Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill


The women's downhill of the 2006 Winter Olympics was held at San Sicario, Italy, on Wednesday, 15 February.
Defending Olympic champion Carole Montillet-Carles was nineteenth in the current season's World Cup downhill standings, headed by Michaela Dorfmeister from Austria. Janica Kostelić of Croatia was defending World Champion, but was fourth in the overall World Cup standings, though she did win a downhill at Bad Kleinkirchheim in mid-January.
Dorfmeister won the gold medal, Martina Schild of Switzerland took the silver, and Anja Pärson of Sweden was the bronze medalist. Montillet-Carles finished 28th and Kostelić did not start.
The Fraiteve Olympique course started at an elevation of above sea level with a vertical drop of and a course length of. Dorfmeister's winning time was 116.49 seconds, yielding an average course speed of, with an average vertical descent rate of.

Results

Wednesday, 15 February 2006
The race was started at 12:00 local time,. At the starting gate, the skies were mostly cloudy, the temperature was, and the snow condition was hard packed-variable.
RankBibNameCountryTimeDifference
23Michaela Dorfmeister1:56.49—
26Martina Schild1:56.86+0.37
29Anja Pärson1:57.13+0.64
24Renate Götschl1:57.20+0.71
20Nadia Styger1:57.62+1.13
19Petra Haltmayr1:57.69+1.20
28Julia Mancuso1:57.71+1.22
831Lindsey Kildow1:57.78+1.29
811Alexandra Meissnitzer1:57.78+1.29
1022Nadia Fanchini1:57.84+1.35
1114Chemmy Alcott1:57.85+1.36
1225Fränzi Aufdenblatten1:57.96+1.47
1327Lucia Recchia1:58.30+1.81
143Sylviane Berthod1:58.36+1.87
151Marie Marchand-Arvier1:58.39+1.90
165Ingrid Jacquemod1:58.46+1.97
1718Janette Hargin1:58.53+2.04
1815Jessica Lindell-Vikarby1:58.56+2.07
1916Stacey Cook1:58.70+2.21
2021Emily Brydon1:58.97+2.48
2113Kirsten Clark1:59.07+2.58
2233Nike Bent1:59.17+2.68
2338Dagný Kristjánsdóttir1:59.43+2.94
2430Kelly Vanderbeek1:59.63+3.14
258Petra Robnik1:59.66+3.17
264Shona Rubens2:00.30+3.81
276Sherry Lawrence2:00.47+3.98
2834Carole Montillet-Carles2:01.03+4.54
2917Elena Fanchini2:01.06+4.57
302Carolina Ruiz Castillo2:01.09+4.60
3135Alexandra Coletti2:01.34+4.85
329Daniela Merighetti2:01.76+5.27
3336Olesya Alieva2:02.06+5.57
3437Chirine Njeim2:02.86+6.37
3539Soňa Maculová2:03.63+7.14
3642Jana Gantnerová2:04.60+8.11
3741Eva Hučková2:05.32+8.83
3843Andrea Casasnovas2:06.73+10.24
3944Miriam Vázquez2:07.42+10.93
4045Christelle Laura Douibi2:09.68+13.19
32Janica Kostelić
7Tina Weirather
10Urška Rabič
12Elisabeth Görgl
40Leire Morlans