The men's downhill competition of the Beijing 2022 Olympics was held on Monday, 7 February, at Yanqing National Alpine Ski Centre ski resort in Yanqing District. Beat Feuz of Switzerland was the champion, Johan Clarey of France was the silver medalist, and Matthias Mayer of Austria took the bronze. This was the first Olympic gold for Feuz and the first Olympic medal for Clarey. The men's downhill at the Olympics has yet to have a repeat champion. At the age of 41, Clarey became the oldest medalist in Olympic alpine skiing history.
The 2018 Olympic champion, Aksel Lund Svindal, retired from competitive skiing. Prior to the Olympics, eight World Cup downhill events were held: Aleksander Aamodt Kilde was leading the ranking, followed by Feuz, Mayer (2014 downhill and 2018 Super-G Olympic champion), and Marco Odermatt. Vincent Kriechmayr was the reigning world champion.
The "Rock" course was in length, with a vertical drop of from a starting elevation of above sea level. Feuz had an average speed of and an average vertical descent rate of .
Schedule The event was scheduled for Sunday, 6 February, but was postponed one day due to strong winds.
Qualification
Results The race was started at 12:00 local time, (UTC+8). At the starting gate, the skies were partly cloudy, the temperature was , and the snow condition was hard packed. Rank Bib Name Country Time Behind 13 Beat Feuz 1:42.69 19 Johan Clarey 1:42.79 +0.10 9 Matthias Mayer 1:42.85 +0.16 4 12 James Crawford 1:42.92 +0.23 5 11 Aleksander Aamodt Kilde 1:43.20 +0.51 6 15 Dominik Paris 1:43.21 +0.52 7 17 Marco Odermatt 1:43.40 +0.71 8 1 Vincent Kriechmayr 1:43.45 +0.76 9 20 Max Franz 1:43.52 +0.83 10 23 Boštjan Kline 1:43.75 +1.06 11 22 Adrian Smiseth Sejersted 1:43.82 +1.13 11 25 Maxence Muzaton 1:43.82 +1.13 13 14 Romed Baumann 1:43.84 +1.15 14 16 Ryan Cochran-Siegle 1:43.91 +1.22 15 8 Matteo Marsaglia 1:44.06 +1.37 16 7 Niels Hintermann 1:44.08 +1.39 17 32 Adur Etxezarreta 1:44.12 +1.43 17 6 Andreas Sander 1:44.12 +1.43 19 3 Bryce Bennett 1:44.25 +1.56 20 18 Travis Ganong 1:44.39 +1.70 21 5 Daniel Hemetsberger 1:44.59 +1.90 22 29 Brodie Seger 1:44.68 +1.99 23 26 Josef Ferstl 1:44.69 +2.00 24 28 Miha Hrobat 1:44.71 +2.02 25 24 Stefan Rogentin 1:44.95 +2.26 26 27 Blaise Giezendanner 1:45.00 +2.31 27 10 Matthieu Bailet 1:45.23 +2.54 28 31 Marco Pfiffner 1:45.79 +3.10 29 36 Arnaud Alessandria 1:46.25 +3.56 30 41 Barnabás Szőllős 1:46.88 +4.19 31 37 Jack Gower 1:47.61 +4.92 32 35 Henrik Von Appen 1:47.69 +5.00 33 39 Ivan Kovbasnyuk 1:48.09 +5.40 34 40 Simon Breitfuss Kammerlander 1:48.26 +5.57 35 43 Albin Tahiri 1:52.44 +9.75 36 42 Xu Mingfu 1:56.93 +14.24 2 Dominik Schwaiger 4 Christof Innerhofer 21 Broderick Thompson 33 Marko Vukićević 34 Nejc Naraločnik 38 Zhang Yangming 30 Kjetil Jansrud
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