The Women's
downhill
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competition of the
Albertville 1992 Olympics was held at
Meribel on Saturday, 15 February.
The defending
world champion
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was
Petra Kronberger
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Career
Kronberger entered the World C ...
of Austria, while Switzerland's
Chantal Bournissen was the defending
World Cup
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downhill champion and Germany's
Katja Seizinger
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Biography
Born in Datteln, North Rhine-Westphalia, Seizinger won three Olympic gold and two bronze medals, and won e ...
led the
current season.
Kerrin Lee-Gartner
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of Canada won the gold medal,
Hilary Lindh
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Life
Born in Juneau, Alaska, Lindh learned to ski and ...
of the United States took the silver, and
Veronika Wallinger
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of Austria was the bronze medalist. Seizinger and Kronberger were close behind and just off the podium, while Bournissen failed to finish.
(Seizinger won the next two editions in
1994
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and
1998
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.)
The ''Roc de Fer'' (iron rock) course started at an
elevation
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of above
sea level
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with a vertical drop of and a course length of . Lee-Gartner's winning time was 112.55 seconds, yielding an average course speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of .
Lee-Gartner was the first from outside the
Alps
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to win a women's speed event (downhill, super-G) at the
Olympics
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; through
2018
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, she remains the only Canadian to win an Olympic speed event.
Results
The race was started at 11:15
local time
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, (
UTC +1). At the starting gate, the skies were overcast, the temperature was , and the snow condition was fresh; the temperature at the finish was lower, at .
:
References
External links
Results
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