Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill


The women's downhill competition of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympics was held at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre in PyeongChang on Wednesday, 21 February.
Italy's Sofia Goggia won the gold medal, Ragnhild Mowinckel of Norway took the silver, and the bronze medalist was Lindsey Vonn of the United States.
The race course was in length, with a vertical drop of from a starting elevation of above sea level. Goggia's winning time of 99.22 seconds yielded an average speed of and an average vertical descent rate of.

Qualification

A total of up to 320 alpine skiers qualified across all eleven events. Athletes qualified for this event by having met the A qualification standard only, which meant having 80 or less FIS Points and being ranked in the top 500 in the Olympic FIS points list. The Points list takes into average the best results of athletes per discipline during the qualification period. Countries received additional quotas by having athletes ranked in the top 30 of the current World Cup season. After the distribution of B standard quotas, the remaining quotas were distributed using the Olympic FIS Points list, with each athlete only counting once for qualification purposes. A country could only enter a maximum of four athletes for the event.

Results

The race was started at 11:00 local time,. At the starting gate, the skies were mostly clear, the temperature was, and the snow condition was hard.
RankBibNameCountryTimeBehind
5Sofia Goggia1:39.22
19Ragnhild Mowinckel1:39.31+0.09
7Lindsey Vonn1:39.69+0.47
3Tina Weirather1:39.85+0.63
14Alice McKennis1:40.24+1.02
2Corinne Suter1:40.29+1.07
8Breezy Johnson1:40.34+1.12
13Michelle Gisin1:40.55+1.33
15Viktoria Rebensburg1:40.64+1.42
1012Ramona Siebenhofer1:40.98+1.76
116Kira Weidle1:41.01+1.79
1217Nicole Schmidhofer1:41.02+1.80
134Tiffany Gauthier1:41.04+1.82
131Cornelia Hütter1:41.04+1.82
1510Laurenne Ross1:41.10+1.88
1623Jennifer Piot1:41.17+1.95
1730Lisa Hörnblad1:41.63+2.41
1829Romane Miradoli1:41.64+2.42
1924Maruša Ferk1:42.00+2.78
2026Greta Small1:42.07+2.85
2122Valérie Grenier1:42.13+2.91
2225Laura Gauché1:42.29+3.07
2327Roni Remme1:42.80+3.58
2434Maryna Gąsienica-Daniel1:43.30+4.08
2535Noelle Barahona1:44.24+5.02
2632Kateřina Pauláthová1:44.69+5.47
2728Alexandra Coletti1:45.04+5.82
2836Ania Monica Caill1:45.06+5.84
2937Barbara Kantorová1:45.99+6.77
3038Kim Vanreusel1:46.51+7.29
3139Elvedina Muzaferija1:46.80+7.58
9Lara Gut
11Stephanie Venier
16Nadia Fanchini
18Federica Brignone
20Jasmine Flury
21Nicol Delago
31Petra Vlhová
33Candace Crawford