The 2006 Alpine Skiing World Cup - Men's Downhill season involved 10 events at sites in North America and Europe between November 2005 and March 2006. Austria's Michael Walchhofer

Michael Walchhofer

Michael Walchhofer is a former Austrian alpine ski racer. He started his career in slalom, but then moved over to the speed events. During his career he won the downhill world cup three times, one silver medal at Olympics Games, and one gold, two silver and one bronze medal at World Ski...

 won the individual title, while his Austrian team took the team title.

Calendar

Round	Race No	Place	Country	Date	Winner	Second	Third
1	2	Lake Louise Lake Louise Mountain Resort The Lake Louise Ski Area is a ski resort located in Banff National Park, near the village of Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada. It can be reached from Banff, from where it is a 35 to 45 minute drive west on Trans-Canada Highway, or Calgary, a 2-hour drive...		November 26, 2005	Fritz Strobl Fritz Strobl Fritz Strobl is a former World Cup alpine ski racer.Strobl was the gold medalist in the downhill at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....	Kjetil André Aamodt Kjetil André Aamodt Kjetil André Aamodt is a Norwegian former alpine ski racer, and is the most decorated in history....	Marco Büchel Marco Büchel Marco Büchel is a retired alpine ski racer from Liechtenstein. He participated in a record-tying six Winter Olympics, starting in 1992 and ending in 2010....
2	5	Beaver Creek Beaver Creek Resort Beaver Creek Resort is a major United States ski resort near Avon, Colorado, run by Vail Resorts. The resort comprises three villages, the main Beaver Creek Village, Bachelor Gulch, and Arrowhead to the west...		December 2, 2005	Daron Rahlves Daron Rahlves Daron Louis Rahlves is an American freestyle skier and a former alpine ski racer. Raised in northern California, he attended the Green Mountain Valley School in Vermont and currently resides in Truckee, California...	Bode Miller Bode Miller Samuel Bode Miller is an American alpine ski racer. He is an Olympic and World Championship gold medalist, a two-time overall World Cup champion in 2005 and 2008, and is generally considered the greatest American alpine skier of all time...	Hans Grugger
3	8	Val d'Isère Val d'Isère Val d'Isère is a commune of the Tarentaise Valley, in the Savoie department in south-eastern France. It lies from the border with Italy. It is on the border of the Vanoise National Park created in 1963. The Face de Bellevarde was the scene of the men's downhill race as part of the 1992 Winter...		December 10, 2005	Michael Walchhofer Michael Walchhofer Michael Walchhofer is a former Austrian alpine ski racer. He started his career in slalom, but then moved over to the speed events. During his career he won the downhill world cup three times, one silver medal at Olympics Games, and one gold, two silver and one bronze medal at World Ski...	Fritz Strobl Fritz Strobl Fritz Strobl is a former World Cup alpine ski racer.Strobl was the gold medalist in the downhill at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....	Hans Grugger
4	12	Val Gardena		December 17, 2005	Marco Büchel Marco Büchel Marco Büchel is a retired alpine ski racer from Liechtenstein. He participated in a record-tying six Winter Olympics, starting in 1992 and ending in 2010....	Michael Walchhofer Michael Walchhofer Michael Walchhofer is a former Austrian alpine ski racer. He started his career in slalom, but then moved over to the speed events. During his career he won the downhill world cup three times, one silver medal at Olympics Games, and one gold, two silver and one bronze medal at World Ski...	Erik Guay Erik Guay Erik Guay is a Canadian alpine skier from Mont-Tremblant, Québec. Guay is best known winning the discipline trophy in Super G during the 2010 World Cup season and for winning the downhill at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011.- Career :Erik Guay was five when he competed in his first...
5	16	Bormio Bormio Bormio is a town and comune located in the province of Sondrio, Lombardy region of the Alps in northern Italy. It has a population of 4,200...		December 29, 2005	Daron Rahlves Daron Rahlves Daron Louis Rahlves is an American freestyle skier and a former alpine ski racer. Raised in northern California, he attended the Green Mountain Valley School in Vermont and currently resides in Truckee, California...	Fritz Strobl Fritz Strobl Fritz Strobl is a former World Cup alpine ski racer.Strobl was the gold medalist in the downhill at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....	Tobias Gruenenfelder
6	20	Wengen Wengen Wengen may refer to:*Wengen, a village and winter resort in Switzerland*La Val, a commune in South Tyrol, Italy with the German name "Wengen"*in Germany:**Wengen , a village in the municipality of Nennslingen in Mittelfranken...		January 14, 2006	Daron Rahlves Daron Rahlves Daron Louis Rahlves is an American freestyle skier and a former alpine ski racer. Raised in northern California, he attended the Green Mountain Valley School in Vermont and currently resides in Truckee, California...	Michael Walchhofer Michael Walchhofer Michael Walchhofer is a former Austrian alpine ski racer. He started his career in slalom, but then moved over to the speed events. During his career he won the downhill world cup three times, one silver medal at Olympics Games, and one gold, two silver and one bronze medal at World Ski...	Fritz Strobl Fritz Strobl Fritz Strobl is a former World Cup alpine ski racer.Strobl was the gold medalist in the downhill at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....
7	23	Kitzbühel Kitzbühel -Demographic evolution:-Personalities:*Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre , entomologist and botanist*Alfons Walde , expressionist painter and architect*Peter Aufschnaiter , mountaineer and geographer...		January 21, 2006	Michael Walchhofer Michael Walchhofer Michael Walchhofer is a former Austrian alpine ski racer. He started his career in slalom, but then moved over to the speed events. During his career he won the downhill world cup three times, one silver medal at Olympics Games, and one gold, two silver and one bronze medal at World Ski...	Marco Büchel Marco Büchel Marco Büchel is a retired alpine ski racer from Liechtenstein. He participated in a record-tying six Winter Olympics, starting in 1992 and ending in 2010....	Daron Rahlves Daron Rahlves Daron Louis Rahlves is an American freestyle skier and a former alpine ski racer. Raised in northern California, he attended the Green Mountain Valley School in Vermont and currently resides in Truckee, California...
8	27	Garmisch		January 28, 2006	Hermann Maier Hermann Maier Hermann Maier is an Austrian former alpine ski racer. Maier ranks among the finest alpine ski racers in history, having won four overall World Cup titles , two Olympic gold medals , and three World Championship titles...	Klaus Kröll Klaus Kröll Klaus Kröll is a World Cup alpine ski racer. He competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics and 2010 Winter Olympics.In 2006 he finished 22nd in the Olympic downhill race....	Andreas Buder
9	30	Chamonix Chamonix Chamonix-Mont-Blanc or, more commonly, Chamonix is a commune in the Haute-Savoie département in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It was the site of the 1924 Winter Olympics, the first Winter Olympics...		February 4, 2006	cancelled
10	35	Åre Åre Municipality Åre Municipality is a municipality in Jämtland County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Järpen.The present municipality was formed in 1974 through the amalgamation of "old" Åre Municipality with the surrounding municipalities Hallen, Kall, Mörsil and Undersåker...		March 15, 2006	Aksel Lund Svindal Aksel Lund Svindal Aksel Lund Svindal is a World Cup alpine ski racer from Kjeller. He is a two-time winner of the overall , an Olympic gold medalist in Super G at the 2010 Winter Olympics, and a four-time World Champion in downhill, giant slalom, and super combined .-Career:As of...	Bode Miller Bode Miller Samuel Bode Miller is an American alpine ski racer. He is an Olympic and World Championship gold medalist, a two-time overall World Cup champion in 2005 and 2008, and is generally considered the greatest American alpine skier of all time...	Peter Fill Peter Fill Peter Fill is an Italian alpine skier.-World Cup victories:- Career :Peter Fill is an all-round skier. In the 2006/2007 season he was the first Italian athlete since Alberto Tomba in the leaders of the Ski World Cup.At the age of 3 years old, he learned to ski with his first teacher Frieda Senoner...

Final point standings

In Men's Downhill World Cup 2005/06 all results count.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	2	5	8	12	16	20	23	27	30	35
1	Michael Walchhofer Michael Walchhofer Michael Walchhofer is a former Austrian alpine ski racer. He started his career in slalom, but then moved over to the speed events. During his career he won the downhill world cup three times, one silver medal at Olympics Games, and one gold, two silver and one bronze medal at World Ski...		522	36	26	100	80	50	80	100	26	-	24
2	Fritz Strobl Fritz Strobl Fritz Strobl is a former World Cup alpine ski racer.Strobl was the gold medalist in the downhill at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....		491	100	50	80	45	80	60	-	26	-	50
3	Daron Rahlves Daron Rahlves Daron Louis Rahlves is an American freestyle skier and a former alpine ski racer. Raised in northern California, he attended the Green Mountain Valley School in Vermont and currently resides in Truckee, California...		444	-	100	18	12	100	100	60	18	-	36
4	Marco Büchel Marco Büchel Marco Büchel is a retired alpine ski racer from Liechtenstein. He participated in a record-tying six Winter Olympics, starting in 1992 and ending in 2010....		400	60	22	24	100	45	29	80	40	-	-
5	Bode Miller Bode Miller Samuel Bode Miller is an American alpine ski racer. He is an Olympic and World Championship gold medalist, a two-time overall World Cup champion in 2005 and 2008, and is generally considered the greatest American alpine skier of all time...		340	9	80	36	32	29	24	50	-	-	80
6	Kjetil André Aamodt Kjetil André Aamodt Kjetil André Aamodt is a Norwegian former alpine ski racer, and is the most decorated in history....		322	80	32	40	40	-	45	-	45	-	40
7	Hermann Maier Hermann Maier Hermann Maier is an Austrian former alpine ski racer. Maier ranks among the finest alpine ski racers in history, having won four overall World Cup titles , two Olympic gold medals , and three World Championship titles...		305	50	12	29	18	20	50	8	100	-	18
8	Bruno Kernen Bruno Kernen Bruno Kernen is a Swiss alpine skier. In 1997, he was world champion in downhill, as well as a silver medalist in Alpine combined. In 2003, he won bronze in downhill at the world championships in St. Moritz. He is the 2003 winner of the Lauberhorn race.At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Kernen...		268	45	45	50	24	-	24	14	40	-	26
9	Didier Défago Didier Défago Didier Défago is analpine ski racer on the World Cup circuit. He was Swiss national champion in downhill and Giant Slalom...		246	26	5	8	29	32	32	40	29	-	45
10	Kristian Ghedina Kristian Ghedina Kristian Ghedina is a former alpine ski racer, currently an auto racer. He was the most victorious downhill specialist ever for Italy in the Alpine skiing World Cup.-Career:...		235	4	13	26	50	40	24	36	22	-	20
11	Erik Guay Erik Guay Erik Guay is a Canadian alpine skier from Mont-Tremblant, Québec. Guay is best known winning the discipline trophy in Super G during the 2010 World Cup season and for winning the downhill at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011.- Career :Erik Guay was five when he competed in his first...		221	14	40	36	60	15	11	45	-	-	-
12	Klaus Kröll Klaus Kröll Klaus Kröll is a World Cup alpine ski racer. He competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics and 2010 Winter Olympics.In 2006 he finished 22nd in the Olympic downhill race....		216	32	-	45	9	26	12	12	80	-	-
13	Aksel Lund Svindal Aksel Lund Svindal Aksel Lund Svindal is a World Cup alpine ski racer from Kjeller. He is a two-time winner of the overall , an Olympic gold medalist in Super G at the 2010 Winter Olympics, and a four-time World Champion in downhill, giant slalom, and super combined .-Career:As of...		182	40	7	12	5	-	18	-	-	-	100
14	Hans Grugger		166	26	60	60	20	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Peter Fill Peter Fill Peter Fill is an Italian alpine skier.-World Cup victories:- Career :Peter Fill is an all-round skier. In the 2006/2007 season he was the first Italian athlete since Alberto Tomba in the leaders of the Ski World Cup.At the age of 3 years old, he learned to ski with his first teacher Frieda Senoner...		166	5	36	10	-	12	40	3	-	-	60
16	Andreas Buder		133	10	9	5	16	-	1	32	60	-	-
17	Yannick Bertrand		127	29	16	16	-	15	-	7	15	-	29
18	Ambrosi Hoffmann Ambrosi Hoffmann Ambrosi Hoffmann is a Swiss alpine skier.At the 2002 Winter Olympics, he finished 8th in downhill. He won a bronze medal in Super-G at the 2006 Winter Olympics and placed 17th in the downhill event.-External links:...		126	18	4	13	11	3	36	9	32	-	-
|align="left"| Didier Cuche Didier Cuche Didier Cuche is a Swiss alpine ski racer. He primarily competes in the speed disciplines of downhill and Super-G, along with the technical discipline of giant slalom...		126	11	29	8	-	9	-	26	11	-	32
20	Antoine Dénériaz Antoine Dénériaz Antoine Dénériaz is a French Alpine skier. He won a gold medal in the Olympic downhill competition at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, trailed by Austrian Michael Walchhofer and Swiss Bruno Kernen...		124	22	10	15	36	11	-	29	1	-	-
21	Andreas Schifferer Andreas Schifferer Andreas "Andi" Schifferer is a former Austrian alpine skier who was known to be a downhill specialist, but also competed in other disciplines.-Early life:...		111	15	24	-	1	22	13	20	-	-	16
22	Christoph Gruber Christoph Gruber Christoph Gruber is an Austrian skier competing in all World Cup disciplines apart from slalom. In his World Cup debut, the Super G in Aspen, Colorado on November 27, 1998, he finished in fourteenth position. On December 21, 2000, he won his first World Cup race, a Giant Slalom, in Bormio...		102	20	-	11	7	2	20	22	20	-	-
23	Finley Mickel		92	12	-	14	6	-	26	6	6	-	22
24	Steven Nyman Steven Nyman Steven Nyman , is an alpine ski racer on the U.S. Ski Team. Formerly a slalom skier, he is now a speed specialist, competing mainly in downhill, super G, and combined....		86	18	8	-	-	5	-	5	50	-	-
25	Tobias Grünenfelder Tobias Grünenfelder Tobias Grünenfelder is a Swiss alpine skier. He is the 2005, 2006, 2009 and 2010 Swiss champion in Super-G. He also won national Downhill gold in 2007 and 2009.He participated at the World Championships in Vail 1999, St...		74	-	14	-	-	60	-	-	-	-	-
26	Scott Macartney Scott Macartney Scott Macartney is an alpine ski racer with the U.S. Ski Team.-Biography:Macartney grew up in the Seattle area, in Redmond, where his parents were public school teachers. He skied at the Crystal Mountain ski area, located southeast of Seattle, where his parents were members of the volunteer ski...		60	7	-	-	24	-	5	11	13	-	-
	Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin is a French Alpine skier.Dalcin was French Champion in Downhill 2000. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Dalcin was leading the Super-G competition before it was stopped. In the 2nd run, he was disqualified.- World Cup victories :-External links:* official* profile...		60	-	-	-	-	36	8	16	-	-	-
28	Benjamin Raich Benjamin Raich Benjamin Raich is a champion alpine ski racer who won gold medals in the giant slalom and slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics of Turin, Italy...		58	-	12	4	-	16	-	26	-	-	-
29	Manuel Osborne-Paradis Manuel Osborne-Paradis Manuel Osborne-Paradis is a Canadian alpine skier.He grew up racing for the Whistler Mountain Ski Club. His first World Cup podium came in November 2006 at the Bombardier Winterstart men's downhill in Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada...		50	-	-	22	15	13	-	-	-	-	-
30	Kurt Sulzenbacher		46	-	-	9	-	7	14	-	16	-	-
31	Marco Sullivan Marco Sullivan Marco Sullivan is an alpine ski racer with the U.S. Ski Team. He competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics, and has won one World Cup race, on January 26, 2008 in Chamonix, France.-2002:...		45	-	-	-	-	-	15	18	12	-	-
32	François Bourque François Bourque François Bourque is a Canadian alpine skier.François Bourque Began his national debut in 2002. Bourque won the super-G event at the 2003 Junior World Championships and the combined event at the 2004 Junior World Championships. In the 2005 season, he picked up a third place finish in the super-G in...		44	-	20	6	-	18	-	-	-	-	-
33	Roland Fischnaller Roland Fischnaller Roland Fischnaller is an Italian snowboarder who competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics, 2006 Winter Olympics. and 2010 Winter Olympics in Men's Parallel Giant Slalom.- External links :*...		40	-	-	-	-	4	16	15	5	-	-
34	Hannes Reichelt Hannes Reichelt Hannes Reichelt is an Austrian alpine skier, competing in Super-G, Downhill, Giant Slalom, and Alpine Combined races....		33	-	-	-	-	10	10	13	-	-	-
35	Patrik Järbyn Patrik Järbyn Patrik Järbyn is a World Cup alpine ski racer.Despite never having won a World Cup race, Järbyn has two individual World Championship medals. At the 1996 World Championships in Sierra Nevada, Spain, he won the silver medal in super G...		32	-	3	2	8	-	-	4	15	-	-
36	Jürg Grünenfelder		31	2	-	22	-	-	-	-	7	-	-
37	Norbert Holzknecht		26	-	-	-	26	-	-	-	-	-	-
38	Andrej Jerman Andrej Jerman Andrej Jerman, , is a Slovenian skier.His best result in the Alpine skiing World Cup came at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the 2006-07 season, when he won the downhill race. A day later he finished 2nd, again in the downhill. His best result until then was 4th place in Bormio, downhill as well, in the...		25	-	-	-	13	-	9	-	3	-	-
39	Bjarne Solbakken Bjarne Solbakken Bjarne Solbakken is a retired Norwegian alpine skier from Stranda who has competed at the Olympics, World Championships and the World Cup.-Olympics:...		20	-	18	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-
40	Alessandro Fattori		19	1	15	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
41	Lasse Kjus Lasse Kjus Lasse Kjus is a retired Norwegian alpine skier who has won the overall World Cup twice, an Olympic gold medal, and several World Championships...		16	13	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
|align="left"| Werner Heel Werner Heel Werner Heel is an Italian alpine ski racer.Born in Meran, Heel grew up in St. Leonhard in Passeier and currently resides in Meran, where he works as a police officer. He began skiing at the age of four. His main disciplines are downhill and super-G. In order to be competitive in super combined he...		16	8	-	-	-	8	-	-	-	-	-
43	Konrad Hari		15	-	-	-	3	-	-	10	2	-	-
44	A. J. Bear		14	-	-	-	14	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Marc Bottollier-Lasquin		14	-	-	-	-	-	6	-	8	-	-
46	Stefan Thanei		13	-	1	-	2	6	3	1	-	-	-
47	Patrick Staudacher Patrick Staudacher Patrick Staudacher is an Italian alpine skier.He won the Super-G gold medal at the 2007 Alpine Skiing World Championships in Åre.- External links :* * *...		12	-	-	-	-	1	2	-	9	-	-
48	Silvan Zurbriggen Silvan Zurbriggen Silvan Zurbriggen is a Swiss alpine skier and a distant cousin of Pirmin Zurbriggen.He was born in Brig, Valais...		11	-	-	1	10	-	-	-	-	-	-
49	John Kucera John Kucera John Kucera is a World Cup alpine ski racer, a member of the Canadian Alpine Ski Team. He races in all five alpine disciplines, focusing on the speed events of downhill and Super-G. He is the current world champion in the downhill, but has been sidelined due to injury since November 2009...		10	6	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-
	Stephan Keppler Stephan Keppler Stephan Keppler is a German alpine skier.Keppler grew up in Albstadt, a town on the Swabian Alb, in Baden-Württemberg. He learned skiing at his local winter sports club, WSV, of Ebingen. As an adult, he joined the Bundeswehr, the German military, as an army-sponsored athlete .In 1999, he took part...		10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	-	-
51	Walter Girardi Walter Girardi Walter Girardi is a former Italian Alpine skier. He currently lives in Villafranca di Verona. 183 cm tall and weighing 85 kg, he was registered with the Sports Group Finanza....		7	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-
	Nicolas Burtin Nicolas Burtin Nicolas Burtin is a former French Alpine skier. Burtin was a member of the French national team from 1992, and took part in 98 World Cup races in his career, of which 84 were downhill, 13 Super-G plus one giant slalom.The only victory of his career came in March 1998, when he finished first in...		7	-	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Thomas Graggaber		7	-	-	-	-	-	7	-	-	-	-
54	Justin Johnson Justin Johnson Justin Johnson is an American professional ice hockey player who is currently playing for the Manchester Monarchs in the American Hockey League.On October 7, 2010, the Manchester Monarchs signed Johnson to a professional tryout agreement....		4	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-

Note:

In the last race only the best racers were allowed to compete and only the best 15 finishers were awarded with points.

Men's Downhill Team Results

bold indicate highest score - italics indicate race wins

Place	Country	Total Points	2	5	8	12	16	20	23	27	30	35	Racers	Wins
1		2170	289	193	334	222	226	253	233	312	-	108	12	4
2		979	34	188	54	72	134	144	144	93	-	116	7	3
3		897	102	97	102	77	104	92	99	121	-	103	8	0
4		554	21	65	48	52	78	99	55	56	-	80	9	0
5		540	133	60	52	45	-	63	2	45	-	140	4	1
6		400	60	22	24	100	45	29	80	40	-	-	1	1
7		332	51	33	31	36	62	14	52	24	-	29	5	0
8		325	20	60	64	75	46	15	45	-	-	-	4	0
9		92	12	-	14	6	-	26	6	6	-	22	1	0
10		32	-	3	2	8	-	-	4	15	-	-	1	0
11		25	-	-	-	13	-	9	-	3	-	-	1	0
12		14	-	-	-	14	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	0
13		10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	-	-	1	0

External links

• FIS-ski.com - Downhill World Cup 2006

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