The Women's downhill competition at the
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2019
The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2019 were held from 4 to 17 February 2019 in Åre, Sweden. The host city was selected at the FIS Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on 5 June 2014. The only other applicant was Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, which ...
was held on Sunday, 10 February.
/ref>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 won the bronze medal, a half-second behind repeat champion Ilka Štuhec
Ilka Štuhec (born 26 October 1990) is a Slovenian World Cup alpine ski racer, focusing on the speed events of downhill and super-G. She was a three-time junior world champion in three different disciplines, and was the world champion in down ...
of Slovenia, and Switzerland's Corinne Suter
Corinne Suter (born 28 September 1994) is a Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer who specialises in the speed events of downhill and super-G.
Career
Suter made her World Cup debut at age 17 in November 2011, and won season titles in downhill and s ...
took the silver.[
The race course was in length, with a vertical drop of from a starting ]elevation
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of above sea level
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. Štuhec's winning time of 61.74 seconds yielded an average speed of and an average vertical descent rate of .[
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Results
The race started at 12:30 CET
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''(UTC+1)''.[Final results]
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Due to the starting point was dropped by to the location of the Super-G start, shortening the length by to .[
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References
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Women's downhill