Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill

Men's Downhill; at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
	Alpine skiing
Venue	Hakuba
Date	February 13
Competitors	43 from 18 nations
Winning time	1:50.11
Medalists
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Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Combined	men	women
Downhill	men	women
Giant slalom	men	women
Slalom	men	women
Super-G	men	women

The Men's Downhill competition of the Nagano 1998 Olympics was held at Hakuba. ^[1]

The defending world champion was Bruno Kernen of Switzerland, while France's Luc Alphand was the defending World Cup downhill champion. ^[2] ^[3]

Results

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Difference
	Jean-Luc Crétier	France	1:50.11	-
	Lasse Kjus	Norway	1:50.51	+0.40
	Hannes Trinkl	Austria	1:50.63	+0.52
4	Jürg Grünenfelder	Switzerland	1:50.64	+0.53
5	Ed Podivinsky	Canada	1:50.71	+0.60
6	Kristian Ghedina	Italy	1:50.76	+0.65
7	Andreas Schifferer	Austria	1:50.77	+0.66
8	Didier Cuche	Switzerland	1:50.91	+0.80
9	Kyle Rasmussen	United States	1:51.09	+0.98
10	Patrik Järbyn	Sweden	1:51.22	+1.11
11	Fritz Strobl	Austria	1:51.34	+1.23
12	Tommy Moe	United States	1:51.43	+1.32
13	Kjetil André Aamodt	Norway	1:51.72	+1.61
14	Franco Cavegn	Switzerland	1:51.74	+1.63
15	Jason Rosener	United States	1:52.33	+2.22
16	Werner Perathoner	Italy	1:52.36	+2.25
17	Tsuyoshi Tomii	Japan	1:52.62	+2.51
18	Andrey Filichkin	Russia	1:52.65	+2.54
19	Kevin Wert	Canada	1:52.67	+2.56
20	Jernej Koblar	Slovenia	1:52.79	+2.68
21	Enis Bećirbegović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:53.47	+3.36
22	Andrzej Bachleda-Curuś	Poland	1:53.62	+3.51
23	Graham Bell	Great Britain	1:53.93	+3.82
24	Vasily Bezsmelnitsyn	Russia	1:54.27	+4.16
25	Linas Vaitkus	Lithuania	1:56.22	+6.11
26	Nils Linneberg	Chile	1:56.59	+6.48
27	Patrick-Paul Schwarzacher-Joyce	Ireland	1:58.71	+8.60
28	Rainer Grob	Chile	1:58.75	+8.64
-	Hermann Maier	Austria	DNF	-
-	Nicolas Burtin	France	DNF	-
-	Bruno Kernen	Switzerland	DNF	-
-	Luca Cattaneo	Italy	DNF	-
-	Peter Runggaldier	Italy	DNF	-
-	Luke Sauder	Canada	DNF	-
-	Aleš Brezavšček	Slovenia	DNF	-
-	A J Kitt	United States	DNF	-
-	Brian Stemmle	Canada	DNF	-
-	Adrien Duvillard	France	DNF	-
-	Peter Pen	Slovenia	DNF	-
-	Jürgen Hasler	Liechtenstein	DNF	-
-	Andrew Freshwater	Great Britain	DNF	-
-	Yasuyuki Takishita	Japan	DNF	-
-	Thomás Grob	Chile	DNF	-