2019 Men's downhill World Cup
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The men's downhill in the 2019 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved eight events. Swiss skier Beat Feuz won his second consecutive season title in this discipline.
The season was interrupted by the 2019 World Ski Championships, which were held from 4–17 February in Åre, Sweden. The men's downhill was held on 9 February.
| Rank | Name | Total | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |  Beat Feuz | 40 | 100 | 60 | 60 | 80 | 80 | 80 | 40 | 540 |
| 2 |  Dominik Paris | 60 | 22 | 14 | 100 | 24 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 520 |
| 3 |  Vincent Kriechmayr | 50 | 45 | 9 | 45 | 100 | DNF | 45 | 45 | 339 |
| 4 |  Aleksander Aamodt Kilde | 16 | 10 | 100 | 29 | 60 | 13 | 24 | 32 | 284 |
| 5 | Mauro Caviezel | 7 | 80 | 32 | 18 | 36 | 9 | 50 | 50 | 282 |
| 6 | Christof Innerhofer | 80 | 8 | 13 | 80 | 29 | 50 | 16 | 0 | 276 |
| 7 |  Bryce Bennett | 22 | 29 | 50 | 50 | 45 | 18 | 22 | 0 | 236 |
| 8 |  Johan Clarey | 45 | 45 | 20 | 32 | 22 | 24 | 26 | 20 | 234 |
| 9 | Max Franz | 100 | 20 | 80 | 22 | DNF | DNF | DNS | 222 | |
| 10 | Aksel Lund Svindal | 32 | 60 | 36 | 22 | 50 | DNS | 200 | ||
| 11 | Otmar Striedinger | 10 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 10 | 60 | 40 | 60 | 197 |
| Matthias Mayer | 32 | 16 | DNF | 36 | DNF | 29 | 60 | 24 | 197 | |
| 13 | Kjetil Jansrud | 20 | 14 | 5 | DNF | 9 | DNS | 32 | 80 | 160 |
| 14 |  Josef Ferstl | 0 | 20 | 22 | 24 | 3 | 36 | 15 | 36 | 156 |
| 15 | Hannes Reichelt | 13 | 36 | 26 | 0 | 18 | 32 | 8 | 20 | 153 |
| 16 | Steven Nyman | 24 | 29 | 45 | 14 | DNF | DNS | 36 | 0 | 148 |
| 17 |  Benjamin Thomsen | 16 | 0 | 26 | 26 | 20 | 40 | 1 | 0 | 129 |
| 18 | Adrien Théaux | 5 | 50 | 29 | 6 | 13 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 125 |
| 19 | Carlo Janka | 13 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 14 | DNS | 10 | 29 | 90 |
| 20 | Travis Ganong | 0 | 3 | 40 | DNS | 7 | 12 | 0 | 26 | 88 |
| 21 | Emanuele Buzzi | 5 | 9 | 16 | 8 | 40 | DNS | 78 | ||
| 22 | Matthieu Bailet | 0 | 11 | 0 | 40 | DNF | 0 | 0 | 22 | 73 |
| 23 | Niels Hintermann | 18 | 0 | 18 | 18 | 15 | 0 | 2 | DNS | 71 |
| 24 | Adrian Smiseth Sejersted | 6 | 7 | 15 | 2 | DNF | 20 | 20 | 0 | 70 |
| 25 | Gilles Roulin | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 26 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 54 |
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