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

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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)

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]

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
1st place, gold medalist(s) 5 Sofia Goggia  Italy 1:39.22
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 19 Ragnhild Mowinckel  Norway 1:39.31 +0.09
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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