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 in length, with a vertical drop of from a starting elevation of above sea level. Kucera's winning time of 127.01 seconds yielded an average speed of and an average vertical descent rate of .
Results The race started at 11:00 CET (UTC+1) under partly cloudy skies. The air temperature was at the starting gate and at the finish. Rank Name Country Time Diff. John Kucera 2:07.01 — Didier Cuche 2:07.05 +0.04 Carlo Janka 2:07.18 +0.17 4Marco Büchel 2:07.53 +0.52 5Adrien Théaux 2:07.95 +0.94 6Hermann Maier 2:08.19 +1.18 7Werner Heel 2:08.21 +1.20 8Bode Miller 2:08.38 +1.37 9Klaus Kröll 2:08.61 +1.60 10Christof Innerhofer 2:08.62 +1.61 11Aksel Lund Svindal 2:08.71 +1.70 12Michael Walchhofer 2:08.85 +1.84 13Andrej Jerman 2:08.98 +1.97 14Peter Fill 2:09.13 +2.12 15Stephan Keppler 2:09.31 +2.30 16Stefan Thanei 2:10.00 +2.99 17Ambrosi Hoffmann 2:10.12 +3.11 18Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin 2:10.68 +3.67 19Natko Zrnčić-Dim 2:10.83 +3.82 20Niklas Rainer 2:11.02 +4.01 21Douglas Crawford 2:11.31 +4.30 22Rok Perko 2:11.57 +4.56 23Tin Široki 2:11.78 +4.77 24Petr Záhrobský 2:11.84 +4.83 25Marco Sullivan 2:12.16 +5.15 26Paul de la Cuesta 2:13.03 +6.02 27Edward Drake 2:14.47 +7.46 28Ferran Terra 2:16.23 +9.22 –Christoph Gruber DNF – –Jan Hudec DNF – –Manuel Osborne-Paradis DNF – –Erik Guay DNF – –Didier Défago DNF – –David Poisson DNF – –Andrew Weibrecht DNF – –Hans Olsson DNF – –Lars Elton Myhre DNF – –Erik Fisher DNF –
References FIS-ski.com - official results Ski Racing.com - Worlds: Canadian Kucera claims downhill - 07-Feb-2009