The women's downhill of the

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was held at

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, on Wednesday, 15 February. Defending Olympic champion

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was nineteenth in the current season's

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downhill standings, headed by

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from Austria.

Janica Kostelić Janica Kostelić (; born 5 January 1982) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and four-time Olympic gold medalist from Croatia. In addition to the Olympics, she won five gold medals at the World Championships. In World Cup competition, she w ...

of Croatia was defending

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, but was fourth in the overall World Cup standings, though she did win a downhill at

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in mid-January. Dorfmeister won the gold medal,

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of Switzerland took the silver, and

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of Sweden was the bronze medalist. Montillet-Carles finished 28th and Kostelić did not start. The ''Fraiteve Olympique'' course started at an

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of above

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with a vertical drop of and a course length of . Dorfmeister's winning time was 116.49 seconds, yielding an average course speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of .

Results

''Wednesday, 15 February 2006'' The race was started at 12:00

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, ( UTC +1). At the starting gate, the skies were mostly cloudy, the temperature was , and the snow condition was hard packed-variable.

References

External links

Official Olympic ReportFIS results
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