FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2019 – Men's downhill

The Men's downhill competition at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2019 was held on Saturday, 9 February.

In the final event of his international career, Aksel Lund Svindal won the silver medal, two-hundredths of a second behind compatriot and training partner Kjetil Jansrud.

The race course was 2.172 km in length, with a vertical drop of 637 m from a starting elevation of 1033 m above sea level. Jansrud's winning time of 79.98 seconds yielded an average speed of 97.764 km/h and an average vertical descent rate of 7.9645 m/s.

Results
Delayed an hour due to weather, the race started at 13:30 CET (UTC+1) under mostly cloudy skies. Snowing during the race, its start was lowered 234 m to the super-G start, shortening the length by 0.95 km to 2.172 km. The air temperature was -6 C at the starting gate and -4 C at the finish.