The Women's Downhill competition of the Lillehammer 1994 Olympics was held at Kvitfjell on Saturday, 19 February.
The defending world champion was Kate Pace Lindsay of Canada, while Germany's Katja Seizinger was the defending World Cup downhill champion and led the current season.
Seizinger won the gold medal, Picabo Street of the United States took the silver, and Isolde Kostner of Italy was the bronze medalist.
The course started at an elevation of above sea level with a vertical drop of and a course length of . Seizinger's winning time was 95.93 seconds, yielding an average course speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of .
Results The race was started at 11:00 local time, (UTC +1). At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was , and the snow condition was hard; the temperature at the finish was lower, at . Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference 3 Katja Seizinger 1:35.93 — 8 Picabo Street 1:36.59 +0.66 12 Isolde Kostner 1:36.85 +0.92 4 16 Martina Ertl 1:37.10 +1.17 5 2 Kate Pace Lindsay 1:37.17 +1.24 6 9 Mélanie Suchet 1:37.34 +1.41 7 4 Hilary Lindh 1:37.44 +1.51 8 7 Varvara Zelenskaya 1:37.48 +1.55 9 23 Pernilla Wiberg 1:37.61 +1.68 10 35 Katja Koren 1:37.69 +1.76 11 17 Jeanette Lunde 1:37.80 +1.87 12 1 Miriam Vogt 1:37.86 +1.93 13 33 Florence Masnada 1:37.92 +1.9914 6 Veronika Stallmaier 1:37.94 +2.01 31 Morena Gallizio 16 32 Alenka Dovžan 1:38.07 +2.14 17 20 Svetlana Gladysheva 1:38.10 +2.17 18 25 Katrin Gutensohn 1:38.14 +2.21 19 11 Kerrin Lee-Gartner 1:38.22 +2.29 20 29 Megan Gerety 1:38.24 +2.31 21 26 Emi Kawabata 1:38.29 +2.36 22 14 Heidi Zurbriggen 1:38.46 +2.53 23 37 Špela Pretnar 1:38.50 +2.57 24 36 Olga Vedyacheva 1:38.58 +2.65 25 19 Barbara Merlin 1:38.65 +2.72 26 10 Régine Cavagnoud 1:38.69 +2.76 27 27 Krista Schmidinger 1:38.76 +2.83 28 13 Heidi Zeller-Bähler 1:38.78 +2.85 29 18 Nathalie Bouvier 1:38.85 +2.92 30 30 Michelle Ruthven 1:38.88 +2.95 31 5 Anja Haas 1:38.98 +3.05 32 34 Lucia Medzihradská 1:39.22 +3.29 33 28 Vreni Schneider 1:39.35 +3.42 34 21 Erika Hansson 1:39.40 +3.47 35 39 Nataliya Buga 1:40.93 +5.00 36 43 Mihaela Fera 1:41.07 +5.14 37 40 Olha Lohinova 1:43.07 +7.14 38 38 Mira Golub 1:43.21 +7.28 39 44 Szvetlana Keszthelyi 1:43.33 +7.40 40 42 Maria Zaruc 1:45.73 +9.80 41 48 Francisca Steverlynck 1:46.76 +10.83 42 46 Khrystyna Podrushna 1:46.96 +11.03 43 45 Gabriela Quijano 1:49.26 +13.33 44 47 Jennifer Taylor 1:49.53 +13.60 - 15 Bibiana Perez DNF - - 22 Renate Götschl DNF - - 24 Ingrid Stöckl DNF - - 41 Véronique Dugailly DNF -
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