Men's downhill skiing events at the 2002 Winter Paralympics were contested at Snowbasin.

There were 8 events covering 12 disability classes. Final standings were decided by applying a disability factor to the actual times achieved.

Visually impaired There was one event under the visually impaired classification.

B1-3 B1 – visually impaired: no functional vision B2 – visually impaired: up to ca 3-5% functional vision B3 – visually impaired: under 10% functional vision

Rank Name Country Class RealTime CalcTime Difference Bart Bunting B1 2:23.03 1:19.92 Eric Villalon B3 1:34.43 1:20.64 +0.72 Yon Santacana B2 1:30.79 1:21.57 +1.65 4 Andrew Parr B2 1:31.70 1:22.39 +2.47 5 Radomir Dudas B2 1:38.12 1:23.79 +3.87 6 Gianmaria Dal Maistro B3 1:33.51 1:24.01 +4.09 7 Stefan Kopcik B2 1:43.30 1:28.22 +8.30 8 Josef Erlacher B3 1:38.36 1:28.37 +8.45 9 Kurt Primus B2 1:43.72 1:28.58 +8.66 10 Jordi Rozas B3 1:40.16 1:29.99 +10.07

Sitting There were three events under the sitting classification.

LW10 LW 10 – sitting: paraplegia with no or some upper abdominal function and no functional sitting balance

Rank Name Country Class RealTime CalcTime Difference Martin Braxenthaler LW10 1:41.14 1:22.20 Chris Waddell LW10 1:41.50 1:22.49 +0.29 Ronny Persson LW10 1:42.14 1:23.01 +0.81 4 Michael Kroener LW10 1:31.70 1:24.75 +2.55 5 Nick Catanzarite LW10 1:38.12 1:28.60 +6.40 6 Iban Calzada LW10 1:56.12 1:34.37 +12.17 7 Stephen Napier LW10 2:13.93 1:48.85 +26.65 8 Thomas Bechter LW10 8 Peter Toneatti LW10

LW11 LW 11 – sitting: paraplegia with fair functional sitting balance

Rank Name Country Class RealTime CalcTime Difference Harald Eder LW11 1:38.05 1:21.04 Andreas Schiestl LW11 1:39.25 1:22.03 +0.99 Fabrizio Zardini LW11 1:40.43 1:23.01 +1.97 4 Denis Barbet LW11 1:40.77 1:23.29 +2.25 5 Robert Froehle LW11 1:42.81 1:24.98 +3.94 6 Joe Tompkins LW11 1:44.15 1:26.08 +5.04 7 Raynald Riu LW11 1:45.04 1:26.82 +5.78 8 Ryuei Shinohe LW11 1:48.19 1:29.42 +8.38 9 Nam Je Kim LW11 1:48.39 1:29.59 +8.55

LW12 LW 12 – sitting: double leg amputation above the knees, or paraplegia with some leg function and good sitting balance

Rank Name Country Class RealTime CalcTime Difference Kevin Bramble LW12 1:37.80 1:22.05 Christopher Devlin-Young LW12 1:38.00 1:22.22 +0.17 Daniel Wesley LW12 1:38.00 1:23.20 +1.15 4 Reinhold Sampl LW12 1:39.32 1:23.33 +1.28 5 Stacy William Kohut LW12 1:39.73 1:23.67 +1.62 6 Hans Joerg Arnold LW12 1:40.76 1:24.53 +2.48 7 Ludwig Wolf LW12 1:39.69 1:24.63 +2.58 8 Harald Guldahl LW12 1:41.17 1:24.88 +2.83 9 Daniel Metivier LW12 1:41.51 1:25.16 +3.11 10 Toshihiko Takamura LW12 1:44.15 1:27.38 +5.33 11 Luca Maraffio LW12 1:45.09 1:28.17 +6.12 12 Sang Min Han LW12 1:47.33 1:30.05 +8.00 13 Knut Andre Nordstoga LW12 1:52.40 1:34.30 +12.25 14 Peter Boonaerts LW12 1:54.52 1:36.08 +14.03 15 Scott Patterson LW12 2:01.32 1:42.99 +20.94 16 Peter Sutor LW12 2:22.96 1:59.94 +37.89 - Jean Yves Le Meur LW12 - Thomas Mayer LW12 - Noriyuki Mori LW12 - Russell Docker LW12 - Martin Krivos LW12

Standing There were 4 events under the standing classification.

LW2 LW2 – standing: single leg amputation above the knee

Rank Name Country Class RealTime CalcTime Difference Michael Milton LW2 1:28.37 1:23.64 Christian Lanthaler LW2 1:30.46 1:25.62 +1.98 Jason Lalla LW2 1:30.74 1:25.88 +2.24 4 Greg Mannino LW2 1:30.79 1:25.93 +2.29 5 Monte Meier LW2 1:32.01 1:27.09 +3.45 6 Michael Hipp LW2 1:32.98 1:28.00 +4.36 7 Florian Planker LW2 1:33.08 1:28.10 +4.46 8 Fritz Berger LW2 1:33.69 1:28.68 +5.04 9 Cameron Rahles-Rahbula LW2 1:33.80 1:28.78 +5.14 10 Gordon Michael Tuck LW2 1:35.70 1:30.58 +6.94 11 Asle Tangvik LW2 1:35.85 1:30.72 +7.08 12 Kjeld Punt LW2 1:36.68 1:31.51 +7.87 13 Matthias Uhlig LW2 1:37.01 1:31.82 +8.18 14 Martijn Wijsman LW2 1:37.23 1:32.03 +8.39 15 David Warner LW2 1:37.52 1:32.30 +8.66 16 Michal Nevrkla LW2 1:37.55 1:32.33 +8.69 17 Tetsuya Tanaka LW2 1:37.86 1:32.62 +8.98 18 Garush Danielyan LW2 1:46.41 1:40.72 +17.08 19 Hayk Abgaryan LW2 1:48.73 1:42.91 +19.27 20 Simon Raaflaub LW2 1:50.05 1:44.16 +20.52 - Stasik Nazaryan LW2

LW3, 5/7, 9 LW3 – standing: double leg amputation below the knee, mild cerebral palsy, or equivalent impairment LW5/7 – standing: double arm amputation LW9 – standing: amputation or equivalent impairment of one arm and one leg

Rank Name Country Class RealTime CalcTime Difference Gerd Schoenfelder LW9 1:25.19 1:23.76 Arno Hirschbuehl LW5/7 1:33.55 1:27.71 +3.95 Jacob Rife LW5/7 1:33.86 1:28.07 +4.31 4 Walter Kaelin LW3 1:46.42 1:28.51 +4.75 5 Romain Riboud LW5/7 1:34.71 1:28.79 +5.03 6 George Sansonetis LW5/7 1:38.99 1:32.81 +9.05 7 Jozef Mistina LW5/7 1:40.47 1:34.27 +10.51 8 Mark Drinnan LW5/7 1:41.60 1:35.33 +11.57 9 Jin Jeon Young LW9 1:37.63 1:35.99 +12.23 10 Mher Avanesyan LW9 1:37.78 1:36.14 +12.38 - Hongbin Kim LW9

LW4 LW4 – standing: single leg amputation below the knee

Rank Name Country Class RealTime CalcTime Difference Hans Burn LW4 1:23.86 1:23.65 James Lagerstrom LW4 1:24.42 1:24.20 +0.55 Steven Bayley LW4 1:25.13 1:24.91 +1.26 4 Michael Bruegger LW4 1:25.86 1:25.64 +1.99 5 Robert Meusburger LW4 1:26.18 1:25.96 +2.31 6 Manfred Auer LW4 1:26.82 1:26.60 +2.95 7 Hubert Mandl LW4 1:27.09 1:26.87 +3.22 8 Cedric Amafroi-Broisat LW4 1:27.42 1:27.20 +3.55 9 Mark Ludbrook LW4 1:28.24 1:28.01 +4.36 10 Clay Fox LW4 1:29.14 1:28.91 +5.26 11 Igor Kostenko LW4 1:31.77 1:31.54 +7.89 12 Scott Adams LW4 1:36.62 1:36.37 +12.72 - Naoya Maruyama LW4

LW6/8 LW6/8 – standing: single arm amputation

Rank Name Country Class RealTime CalcTime Difference Rolf Heinzmann LW6/8 1:24.26 1:24.26 Lionel Brun LW6/8 1:24.27 1:24.27 +0.01 Markus Pfefferle LW6/8 1:24.70 1:24.70 +0.44 4 Ian Balfour LW6/8 1:25.60 1:25.60 +1.34 5 Frank Pfortmueller LW6/8 1:25.76 1:25.76 +1.50 6 Martin Cupka LW6/8 1:26.17 1:26.17 +1.91 7 Adam Fromma LW6/8 1:26.30 1:26.30 +2.04 8 Wolfgang Moosbrugger LW6/8 1:26.97 1:26.97 +2.71 9 Stanislav Loska LW6/8 1:27.37 1:27.37 +3.11 10 Walter Lackner LW6/8 1:27.52 1:27.52 +3.26 11 Shinji Inoue LW6/8 1:29.11 1:29.11 +4.85 12 Walter Kaelin LW6/8 1:29.40 1:29.40 +5.14 13 Yasunori Todoroki LW6/8 1:33.18 1:33.18 +8.92

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