Alpine skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill


The Women's Downhill competition of the Lillehammer 1994 Olympics was held at Kvitfjell on Saturday, 19 February.
The defending world champion was Kate Pace Lindsay of Canada, while Germany's Katja Seizinger was the defending World Cup downhill champion and led the current season.
Seizinger won the gold medal, Picabo Street of the United States took the silver, and Isolde Kostner of Italy was the bronze medalist.
The course started at an elevation of above sea level with a vertical drop of and a course length of. Seizinger's winning time was 95.93 seconds, yielding an average course speed of, with an average vertical descent rate of.

Results

The race was started at 11:00 local time,. At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was, and the snow condition was hard; the temperature at the finish was lower, at.
RankBibNameCountryTimeDifference
3Katja Seizinger1:35.93—
8Picabo Street1:36.59+0.66
12Isolde Kostner1:36.85+0.92
416Martina Ertl1:37.10+1.17
52Kate Pace Lindsay1:37.17+1.24
69Mélanie Suchet1:37.34+1.41
74Hilary Lindh1:37.44+1.51
87Varvara Zelenskaya1:37.48+1.55
923Pernilla Wiberg1:37.61+1.68
1035Katja Koren1:37.69+1.76
1117Jeanette Lunde1:37.80+1.87
121Miriam Vogt1:37.86+1.93
1333Florence Masnada1:37.92+1.99
146Veronika Stallmaier1:37.94+2.01
1431Morena Gallizio1:37.94+2.01
1632Alenka Dovžan1:38.07+2.14
1720Svetlana Gladysheva1:38.10+2.17
1825Katrin Gutensohn1:38.14+2.21
1911Kerrin Lee-Gartner1:38.22+2.29
2029Megan Gerety1:38.24+2.31
2126Emi Kawabata1:38.29+2.36
2214Heidi Zurbriggen1:38.46+2.53
2337Špela Pretnar1:38.50+2.57
2436Olga Vedyacheva1:38.58+2.65
2519Barbara Merlin1:38.65+2.72
2610Régine Cavagnoud1:38.69+2.76
2727Krista Schmidinger1:38.76+2.83
2813Heidi Zeller-Bähler1:38.78+2.85
2918Nathalie Bouvier1:38.85+2.92
3030Michelle Ruthven1:38.88+2.95
315Anja Haas1:38.98+3.05
3234Lucia Medzihradská1:39.22+3.29
3328Vreni Schneider1:39.35+3.42
3421Erika Hansson1:39.40+3.47
3539Nataliya Buga1:40.93+5.00
3643Mihaela Fera1:41.07+5.14
3740Olha Lohinova1:43.07+7.14
3838Mira Golub1:43.21+7.28
3944Szvetlana Keszthelyi1:43.33+7.40
4042Maria Zaruc1:45.73+9.80
4148Francisca Steverlynck1:46.76+10.83
4246Khrystyna Podrushna1:46.96+11.03
4345Gabriela Quijano1:49.26+13.33
4447Jennifer Taylor1:49.53+13.60
-15Bibiana PerezDNF-
-22Renate GötschlDNF-
-24Ingrid StöcklDNF-
-41Véronique DugaillyDNF-