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 Fabienne Suter 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.CBC live broadcast, 12 February 2014 Maze also won the first-ever gold medal for Slovenia at the Winter Olympics (since 1992), 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, (UTC+4). At the starting gate, the skies were partly cloudy, the temperature was , and the snow condition was hard. The temperature at the finish was .Final Results Six racers did not finish; Tina Weirather did not start due to a season-ending injury during a training run on the course. Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference 21 Tina Maze 1:41.57 — 8 Dominique Gisin 18 Lara Gut 1:41.67 +0.10 9 Daniela Merighetti 1:41.84 +0.27 1 Fabienne Suter 1:41.94 +0.37 26 Lotte Smiseth Sejersted 1:42.01 +0.44 25 Edit Miklós 1:42.28 +0.71 12 Julia Mancuso 1:42.56 +0.99 5 Nicole Hosp 1:42.62 +1.05 10 27 Ilka Štuhec 1:42.65 +1.08 11 7 Laurenne Ross 1:42.68 +1.11 12 11 Elena Fanchini 1:42.70 +1.13 13 20 Maria Höfl-Riesch 1:42.74 +1.17 14 23 Verena Stuffer 1:42.75 +1.18 15 3 Viktoria Rebensburg 1:42.76 +1.19 16 19 Elisabeth Görgl 1:42.82 +1.25 17 10 Stacey Cook 1:43.05 +1.48 18 6 Maruša Ferk 1:43.24 +1.67 19 35 Chemmy Alcott 1:43.43 +1.86 20 28 Larisa Yurkiw 1:43.46 +1.89 21 29 Klára Křížová 1:43.47 +1.90 22 30 Nadia Fanchini 1:43.48 +1.91 23 13 Kajsa Kling 1:43.69 +2.12 24 14 Cornelia Hütter 1:43.82 +2.25 25 34 Sara Hector 1:44.23 +2.66 26 2 Jacqueline Wiles 1:44.35 +2.78 27 24 Ragnhild Mowinckel 1:44.43 +2.86 28 32 Elena Yakovishina 1:44.45 +2.88 29 37 Greta Small 1:44.79 +3.22 30 31 Maria Bedareva 1:45.29 +3.72 31 42 Kristína Saalová 1:45.98 +4.41 32 38 Macarena Simari Birkner 1:46.44 +4.87 33 36 Karolina Chrapek 1:46.90 +5.33 34 40 Noelle Barahona 1:49.70 +8.13 35 41 Anna Berecz 1:50.97 +9.40 16 Tina Weirather 4 Marie Marchand-Arvier 15 Carolina Ruiz Castillo 17 22 Anna Fenninger 33 Alexandra Coletti 39 Ania Monica Caill
References
External links FIS-Ski.com – 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's Downhill