Women's downhill at the XXI Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Whistler Creekside | ||||||||||||
Date | February 17, 2010 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 45 from 22 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 1:44.19 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics | ||
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Combined | men | women |
Downhill | men | women |
Giant slalom | men | women |
Slalom | men | women |
Super-G | men | women |
Women's Downhill | |
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Location | Whistler Creekside Franz's Downhill |
Vertical | 770 m (2,526 ft) |
Top elevation | 1,595 m (5,233 ft) |
Base elevation | 825 m (2,707 ft) |
The women's downhill competition of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics was held at Whistler Creeksideon Wednesday, February 17.
The women's downhill course runs on the top part of Wildcard, then the bottom of Jimmy's Joker, then finishes out of the valley on Lower Franz's Run. Finally the course merges with the Dave Murray Downhill at the Grandstand finish.
The course was labeled as extremely difficult for skiers and most training runs were cancelled due to weather conditions. This resulted in several accidents during the competition. The worst accident involved Swedish skier Anja Pärson, who lost balance on the last jump before the finish, which resulted in a sixty-meter (200 ft) flight and subsequent fall, but without serious health consequences. [1] Earlier in the same place Swiss skier Dominique Gisin fell; [2] Pärson returned the very next day to win the bronze in the super combined.
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The Franz's Downhill course started at an elevation of 1,595 m (5,233 ft) above sea level with a vertical drop of 770 m (2,526 ft) and a length of 2.939 km (1.83 mi). Vonn's winning time of 104.19 seconds yielded an average course speed of 101.549 km/h (63.1 mph), with an average vertical descent rate of 7.390 m/s (24.2 ft/s).
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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