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. Defending Olympic champion Egon Zimmermann of Austria finished thirteenth.
The starting gate was at an elevation of above sea level, with a vertical drop of . The course length was and Killy's winning run of 119.85 seconds resulted in an average speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of .
Results Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference 14 Jean-Claude Killy 1:59.85 — 1 Guy Périllat 1:59.93 +0.08 4 Jean-Daniel Dätwyler 2:00.32 +0.47 4 9 Heini Messner 2:01.03 +1.18 5 11 Karl Schranz 2:01.89 +2.04 6 3 Ivo Mahlknecht 2:02.00 +2.15 7 21 Gerhard Prinzing 2:02.10 +2.25 8 13 Bernard Orcel 2:02.22 +2.37 9 10 Gerhard Nenning 2:02.31 +2.46 10 2 Edy Bruggmann 2:02.36 +2.51 11 6 Gerhard Mussner 2:02.50 +2.65 12 28 Luggi Leitner 2:02.54 +2.69 13 5 Egon Zimmermann 2:02.55 +2.70 14 8 Jos Minsch 2:02.76 +2.91 15 7 Franz Vogler 2:02.94 +3.09 16 27 Dumeng Giovanoli 2:02.98 +3.13 17 24 Bjarne Strand 2:03.20 +3.35 18 12 Billy Kidd 2:03.40 +3.55 19 19 Dieter Fersch 2:03.41 +3.56 20 15 Léo Lacroix 2:03.86 +4.01 21 20 Dennis McCoy 2:04.82 +4.97 22 23 Teresio Vachet 2:04.90 +5.05 23 44 Jon Terje Øverland 2:05.34 +5.49 24 30 Malcolm Milne 2:05.36 +5.51 25 42 Jeremy Palmer-Tomkinson 2:05.43 +5.58 26 57 Andrzej Bachleda-Curuś 2:05.48 +5.63 27 48 Wayne Henderson 2:05.56 +5.71 28 18 Renato Valentini 2:05.61 +5.76 29 41 Rune Lindström 2:05.69 +5.84 30 40 Ulf Ekstam 2:06.14 +6.29 31 31 Gerry Rinaldi 2:06.30 +6.45 32 45 Aurelio García 2:06.84 +6.99 33 47 Josef Gassner 2:06.91 +7.06 34 63 Lasse Hamre 2:06.93 +7.08 35 43 Milan Pažout 2:07.45 +7.60 36 38 Jaroslav Janda 2:07.71 +7.86 37 50 Wolfgang Ender 2:08.08 +8.23 38 62 Francisco Fernández Ochoa 2:08.67 +8.82 39 53 Luciano del Cacho 2:08.85 +9.00 40 92 Viktor Belyakov 2:09.32 +9.47 41 46 Andrej Klinar 2:09.61 +9.76 42 54 Robert Palmer 2:09.79 +9.94 43 68 Per-Olov Richardsson 2:09.83 +9.98 44 61 Ian Todd 2:10.00 +10.15 45 73 Tsuneo Noto 2:10.32 +10.47 46 71 Mario Vera 2:10.44 +10.59 47 69 Jože Gazvoda 2:10.51 +10.66 48 64 Ryszard Ćwikła 2:10.63 +10.78 49 72 Andrey Belokrinkin 2:10.98 +11.13 50 67 Luke O'Reilly 2:10.99 +11.14 51 58 Blaž Jakopič 2:11.00 +11.15 52 56 Antonio Campaña 2:11.11 +11.26 53 70 Jeremy Bujakowski 2:11.82 +11.97 54 74 Yoshiharu Fukuhara 2:14.09 +14.24 55 96 Gustavo Ezquerra 2:17.11 +17.26 56 59 David Borradaile 2:17.31 +17.46 57 90 Roberto Thostrup 2:17.35 +17.50 58 86 Richard Leatherbee 2:17.86 +18.01 59 93 Hitonari Maruyama 2:18.04 +18.19 60 87 Félipe Briones 2:18.07 +18.22 61 91 Thomas Huppert 2:18.29 +18.44 62 98 Dan Cristea 2:18.52 +18.67 63 89 Petar Angelov 2:18.71 +18.86 64 88 Juichi Maruyama 2:19.33 +19.48 65 78 Dorin Munteanu 2:22.53 +22.68 66 81 Lotfollah Kia Shemshaki 2:23.60 +23.75 67 100 Özer Ateşçi 2:25.18 +25.33 68 103 Fayzollah Band Ali 2:27.07 +27.22 69 102 Ovaness Meguerdonian 2:30.25 +30.40 70 97 Athanasios Tsimikalis 2:36.93 +37.08 71 101 Mehmet Yıldırım 2:40.79 +40.94 72 79 Dimitrios Pappos 2:44.10 +44.25 73 82 Ali Saveh 2:47.88 +48.03 - 17 Jere Elliott DNF - - 22 Rod Hebron DNF - - 26 Jim Barrows DNF - - 29 Eberhard Riedel DNF - - 49 Otto Tschudi DNF - - 60 Hans-Walter Schädler DNF - - 80 Arnold Beck DNF - - 83 Bahattin Topal DNF - - 99 Mehmet Gökcan DNF - - 25 Peter Duncan DQ - - 39 Raimo Manninen DQ - - 55 Vasily Melnikov DQ - - 95 Murray Gardner DQ - - 77 Hernan Briones DNS - - 94 Michael Dennis DNS -
References
External links FIS results