16.01.59. Kitzbuehel Downhill, men

course name: Streif course length: 3500 m vertical drop: 850 m weather: sunny snow: hard started: 89-16 finished: 77

1. Bud Werner USA 2.33.4 ( 2) 2. SUI 2.33.6 ( 3) 3. AUT 2.33.9 (11)

4. Hans-Peter Lanig FRG 2.35.0 (28! 5. FRA (15) and Anderl Molterer AUT 2.35.6 ( 9) 7. Fritz Wagnerberger FRG 2.35.7 ( 6) 8. Fredy Brupbacher SUI 2.36.2 (22) 9. Egon Zimmermann I AUT 2.36.4 (14)

10. Bruno Alberti ITA 2.37.2 ( 4) 11. Ernst Hinterseer AUT 2.37.3 (29! 12. Charles Bozon FRA 2.37.5 ( 7) 13. Francois Bonlieu FRA 2.37.9 ( 1) 14. Emile Violat FRA 2.38.1 (26) 15. Guy Perillat FRA 2.38.8 (10) 16. Paride Milianti ITA 2.39.2 (13) 17. Peppi Stiegler AUT 2.39.3 (44! 18. Kurt Pair AUT 2.39.6 (39! 19. Willy Forrer SUI 2.39.8 (12) 20. Peppi Gramschammer AUT (19) and Toni Mark AUT 2.40.4 (17) 22. Gerhard Nenning AUT (74! and Willy Bogner FRG 2.40.6 (20)

24. Benno Frank FRG 2.41.4 (36) 25. Helmuth Schaller AUT 2.41.7 (54! 26. Eberhardt Riedel GDR 2.42.1 (23) 27. Ernst Oberaigner AUT 2.42.2 (27) 28. Egon Zimmermann II AUT 2.42.4 (38) 29. Felice de Nicolo ITA 2.42.5 (43) 30. Hans-Horst Mueller FRG 2.42.6 (65! 31. Nando Pajarola SUI 2.42.7 (16) 32. Beni Obermueller FRG 2.42.9 (24) 33. Karl Suess GDR 2.43.1 (45) 34. Sepp Behr FRG 2.43.2 (41) 35. Hans Haecher FRG 2.43.3 (35)

36. Ludwig Leitner FRG 2.44.0 ( 8) 37. Carlo Senoner ITA (33) and Italo Pedroncelli ITA 2.44.4 (30) 39. Ernst Falch AUT 2.44.8 (53) 40. Herwig Schiechtl AUT 2.44.9 (83! 41. Albert Eckart FRG (61! and Wlodimierz Czarniak POL 2.45.3 (37) 43. Martin Burger AUT (52) and Adolf Mathis SUI 2.45.4 (25) 45. Werner Schmid SUI 2.45.5 (34) 46. Franz Tritscher AUT 2.45.6 (55)

47. Jan Gasienica-Ciaptak POL 2.46.9 (18) 48. Ernst Scherzer GDR 2.47.2 (32) 49. Heinz Dietrich AUT 2.47.8 50. Max Marolt USA 2.48.4 51. Hans Klabacher AUT 2.49.1 52. Vitalij Monastirev SOV 2.49.2 53. Lorne O’Connor CND and Giorgio Mahlknecht ITA 2.49.6

55. Harald Baumschlager AUT 2.50.7 56. John Koltzow NOR 2.51.2 57. Enrico Senoner ITA 2.51.4 58. Dimitri Kartaschow SOV 2.52.1 59. Helmuth Schranz AUT 2.53.4 60. Ludwig Noemeier GDR 2.54.0 61. Stanko Klinar YUG 2.54.3 62. Juan Garriga SPA 2.54.5 63. Peter Lakota YUG 2.54.6

64. Janez Sumi YUG 2.57.0 65. Georg Feiersinger AUT 2.57.2 66. Arild Holm NOR 2.57.3 67. Rainer Kolb AUT 2.59.0

68. Ludvig Dornig YUG 3.02.2 69. Peter Krizaj YUG 3.02.3 70. Roman Sobanski POL 3.02.6 71. Hias Leitner AUT 3.03.9

72. John Semmelinck NED 3.08.3

73. Francisco Masana SPA 3.15.5 74. Ron Funk USA 3.19.4 75. Luis Sanchez SPA 3.21.6 76. Arnold Midgley CND 3.35.4

DNF (6):

DQ(1):

* Reuters has a final 1:20 (out of total 3:10) minutes silent report from this event available at British Pathe historical collection www.britishpathe.com/video/VLVA19293MXFF9DQQ4G4DON77YZ5M-- 20TH-INTERNATIONAL-KITZBUEHEL-SKI-RACE/query/slalom

+ at www.filmothek.bundesarchiv.de there is a video of about half a minute from this event, (from 9:20 till 9:54 minute) in a film journal Neue Deutsche Wochenschau No. 469/1959 from 23.01.1959.