The women's downhill event of the
2002 Winter Olympics
The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 (; Gosiute dialect, Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; ; Shoshoni language, Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), were an international wi ...
was held at
Snowbasin
Snowbasin Resort is a ski resort in the western United States, located in Weber County, Utah, northeast of Salt Lake City, on the back (east) side of the Wasatch Range.
Opened in 1939, as part of an effort by the city of Ogden to restore the ...
on Tuesday, February 12.
Carole Montillet
Carole Montillet-Carles (born 7 April 1973) is a French FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup Alpine skiing, alpine ski racer and Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics, Olympic gold medalist.
Career
Born in Corrençon-en-Vercors, Isère, she b ...
was the surprise winner, and favorites
Isolde Kostner
Isolde Kostner (born 20 March 1975) is an Italian former Alpine skiing, Alpine skier who won two bronze medals at the 1994 Winter Olympics, 1994 Winter Olympics and a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics, 2002 Winter Olympics. She was the It ...
(silver) and
Renate Götschl
Renate Götschl (born 6 August 1975) is an Austrian former alpine ski racer. She is a two-time individual World Champion in the combined (1997) and downhill (1999), and has won a total of 9 World Championships medals. She also won two Olympi ...
(bronze) were the other medalists.
[France's Montillet Wins Women's Downhill, The New York Times, February 12, 2002]
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The ''Wildflower Downhill'' 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 . Montillet's winning time was 99.56 seconds, yielding an average course speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of .
Results
The race was started at 12:10 local time, (UTC
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−7). At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was , and the snow condition was hard.
References
External links
Official Olympic ReportFIS results
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Downhill