8 Marc Girardelli 2:02.59 +2.96 10 13 Danilo Sbardellotto 2:02.69 +3.06 11 28 Shinya Chiba 2:03.16 +3.53 12 3 Daniel Mahrer 2:03.18 +3.55 13 25 Hannes Zehentner 2:03.23 +3.60 14 35 Mike Carney 2:03.25 +3.62 15 16 Atle Skårdal 2:03.26 +3.63 16 7 Rob Boyd 2:03.27 +3.64 17 6 Franz Heinzer 2:03.36 +3.73 18 11 Felix Belczyk 2:03.59 +3.96 19 37 Günther Mader 2:03.96 +4.33 20 24 Hansjörg Tauscher 2:04.31 +4.68 21 20 Peter Dürr 2:04.32 +4.69 22 30 Steven Lee 2:04.46 +4.83 23 33 Graham Bell 2:04.56 +4.93 24 19 Jan Einar Thorsen 2:04.77 +5.14 25 2 Christophe Plé 2:04.78 +5.15 26 32 A J Kitt 2:04.94 +5.31 27 18 Lars-Börje Eriksson 2:05.02 +5.39 28 27 Jeff Olson 2:05.09 +5.46 29 43 Peter Jurko 2:05.32 +5.69 30 34 Niklas Henning 2:05.52 +5.89 31 17 Igor Cigolla 2:05.85 +6.22 32 29 Doug Lewis 2:06.25 +6.62 33 39 Adrian Bireš 2:06.34 +6.71 34 36 Katsuhito Kumagai 2:07.17 +7.54 35 45 Finn Christian Jagge 2:07.64 +8.01 36 51 Silvio Wille 2:07.77 +8.14 37 37 Boris Duncan 2:07.88 +8.25 38 46 Gregor Hoop 2:08.50 +8.87 39 47 Robert Büchel 2:08.66 +9.03 40 44 Niklas Lindqvist 2:09.41 +9.78 41 40 Nils Linneberg 2:09.83 +10.20 42 41 Dieter Linneberg 2:11.16 +11.53 43 49 Hubertus von Hohenlohe 2:12.58 +12.95 44 48 Jorge Birkner 2:14.20 +14.57 45 50 Javier Rivara 2:16.79 +17.16 - 42 Peter Forras DNF - - 31 Bill Hudson DNF - - 4 Luc Alphand DNF - - 23 Michael Mair DNF - - 22 Philippe Verneret DQ - - 5 Brian Stemmle DQ -
References
External links FIS results