The Women's downhill competition of the Lake Placid 1980 Olympics was held at on Sunday,
The defending world champion was Annemarie Moser-Pröll of Austria, who was also the defending World Cup downhill champion, while Switzerland's Marie-Theres Nadig led the current season. Defending Olympic champion Rosi Mittermaier retired four years earlier.
Moser-Pröll won the gold, Hanni Wenzel of Liechtenstein took the silver, and Nadig was the bronze medalist.
The course started at an elevation of above sea level with a vertical drop of and a length of . Moser-Pröll's winning time was 97.52 seconds, yielding an average speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of .
Results The race was started at 11:30 local time, (UTC −5). At the starting gate, the skies were partly cloudy, the temperature was , wind speed was , and the snow condition was hard packed. Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference 6 Annemarie Moser-Pröll 1:37.52 — 12 Hanni Wenzel 1:38.22 +0.70 9 Marie-Theres Nadig 1:38.36 +0.84 4 14 Heidi Preuss 1:39.51 +1.99 5 19 Kathy Kreiner 1:39.53 +2.01 6 20 Ingrid Eberle 1:39.63 +2.11 7 22 Torill Fjeldstad 1:39.69 +2.17 7 11 Cindy Nelson 1:39.69 +2.17 9 18 Marianne Zechmeister 1:39.96 +2.44 10 5 Jana Šoltýsová 1:40.71 +3.19 11 4 Laurie Graham 1:40.74 +3.22 11 2 Bernadette Zurbriggen 1:40.74 +3.22 13 24 Loni Klettl 1:40.95 +3.43 14 16 Holly Flanders 1:40.96 +3.44 15 23 Cristina Gravina 1:40.99 +3.47 16 17 Marie-Luce Waldmeier 1:41.05 +3.53 17 13 Evi Mittermaier 1:41.26 +3.74 17 7 Doris de Agostini 1:41.26 +3.74 19 3 Irene Epple 1:41.68 +4.16 20 8 Annemarie Bischofberger 1:41.93 +4.41 21 15 Monika Bader 1:41.96 +4.44 22 1 Cornelia Pröll 1:42.44 +4.92 23 21 Petra Wenzel 1:42.50 +4.98 24 25 Moira Cargill 1:42.82 +5.30 25 26 Valentina Iliffe 1:43.28 +5.76 26 27 Anna Archibald 1:46.68 +9.16 27 28 Farida Rahmed 2:42.88 +65.36 - 10 Caroline Attia DNF -
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