The men's

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was the third of six events of the alpine skiing programme at the

1952 Winter Olympics The 1952 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VI Olympic Winter Games ( no, De 6. olympiske vinterleker; nn, Dei 6. olympiske vinterleikane) and commonly known as Oslo 1952, was a winter multi-sport event held from 14 to 25 February 195 ...

. It was held at

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ski area on Saturday, 16 February, and started at 1 p.m. It followed the women's giant slalom on Thursday and men's giant slalom on Friday. It was the second Olympic downhill race, which was first run as a separate event in

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. Defending world champion

Zeno Colò Zeno Colò (30 June 1920 – 12 May 1993) was a champion alpine ski racer from Italy. Born in Cutigliano, Tuscany, he was among the top ski racers of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Career At the World Championships in 1950 in Aspen, he won go ...

of Italy won the gold, the only Olympic medal of his career; he was fourth in the other two events. More than a second behind was silver medalist

Othmar Schneider Othmar Schneider (27 August 1928 – 25 December 2012) was an Austrian Alpine skier and Olympic champion. Schneider was born in Lech am Arlberg. At the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital ...

, and

Christian Pravda Christian Pravda (8 March 1927 – 11 November 1994) was an Austrian alpine ski racer. He was born in Kufstein, Austria. At age 20, he participated in the 1948 Winter Olympics in the slalom, but was disqualified. At the 1952 Winter O ...

took the bronze. The race's starting

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was above

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; the course length was , with a vertical drop of . Colò's winning time of 150.8 seconds yielded an average speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of . Eighty-one alpine skiers from 27 nations competed.

Results

''Saturday, 16 February 1952''
The race was started at 13:00

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, ( UTC +1).

References

External links

Official Olympic Report
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Alpine skiing at the 1952 Winter Olympics - Men's downhill 1952 Men's alpine skiing at the 1952 Winter Olympics