Alpine Skiing At The 1994 Winter Olympics – Women's Downhill
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The Women's
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competition of the Lillehammer 1994 Olympics was held at
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on Saturday, 19 February. The defending
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was
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of Canada, while Germany's
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was the defending
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downhill champion and led the current season. Seizinger won the gold medal,
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of the United States took the silver, and
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of Italy was the bronze medalist. The course started at an
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of above
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with a vertical drop of and a course length of . Seizinger's winning time was 95.93 seconds, yielding an average course speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of .


Results

The race was started at 11:00
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, ( UTC +1). At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was , and the snow condition was hard; the temperature at the finish was lower, at . :


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