The Women's
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competition of the
Lake Placid 1980 Olympics was held at on Sunday,
The defending
world champion
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was
Annemarie Moser-Pröll
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of Austria, who was also the defending
World Cup
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downhill champion, while Switzerland's
Marie-Theres Nadig
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Biography
Aged 17, she won gold medals in the downhill and giant slalom events at the 1972 Winter Olympics. During her career, Nadig won 24 world cup races and had 57 podi ...
led the
current season.
Defending Olympic champion
Rosi Mittermaier
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retired four years earlier.
Moser-Pröll won the gold,
Hanni Wenzel
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of Liechtenstein took the silver, and Nadig was the bronze medalist.
[
The course started at an ]elevation
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of above sea level
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with a vertical drop of and a length of . Moser-Pröll's winning time was 97.52 seconds, yielding an average speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of .
Results
The race was started at 11:30 local time
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, ( UTC −5). At the starting gate, the skies were partly cloudy, the temperature was , wind speed was , and the snow condition was hard packed.
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References
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