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Downhill, Women

Date	19 February 1994 — 11:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Kvitfjell Alpinsenter, Ringebu
Participants	48 from 19 countries
Course Setter	Jan Tischhauser	👁 Image IFR
Details	Gates: 37 Length: 2641 m Start Altitude: 890 m Vertical Drop: 708 m

The women’s downhill was originally scheduled for Hafjell, where the technical events were contested. But the women skiers protested that the course was too flat and easy, and the Lillehammer organizers responded and moved the women’s downhill to Kvitfjell, where the other speed events were being raced. The ski world was still in mourning as only a few weeks before the Lillehammer Olympics top Austrian contender and super-G World Champion in 1989 and 1991, Ulrike Maier, crashed during a downhill at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, breaking her neck and dying within minutes.

Katja Seizinger was the heaviest favorite in any Alpine event in Lillehammer, having led the World Cup since 1992, winning seven World Cup downhill races during that time. Seizinger confirmed her favorite’s status, going off third, and posting a time that won the gold medal easily. The silver medal went to American Picabo Street, who was still a bit of an unknown quantity, but who would win the 1995 and 1996 World Cup downhills, and an Olympic gold medal in the 1998 super-G.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Time
1	3	Katja Seizinger	👁 Image GER	1:35.93	Gold
2	8	Picabo Street	👁 Image USA	1:36.59	Silver
3	12	Isolde Kostner	👁 Image ITA	1:36.85	Bronze
4	16	Martina Ertl	👁 Image GER	1:37.10
5	2	Kate Pace	👁 Image CAN	1:37.17
6	9	Mélanie Suchet	👁 Image FRA	1:37.34
7	4	Hilary Lindh	👁 Image USA	1:37.44
8	7	Varvara Zelenskaya	👁 Image RUS	1:37.48
9	23	Pernilla Wiberg	👁 Image SWE	1:37.61
10	35	Katja Koren	👁 Image SLO	1:37.69
11	17	Jeanette Lunde	👁 Image NOR	1:37.80
12	1	Miriam Vogt	👁 Image GER	1:37.86
13	33	Florence Masnada	👁 Image FRA	1:37.92
=14	6	Veronika Stallmaier	👁 Image AUT	1:37.94
=14	31	Morena Gallizio	👁 Image ITA	1:37.94
16	32	Alenka Dovžan	👁 Image SLO	1:38.07
17	20	Svetlana Gladysheva	👁 Image RUS	1:38.10
18	25	Katrin Gutensohn	👁 Image GER	1:38.14
19	11	Kerrin Lee-Gartner	👁 Image CAN	1:38.22
20	29	Megan Gerety	👁 Image USA	1:38.24
21	26	Emi Kawabata	👁 Image JPN	1:38.29
22	14	Heidi Zurbriggen	👁 Image SUI	1:38.46
23	37	Špela Pretnar	👁 Image SLO	1:38.50
24	36	Olga Vedyasheva	👁 Image KAZ	1:38.58
25	19	Barbara Merlin	👁 Image ITA	1:38.65
26	10	Régine Cavagnoud	👁 Image FRA	1:38.69
27	27	Krista Schmidinger	👁 Image USA	1:38.76
28	13	Heidi Zeller-Bähler	👁 Image SUI	1:38.78
29	18	Nathalie Bouvier	👁 Image FRA	1:38.85
30	30	Michelle Ruthven	👁 Image CAN	1:38.88
31	5	Anja Haas	👁 Image AUT	1:38.98
32	34	Lucia Medzihradská	👁 Image SVK	1:39.22
33	28	Vreni Schneider	👁 Image SUI	1:39.35
34	21	Erika Hansson	👁 Image SWE	1:39.40
35	39	Nataliya Buga	👁 Image RUS	1:40.93
36	43	Mihaela Fera	👁 Image ROU	1:41.07
37	40	Olha Lohinova	👁 Image UKR	1:43.07
38	38	Mira Golub	👁 Image RUS	1:43.21
39	44	Szvetlana Keszthelyi	👁 Image HUN	1:43.33
40	42	Maria Zaruc	👁 Image ROU	1:45.73
41	48	Francisca Steverlynck	👁 Image ARG	1:46.76
42	46	Khrystyna Podrushna	👁 Image UKR	1:46.96
43	45	Gabriela Quijano	👁 Image ARG	1:49.26
44	47	Jennifer Taylor	👁 Image ARG	1:49.53
15	Bibiana Perez	👁 Image ITA	–
22	Renate Götschl	👁 Image AUT	–
24	Ingrid Stöckl	👁 Image AUT	–
41	Véronique Dugailly	👁 Image BEL	–

URL: https://www.olympedia.org/results/1421

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