Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill


The Women's downhill competition of the Lake Placid 1980 Olympics was held at on Sunday,
The defending world champion was Annemarie Moser-Pröll of Austria, who was also the defending World Cup downhill champion, while Switzerland's Marie-Theres Nadig led the current season. Defending Olympic champion Rosi Mittermaier retired four years earlier.
Moser-Pröll won the gold, Hanni Wenzel of Liechtenstein took the silver, and Nadig was the bronze medalist.
The course started at an elevation of above sea level with a vertical drop of and a length of. Moser-Pröll's winning time was 97.52 seconds, yielding an average speed of, with an average vertical descent rate of.

Results

The race was started at 11:30 local time,. At the starting gate, the skies were partly cloudy, the temperature was, wind speed was, and the snow condition was hard packed.
RankBibNameCountryTimeDifference
6Annemarie Moser-Pröll1:37.52—
12Hanni Wenzel1:38.22+0.70
9Marie-Theres Nadig1:38.36+0.84
414Heidi Preuss1:39.51+1.99
519Kathy Kreiner1:39.53+2.01
620Ingrid Eberle1:39.63+2.11
722Torill Fjeldstad1:39.69+2.17
711Cindy Nelson1:39.69+2.17
918Marianne Zechmeister1:39.96+2.44
105Jana Šoltýsová1:40.71+3.19
114Laurie Graham1:40.74+3.22
112Bernadette Zurbriggen1:40.74+3.22
1324Loni Klettl1:40.95+3.43
1416Holly Flanders1:40.96+3.44
1523Cristina Gravina1:40.99+3.47
1617Marie-Luce Waldmeier1:41.05+3.53
1713Evi Mittermaier1:41.26+3.74
177Doris de Agostini1:41.26+3.74
193Irene Epple1:41.68+4.16
208Annemarie Bischofsberger1:41.93+4.41
2115Monika Bader1:41.96+4.44
221Cornelia Pröll1:42.44+4.92
2321Petra Wenzel1:42.50+4.98
2425Moira Cargill1:42.82+5.30
2526Valentina Iliffe1:43.28+5.76
2627Anna Archibald1:46.68+9.16
2728Farida Rahmed2:42.88+65.36
-10Caroline AttiaDNF-