Women's Downhill at the XIII Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Whiteface Mountain | ||||||||||||
Date | February 17, 1980 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 28 from 13 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 1:37.52 | ||||||||||||
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Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics | ||
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Downhill | men | women |
Giant slalom | men | women |
Slalom | men | women |
Women's Downhill | |
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Location | Whiteface Mountain |
Vertical | 700 m (2,297 ft) |
Top elevation | 1,181 m (3,875 ft) |
Base elevation | 481 m (1,578 ft) |
The Women's downhill competition of the Lake Placid 1980 Olympics was held at Whiteface Mountain on Sunday, February 17. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
The defending world champion was Annemarie Moser-Pröll of Austria, who was also the defending World Cup downhill champion, while Switzerland's Marie-Theres Nadig led the current season. [6] [7] Defending Olympic champion Rosi Mittermaier retired four years earlier.
Moser-Pröll won the gold, Hanni Wenzel of Liechtenstein took the silver, and Nadig was the bronze medalist. [3] [4] [5]
The course started at an elevation of 1,181 m (3,875 ft) above sea level with a vertical drop of 700 m (2,297 ft) and a length of 2.698 km (1.68 mi). Moser-Pröll's winning time was 97.52 seconds, yielding an average speed of 99.598 km/h (61.9 mph), with an average vertical descent rate of 7.178 m/s (23.5 ft/s).
The race was started at 11:30 local time, (UTC −5). At the starting gate, the skies were partly cloudy, the temperature was −14 °C (7 °F), wind speed was 25–40 km/h (16–25 mph), and the snow condition was hard packed.