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Downhill, Men

Date	2 February 1948 — 10:01
Status	Olympic
Location	Corviglia, St. Moritz
Participants	111 from 25 countries
Course Setter	👁 Image UNK
Details	Gates: ? Length: 3400 m Start Altitude: ? Vertical Drop: 900 m

Henri Oreiller won the downhill competition by a huge margin of over four seconds. He would also add a second gold medal in the combined at the St. Moritz Olympics, using his dominant downhill performance as a section of that event, and added a bronze in the slalom. Oreiller had been a member of the French underground during World War II. He continued to compete thru 1952, placing fourth in the giant slalom at the 1950 Worlds. He then turned to car racing and raced for 10 years before dying in a crash of his Ferrari at the Linas-Montlhéry race track.

The bronze medalist was Switzerland’s Karl Molitor, married to Antoinette Meyer, silver medalist in the women’s slalom in St. Moritz a few days later.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Time
1	9	Henri Oreiller	👁 Image FRA	2:55.0	Gold
2	24	Franz Gabl	👁 Image AUT	2:59.1	Silver
=3	8	Karl Molitor	👁 Image SUI	3:00.3	Bronze
=3	12	Ralph Olinger	👁 Image SUI	3:00.3	Bronze
5	42	Egon Schöpf	👁 Image AUT	3:01.2
=6	5	Silvio Alverà	👁 Image ITA	3:02.4
=6	49	Carlo Gartner	👁 Image ITA	3:02.4
8	13	Fernand Grosjean	👁 Image SUI	3:03.1
9	10	Hans Nogler	👁 Image AUT	3:03.2
10	6	Hans Hansson	👁 Image SWE	3:05.0
=11	18	Sverre Lassen-Urdahl	👁 Image NOR	3:06.4
=11	50	Adolf Odermatt	👁 Image SUI	3:06.4
13	1	James Couttet	👁 Image FRA	3:07.3
14	28	Engelbert Haider	👁 Image AUT	3:08.2
15	16	Eberhard Kneisl	👁 Image AUT	3:08.3
16	23	Bjarne Arentz	👁 Image NOR	3:09.0
17	31	Antonín Šponar	👁 Image TCH	3:09.1
18	36	Romi Spada	👁 Image SUI	3:09.2
19	2	Edi Mall	👁 Image AUT	3:09.3
20	41	Marius Eriksen	👁 Image NOR	3:09.4
21	14	Vittorio Chierroni	👁 Image ITA	3:10.0
22	26	Edy Reinalter	👁 Image SUI	3:11.0
=23	38	Guy de Huertas	👁 Image FRA	3:12.0
=23	27	Georges Panisset	👁 Image FRA	3:12.0
25	4	Sverre Johannessen	👁 Image NOR	3:12.1
26	22	Jack Reddish	👁 Image USA	3:12.3
27	30	Luboš Brchel	👁 Image TCH	3:12.4
=28	46	Harvey Clifford	👁 Image CAN	3:14.1
=28	44	Hector Sutherland	👁 Image CAN	3:14.1
30	45	Sixten Isberg	👁 Image SWE	3:15.0
31	3	Stein Eriksen	👁 Image NOR	3:15.1
32	21	Eugenio Bonicco	👁 Image ITA	3:15.4
33	17	Jean Pazzi	👁 Image FRA	3:16.1
34	25	Claude Penz	👁 Image FRA	3:19.2
35	68	Józef Marusarz	👁 Image POL	3:20.2
36	73	Tine Mulej	👁 Image YUG	3:21.1
37	58	Jan Gąsienica Ciaptak	👁 Image POL	3:21.3
38	48	Åke Nilsson	👁 Image SWE	3:22.2
39	33	Pentti Alonen	👁 Image FIN	3:22.3
40	32	Stig Sollander	👁 Image SWE	3:23.1
41	15	Olle Dalman	👁 Image SWE	3:23.2
42	37	Dick Movitz	👁 Image USA	3:25.2
43	20	Steve Knowlton	👁 Image USA	3:26.2
44	47	Bob Blatt, Jr.	👁 Image USA	3:27.4
45	35	Dev Jennings	👁 Image USA	3:28.2
46	75	Daniel Šlachta	👁 Image TCH	3:29.4
47	11	Barney McLean	👁 Image USA	3:30.1
48	64	Péter Szikla	👁 Image HUN	3:30.4
49	90	Sándor Mazány	👁 Image HUN	3:31.4
50	86	Michel Feron	👁 Image BEL	3:34.3
51	78	Radu Scîrneci	👁 Image ROU	3:35.0
52	74	Tamás Székely	👁 Image HUN	3:36.0
53	76	Aimo Vartiainen	👁 Image FIN	3:36.4
54	71	Slavko Lukanc	👁 Image YUG	3:37.1
55	93	Franz Beck	👁 Image LIE	3:38.3
56	54	Bert Irwin	👁 Image CAN	3:39.1
57	116	Dumitru Frățilă	👁 Image ROU	3:39.3
58	34	Dumitru Sulică	👁 Image ROU	3:39.4
59	60	Hernán Oelckers	👁 Image CHI	3:40.2
=60	103	Donald Garrow	👁 Image GBR	3:41.3
=60	67	Bill Irwin	👁 Image CAN	3:41.3
62	107	David Madzhar	👁 Image BUL	3:45.3
63	99	Justo del Carril	👁 Image ARG	3:46.2
64	96	Magnús Brynjólfsson	👁 Image ISL	3:48.2
65	63	Károly Kővári	👁 Image HUN	3:49.1
66	57	Ion Coliban	👁 Image ROU	3:49.2
67	95	Jerzy Schindler	👁 Image POL	3:49.4
68	69	Luis de Ridder	👁 Image ARG	3:50.2
69	65	Matevž Lukanc	👁 Image YUG	3:50.3
70	87	Philippe, Comte d'Ursel	👁 Image BEL	3:51.0
=71	66	Mihai Bîră, Sr.	👁 Image ROU	3:52.3
=71	77	Ciril Praček	👁 Image YUG	3:52.3
73	105	Max Gassner	👁 Image LIE	3:53.0
=74	55	Vasile Ionescu	👁 Image ROU	3:54.1
=74	–	Arturo Hammersley	👁 Image CHI	3:54.1
=74	56	James Palmer-Tomkinson	👁 Image GBR	3:54.1
77	94	György Libik	👁 Image HUN	3:55.3
78	59	Jaime Errázuriz	👁 Image CHI	3:56.4
79	61	Leopold Schädler	👁 Image LIE	4:00.0
80	97	Jože Bertoncelj	👁 Image YUG	4:00.2
81	98	Stuart Parkinson	👁 Image GBR	4:03.0
82	62	Dimitar Drazhev	👁 Image BUL	4:07.1
83	108	Gonzalo Domínguez	👁 Image CHI	4:08.3
84	91	Lajos Máté	👁 Image HUN	4:09.0
85	117	Otto Jung	👁 Image ARG	4:09.3
86	79	José Arias	👁 Image ESP	4:11.4
87	112	Raşit Tolun	👁 Image TUR	4:12.1
88	88	Harry Taylor	👁 Image GBR	4:17.4	1
89	109	Thomas de Morawitz	👁 Image ESP	4:24.0
90	89	Theodor Sele	👁 Image LIE	4:24.1
=91	111	Gino de Pellegrín	👁 Image ARG	4:25.2
=91	120	Ian Appleyard	👁 Image GBR	4:25.2
93	119	Pablo Rosenkjer	👁 Image ARG	4:36.2
94	118	Dursun Bozkurt	👁 Image TUR	4:37.3
95	106	Julio Cernuda	👁 Image ARG	4:46.4
96	110	Þórir Jónsson	👁 Image ISL	4:47.0
97	85	Osman Yüce	👁 Image TUR	4:49.2
98	122	Guðmundur Guðmundsson	👁 Image ISL	4:57.0
99	104	Constantin von und zu Liechtenstein	👁 Image LIE	5:04.1
100	124	José Vilà	👁 Image ESP	5:13.0
101	100	Fotis Mavriplis	👁 Image GRE	5:39.1
102	114	Fernando de Armiñán	👁 Image ESP	5:41.2
7	Zeno Colò	👁 Image ITA	–	2
19	Roberto Lacedelli	👁 Image ITA	–
29	Alfred Stäger	👁 Image SUI	–
39	Jan Pawlica	👁 Image POL	–
40	Johnny Lunde	👁 Image NOR	–
72	Saša Molnar	👁 Image YUG	–
113	Peter Boumphrey	👁 Image GBR	–
92	Ibrahim Geagea	👁 Image LBN	–
102	Muzaffer Demirhan	👁 Image TUR	–
43	Vladimír Krajňák	👁 Image TCH	–	3
70	Canuto Errázuriz	👁 Image CHI	–
80	Milan Špaček	👁 Image TCH	–
121	Ramón Blanco	👁 Image ESP	–
123	Kerami Sakarya	👁 Image TUR	–
125	Juan Poll	👁 Image ESP	–
–	Munir Itani	👁 Image LBN	–

URL: https://www.olympedia.org/results/1176

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