The Men's Downhill competition of the Grenoble 1968 Olympics was held at

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on Friday, 9 February. The defending

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was

Jean-Claude Killy Jean-Claude Killy (born 30 August 1943) is a French former World Cup alpine ski racer. He dominated the sport in the late 1960s, and was a triple Olympic champion, winning the three alpine events at the 1968 Winter Olympics, becoming the most su ...

of France, who was also the defending

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downhill champion and Austria's Gerhard Nenning led the current season. Killy won the gold medal, teammate

Guy Périllat Guy Périllat Merceroz (born 24 February 1940) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the resort of La Clusaz, Haute-Savoie, one of the top ski racers of the 1960s.Jean-Daniel Dätwyler Jean-Daniel Dätwyler (born 2 April 1945) is a Switzerland, Swiss former Alpine skiing, alpine skier and Olympic medalist. He received a bronze medal in the downhill at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble.elevation The elevation of a geographic location (geography), ''location'' is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational equipotenti ...

of above

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, with a vertical drop of . The course length was and Killy's winning run of 119.85 seconds resulted in an average speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of .

Results

References

External links

FIS results
{{DEFAULTSORT:Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics - Men's downhill

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Men's alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics

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