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Downhill, Men

Date	9 February 1968
Status	Olympic
Location	Casserousse, Chamrousse (Piste Casserousse)
Participants	86 from 29 countries
Course Setter		UNK
Details	Gates: ? Length: 2890 m Start Altitude: 2252 m Vertical Drop: 840 m

Jean-Claude Killy was considered possibly the greatest Alpine skier ever. He had been World Champion in 1966 in the downhill and combined and in the inaugural World Cup year of 1966-67, he won the title in the overall and all three disciplines. Born in Val d’Isère in the Savoy Alps, the movie star handsome Killy was a local boy in Grenoble and all French hopes rested on his shoulders. The first skier off in the downhill was Killy’s teammate, Guy Périllat, who posted 1:59.93, a time which held up thru the first 13 skiiers. But Killy was the 14th skier and Périllat expected him to better his time. Killy did, to win the gold medal, but by only 8/100ths of a second. Killy, though a titular amateur, was known to have numerous endorsement contracts and when he finished his race, he was embraced by his manager, Michel Arpin, who made certain that Killy’s back, containing the name “Dynamic”, the skis Killy used, was visible to all in the television audience.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Time
1	14	Jean-Claude Killy	FRA	1:59.85	Gold
2	1	Guy Périllat	FRA	1:59.93	Silver
3	4	Jean-Daniel Dätwyler	SUI	2:00.32	Bronze
4	9	Heini Messner	AUT	2:01.03
5	11	Karl Schranz	AUT	2:01.89
6	3	Ivo Mahlknecht	ITA	2:02.00
7	21	Gerhard Prinzing	FRG	2:02.10
8	13	Bernard Orcel	FRA	2:02.22
9	10	Gerhard Nenning	AUT	2:02.31
10	2	Edy Bruggmann	SUI	2:02.36
11	6	Gerhard Mussner	ITA	2:02.50
12	28	Luggi Leitner	FRG	2:02.54
13	5	Egon Zimmermann	AUT	2:02.55
14	8	Jos Minsch	SUI	2:02.76
15	7	Franz Vogler	FRG	2:02.94
16	27	Dumeng Giovanoli	SUI	2:02.98
17	24	Bjarne Strand	NOR	2:03.20
18	12	Billy Kidd	USA	2:03.40
19	19	Dieter Fersch	FRG	2:03.41
20	15	Léo Lacroix	FRA	2:03.86
21	20	Dennis McCoy	USA	2:04.82
22	23	Teresio Vachet	ITA	2:04.90
23	44	Jon Terje Øverland	NOR	2:05.34
24	30	Malcolm Milne	AUS	2:05.36
25	42	Jeremy Palmer-Tomkinson	GBR	2:05.43
26	57	Andrzej Bachleda-Curuś	POL	2:05.48
27	48	Wayne Henderson	CAN	2:05.56
28	18	Renato Valentini	ITA	2:05.61
29	41	Rune Lindström	SWE	2:05.69
30	40	Ulf Ekstam	FIN	2:06.14
31	31	Gerry Rinaldi	CAN	2:06.30
32	45	Aurelio García	ESP	2:06.84
33	47	Josef Gassner	LIE	2:06.91
34	63	Lasse Hamre	NOR	2:06.93
35	43	Milan Pažout	TCH	2:07.45
36	38	Jaroslav Janda	TCH	2:07.71
37	50	Wolfgang Ender	LIE	2:08.08
38	62	Francisco Fernández Ochoa	ESP	2:08.67
39	53	Luciano del Cacho	ESP	2:08.85
40	92	Viktor Belyakov	URS	2:09.32
41	46	Andrej Klinar	YUG	2:09.61
42	54	Robert Palmer	NZL	2:09.79
43	68	Per-Olov Richardsson	SWE	2:09.83
44	61	Ian Todd	GBR	2:10.00
45	73	Tsuneo Noto	JPN	2:10.32
46	71	Mario Vera	CHI	2:10.44
47	69	Jože Gazvoda	YUG	2:10.51
48	64	Ryszard Ćwikła	POL	2:10.63
49	72	Andrey Belokrinkin	URS	2:10.98
50	67	Luke O'Reilly	GBR	2:10.99
51	58	Blaž Jakopič	YUG	2:11.00
52	56	Antonio Campañá	ESP	2:11.11
53	70	Jeremy Bujakowski	IND	2:11.82
54	74	Yoshiharu Fukuhara	JPN	2:14.09
55	96	Gustavo Ezquerra	ARG	2:17.11
56	59	David Borradaile	GBR	2:17.31
57	90	Roberto Thostrup	ARG	2:17.35
58	86	Richard Leatherbee	CHI	2:17.86
59	93	Hitonari Maruyama	JPN	2:18.04
60	87	Felipe Briones	CHI	2:18.07
61	91	Thomas Huppert	NZL	2:18.29
62	98	Dan Cristea	ROU	2:18.52
63	89	Petar Angelov	BUL	2:18.71
64	88	Juichi Maruyama	JPN	2:19.33
65	78	Dorin Munteanu	ROU	2:22.53
66	81	Lotfollah Kia Shemshaki	IRI	2:23.60
67	100	Özer Ateşçi	TUR	2:25.18
68	103	Fayzollah Band Ali	IRI	2:27.07
69	102	Ovaness Meguerdonian	IRI	2:30.25
70	97	Athanasios Tsimikalis	GRE	2:36.93
71	101	Mehmet Yıldırım	TUR	2:40.79
72	79	Dimitrios Pappos	GRE	2:44.10
73	82	Ali Saveh	IRI	2:47.88
DNF	17	Jere Elliott	USA	–
DNF	22	Rod Hebron	CAN	–
DNF	26	Jim Barrows	USA	–
DNF	29	Eberhard Riedel	GDR	–
DNF	49	Otto Tschudi	NOR	–
DNF	60	Hans-Walter Schädler	LIE	–
DNF	80	Arnold Beck	LIE	–
DNF	83	Bahattin Topal	TUR	–
DNF	99	Mehmet Gökcan	TUR	–
DQ	25	Peter Duncan	CAN	–
DQ	39	Raimo Manninen	FIN	–
DQ	55	Vasily Melnikov	URS	–
DQ	95	Murray Gardner	NZL	–
DNS	77	Hernán Briones	CHI	–
DNS	94	Michael Dennis	NZL	–