Who won men's downhill Alpine skiing gold at Beijing 2022?

Who won men’s downhill Alpine skiing gold at Beijing 2022? Beat Feuz of Switzerland won the gold medal.

Feuz won the men’s downhill at the Yanqing National Alpine Ski Centre on February 7, 2022, recording a time of 1 minute 42.69 seconds. France’s Johan Clarey finished just 0.10 seconds behind for silver, while Austria’s Matthias Mayer took bronze.

The race was originally scheduled for February 6 but was postponed by strong winds. Feuz then delivered the fastest run on the Rock course, which measured 3.152 kilometers and had an 894-meter vertical drop. His victory was Switzerland’s first Olympic men’s downhill gold since 1980.

Feuz had already built an impressive Olympic record before Beijing, winning bronze in downhill at both the 2014 and 2018 Games and silver in the 2018 super-G. Marco Odermatt was a major pre-race contender but finished seventh, while Mayer—who won the 2014 downhill—completed the podium rather than repeating as champion.