Women's giant slalom at the XIV Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Jahorina | ||||||||||||
Date | February 13 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 54 from 20 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 2:20.98 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Alpine skiing at the 1984 Winter Olympics | ||
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Downhill | men | women |
Giant slalom | men | women |
Slalom | men | women |
Women's Giant Slalom | |
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Location | Jahorina |
Vertical | 337 m (1,106 ft) |
Top elevation | 1,665 m (5,463 ft) |
Base elevation | 1,328 m (4,357 ft) |
The Women's giant slalom competition of the Sarajevo 1984 Olympics was held at Jahorina on Monday, February 13. [1] [2] Because of weather delays with the downhills, this was the first alpine event of these Olympics.
The defending world champion was Erika Hess of Switzerland, while American Tamara McKinney was the defending World Cup giant slalom champion, and Hess led the current season. [3] [4] Defending Olympic champion Hanni Wenzel was banned from these Olympics. [5] [6]
American Debbie Armstrong won the gold medal, teammate Christin Cooper took the silver, and Perrine Pelen of France was the bronze medalist. [7] [8] [9] [10] McKinney was fourth and Hess was seventh.
Entering the Olympics, the twenty-year-old Armstrong's only World Cup top ten finish in giant slalom was a fifth place in late January, and her sole career World Cup podium came three weeks before that; a third in a Super-G.
The race was started at 10:00 local time, (UTC+1), and the second run began at 13:30. At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was −14.2 °C (6 °F), and the snow condition was hard. For the second run it was snowing lightly at −12.2 °C (10 °F).
Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | Difference |
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15 | Debbie Armstrong | United States | 1:08.97 | 1:12.01 | 2:20.98 | — | |
9 | Christin Cooper | United States | 1:08.87 | 1:12.51 | 2:21.38 | +0.40 | |
2 | Perrine Pelen | France | 1:09.64 | 1:11.76 | 2:21.40 | +0.42 | |
4 | 7 | Tamara McKinney | United States | 1:10.11 | 1:11.72 | 2:21.83 | +0.85 |
5 | 21 | Marina Kiehl | West Germany | 1:09.70 | 1:12.33 | 2:22.03 | +1.05 |
6 | 8 | Blanca Fernández Ochoa | Spain | 1:09.52 | 1:12.62 | 2:22.14 | +1.16 |
7 | 13 | Erika Hess | Switzerland | 1:10.54 | 1:11.97 | 2:22.51 | +1.53 |
8 | 6 | Olga Charvátová | Czechoslovakia | 1:09.94 | 1:12.63 | 2:22.57 | +1.59 |
9 | 11 | Liisa Savijarvi | Canada | 1:10.31 | 1:12.42 | 2:22.73 | +1.75 |
10 | 5 | Anne-Flore Rey | France | 1:10.09 | 1:12.86 | 2:22.95 | +1.97 |
11 | 12 | Carole Merle | France | 1:10.73 | 1:12.54 | 2:23.27 | +2.29 |
12 | 1 | Michela Figini | Switzerland | 1:10.58 | 1:12.76 | 2:23.34 | +2.36 |
13 | 4 | Maria Epple | West Germany | 1:10.40 | 1:13.25 | 2:23.65 | +2.67 |
14 | 24 | Anni Kronbichler | Austria | 1:11.40 | 1:12.77 | 2:24.17 | +3.19 |
15 | 19 | Monika Hess | Switzerland | 1:10.90 | 1:13.68 | 2:24.58 | +3.60 |
16 | 36 | Andreja Leskovšek | Yugoslavia | 1:11.20 | 1:13.41 | 2:24.61 | +3.63 |
17 | 26 | Diana Haight | Canada | 1:11.27 | 1:13.39 | 2:24.66 | +3.68 |
18 | 3 | Cindy Nelson | United States | 1:11.44 | 1:13.44 | 2:24.88 | +3.90 |
19 | 16 | Petra Wenzel | Liechtenstein | 1:11.26 | 1:13.68 | 2:24.94 | +3.96 |
20 | 39 | Veronika Šarec | Yugoslavia | 1:11.71 | 1:13.30 | 2:25.01 | +4.03 |
21 | 10 | Irene Epple | West Germany | 1:11.64 | 1:13.88 | 2:25.52 | +4.54 |
22 | 29 | Nuša Tome | Yugoslavia | 1:12.18 | 1:14.03 | 2:26.21 | +5.23 |
23 | 34 | Mateja Svet | Yugoslavia | 1:11.88 | 1:14.34 | 2:26.22 | +5.24 |
24 | 22 | Michaela Gerg-Leitner | West Germany | 1:12.18 | 1:14.10 | 2:26.28 | +5.30 |
25 | 20 | Daniela Zini | Italy | 1:12.07 | 1:14.26 | 2:26.33 | +5.35 |
26 | 35 | Alexandra Mařasová | Czechoslovakia | 1:12.59 | 1:13.78 | 2:26.37 | +5.39 |
27 | 28 | Roswitha Steiner | Austria | 1:12.09 | 1:14.47 | 2:26.56 | +5.58 |
28 | 40 | Ivana Valešová | Czechoslovakia | 1:12.17 | 1:14.54 | 2:26.71 | +5.73 |
29 | 41 | Nadezhda Andreyeva | Soviet Union | 1:12.46 | 1:14.39 | 2:26.85 | +5.87 |
30 | 43 | Dorota Tłalka-Mogore | Poland | 1:11.91 | 1:14.99 | 2:26.90 | +5.92 |
31 | 42 | Ewa Grabowska | Poland | 1:12.45 | 1:15.10 | 2:27.55 | +6.57 |
32 | 31 | Paola Magoni | Italy | 1:12.56 | 1:15.31 | 2:27.87 | +6.89 |
33 | 23 | Laurie Graham | Canada | 1:12.89 | 1:15.53 | 2:28.42 | +7.44 |
34 | 32 | Sylvia Eder | Austria | 1:13.00 | 1:16.03 | 2:29.03 | +8.05 |
35 | 51 | Liliana Ichim | Romania | 1:14.17 | 1:17.91 | 2:32.08 | +11.10 |
36 | 50 | Teresa Bustamente | Argentina | 1:15.33 | 1:18.86 | 2:34.19 | +13.21 |
37 | 49 | Michèle Brigitte Dombard | Belgium | 1:15.85 | 1:18.94 | 2:34.79 | +13.81 |
38 | 48 | Nanna Leifsdóttir | Iceland | 1:14.82 | 1:20.02 | 2:34.84 | +13.86 |
39 | 52 | Magdalena Birkner | Argentina | 1:17.64 | 1:22.06 | 2:39.70 | +18.72 |
40 | 53 | Gabriela Angaut | Argentina | 1:19.63 | 1:23.53 | 2:43.16 | +22.18 |
41 | 54 | Geraldina Bobbio | Argentina | 1:21.90 | 1:25.61 | 2:47.51 | +26.53 |
42 | 56 | Jin Xuefei | China | 1:22.45 | 1:27.90 | 2:50.35 | +29.37 |
43 | 58 | Lina Aristodimou | Cyprus | 1:29.22 | 1:34.23 | 3:03.45 | +42.47 |
- | 25 | Ursula Konzett | Liechtenstein | 1:10.93 | DNF | - | - |
- | 14 | Fabienne Serrat | France | 1:11.52 | DNF | - | - |
- | 33 | Andrea Bédard | Canada | 1:12.03 | DQ | - | - |
- | 38 | Dolores Fernández Ochoa | Spain | 1:12.05 | DNF | - | - |
- | 27 | Fulvia Stevenin | Italy | 1:12.09 | DNF | - | - |
- | 37 | Jana Gantnerová-Šoltýsová | Czechoslovakia | 1:13.92 | DNF | - | - |
- | 45 | Kate Rattray | New Zealand | 1:14.67 | DNF | - | - |
- | 17 | Elisabeth Kirchler | Austria | DNF | - | - | - |
- | 44 | Jolanda Kindle | Liechtenstein | DQ | - | - | - |
- | 55 | Wang Guizhen | China | DQ | - | - | - |
- | 30 | Ann Melander | Sweden | DNS | - | - | - |
- | 46 | Ondine McGlashen | Australia | DNS | - | - | - |
- | 47 | Marilla Guss | Australia | DNS | - | - | - |
- | 57 | Delia Parate | Romania | DNS | - | - | - |
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