Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill

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Women's downhill
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Alpine skiing pictogram.svg
Venue Jeongseon Alpine Centre, Gangwon Province, South Korea
Date21 February 2018
Competitors39 from 20 nations
Winning time1:39.22
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Sofia Goggia Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Silver medal icon.svg Ragnhild Mowinckel Flag of Norway.svg  Norway
Bronze medal icon.svg Lindsey Vonn Flag of the United States.svg  United States
  2014
2022  
Women's Downhill
Location Jeongseon Alpine Centre
Vertical   730 m (2,395 ft)
Top elevation1,275 m (4,183 ft)  
Base elevation   545 m (1,788 ft)

The women's downhill competition of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympics was held at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre in PyeongChang on Wednesday, 21 February. [1] [2]

Italy's Sofia Goggia won the gold medal, Ragnhild Mowinckel of Norway took the silver, and the bronze medalist was Lindsey Vonn of the United States.

The race course was 2.775 km (1.72 mi) in length, with a vertical drop of 730 m (2,395 ft) from a starting elevation of 1,275 m (4,183 ft) above sea level. Goggia's winning time of 99.22 seconds yielded an average speed of 100.685 km/h (62.6 mph) and an average vertical descent rate of 7.357 m/s (24.1 ft/s).

Qualification

A total of up to 320 alpine skiers qualified across all eleven events. Athletes qualified for this event by having met the A qualification standard only, which meant having 80 or less FIS Points and being ranked in the top 500 in the Olympic FIS points list. The Points list takes into average the best results of athletes per discipline during the qualification period (1 July 2016 to 21 January 2018). Countries received additional quotas by having athletes ranked in the top 30 of the current World Cup season (two per gender maximum, overall across all events). After the distribution of B standard quotas (to nations competing only in the slalom and giant slalom events), the remaining quotas were distributed using the Olympic FIS Points list, with each athlete only counting once for qualification purposes. A country could only enter a maximum of four athletes for the event. [3]

Results

The race was started at 11:00 local time, (UTC+9). At the starting gate, the skies were mostly clear, the temperature was −8.5 °C (17 °F), and the snow condition was hard. [4]

RankBibNameCountryTimeDeficit
Gold medal icon.svg5 Sofia Goggia Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:39.22
Silver medal icon.svg19 Ragnhild Mowinckel Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 1:39.31+0.09
Bronze medal icon.svg7 Lindsey Vonn Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:39.69+0.47
43 Tina Weirather Flag of Liechtenstein.svg  Liechtenstein 1:39.85+0.63
514 Alice McKennis Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:40.24+1.02
62 Corinne Suter Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 1:40.29+1.07
78 Breezy Johnson Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:40.34+1.12
813 Michelle Gisin Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 1:40.55+1.33
915 Viktoria Rebensburg Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:40.64+1.42
1012 Ramona Siebenhofer Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1:40.98+1.76
116 Kira Weidle Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:41.01+1.79
1217 Nicole Schmidhofer Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1:41.02+1.80
134 Tiffany Gauthier Flag of France.svg  France 1:41.04+1.82
131 Cornelia Hütter Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1:41.04+1.82
1510 Laurenne Ross Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:41.10+1.88
1623 Jennifer Piot Flag of France.svg  France 1:41.17+1.95
1730 Lisa Hörnblad Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 1:41.63+2.41
1829 Romane Miradoli Flag of France.svg  France 1:41.64+2.42
1924 Maruša Ferk Civil Ensign of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 1:42.00+2.78
2026 Greta Small Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 1:42.07+2.85
2122 Valérie Grenier Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:42.13+2.91
2225 Laura Gauché Flag of France.svg  France 1:42.29+3.07
2327 Roni Remme Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:42.80+3.58
2434 Maryna Gąsienica-Daniel Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1:43.30+4.08
2535 Noelle Barahona Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 1:44.24+5.02
2632 Kateřina Pauláthová Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 1:44.69+5.47
2728 Alexandra Coletti Flag of Monaco.svg  Monaco 1:45.04+5.82
2836 Ania Monica Caill Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 1:45.06+5.84
2937 Barbara Kantorová Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 1:45.99+6.77
3038 Kim Vanreusel Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 1:46.51+7.29
3139 Elvedina Muzaferija Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg  Bosnia and Herzegovina 1:46.80+7.58
9 Lara Gut Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland DNF
11 Stephanie Venier Flag of Austria.svg  Austria DNF
16 Nadia Fanchini Flag of Italy.svg  Italy DNF
18 Federica Brignone Flag of Italy.svg  Italy DNF
20 Jasmine Flury Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland DNF
21 Nicol Delago Flag of Italy.svg  Italy DNF
31 Petra Vlhová Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia DNF
33 Candace Crawford Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada DNF

References

  1. "Venues". www.pyeongchang2018.com/. Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Organizing Committee for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Archived from the original on 17 February 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  2. Start list
  3. "Qualification Systems for XXII Olympic Winter Games, PyeongChang 2018 Alpine skiing" (PDF). International Ski Federation (FIS). 16 August 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  4. Final results