The Men's downhill competition at the
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2021
The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2021 were held from 8 to 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 Federati ...
was held on 14 February 2021.
Start list
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Austria's Vincent Kriechmayr
Vincent Kriechmayr (born 1 October 1991) is an Austrian World Cup alpine ski racer and specializes in the speed events of super-G and downhill.
Kriechmayr is the 2021 world champion in both speed events, super-G and downhill.
Career
Born in ...
won the gold medal, Andreas Sander
Andreas Sander (born 13 June 1989) is a German World Cup alpine ski racer. He specializes in the speed events of downhill and super-G.
Career
On 13 March 2008, Sander made his World Cup debut in the Bormio Super-G. In December 2010, ...
of Germany took the silver, and the bronze medalist was Beat Feuz
Beat Feuz (; born 11 February 1987) is a Swiss former World Cup alpine ski racer, specializing in the speed events of downhill and super-G. He is 2017 World champion and 2022 Olympic champion in downhill. In 2021, he won consecutive downhills on ...
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
Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...