Alpine Skiing At The 1972 Winter Olympics – Women's Downhill
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The Women's downhill competition of the Sapporo 1972 Olympics was held at
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on Saturday, February 5. The defending
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was Annerosli Zryd of Switzerland, while Austria's
Annemarie Moser-Pröll Annemarie Moser-Pröll (born 27 March 1953) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria. Born in Kleinarl, Salzburg, she was the most successful female alpine ski racer during the 1970s, with an all-time women's record of six overall ...
was the defending
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downhill champion and led the current season. Defending Olympic champion Olga Pall retired from competition two years earlier.
Marie-Theres Nadig Marie-Thérèse Nadig (born 8 March 1954) is a retired Swiss alpine skier. 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 po ...
of Switzerland won the gold medal, Moser-Pröll took the silver, and American
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was the bronze medalist. The starting gate was at an
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of above
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, with a vertical drop of . The course length was and Nadig's winning run of 96.68 seconds resulted in an average speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of .


Results

Saturday, February 5, 1972
The race was started at 13:30 local time, (
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+9). At the starting gate, the skies were fair, the air temperature was , snow temperature was , and wind speed was . :


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YouTube.com
- 1972 Winter Olympics - Women's Downhill medalists' runs - from Japanese television {{DEFAULTSORT:Alpine skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics - Women's downhill Women's downhill Alp Oly Women's downhill