Alpine skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill

Men's Downhill
Men's Downhill
Location	Mount Eniwa
Vertical	772 m (2,533 ft)
Top elevation	1,126 m (3,694 ft)
Base elevation	354 m (1,161 ft)

Men's downhill
at the XI Olympic Winter Games
Men's downhill; at the XI Olympic Winter Games
	Alpine skiing
Venue	Mount Eniwa; Hokkaido, Japan
Date	February 7, 1972
Competitors	55 from 20 nations
Winning time	1:51.43
Medalists
	← 1968 1976 →

Sapporo

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Mount Eniwa

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Locations on Hokkaido

The Men's Downhill competition of the Sapporo 1972 Olympics was held at Mount Eniwa.^[1]

The defending world champion was Bernhard Russi of Switzerland, who was also the defending World Cup downhill champion and Austria's Karl Schranz led the 1972 World Cup.^[2]^[3]

Results

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Rank	Name	Country	Time	Difference
	Bernhard Russi	Switzerland	1:51.43	-
	Roland Collombin	Switzerland	1:52.07	+0.64
	Heini Messner	Austria	1:52.40	+0.97
4	Andreas Sprecher	Switzerland	1:53.11	+1.68
5	Erik Håker	Norway	1:53.16	+1.73
6	Walter Tresch	Switzerland	1:53.19	+1.76
7	Karl Cordin	Austria	1:53.32	+1.89
8	Bob Cochran	United States	1:53.39	+1.96
9	Josef Loidl	Austria	1:53.71	+2.28
10	Marcello Varallo	Italy	1:53.85	+2.42
11	Giuliano Besson Stefano Anzi	Italy	1:54.15	+2.72
13	Gustavo Thoeni	Italy	1:54.37	+2.94
14	Mike Lafferty	United States	1:54.38	+2.95
15	Roger Rossat-Mignod	France	1:54.72	+3.29
16	Bernard Orcel	France	1:54.81	+3.38
17	David Currier	United States	1:54.96	+3.53
18	Hans-Jörg Schlager	West Germany	1:55.05	+3.62
19	Henri Duvillard	France	1:55.13	+3.70
20	Jim Hunter	Canada	1:55.16	+3.73
21	Bernard Charvin	France	1:55.33	+3.90
22	Sumihiro Tomii	Japan	1:55.34	+3.91
23	Malcolm Milne	Australia	1:55.48	+4.05
24	Franz Vogler	West Germany	1:55.50	+4.07
25	Hank Kashiwa	United States	1:55.60	+4.17
26	Herbert Marxer	Liechtenstein	1:55.90	+4.47
27	Alfred Hagn	West Germany	1:56.04	+4.61
28	Manni Thofte	Sweden	1:56.66	+5.23
29	Willi Lesch	West Germany	1:56.67	+5.24
30	Willi Frommelt	Liechtenstein	1:57.58	+6.15
31	Reinhard Tritscher	Austria	1:58.05	+6.62
32	Reto Barrington	Canada	1:58.29	+6.86
33	Royston Varley	Great Britain	1:58.53	+7.10
34	Olle Rolén	Sweden	1:59.28	+7.85
35	Masahiko Otsue	Japan	1:59.55	+8.12
36	Peik Christensen	Norway	1:59.71	+8.28
37	Alex Mapelli-Mozzi	Great Britain	2:00.28	+8.85
38	Derek Robbins	Canada	2:00.38	+8.95
39	Dan Cristea	Romania	2:01.26	+9.83
40	Ivan Penev	Bulgaria	2:02.16	+10.73
41	Chris Womersley	New Zealand	2:02.24	+10.81
42	Robert Blanchaer	Belgium	2:02.45	+11.02
43	Konrad Bartelski	Great Britain	2:02.71	+11.28
44	Steven Clifford	Australia	2:02.90	+11.47
45	Resmi Resmiev	Bulgaria	2:03.01	+11.58
46	Sergey Grishchenko	Soviet Union	2:03.19	+11.76
47	Carlos Perner	Argentina	2:03.69	+12.26
48	Virgil Brenci	Romania	2:04.33	+12.90
49	Ross Ewington	New Zealand	2:04.75	+13.32
50	Iain Finlayson	Great Britain	2:06.50	+15.07
51	Jorge-Emilio Lazzarini	Argentina	2:08.29	+16.86
52	Ali Saveh	Iran	2:11.29	+19.86
53	Lotfollah Kia Shemshaki	Iran	2:16.14	+24.71
54	Fayzollah Band Ali	Iran	2:18.19	+26.76
55	Gorban Ali Kalhor	Iran	2:20.98	+29.55

References

^ ^a ^b "The XI Olympic Winter Games Sapporo 1972" (PDF). Organizing Committee for the XIth Olympic Winter Games. LA84 Foundation. 1972. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
^ "1971 World Cup standings". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
^ "1970 World Championships results". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.

External links

Sports-Reference - 1972 Men's Downhill

YouTube.com - 1972 Winter Olympics - Men's Downhill - Gold and Bronze medalists' runs - from Japanese television

[OfficialReport-1] "The XI Olympic Winter Games Sapporo 1972" (PDF). Organizing Committee for the XIth Olympic Winter Games. LA84 Foundation. 1972. Retrieved January 3, 2014.

[WorldCup-2] "1971 World Cup standings". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.

[WorldChamps-3] "1970 World Championships results". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.

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Alpine skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics

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