# Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill

The Men's Downhill competition of the Grenoble 1968 Olympics was held at Chamrousse on Friday, 9 February.
The defending world champion was Jean-Claude Killy of France, who was also the defending World Cup downhill champion and Austria's Gerhard Nenning led the current season.
Killy won the gold medal, teammate Guy Périllat took the silver, and Jean-Daniel Dätwyler of Switzerland won the bronze.
The starting gate was at an elevation of 2,252 m (7,388 ft) above sea level, with a vertical drop of 840 m (2,756 ft). The course length was 2.890 km (1.80 mi) and Killy's winning run of 119.85 seconds resulted in an average speed of 86.8085 km/h (53.9 mph), with an average vertical descent rate of 7.009 m/s (23.0 ft/s).

## Results

| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Difference |
| | 14 | Jean-Claude Killy | France | 1:59.85 | — |
| | 1 | Guy Périllat | France | 1:59.93 | +0.08 |
| | 4 | Jean-Daniel Dätwyler | Switzerland | 2:00.32 | +0.47 |
| 4 | 9 | Heini Messner | Austria | 2:01.03 | +1.18 |
| 5 | 11 | Karl Schranz | Austria | 2:01.89 | +2.04 |
| 6 | 3 | Ivo Mahlknecht | Italy | 2:02.00 | +2.15 |
| 7 | 21 | Gerhard Prinzing | West Germany | 2:02.10 | +2.25 |
| 8 | 13 | Bernard Orcel | France | 2:02.22 | +2.37 |
| 9 | 10 | Gerhard Nenning | Austria | 2:02.31 | +2.46 |
| 10 | 2 | Edy Bruggmann | Switzerland | 2:02.36 | +2.51 |
| 11 | 6 | Gerhard Mussner | Italy | 2:02.50 | +2.65 |
| 12 | 28 | Luggi Leitner | West Germany | 2:02.54 | +2.69 |
| 13 | 5 | Egon Zimmermann | Austria | 2:02.55 | +2.70 |
| 14 | 8 | Jos Minsch | Switzerland | 2:02.76 | +2.91 |
| 15 | 7 | Franz Vogler | West Germany | 2:02.94 | +3.09 |
| 16 | 27 | Dumeng Giovanoli | Switzerland | 2:02.98 | +3.13 |
| 17 | 24 | Bjarne Strand | Norway | 2:03.20 | +3.35 |
| 18 | 12 | Billy Kidd | United States | 2:03.40 | +3.55 |
| 19 | 19 | Dieter Fersch | West Germany | 2:03.41 | +3.56 |
| 20 | 15 | Léo Lacroix | France | 2:03.86 | +4.01 |
| 21 | 20 | Dennis McCoy | United States | 2:04.82 | +4.97 |
| 22 | 23 | Teresio Vachet | Italy | 2:04.90 | +5.05 |
| 23 | 44 | Jon Terje Øverland | Norway | 2:05.34 | +5.49 |
| 24 | 30 | Malcolm Milne | Australia | 2:05.36 | +5.51 |
| 25 | 42 | Jeremy Palmer-Tomkinson | Great Britain | 2:05.43 | +5.58 |
| 26 | 57 | Andrzej Bachleda-Curuś | Poland | 2:05.48 | +5.63 |
| 27 | 48 | Wayne Henderson | Canada | 2:05.56 | +5.71 |
| 28 | 18 | Renato Valentini | Italy | 2:05.61 | +5.76 |
| 29 | 41 | Rune Lindström | Sweden | 2:05.69 | +5.84 |
| 30 | 40 | Ulf Ekstam | Finland | 2:06.14 | +6.29 |
| 31 | 31 | Gerry Rinaldi | Canada | 2:06.30 | +6.45 |
| 32 | 45 | Aurelio García | Spain | 2:06.84 | +6.99 |
| 33 | 47 | Josef Gassner | Liechtenstein | 2:06.91 | +7.06 |
| 34 | 63 | Lasse Hamre | Norway | 2:06.93 | +7.08 |
| 35 | 43 | Milan Pažout | Czechoslovakia | 2:07.45 | +7.60 |
| 36 | 38 | Jaroslav Janda | Czechoslovakia | 2:07.71 | +7.86 |
| 37 | 50 | Wolfgang Ender | Liechtenstein | 2:08.08 | +8.23 |
| 38 | 62 | Francisco Fernández Ochoa | Spain | 2:08.67 | +8.82 |
| 39 | 53 | Luciano del Cacho | Spain | 2:08.85 | +9.00 |
| 40 | 92 | Viktor Belyakov | Soviet Union | 2:09.32 | +9.47 |
| 41 | 46 | Andrej Klinar | Yugoslavia | 2:09.61 | +9.76 |
| 42 | 54 | Robert Palmer | New Zealand | 2:09.79 | +9.94 |
| 43 | 68 | Per-Olov Richardsson | Sweden | 2:09.83 | +9.98 |
| 44 | 61 | Ian Todd | Great Britain | 2:10.00 | +10.15 |
| 45 | 73 | Tsuneo Noto | Japan | 2:10.32 | +10.47 |
| 46 | 71 | Mario Vera | Chile | 2:10.44 | +10.59 |
| 47 | 69 | Jože Gazvoda | Yugoslavia | 2:10.51 | +10.66 |
| 48 | 64 | Ryszard Ćwikła | Poland | 2:10.63 | +10.78 |
| 49 | 72 | Andrey Belokrinkin | Soviet Union | 2:10.98 | +11.13 |
| 50 | 67 | Luke O'Reilly | Great Britain | 2:10.99 | +11.14 |
| 51 | 58 | Blaž Jakopič | Yugoslavia | 2:11.00 | +11.15 |
| 52 | 56 | Antonio Campaña | Spain | 2:11.11 | +11.26 |
| 53 | 70 | Jeremy Bujakowski | India | 2:11.82 | +11.97 |
| 54 | 74 | Yoshiharu Fukuhara | Japan | 2:14.09 | +14.24 |
| 55 | 96 | Gustavo Ezquerra | Argentina | 2:17.11 | +17.26 |
| 56 | 59 | David Borradaile | Great Britain | 2:17.31 | +17.46 |
| 57 | 90 | Roberto Thostrup | Argentina | 2:17.35 | +17.50 |
| 58 | 86 | Richard Leatherbee | Chile | 2:17.86 | +18.01 |
| 59 | 93 | Hitonari Maruyama | Japan | 2:18.04 | +18.19 |
| 60 | 87 | Félipe Briones | Chile | 2:18.07 | +18.22 |
| 61 | 91 | Thomas Huppert | New Zealand | 2:18.29 | +18.44 |
| 62 | 98 | Dan Cristea | Romania | 2:18.52 | +18.67 |
| 63 | 89 | Petar Angelov | Bulgaria | 2:18.71 | +18.86 |
| 64 | 88 | Juichi Maruyama | Japan | 2:19.33 | +19.48 |
| 65 | 78 | Dorin Munteanu | Romania | 2:22.53 | +22.68 |
| 66 | 81 | Lotfollah Kia Shemshaki | Iran | 2:23.60 | +23.75 |
| 67 | 100 | Özer Ateşçi | Turkey | 2:25.18 | +25.33 |
| 68 | 103 | Fayzollah Band Ali | Iran | 2:27.07 | +27.22 |
| 69 | 102 | Ovaness Meguerdonian | Iran | 2:30.25 | +30.40 |
| 70 | 97 | Athanasios Tsimikalis | Greece | 2:36.93 | +37.08 |
| 71 | 101 | Mehmet Yıldırım | Turkey | 2:40.79 | +40.94 |
| 72 | 79 | Dimitrios Pappos | Greece | 2:44.10 | +44.25 |
| 73 | 82 | Ali Saveh | Iran | 2:47.88 | +48.03 |
| - | 17 | Jere Elliott | United States | DNF | - |
| - | 22 | Rod Hebron | Canada | DNF | - |
| - | 26 | Jim Barrows | United States | DNF | - |
| - | 29 | Eberhard Riedel | East Germany | DNF | - |
| - | 49 | Otto Tschudi | Norway | DNF | - |
| - | 60 | Hans-Walter Schädler | Liechtenstein | DNF | - |
| - | 80 | Arnold Beck | Liechtenstein | DNF | - |
| - | 83 | Bahattin Topal | Turkey | DNF | - |
| - | 99 | Mehmet Gökcan | Turkey | DNF | - |
| - | 25 | Peter Duncan | Canada | DQ | - |
| - | 39 | Raimo Manninen | Finland | DQ | - |
| - | 55 | Vasily Melnikov | Soviet Union | DQ | - |
| - | 95 | Murray Gardner | New Zealand | DQ | - |
| - | 77 | Hernan Briones | Chile | DNS | - |
| - | 94 | Michael Dennis | New Zealand | DNS | - |
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