Ski Racing World Cup Results Downhill 2011-12

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All the results and details from this season's FIS World Cup men's downhill races.

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Current FIS Downhill Standings (Brief)

Current FIS Downhill Standings (Detailed)

Complete 2011-12 FIS Downhill Diary and Results

Here are the current standings for the FIS World Cup Men's 2011-12 Downhill:
Note, this season it's 100 points for 1st place, 80 for 2nd, 60 for 3rd, 50 for 4th, 45 for 5th ...down to 1pt for 30th place.

Position	Skier Name	Country	Points
1st	Beat Feuz	Switzerland	160
=2nd	Didier Cuche	Switzerland	129
=2nd	Bode Miller	USA	129
4th	Klaus Kroell	Austria	105
5th	Johan Clarey	France	90

Here is the calendar and results for the FIS World Cup Men's 2011-12 Downhill Season:

Date	Venue	Country	Winner	2nd Place	3rd Place
14-03-2012	Schladming	Austria
03-03-2012	Kvitfjell	Norway
11-02-2012	Krasnaya Polyana	Russia
04-02-2012	Chamonix	France
28-01-2012	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Germany
21-01-2012	Kitzbuhel	Austria
14-01-2012	Wengen	Switzerland
29-12-2011	Bormio	Italy
17-12-2011	Val Gardena	Italy
02-12-2011	Beaver Creek	USA	Bode Miller (USA)	Beat Feuz (SUI)	Klaus Kroell (AUT)
26-11-2011	Lake Louise	Canada	Didier Cuche (SUI)	Beat Feuz (SUI)	Hannes Reichelt (AUT)

Race Details

Beaver Creek Race Details, 02-12-2011

American veteran Bode Miller rolled back the years to send the home crowd into raptures on the Birds of Prey course. It was his third victory at Beaver Creek, and probably his most satisfying, as he aggressively attacked one of the ski circuit's most difficult downhill courses, charging every turn, risking everything and not compromising at any point. It was Miler's 1st downhill win for 3 years. Klaus Kroell also raced fantastically, the Austrian flying down the 2nd half of the course to finish only 0.14 seconds behind Miller. Switzerland's rising star Beat Feuz came down immediately after Kroell and repeated the Austrans run, losing time on the top half before charging through the bottom section, and the 24 year old followed up his 2nd place at Lake Louise the previous week with another, just 0.04 seconds back, and this was enough to take him to the top of the Downhill standings. Frenchman Johan Clarey finished 4th, whilst Nowegian Aksel Lund Svindal continued his fine start to the season in all disciplines by taking 5th spot. Sole British racer TJ Baldwin finished in 64th position in a time of 1:49.27

Lake Louise Race Details, 26-11-2011

The Swiss and Austrians dominated the opening downhill of the season at Lake Louise, with their skiers filling the top 5 places. Reigning World Cup downhill champion Didier Cuche took victory with a time of 1 minute, 47.28 seconds, beating his young team-mate Beat Feuz - but oinly just ! A time differemce of only .06 seconds seperating the Swiss pair. Their was a shock podium position for Austrian Hannes Reichelt, who came down the course much later on with bib number 45 but literally flew down and was only 0.02 seconds behind Feuz, knocking fellow countryman Romed Baumann back to fourth. Cuche, Baumann and Feuz had come down one after each other in positions 17, 18 and 19, and it was obviously a good time to race as Klaus Kroell, wearing bib number 22 completed the top 5, just under half a second behind Cuche's winning time. Of the other big names, Bode Miller finished a respectable 9th and Aksel Lund Svindal was 14th, whilst British racer Dougie Crawford was back in 65th.