Alpine Skiing At The 1980 Winter Olympics – Men's Downhill
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1980 Winter Olympics The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially the XIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Lake Placid 1980, were an international multi-sport event held from February 13 to 24, 1980, in Lake Placid, New York, United States. Lake Placid was elected ...
at Lake Placid was held at
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on Thursday, The defending
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was
Josef Walcher Josef "Sepp" Walcher (December 8, 1954 – January 22, 1984) was an Austrian World Cup alpine ski racer. He specialized in the downhill event and won the gold medal at the World Championships in 1978 at Garmisch, West Germany. Biography Born ...
of Austria, while Switzerland's Peter Müller was the defending
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downhill champion and led the 1980 World Cup. Defending Olympic champion
Franz Klammer Franz Klammer (born 3 December 1953) is a former champion alpine ski racer from Austria. He dominated the downhill event for four consecutive World Cup seasons (1975– 78). He was the gold medalist at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, ...
did not compete; he was not selected to the Austrian Olympic team in 1980. Gold medalist
Leonhard Stock Leonhard Stock (born 14 March 1958) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria. Career Stock earned his first World Cup points at age 18 in January 1977. At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, Stock was originally an alternate fo ...
was an alternate on the Austrian downhill team, at the Olympics for the slalom. His fast training times earned him a spot on the four-man team, displacing Walcher, the reigning world champion. All four Austrians in the race finished in the top ten and Müller was fourth. The course started at an
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with a vertical drop of and a length of . Stock's winning time was 105.50 seconds, yielding an average speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of .


Results

The race was started at 11:30
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, (
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−5). At the starting gate, the skies were broken overcast and snowing, the temperature was , wind speed was and the snow condition was hard packed. Source:


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Men's alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics
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