Alpine skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill
# Alpine skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill

The Women's downhill competition of the Albertville 1992 Olympics was held at Meribel on Saturday, 15 February.

The defending world champion was Petra Kronberger of Austria, while Switzerland's Chantal Bournissen was the defending World Cup downhill champion and Germany's Katja Seizinger led the current season.

Kerrin Lee-Gartner of Canada won the gold medal, Hilary Lindh of the United States took the silver, and Veronika Wallinger of Austria was the bronze medalist. Seizinger and Kronberger were close behind and just off the podium, while Bournissen failed to finish. (Seizinger won the next two editions in 1994 and 1998.)

The Roc de Fer (iron rock) course started at an elevation of 2,260 m (7,415 ft) above sea level with a vertical drop of 828 m (2,717 ft) and a course length of 2.770 km (1.72 mi). Lee-Gartner's winning time was 112.55 seconds, yielding an average course speed of 88.601 km/h (55.1 mph), with an average vertical descent rate of 7.357 m/s (24.1 ft/s).

Lee-Gartner was the first from outside the Alps to win a women's speed event (downhill, super-G) at the Olympics; through 2018, she remains the only Canadian to win an Olympic speed event.

## Results

The race was started at 11:15 local time, (UTC +1). At the starting gate, the skies were overcast, the temperature was −2.0 °C (28.4 °F), and the snow condition was fresh; the temperature at the finish was lower, at −3.0 °C (26.6 °F).

| Rank | Name | Country | Time | Difference |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | Kerrin Lee-Gartner | Canada | 1:52.55 | — |
| | Hilary Lindh | United States | 1:52.61 | +0.06 |
| | Veronika Wallinger | Austria | 1:52.64 | +0.09 |
| 4 | Katja Seizinger | Germany | 1:52.67 | +0.12 |
| 5 | Petra Kronberger | Austria | 1:52.73 | +0.18 |
| 6 | Katrin Gutensohn | Germany | 1:53.71 | +1.16 |
| 7 | Barbara Sadleder | Austria | 1:53.81 | +1.26 |
| 8 | Svetlana Gladysheva | Unified Team | 1:53.85 | +1.30 |
| 9 | Miriam Vogt | Germany | 1:53.89 | +1.34 |
| 10 | Heidi Zurbriggen | Switzerland | 1:54.04 | +1.49 |
| 11 | Emi Kawabata | Japan | 1:54.52 | +1.97 |
| 12 | Krista Schmidinger | United States | 1:54.59 | +2.04 |
| 13 | Heidi Zeller | Switzerland | 1:54.73 | +2.18 |
| 13 | Carole Merle | France | 1:54.73 | +2.18 |
| 15 | Astrid Lødemel | Norway | 1:54.76 | +2.21 |
| 16 | Lucia Medzihradská | Czechoslovakia | 1:54.78 | +2.23 |
| 17 | Régine Cavagnoud | France | 1:54.94 | +2.39 |
| 18 | Michaela Gerg | Germany | 1:54.99 | +2.44 |
| 19 | Tetiana Lebedeva | Unified Team | 1:55.15 | +2.60 |
| 20 | Michelle McKendry | Canada | 1:55.61 | +3.06 |
| 21 | Marlis Spescha | Switzerland | 1:55.83 | +3.28 |
| 22 | Cathy Chedal | France | 1:55.91 | +3.36 |
| 23 | Marie-Pierre Gatel | France | 1:56.25 | +3.70 |
| 24 | Ľudmila Milanová | Czechoslovakia | 1:57.85 | +5.30 |
| 25 | Edith Thys | United States | 1:58.13 | +5.58 |
| 26 | Sachiko Yamamoto | Japan | 1:58.52 | +5.97 |
| 27 | Svetlana Novikova | Unified Team | 1:59.18 | +6.63 |
| 28 | Mihaela Fera | Romania | 2:01.27 | +8.72 |
| 29 | Carolina Eiras | Argentina | 2:02.81 | +10.26 |
| - | Chantal Bournissen | Switzerland | DNF | - |
| - | Warwara Zelenskaja | Unified Team | DNS | - |

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