The women's
downhill competition of the
PyeongChang 2018 Olympics was held at the
Jeongseon Alpine Centre in
PyeongChang
Pyeongchang ( , ; in full, ''Pyeongchang-gun'' ) is a county in the province of Gangwon-do, South Korea, located in the Taebaek Mountains region. It is home to several Buddhist temples, including Woljeongsa. It is about east southeast of Seo ...
on Wednesday, 21 February.
Italy's
Sofia Goggia won the gold medal,
Ragnhild Mowinckel of Norway took the silver, and the bronze medalist was
Lindsey Vonn
Lindsey Caroline Vonn ( ; born October 18, 1984) is an American FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup Alpine skiing, alpine ski racer. She won four World Cup overall championships – third amongst female skiers to Annemarie Moser-Pröll and Mika ...
of the United States.
The race course was in length, with a vertical drop of from a starting
elevation
The elevation of a geographic location (geography), ''location'' is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational equipotenti ...
of above
sea level
Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an mean, average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal Body of water, bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured. The global MSL is a type of vertical ...
. Goggia's winning time of 99.22 seconds yielded an average speed of and an average vertical descent rate of .
Qualification
A total of up to 320 alpine skiers qualified across all eleven events. Athletes qualified for this event by having met the A qualification standard only, which meant having 80 or less FIS Points and being ranked in the top 500 in the Olympic FIS points list. The Points list takes into average the best results of athletes per discipline during the qualification period (1 July 2016 to 21 January 2018). Countries received additional quotas by having athletes ranked in the top 30 of the
current World Cup season (two per gender maximum, overall across all events). After the distribution of B standard quotas (to nations competing only in the slalom and giant slalom events), the remaining quotas were distributed using the Olympic FIS Points list, with each athlete only counting once for qualification purposes. A country could only enter a maximum of four athletes for the event.
Results
The race was started at 11:00
local time, (
UTC
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+9). At the starting gate, the skies were mostly clear, the temperature was , and the snow condition was hard.
Final results
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References
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Women's alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics