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FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009 – Men's downhill

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Men's downhill
at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009
VenueLa face de Bellevarde
LocationVal-d'Isère, France
Dates7 February
Competitors38 from 15 nations
Winning time2:07.01
Medalists
gold medal    Canada
silver medal     Switzerland
bronze medal     Switzerland
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Men's Downhill
LocationLa face de Bellevarde
Val-d'Isère, France
Vertical   959 m (3,146 ft)
Top elevation2,807 m (9,209 ft)
Base elevation1,848 m (6,063 ft)
Longest run2.988 km (1.86 mi)

The Men's downhill competition of the 2009 World Championships at Val-d'Isère, France, was run on Saturday, February 7, the fourth race of the championships.

Canada's John Kucera won the gold medal, Didier Cuche of Switzerland took the silver, and the bronze medalist was Carlo Janka, also of Switzerland.

The La face de Bellevarde race course was 2.988 km (1.86 mi) in length, with a vertical drop of 959 m (3,146 ft) from a starting elevation of 2,807 m (9,209 ft) above sea level. Kucera's winning time of 127.01 seconds yielded an average speed of 84.6925 km/h (52.6 mph) and an average vertical descent rate of 7.5506 m/s (24.8 ft/s).

Results

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The race started at 11:00 CET (UTC+1) under partly cloudy skies. The air temperature was −7 °C (19 °F) at the starting gate and −1 °C (30 °F) at the finish.

Rank Name Country Time Diff.
1st place, gold medalist(s) John Kucera  Canada 2:07.01
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Didier Cuche  Switzerland 2:07.05 +0.04
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Carlo Janka  Switzerland 2:07.18 +0.17
4 Marco Büchel  Liechtenstein 2:07.53 +0.52
5 Adrien Théaux  France 2:07.95 +0.94
6 Hermann Maier  Austria 2:08.19 +1.18
7 Werner Heel  Italy 2:08.21 +1.20
8 Bode Miller  United States 2:08.38 +1.37
9 Klaus Kröll  Austria 2:08.61 +1.60
10 Christof Innerhofer  Italy 2:08.62 +1.61
11 Aksel Lund Svindal  Norway 2:08.71 +1.70
12 Michael Walchhofer  Austria 2:08.85 +1.84
13 Andrej Jerman  Slovenia 2:08.98 +1.97
14 Peter Fill  Italy 2:09.13 +2.12
15 Stephan Keppler  Germany 2:09.31 +2.30
16 Stefan Thanei  Italy 2:10.00 +2.99
17 Ambrosi Hoffmann  Switzerland 2:10.12 +3.11
18 Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin  France 2:10.68 +3.67
19 Natko Zrnčić-Dim  Croatia 2:10.83 +3.82
20 Niklas Rainer  Sweden 2:11.02 +4.01
21 Douglas Crawford  United Kingdom 2:11.31 +4.30
22 Rok Perko  Slovenia 2:11.57 +4.56
23 Tin Široki  Croatia 2:11.78 +4.77
24 Petr Záhrobský  Czech Republic 2:11.84 +4.83
25 Marco Sullivan  United States 2:12.16 +5.15
26 Paul de la Cuesta  Spain 2:13.03 +6.02
27 Edward Drake  United Kingdom 2:14.47 +7.46
28 Ferran Terra  Spain 2:16.23 +9.22
Christoph Gruber  Austria DNF
Jan Hudec  Canada DNF
Manuel Osborne-Paradis  Canada DNF
Erik Guay  Canada DNF
Didier Défago  Switzerland DNF
David Poisson  France DNF
Andrew Weibrecht  United States DNF
Hans Olsson  Sweden DNF
Lars Elton Myhre  Norway DNF
Erik Fisher  United States DNF

References

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