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Discipline

Downhill

One run, the fastest course on the tour. 1,014 World Cup Downhill races are in the archive, at 96 venues across 60 seasons, won by 233 different athletes.

FIS code DH 13 Jan 1967 → 21 Mar 2026 465 women's · 549 men's
01 Leaders

Most downhill wins

02 Nations

Nations in downhill

Downhill wins and podiums by nation
NationCodeWinsPodiums
AustriaAUT AUT 320 924
SwitzerlandSUI SUI 242 683
United States of AmericaUSA USA 104 254
ItalyITA ITA 94 289
FranceFRA FRA 57 223
NorwayNOR NOR 54 150
GermanyGER GER 51 147
CanadaCAN CAN 46 161
SloveniaSLO SLO 15 38
Federal Republic Of GermanyFRG FRG 11 80
SwedenSWE SWE 8 27
LiechtensteinLIE LIE 6 28
03 Venues

Where downhill is raced

All venues
Venues that have hosted the most Downhill races
VenueNationRacesLast race
Lake LouiseCAN CAN 80 3 Dec 2022
Val d'IsèreFRA FRA 72 20 Dec 2025
KitzbühelAUT AUT 71 24 Jan 2026
Val Gardena-GroedenITA ITA 67 20 Dec 2025
Garmisch PartenkirchenGER GER 56 28 Feb 2026
WengenSUI SUI 53 17 Jan 2026
Cortina d'AmpezzoITA ITA 50 18 Jan 2025
KvitfjellNOR NOR 41 8 Mar 2025
BormioITA ITA 34 28 Dec 2024
St. MoritzSUI SUI 28 13 Dec 2025
Beaver CreekUSA USA 25 4 Dec 2025
AspenUSA USA 24 4 Mar 2023
Crans-MontanaSUI SUI 22 1 Feb 2026
ÅreSWE SWE 19 14 Mar 2018
Altenmarkt-ZauchenseeAUT AUT 16 13 Jan 2024
04 Margins

Biggest and closest

Winner's margin over 2nd, in seconds

Biggest marginsDownhill

Biggest margins in Downhill
GapWinnerRace
3.54 Franz KlammerAUT Wengen M11 Jan 1975
2.96 Annemarie Moser-PröllAUT Chamonix W25 Jan 1973
2.62 Annemarie Moser-PröllAUT Saalbach-Hinterglemm W19 Dec 1972
2.40 Annemarie Moser-PröllAUT Bad Gastein W23 Jan 1974
2.37 Annemarie Moser-PröllAUT St. Moritz W10 Feb 1973
2.35 Annemarie Moser-PröllAUT Schruns W26 Jan 1979
2.33 Gerhard NenningAUT Aspen M15 Mar 1968
2.22 Franz KlammerAUT Wengen M10 Jan 1976

Closest finishesDownhill

Closest finishes in Downhill
GapWinnerRace
0.01 Franz KlammerAUT Kitzbühel M18 Jan 1975
0.01 Franz HeinzerSUI Val d'Isère M9 Dec 1983
0.01 Helmut HoflehnerAUT St. Anton M22 Dec 1988
0.01 William BesseSUI Panorama, BC M6 Mar 1992
0.01 Franz HeinzerSUI Veysonnaz M23 Jan 1993
0.01 Armin AssingerAUT Sierra Nevada M15 Mar 1993
0.01 Hilary LindhUSA Sierra Nevada W2 Feb 1994
0.01 Bruno Ii KernenSUI Veysonnaz M19 Jan 1996
05 Latest

Most recent downhill races

Data captured 4 Nov 2026Sources and method

  • Winning margins come from the FIS biggest-gap lists, which cover 3688 of the 3897 races. The rest have no comparable times on FIS.
  • The four 1987/88 parallel races FIS flags as non-World-Cup (race 131255-131258) are left out of every count here, exactly as FIS leaves them out of its own totals.
  • Athletes are joined on the FIS competitor id, so a renamed athlete (Vonn/Kildow, Gut/Gut-Behrami, Braathen/Pinheiro Braathen) stays one person. Each race shows the name FIS published at the time.