The Men's
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competition of the
Lillehammer 1994 Olympics was held at
Kvitfjell
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on Sunday, 13 February.
The reigning
world champion
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was
Luc Alphand
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and the reigning
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champion was
Patrick Ortlieb;
Franz Heinzer was the defending
World Cup
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downhill champion and
Marc Girardelli
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led the
current season.
Tommy Moe
Thomas Sven Moe (born February 17, 1970) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States. An Olympic gold and silver medalist in 1994, he specialized in the speed events of downhill and super G.
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, an American of
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ancestry, edged out
Kjetil André Aamodt
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of Norway by 0.04 seconds to take the gold medal in the downhill.
Ed Podivinsky
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of Canada was the bronze medalist, just 0.12 seconds behind Moe. Ortlieb was fourth, Girardelli fifth, Alphand eighth, and Heinzer did not finish.
The defending champion was in the field for the first time since
1976
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, when
1972
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champion
Bernhard Russi
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was 14th in
1952 and
Egon Zimmermann
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finished 13th in
1968.
The ''Olympiabakken'' course started at an
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of above
sea level
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with a vertical drop of and a course length of . Moe's winning time was 105.75 seconds, yielding an average course speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of .
Results
The race was started at 11:00
local time
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, (
UTC +1). At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was , and the snow condition was hard; the temperature at the finish was lower, at .
References
External links
FIS results
{{DEFAULTSORT:Alpine skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics - Men's downhill
Men's downhill
Winter Olympics
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