# Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill

The Men's Downhill competition of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics was held at Whistler Creekside in Whistler, British Columbia. The competition was scheduled for Saturday, February 13, but was postponed due to rain and warm temperatures; it was held on Monday, February 15.
The defending Olympic champion was Antoine Dénériaz of France and the reigning world champion was John Kucera of Canada; neither competed as Dénériaz had retired and Kucera was out for the season with a broken leg. Austrian Michael Walchhofer was the defending World Cup downhill champion and Didier Cuche of Switzerland led the current season, ahead of teammate Carlo Janka and Walchhofer.
Switzerland's Didier Défago won the gold medal, Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway took the silver, and the bronze medalist was Bode Miller of the United States; Cuche was sixth, Walchhofer tenth, and Janka eleventh.
The vertical drop of the Dave Murray Downhill course was 853 m (2,799 ft), starting at an elevation of 1,678 m (5,505 ft) above sea level, with a length of 3.105 km (1.929 mi). Défago's winning time of 114.31 seconds yielded an average course speed of 97.787 km/h (60.8 mph), with an average vertical descent speed of 7.462 m/s (24.5 ft/s).
This was the seventeenth edition of the men's downhill at the Olympics and the time margins between the medalists were the closest in history; only 0.09 seconds separated gold and bronze.
* Didier Défago winning gold
* Aksel Lund Svindal racing for the silver medal
* Bode Miller, the bronze medalist

## Results

The race was started at 10:30 local time, (UTC −8). At the starting gate, the skies were cloudy, the temperature was −1.9 °C (28.6 °F), and the snow condition was granular; the temperature at the finish was 2.5 °C (36.5 °F).
| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Difference |
| | 18 | Didier Défago | Switzerland | 1:54.31 | 0.00 |
| | 16 | Aksel Lund Svindal | Norway | 1:54.38 | +0.07 |
| | 8 | Bode Miller | United States | 1:54.40 | +0.09 |
| 4 | 15 | Mario Scheiber | Austria | 1:54.52 | +0.21 |
| 5 | 9 | Erik Guay | Canada | 1:54.64 | +0.33 |
| 6 | 22 | Didier Cuche | Switzerland | 1:54.67 | +0.36 |
| 7 | 3 | David Poisson | France | 1:54.82 | +0.51 |
| 8 | 10 | Marco Büchel | Liechtenstein | 1:54.84 | +0.53 |
| 9 | 13 | Klaus Kröll | Austria | 1:54.87 | +0.56 |
| 10 | 17 | Michael Walchhofer | Austria | 1:54.88 | +0.57 |
| 11 | 20 | Carlo Janka | Switzerland | 1:55.02 | +0.71 |
| 12 | 11 | Hans Olsson | Sweden | 1:55.19 | +0.88 |
| 12 | 21 | Werner Heel | Italy | 1:55.19 | +0.88 |
| 14 | 33 | Rok Perko | Slovenia | 1:55.26 | +0.95 |
| 15 | 25 | Peter Fill | Italy | 1:55.29 | +0.98 |
| 16 | 26 | Adrien Theaux | France | 1:55.40 | +1.09 |
| 17 | 19 | Manuel Osborne-Paradis | Canada | 1:55.44 | +1.13 |
| 18 | 30 | Ivica Kostelić | Croatia | 1:55.49 | +1.18 |
| 19 | 24 | Christof Innerhofer | Italy | 1:55.58 | +1.27 |
| 20 | 6 | Steven Nyman | United States | 1:55.71 | +1.40 |
| 21 | 4 | Andrew Weibrecht | United States | 1:55.74 | +1.43 |
| 22 | 2 | Hans Grugger | Austria | 1:55.81 | +1.50 |
| 23 | 14 | Ambrosi Hoffmann | Switzerland | 1:56.04 | +1.73 |
| 24 | 32 | Stephan Keppler | Germany | 1:56.11 | +1.80 |
| 25 | 31 | Jan Hudec | Canada | 1:56.19 | +1.88 |
| 26 | 34 | Guillermo Fayed | France | 1:56.20 | +1.89 |
| 27 | 28 | Johan Clarey | France | 1:56.29 | +1.98 |
| 28 | 12 | Andrej Jerman | Slovenia | 1:56.35 | +2.04 |
| 29 | 1 | Patrik Järbyn | Sweden | 1:56.58 | +2.27 |
| 30 | 38 | Ondřej Bank | Czech Republic | 1:56.66 | +2.35 |
| 31 | 36 | Kjetil Jansrud | Norway | 1:56.69 | +2.38 |
| 31 | 42 | Lars Elton Myhre | Norway | 1:56.69 | +2.38 |
| 33 | 5 | Natko Zrnčić-Dim | Croatia | 1:57.02 | +2.71 |
| 34 | 39 | Craig Branch | Australia | 1:57.19 | +2.88 |
| 35 | 29 | Patrick Staudacher | Italy | 1:57.21 | +2.90 |
| 36 | 35 | Petr Záhrobský | Czech Republic | 1:57.44 | +3.13 |
| 37 | 40 | Andrej Križaj | Slovenia | 1:57.72 | +3.41 |
| 38 | 43 | Edward Drake | Great Britain | 1:57.91 | +3.60 |
| 39 | 45 | Jono Brauer | Australia | 1:58.08 | +3.77 |
| 40 | 48 | Kryštof Krýzl | Czech Republic | 1:58.43 | +4.12 |
| 41 | 52 | Ivan Ratkić | Croatia | 1:58.58 | +4.27 |
| 42 | 37 | Andreas Romar | Finland | 1:58.71 | +4.40 |
| 43 | 50 | Markus Larsson | Sweden | 1:58.82 | +4.51 |
| 44 | 41 | Ferran Terra | Spain | 1:58.85 | +4.54 |
| 45 | 51 | Aleksandr Khoroshilov | Russia | 1:59.21 | +4.90 |
| 46 | 55 | Truls Ove Karlsen | Norway | 1:59.52 | +5.21 |
| 47 | 54 | Kevin Esteve Rigail | Andorra | 1:59.61 | +5.30 |
| 48 | 58 | Roger Vidosa | Andorra | 1:59.65 | +5.34 |
| 49 | 44 | Maui Gayme | Chile | 1:59.76 | +5.45 |
| 50 | 46 | Igor Zakurdaev | Kazakhstan | 1:59.80 | +5.49 |
| 51 | 49 | Paul de la Cuesta | Spain | 1:59.84 | +5.53 |
| 52 | 59 | Jaroslav Babušiak | Slovakia | 1:59.99 | +5.68 |
| 53 | 56 | Johnny Albertsen | Denmark | 2:00.12 | +5.81 |
| 54 | 63 | Stepan Zuev | Russia | 2:00.58 | +6.27 |
| 55 | 47 | Cristian Javier Simari Birkner | Argentina | 2:01.67 | +7.36 |
| 56 | 61 | Jorge Mandru | Chile | 2:01.72 | +7.41 |
| 57 | 53 | Filip Trejbal | Czech Republic | 2:02.57 | +8.26 |
| 58 | 57 | Roberts Rode | Latvia | 2:03.36 | +9.05 |
| 59 | 64 | Andrei Drygin | Tajikistan | 2:04.44 | +10.13 |
| | 7 | Andrej Šporn | Slovenia | DNF | |
| | 23 | Robbie Dixon | Canada | DNF | |
| | 60 | Dragoș Staicu | Romania | DNF | |
| | 62 | Stefan Georgiev | Bulgaria | DNF | |
| | 27 | Marco Sullivan | United States | DSQ | |