The Men's downhill competition at the
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2021
The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2021 were held from 8–21 February in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. In May 2020, the Italian Winter Sports Federation (FISI) and the event organizing committee asked the International Ski Federation ...
was held on 14 February 2021.
Start list
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Austria's Vincent Kriechmayr won the gold medal, Andreas Sander of Germany took the silver, and the bronze medalist was Beat Feuz
Beat Feuz (; born 11 February 1987) is a Swiss FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup Alpine skiing, alpine ski racer, specializing in the speed events of Downhill (ski competition), downhill and super-G. He is 2017 World champion and 2022 Olympic ch ...
of Switzerland.[
The race course was in length, with a vertical drop of from a starting ]elevation
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of above sea level
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. Kriechmayr's winning time of 97.79 seconds yielded an average speed of and an average vertical descent rate of .[
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Results
The race started at 11:00 CET
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''(UTC+1)'' under clear skies. The air temperature was at the starting gate and at the finish.[
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References
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Men's downhill
2021
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