Alpine skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill


The Women's downhill competition of the Albertville 1992 Olympics was held at Meribel on Saturday, 15 February.
The defending world champion was Petra Kronberger of Austria, while Switzerland's Chantal Bournissen was the defending World Cup downhill champion and Germany's Katja Seizinger led the current season.
Kerrin Lee-Gartner of Canada won the gold medal, Hilary Lindh of the United States took the silver, and Veronika Wallinger of Austria was the bronze medalist. Seizinger and Kronberger were close behind and just off the podium, while Bournissen failed to finish.
The Roc de Fer course started at an elevation of above sea level with a vertical drop of and a course length of. Lee-Gartner's winning time was 112.55 seconds, yielding an average course speed of, with an average vertical descent rate of.
Lee-Gartner was the first from outside the Alps to win a women's speed event at the Olympics; through 2018, she remains the only Canadian to win an Olympic speed event.

Results

The race was started at 11:15 local time,. At the starting gate, the skies were overcast, the temperature was, and the snow condition was fresh; the temperature at the finish was lower, at.
RankNameCountryTimeDifference
Kerrin Lee-Gartner1:52.55—
Hilary Lindh1:52.61+0.06
Veronika Wallinger1:52.64+0.09
4Katja Seizinger1:52.67+0.12
5Petra Kronberger1:52.73+0.18
6Katrin Gutensohn1:53.71+1.16
7Barbara Sadleder1:53.81+1.26
8Svetlana Gladysheva1:53.85+1.30
9Miriam Vogt1:53.89+1.34
10Heidi Zurbriggen1:54.04+1.49
11Emi Kawabata1:54.52+1.97
12Krista Schmidinger1:54.59+2.04
13Heidi Zeller1:54.73+2.18
13Carole Merle1:54.73+2.18
15Astrid Lødemel1:54.76+2.21
16Lucia Medzihradská1:54.78+2.23
17Régine Cavagnoud1:54.94+2.39
18Michaela Gerg1:54.99+2.44
19Tetiana Lebedeva1:55.15+2.60
20Michelle McKendry1:55.61+3.06
21Marlis Spescha1:55.83+3.28
22Cathy Chedal1:55.91+3.36
23Marie-Pierre Gatel1:56.25+3.70
24Ľudmila Milanová1:57.85+5.30
25Edith Thys1:58.13+5.58
26Sachiko Yamamoto1:58.52+5.97
27Svetlana Novikova1:59.18+6.63
28Mihaela Fera2:01.27+8.72
29Carolina Eiras2:02.81+10.26
-Chantal BournissenDNF-
-Warwara ZelenskajaDNS-