Feb/6th/1999 Alpine Ski World Championship DownHill in Vail, U.S. length:2762m vertical drop:757m Rank Name (Nation) Time 1. Hermann Maier (Austria) 1:40.60 2. Lasse Kjus (Norway) 1:40.91 3. Kjetil Andre Aamodt (Norway) 1:41.17 4. Hans Knauss (Austria) 1:41.19 5. Stefan Eberharter (Austria) 1:41.40 6. Werner Franz (Austria) 1:41.75 7. Bruno Kernen (Switzerland) 1:41.98 8. Audun Groenvold (Norway) 1:42.37 9. Kristian Ghedina (Italy) 1:42.79 10. Patrik Jaerbyn (Sweden) 1:42.94 11. Ales Brezavsek (Slovenia) 1:43.10 12. Kenneth Sivertsen (Norway) 1:43.29 13. Erik Seletto (Italy) 1:43.36 14. Didier Cuche (Switzerland) 1:43.42 15. Juerg Gruenenfelder (Switzerland) 1:43.45 16 equal. Paul Accola (Switzerland) 1:43.69 16 equal. Brian Stemmle (Canada) 1:43.69 18. Fredrik Nyberg (Sweden) 1:43.82 19. Pietro Vitalini (Italy) 1:44.03 20. Darin McBeath (Canada) 1:44.42 21. Antoine Deneriaz (France) 1:44.87 22. A.J. Bear (Australia) 1:45.30 23. Chad Fleischer (U.S.) 1:45.33 24. Andrew Freshwater (Britain) 1:45.40 25. Stefan Stankalla (Germany) 1:45.87 26. Craig Branch (Australia) 1:46.06 27. Kevin Wert (Canada) 1:46.13 28. Jakub Fiala (U.S.) 1:46.48 29. Gregor Sparovec (Slovenia) 1:46.80 30. Santi Lopez (Andorra) 1:47.08 31. Jernej Koblar (Slovenia) 1:47.13 32. Andrez Prevuznak (Slovakia) 1:48.14 33. Andrzej Bachleda (Poland) 1:49.05 34. Casey Puckett (U.S.) 1:54.88 35. Nikolay Skriabin (Ukraine) 1:56.47 36. Paul Schwarzacher Joyce (Ireland) 1:59.32 Did not finish: Peter Runggaldier (Italy) Andrej Filischkin (Russia) Daron Rahlves (U.S.) Yasayuki Takishita (Japan) Rodrigo Cortina (Mexico) Disqualified: Markus Herrmann (Switzerland) gate 35