Alpine skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill

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Women's Downhill
at the XVI Olympic Winter Games
Alpine skiing pictogram.svg
Alpine skiing
Venue Meribel
DateFebruary 15
Competitors30 from 12 nations
Winning time1:52.55
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Kerrin Lee-Gartner Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Silver medal icon.svg Hilary Lindh Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg Veronika Stallmaier Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
←  1988
1994  →
Women's downhill
Location Meribel – Roc de Fer
Vertical   828 m (2,717 ft)
Top elevation2,260 m (7,415 ft)  
Base elevation1,432 m (4,698 ft)

The Women's downhill competition of the Albertville 1992 Olympics was held at Meribel on Saturday, 15 February. [1] [2]

The defending world champion was Petra Kronberger of Austria, while Switzerland's Chantal Bournissen was the defending World Cup downhill champion and Germany's Katja Seizinger led the current season. [3] [4]

Kerrin Lee-Gartner of Canada won the gold medal, Hilary Lindh of the United States took the silver, and Veronika Wallinger of Austria was the bronze medalist. Seizinger and Kronberger were close behind and just off the podium, while Bournissen failed to finish. [5] [6] [7] (Seizinger won the next two editions in 1994 and 1998.)

The Roc de Fer (iron rock) course started at an elevation of 2,260 m (7,415 ft) above sea level with a vertical drop of 828 m (2,717 ft) and a course length of 2.770 km (1.72 mi). Lee-Gartner's winning time was 112.55 seconds, yielding an average course speed of 88.601 km/h (55.1 mph), with an average vertical descent rate of 7.357 m/s (24.1 ft/s).

Lee-Gartner was the first from outside the Alps to win a women's speed event (downhill, super-G) at the Olympics; through 2018, she remains the only Canadian to win an Olympic speed event.

Results

The race was started at 11:15 local time, (UTC +1). At the starting gate, the skies were overcast, the temperature was −2.0 °C (28.4 °F), and the snow condition was fresh; the temperature at the finish was lower, at −3.0 °C (26.6 °F).

RankNameCountryTimeDifference
Gold medal icon.svg Kerrin Lee-Gartner Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:52.55—
Silver medal icon.svg Hilary Lindh Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:52.61+0.06
Bronze medal icon.svg Veronika Wallinger Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1:52.64+0.09
4 Katja Seizinger Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:52.67+0.12
5 Petra Kronberger Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1:52.73+0.18
6 Katrin Gutensohn Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:53.71+1.16
7 Barbara Sadleder Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1:53.81+1.26
8 Svetlana Gladysheva Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team 1:53.85+1.30
9 Miriam Vogt Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:53.89+1.34
10 Heidi Zurbriggen Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 1:54.04+1.49
11 Emi Kawabata Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 1:54.52+1.97
12 Krista Schmidinger Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:54.59+2.04
13 Heidi Zeller Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 1:54.73+2.18
Carole Merle Flag of France.svg  France
15 Astrid Lødemel Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 1:54.76+2.21
16 Lucia Medzihradská Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg  Czechoslovakia 1:54.78+2.23
17 Régine Cavagnoud Flag of France.svg  France 1:54.94+2.39
18 Michaela Gerg Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:54.99+2.44
19 Tetiana Lebedeva Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team 1:55.15+2.60
20 Michelle McKendry Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:55.61+3.06
21 Marlis Spescha Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 1:55.83+3.28
22 Cathy Chedal Flag of France.svg  France 1:55.91+3.36
23 Marie-Pierre Gatel Flag of France.svg  France 1:56.25+3.70
24 Ľudmila Milanová Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg  Czechoslovakia 1:57.85+5.30
25 Edith Thys Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:58.13+5.58
26 Sachiko Yamamoto Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 1:58.52+5.97
27 Svetlana Novikova Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team 1:59.18+6.63
28 Mihaela Fera Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 2:01.27+8.72
29 Carolina Eiras Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 2:02.81+10.26
- Chantal Bournissen Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland DNF-
- Warwara Zelenskaja Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team DNS-
Source: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Albertville 1992 Official Report" (PDF). Le Comite d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques Albertville. LA84 Foundation. 1992. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2008. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Alpine Skiing at the 1992 Albertville Winter Games: Women's Downhill". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  3. ↑ "1991 World Cup standings". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
  4. ↑ "1991 World Championships results". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
  5. ↑ Lochner, Bob (February 16, 1992). "Lindh lends a hand to stun Europeans". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). (Los Angeles Times). p. 1G.
  6. ↑ "For U.S., a silver lining". Nashua Telegraph. (New Hampshire). Associated Press. February 16, 1992. p. C1.
  7. ↑ Johnson, William Oscar (February 24, 1992). "On slippery slopes". Sports Illustrated. p. 20.
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