Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill
The Women's Downhill competition of the Grenoble 1968 Olympics was held at Chamrousse on Saturday, 10 February.
The defending world champion was Marielle Goitschel of France, who was also the defending World Cup downhill champion and Austria's Olga Pall led the current season. Christl Haas of Austria was the defending Olympic champion.
Pall won the gold medal, Isabelle Mir of France took the silver, and Haas was the bronze medalist.
The starting gate was at an elevation of, and the vertical drop was. The course length was and Pall's winning time of 100.87 seconds resulted in an average speed of, with an average vertical descent rate of.
About an hour before the race, eighteen-year-old American Karen Budge was testing her wax on the practice course and narrowly avoided a full collision with a member of the Moroccan men's team, Said Housni, who had been warned once before to stay off the hill. She fell, suffered a dislocated shoulder, and did not start.Results
Saturday, 10 February 1968
| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Difference |
| 15 | Olga Pall | | 1:40.87 | — |
| 13 | Isabelle Mir | | 1:41.33 | +0.46 |
| 7 | Christl Haas | | 1:41.41 | +0.54 |
| 4 | 8 | Brigitte Seiwald | | 1:41.82 | +0.95 |
| 5 | 14 | Annie Famose | | 1:42.15 | +1.28 |
| 6 | 21 | Felicity Field | | 1:42.79 | +1.92 |
| 7 | 18 | Fernande Bochatay | | 1:42.87 | +2.00 |
| 8 | 11 | Marielle Goitschel | | 1:42.95 | +2.08 |
| 9 | 3 | Florence Steurer | | 1:43.00 | +2.13 |
| 10 | 5 | Nancy Greene | | 1:43.12 | +2.25 |
| 11 | 10 | Annerösli Zryd | | 1:43.76 | +2.89 |
| 12 | 30 | Gertrud Gabl | | 1:43.97 | +3.10 |
| 13 | 6 | Giustina Demetz | | 1:44.22 | +3.35 |
| 14 | 2 | Burgl Färbinger | | 1:44.29 | +3.42 |
| 15 | 31 | Gina Hathorn | | 1:44.36 | +3.49 |
| 16 | 32 | Madeleine Wuilloud | | 1:44.49 | +3.62 |
| 17 | 25 | Kiki Cutter | | 1:44.94 | +4.07 |
| 18 | 28 | Vreni Inäbnit | | 1:45.16 | +4.29 |
| 19 | 1 | Margret Hafen | | 1:45.33 | +4.46 |
| 20 | 38 | Judi Leinweber | | 1:45.60 | +4.73 |
| 21 | 29 | Sandy Shellworth | | 1:46.53 | +5.66 |
| 22 | 20 | Karen Dokka | | 1:47.55 | +6.68 |
| 23 | 27 | Betsy Clifford | | 1:47.60 | +6.73 |
| 24 | 24 | Christine Laprell | | 1:47.62 | +6.75 |
| 25 | 19 | Rosi Mittermaier | | 1:47.73 | +6.86 |
| 26 | 37 | Helen Jamieson | | 1:48.03 | +7.16 |
| 27 | 36 | Nina Merkulova | | 1:48.04 | +7.17 |
| 28 | 9 | Suzy Chaffee | | 1:48.50 | +7.63 |
| 29 | 46 | Alfina Sukhanova | | 1:48.74 | +7.87 |
| 30 | 39 | Clotilde Fasolis | | 1:48.90 | +8.03 |
| 31 | 22 | Glorianda Cipolla | | 1:49.02 | +8.15 |
| 32 | 12 | Divina Galica | | 1:49.39 | +8.52 |
| 33 | 23 | Anna Mohrová | | 1:50.22 | +9.35 |
| 34 | 48 | Mihoko Otsue | | 1:51.60 | +10.73 |
| 35 | 34 | Galina Sidorova | | 1:51.74 | +10.87 |
| 36 | 35 | Majda Ankele | | 1:52.13 | +11.26 |
| 37 | 44 | Anne Reid | | 1:53.12 | +12.25 |
| 38 | 47 | Marta Bühler | | 1:53.53 | +12.66 |
| - | 26 | Lotte Nogler | | DNF | - |
| - | 4 | Karen Budge | | DNS | - |
| - | 45 | Irina Touroundaevsk | | DNS | - |
