Tags: Olympic Event, Olympics.
The Men’s Downhill competition of the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid was held at Whiteface Mountain on Thursday February 14.The defending world champion was Josef Walcher of Austria while Switzerland’s Peter Müller was the defending World Cup downhill champion and led the 1980 World Cup.Defending Olympic champion Franz Klammer did not compete; he was not selected to the Austrian Olympic team in 1980.Gold medalist Leonhard Stock was an alternate on the Austrian team but his fast training times earned him a spot on the four-man team displacing Josef Walcher.
