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
Sofia Goggia  Italy
Ragnhild Mowinckel  Norway
Lindsey Vonn  United States
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

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

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]

RankBibNameCountryTimeBehind
5Sofia Goggia Italy1:39.22
19Ragnhild Mowinckel Norway1:39.31+0.09
7Lindsey Vonn United States1:39.69+0.47
43Tina Weirather Liechtenstein1:39.85+0.63
514Alice McKennis United States1:40.24+1.02
62Corinne Suter Switzerland1:40.29+1.07
78Breezy Johnson United States1:40.34+1.12
813Michelle Gisin Switzerland1:40.55+1.33
915Viktoria Rebensburg Germany1:40.64+1.42
1012Ramona Siebenhofer Austria1:40.98+1.76
116Kira Weidle Germany1:41.01+1.79
1217Nicole Schmidhofer Austria1:41.02+1.80
134Tiffany Gauthier France1:41.04+1.82
131Cornelia Hütter Austria1:41.04+1.82
1510Laurenne Ross United States1:41.10+1.88
1623Jennifer Piot France1:41.17+1.95
1730Lisa Hörnblad Sweden1:41.63+2.41
1829Romane Miradoli France1:41.64+2.42
1924Maruša Ferk Slovenia1:42.00+2.78
2026Greta Small Australia1:42.07+2.85
2122Valérie Grenier Canada1:42.13+2.91
2225Laura Gauché France1:42.29+3.07
2327Roni Remme Canada1:42.80+3.58
2434Maryna Gąsienica-Daniel Poland1:43.30+4.08
2535Noelle Barahona Chile1:44.24+5.02
2632Kateřina Pauláthová Czech Republic1:44.69+5.47
2728Alexandra Coletti Monaco1:45.04+5.82
2836Ania Monica Caill Romania1:45.06+5.84
2937Barbara Kantorová Slovakia1:45.99+6.77
3038Kim Vanreusel Belgium1:46.51+7.29
3139Elvedina Muzaferija Bosnia and Herzegovina1:46.80+7.58
9Lara Gut SwitzerlandDNF
11Stephanie Venier AustriaDNF
16Nadia Fanchini ItalyDNF
18Federica Brignone ItalyDNF
20Jasmine Flury SwitzerlandDNF
21Nicol Delago ItalyDNF
31Petra Vlhová SlovakiaDNF
33Candace Crawford CanadaDNF

References

  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
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