Women's combined at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Hakuba | ||||||||||||
Date | February 9–13 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 29 from 17 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 2:40.74 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics | ||
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Combined | men | women |
Downhill | men | women |
Giant slalom | men | women |
Slalom | men | women |
Super-G | men | women |
The Women's combined competition of the Nagano 1998 Olympics was held at Hakuba. [1] The downhill was originally scheduled before the slalom runs, but weather delays meant that the slalom runs were the first. [2] The defending world champion was Renate Goetschl of Italy, while Sweden's Pernilla Wiberg was the defending World Cup combined champion. [3] [4]
Rank | Name | Country | Downhill | Slalom 1 | Slalom 2 | Total | Difference |
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Katja Seizinger | Germany | 1:28.52 | 0:37.14 | 0:35.08 | 2:40.74 | - | |
Martina Ertl-Renz | Germany | 1:29.76 | 0:36.45 | 0:34.71 | 2:40.92 | +0.18 | |
Hilde Gerg | Germany | 1:29.92 | 0:36.52 | 0:35.06 | 2:41.50 | +0.76 | |
4 | Steffi Schuster | Austria | 1:30.10 | 0:36.25 | 0:35.90 | 2:42.25 | +1.51 |
5 | Morena Gallizio | Italy | 1:30.60 | 0:36.83 | 0:35.09 | 2:42.52 | +1.78 |
6 | Florence Masnada | France | 1:29.87 | 0:37.21 | 0:35.76 | 2:42.84 | +2.10 |
7 | Caroline Lalive | United States | 1:31.05 | 0:37.29 | 0:36.42 | 2:44.76 | +4.02 |
8 | Janica Kostelić | Croatia | 1:31.71 | 0:37.35 | 0:36.17 | 2:45.23 | +4.49 |
9 | Alex Shaffer | United States | 1:32.53 | 0:37.33 | 0:35.38 | 2:45.24 | +4.50 |
10 | Catherine Borghi | Switzerland | 1:31.24 | 0:37.32 | 0:36.77 | 2:45.33 | +4.59 |
11 | Brigitte Obermoser | Austria | 1:29.82 | 0:38.81 | 0:36.85 | 2:45.48 | +4.74 |
12 | Monika Bergmann-Schmuderer | Germany | 1:33.35 | 0:37.41 | 0:35.08 | 2:45.84 | +5.10 |
13 | Ingeborg Helen Marken | Norway | 1:30.65 | 0:39.00 | 0:37.54 | 2:47.19 | +6.45 |
14 | Jonna Mendes | United States | 1:31.16 | 0:39.92 | 0:37.51 | 2:48.59 | +7.85 |
15 | Lucie Hrstková | Czech Republic | 1:33.29 | 0:39.30 | 0:37.37 | 2:49.96 | +9.22 |
16 | Junko Yamakawa | Japan | 1:34.98 | 0:38.24 | 0:37.14 | 2:50.36 | +9.62 |
17 | Tamara Schädler | Liechtenstein | 1:34.18 | 0:39.46 | 0:38.54 | 2:52.18 | +11.44 |
18 | Kirsten Clark | United States | 1:31.47 | 0:41.75 | 0:39.03 | 2:52.25 | +11.51 |
19 | Carola Calello | Argentina | 1:35.09 | 0:39.98 | 0:38.70 | 2:53.77 | +13.03 |
20 | Yuliya Kharkivska | Ukraine | 1:35.84 | 0:41.10 | 0:40.17 | 2:57.11 | +16.37 |
21 | Mónika Kovács | Hungary | 1:37.35 | 0:45.90 | 0:43.06 | 3:06.31 | +25.57 |
- | Kristine Kristiansen | Norway | 1:30.61 | 0:38.49 | DNF | - | - |
- | Bibiana Perez | Italy | 1:30.54 | DNS | - | - | - |
- | Brynja Þorsteinsdóttir | Iceland | 1:34.49 | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Michaela Dorfmeister | Austria | 1:30.10 | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Pernilla Wiberg | Sweden | 1:28.86 | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Renate Götschl | Austria | 1:29.34 | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Mélanie Turgeon | Canada | DNF | - | - | - | - |
- | Trude Gimle | Norway | DNF | - | - | - | - |
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