The women's downhill of the 2006 Winter Olympics was held at San Sicario, Italy, on Wednesday, 15 February.
Defending Olympic champion Carole Montillet-Carles was nineteenth in the current season's World Cup downhill standings, headed by Michaela Dorfmeister from Austria. Janica Kostelić of Croatia was defending World Champion, but was fourth in the overall World Cup standings, though she did win a downhill at Bad Kleinkirchheim in mid-January.
Dorfmeister won the gold medal, Martina Schild of Switzerland took the silver, and Anja Pärson of Sweden was the bronze medalist. Montillet-Carles finished 28th and Kostelić did not start.
The Fraiteve Olympique course started at an elevation of above sea level with a vertical drop of and a course length of . Dorfmeister's winning time was 116.49 seconds, yielding an average course speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of .
Results Wednesday, 15 February 2006
The race was started at 12:00 local time, (UTC +1). At the starting gate, the skies were mostly cloudy, the temperature was , and the snow condition was hard packed-variable. Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference 23 Michaela Dorfmeister 1:56.49 — 26 Martina Schild 1:56.86 +0.37 29 Anja Pärson 1:57.13 +0.64 24 Renate Götschl 1:57.20 +0.71 20 Nadia Styger 1:57.62 +1.13 19 Petra Haltmayr 1:57.69 +1.20 28 Julia Mancuso 1:57.71 +1.22 8 31 Lindsey Kildow 1:57.78 +1.29 8 11 Alexandra Meissnitzer 1:57.78 +1.29 10 22 Nadia Fanchini 1:57.84 +1.35 11 14 Chemmy Alcott 1:57.85 +1.36 12 25 Fränzi Aufdenblatten 1:57.96 +1.47 13 27 Lucia Recchia 1:58.30 +1.81 14 3 Sylviane Berthod 1:58.36 +1.87 15 1 Marie Marchand-Arvier 1:58.39 +1.90 16 5 Ingrid Jacquemod 1:58.46 +1.97 17 18 Janette Hargin 1:58.53 +2.04 18 15 Jessica Lindell-Vikarby 1:58.56 +2.07 19 16 Stacey Cook 1:58.70 +2.21 20 21 Emily Brydon 1:58.97 +2.48 21 13 Kirsten Clark 1:59.07 +2.58 22 33 Nike Bent 1:59.17 +2.68 23 38 Dagný Kristjánsdóttir 1:59.43 +2.94 24 30 Kelly Vanderbeek 1:59.63 +3.14 25 8 Petra Robnik 1:59.66 +3.17 26 4 Shona Rubens 2:00.30 +3.81 27 6 Sherry Lawrence 2:00.47 +3.98 28 34 Carole Montillet-Carles 2:01.03 +4.54 29 17 Elena Fanchini 2:01.06 +4.57 30 2 Carolina Ruiz Castillo 2:01.09 +4.60 31 35 Alexandra Coletti 2:01.34 +4.85 32 9 Daniela Merighetti 2:01.76 +5.27 33 36 Olesya Alieva 2:02.06 +5.57 34 37 Chirine Njeim 2:02.86 +6.37 35 39 Soňa Maculová 2:03.63 +7.14 36 42 Jana Gantnerová 2:04.60 +8.11 37 41 Eva Hučková 2:05.32 +8.83 38 43 Andrea Casasnovas 2:06.73 +10.24 39 44 Miriam Vázquez 2:07.42 +10.93 40 45 Christelle Laura Douibi 2:09.68 +13.19 32 Janica Kostelić 7 Tina Weirather 10 Urška Rabič 12 Elisabeth Görgl 40 Leire Morlans
References
External links Official Olympic Report FIS results