Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill


The women's downhill competition of the Sochi 2014 Olympics was held at the Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort near Krasnaya Polyana, Russia, on Wednesday, 12 February. The race was won by Tina Maze of Slovenia and Dominique Gisin of Switzerland, who posted the same time. Lara Gut, also of Switzerland, was a tenth of a second back and took the bronze medal.

Summary

was the first out of the gate and led until Gisin surpassed her by 0.37 seconds. Immediately after Gisin, Daniela Merighetti took a provisional second position, and stayed there until Gut, skiing 18th, replaced her at 0.10 seconds behind Gisin. Maze was the 21st racer out of the gate and led at all the intervals, but finished with exactly the same time as Gisin. The best run after Maze was by Lotte Smiseth Sejersted of Norway, who finished sixth.
Defending Olympic champion Lindsey Vonn did not participate due to a knee injury, and the other defending medalists, Julia Mancuso and Elisabeth Görgl, finished outside the podium. It was the first time any Olympic alpine event has ended in a tie for the gold. Maze also won the first-ever gold medal for Slovenia at the Winter Olympics, while Gisin and Gut both won their first Olympic medals.
The course started at an elevation of above sea level with a vertical drop of and a length of. The winning time of 101.57 seconds yielded an average course speed of, with an average vertical descent rate of.

Results

Wednesday, 12 February 2014
The race was started at 11:00 local time,. At the starting gate, the skies were partly cloudy, the temperature was, and the snow condition was hard. The temperature at the finish was. Six racers did not finish; Tina Weirather did not start due to a season-ending injury during a training run on the course.
RankBibNameCountryTimeDifference
21Tina Maze1:41.57—
8Dominique Gisin1:41.57—
18Lara Gut1:41.67+0.10
9Daniela Merighetti1:41.84+0.27
1Fabienne Suter1:41.94+0.37
26Lotte Smiseth Sejersted1:42.01+0.44
25Edit Miklós1:42.28+0.71
12Julia Mancuso1:42.56+0.99
5Nicole Hosp1:42.62+1.05
1027Ilka Štuhec1:42.65+1.08
117Laurenne Ross1:42.68+1.11
1211Elena Fanchini1:42.70+1.13
1320Maria Höfl-Riesch1:42.74+1.17
1423Verena Stuffer1:42.75+1.18
153Viktoria Rebensburg1:42.76+1.19
1619Elisabeth Görgl1:42.82+1.25
1710Stacey Cook1:43.05+1.48
186Maruša Ferk1:43.24+1.67
1935Chemmy Alcott1:43.43+1.86
2028Larisa Yurkiw1:43.46+1.89
2129Klára Křížová1:43.47+1.90
2230Nadia Fanchini1:43.48+1.91
2313Kajsa Kling1:43.69+2.12
2414Cornelia Hütter1:43.82+2.25
2534Sara Hector1:44.23+2.66
262Jacqueline Wiles1:44.35+2.78
2724Ragnhild Mowinckel1:44.43+2.86
2832Elena Yakovishina1:44.45+2.88
2937Greta Small1:44.79+3.22
3031Maria Bedareva1:45.29+3.72
3142Kristína Saalová1:45.98+4.41
3238Macarena Simari Birkner1:46.44+4.87
3336Karolina Chrapek1:46.90+5.33
3440Noelle Barahona1:49.70+8.13
3541Anna Berecz1:50.97+9.40
16Tina Weirather
4Marie Marchand-Arvier
15Carolina Ruiz Castillo
17
22Anna Fenninger
33Alexandra Coletti
39Ania Monica Caill