FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011 – Men's downhill

Men's downhill at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011
Venue	Kandahar 2, Garmisch Classic
Location	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Dates	12 February
Competitors	54 from 24 nations
Winning time	1:58.41
Medalists
Erik Guay    Canada   Didier Cuche     Switzerland   Christof Innerhofer    Italy
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Alpine skiing at the World Ski Championships 2011
Combined	men	women
Downhill	men	women
Giant slalom	men	women
Slalom	men	women
Super-G	men	women
Team	mixed
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The Men's Downhill competition at the 2011 World Championships at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, was the fourth race of the championships, run under spring-like conditions on Saturday, February 12.^[1]

Canada's Erik Guay won the gold medal, Didier Cuche of Switzerland took the silver, and the bronze medalist was Christof Innerhofer of Italy.^[2]

Mostly in the shade, the north-facing slope of the Kandahar 2 course at Garmisch Classic was 3.300 km (2.05 mi) in length, with a vertical drop of 920 m (3,018 ft) from a starting elevation of 1,690 m (5,545 ft) above sea level. Guay's winning time of 118.41 seconds yielded an average speed of 100.329 km/h (62.3 mph) and an average vertical descent rate of 7.7696 m/s (25.5 ft/s).^[2] Fifty four athletes from 24 countries competed.^[3]

The race started at 11:00 CET (UTC+1) under clear skies. The air temperature was 3 °C (37 °F) at the starting gate and 9 °C (48 °F) at the finish.^[2]

Rank	Bib	Name	Nation	Time	Difference
	10	Erik Guay	Canada	1:58.41	—
	18	Didier Cuche	Switzerland	1:58.73	+0.32
	9	Christof Innerhofer	Italy	1:59.17	+0.76
4	20	Romed Baumann	Austria	1:59.51	+1.10
5	17	Aksel Lund Svindal	Norway	1:59.83	+1.42
6	12	Andrej Šporn	Slovenia	2:00.25	+1.84
7	16	Michael Walchhofer	Austria	2:00.28	+1.87
8	13	Johan Clarey	France	2:00.35	+1.94
9	29	Beat Feuz	Switzerland	2:00.47	+2.06
10	6	Ambrosi Hoffmann	Switzerland	2:00.48	+2.07
11	21	Klaus Kröll	Austria	2:00.58	+2.17
12	19	Silvan Zurbriggen	Switzerland	2:00.75	+2.34
13	5	Steven Nyman	United States	2:00.80	+2.39
14	14	Peter Fill	Italy	2:00.81	+2.40
15	22	Bode Miller	United States	2:00.83	+2.42
16	26	Hannes Reichelt	Austria	2:00.99	+2.58
17	8	Andrej Jerman	Slovenia	2:01.16	+2.75
18	4	Benjamin Thomsen	Canada	2:01.18	+2.77
19	2	Rok Perko	Slovenia	2:01.50	+3.09
20	25	Dominik Paris	Italy	2:01.55	+3.14
21	35	Ondřej Bank	Czech Republic	2:01.77	+3.36
22	15	Werner Heel	Italy	2:01.79	+3.38
23	28	Guillermo Fayed	France	2:01.99	+3.58
24	31	Travis Ganong	United States	2:02.19	+3.78
25	23	Jan Hudec	Canada	2:02.45	+4.04
26	30	Hans Olsson	Sweden	2:02.49	+4.08
27	32	Andreas Romar	Finland	2:02.50	+4.09
28	7	Natko Zrnčić-Dim	Croatia	2:02.57	+4.16
29	1	Yannick Bertrand	France	2:02.66	+4.25
30	24	Gašper Markič	Slovenia	2:02.99	+4.58
31	27	Tobias Stechert	Germany	2:03.31	+4.90
32	37	Ferrán Terra	Spain	2:03.79	+5.38
33	34	Mirko Deflorian	Moldova	2:04.04	+5.63
34	43	Kevin Esteve Rigail	Andorra	2:04.58	+6.17
35	36	Lars Elton Myhre	Norway	2:04.93	+6.52
36	45	Georgi Georgiev	Bulgaria	2:05.19	+6.78
37	42	Paul de la Cuesta	Spain	2:05.74	+7.33
38	39	TJ Baldwin	Great Britain	2:06.54	+8.13
39	50	Nikola Chongarov	Bulgaria	2:06.57	+8.16
40	44	Yuri Danilochkin	Belarus	2:06.99	+8.58
41	48	Michał Kłusak	Poland	2:07.64	+9.23
42	40	Igor Zakurdaev	Kazakhstan	2:07.66	+9.25
43	51	Igor Laikert	Bosnia	2:08.70	+10.29
44	54	Rostyslav Feshchuk	Ukraine	2:09.69	+11.28
45	47	Dmitriy Koshkin	Kazakhstan	2:11.47	+13.06
46	53	Taras Pimenov	Kazakhstan	2:12.30	+13.89
47	52	Pavel Chernichenko	Kazakhstan	2:13.25	+14.84
	3	Patrik Järbyn	Sweden	DNF
	11	Adrien Théaux	France	DNF
	33	Andreas Sander	Germany	DNF
	38	Tin Široki	Croatia	DNF
	41	Roger Vidosa	Andorra	DNF
	46	Roberts Rode	Latvia	DNF
	49	Martin Vráblík	Czech Republic	DNF