Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill

The women's downhill competition of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympics was held at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre in PyeongChang on Wednesday, 21 February.[1][2]

Women's downhill
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
VenueJeongseon Alpine Centre, Gangwon Province, South Korea
Date21 February
Competitors39 from 20 nations
Winning time1:39.22
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Sofia Goggia  Italy
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Ragnhild Mowinckel  Norway
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Lindsey Vonn  United States
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Women's Downhill
LocationJeongseon Alpine Centre
Vertical   730 m (2,395 ft)
Top elevation1,275 m (4,183 ft)  
Base elevation   545 m (1,788 ft)

Italy's Sofia Goggia won the gold medal, Ragnhild Mowinckel of Norway took the silver, and the bronze medalist was Lindsey Vonn of the United States.

The race course was 2.775 km (1.72 mi) in length, with a vertical drop of 730 m (2,395 ft) from a starting elevation of 1,275 m (4,183 ft) above sea level. Goggia's winning time of 99.22 seconds yielded an average speed of 100.685 km/h (62.6 mph) and an average vertical descent rate of 7.357 m/s (24.1 ft/s).

Qualification

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A total of up to 320 alpine skiers qualified across all eleven events. Athletes qualified for this event by having met the A qualification standard only, which meant having 80 or less FIS Points and being ranked in the top 500 in the Olympic FIS points list. The Points list takes into average the best results of athletes per discipline during the qualification period (1 July 2016 to 21 January 2018). Countries received additional quotas by having athletes ranked in the top 30 of the current World Cup season (two per gender maximum, overall across all events). After the distribution of B standard quotas (to nations competing only in the slalom and giant slalom events), the remaining quotas were distributed using the Olympic FIS Points list, with each athlete only counting once for qualification purposes. A country could only enter a maximum of four athletes for the event.[3]

Results

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The race was started at 11:00 local time, (UTC+9). At the starting gate, the skies were mostly clear, the temperature was −8.5 °C (17 °F), and the snow condition was hard.[4]

Rank Bib Name Country Time Deficit
  5 Sofia Goggia   Italy 1:39.22
  19 Ragnhild Mowinckel   Norway 1:39.31 +0.09
  7 Lindsey Vonn   United States 1:39.69 +0.47
4 3 Tina Weirather   Liechtenstein 1:39.85 +0.63
5 14 Alice McKennis   United States 1:40.24 +1.02
6 2 Corinne Suter   Switzerland 1:40.29 +1.07
7 8 Breezy Johnson   United States 1:40.34 +1.12
8 13 Michelle Gisin   Switzerland 1:40.55 +1.33
9 15 Viktoria Rebensburg   Germany 1:40.64 +1.42
10 12 Ramona Siebenhofer   Austria 1:40.98 +1.76
11 6 Kira Weidle   Germany 1:41.01 +1.79
12 17 Nicole Schmidhofer   Austria 1:41.02 +1.80
13 4 Tiffany Gauthier   France 1:41.04 +1.82
13 1 Cornelia Hütter   Austria 1:41.04 +1.82
15 10 Laurenne Ross   United States 1:41.10 +1.88
16 23 Jennifer Piot   France 1:41.17 +1.95
17 30 Lisa Hörnblad   Sweden 1:41.63 +2.41
18 29 Romane Miradoli   France 1:41.64 +2.42
19 24 Maruša Ferk   Slovenia 1:42.00 +2.78
20 26 Greta Small   Australia 1:42.07 +2.85
21 22 Valérie Grenier   Canada 1:42.13 +2.91
22 25 Laura Gauché   France 1:42.29 +3.07
23 27 Roni Remme   Canada 1:42.80 +3.58
24 34 Maryna Gąsienica-Daniel   Poland 1:43.30 +4.08
25 35 Noelle Barahona   Chile 1:44.24 +5.02
26 32 Kateřina Pauláthová   Czech Republic 1:44.69 +5.47
27 28 Alexandra Coletti   Monaco 1:45.04 +5.82
28 36 Ania Monica Caill   Romania 1:45.06 +5.84
29 37 Barbara Kantorová   Slovakia 1:45.99 +6.77
30 38 Kim Vanreusel   Belgium 1:46.51 +7.29
31 39 Elvedina Muzaferija   Bosnia and Herzegovina 1:46.80 +7.58
9 Lara Gut   Switzerland DNF
11 Stephanie Venier   Austria DNF
16 Nadia Fanchini   Italy DNF
18 Federica Brignone   Italy DNF
20 Jasmine Flury   Switzerland DNF
21 Nicol Delago   Italy DNF
31 Petra Vlhová   Slovakia DNF
33 Candace Crawford   Canada DNF

References

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  1. ^ "Venues". www.pyeongchang2018.com/. Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Organizing Committee for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Archived from the original on 17 February 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  2. ^ Start list
  3. ^ "Qualification Systems for XXII Olympic Winter Games, PyeongChang 2018 Alpine skiing" (PDF). International Ski Federation (FIS). 16 August 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  4. ^ Final results