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 above sea level with a vertical drop of and a course length of . Lee-Gartner's winning time was 112.55 seconds, yielding an average course speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of .

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 , and the snow condition was fresh; the temperature at the finish was lower, at . Rank Name Country Time Difference Kerrin Lee-Gartner 1:52.55 — Hilary Lindh 1:52.61 +0.06 Veronika Wallinger 1:52.64 +0.09 4 Katja Seizinger 1:52.67 +0.12 5 Petra Kronberger 1:52.73 +0.18 6 Katrin Gutensohn 1:53.71 +1.16 7 Barbara Sadleder 1:53.81 +1.26 8 Svetlana Gladysheva 1:53.85 +1.30 9 Miriam Vogt 1:53.89 +1.34 10 Heidi Zurbriggen 1:54.04 +1.49 11 Emi Kawabata 1:54.52 +1.97 12 Krista Schmidinger 1:54.59 +2.0413 Heidi Zeller 1:54.73 +2.18 Carole Merle 15 Astrid Lødemel 1:54.76 +2.21 16 Lucia Medzihradská 1:54.78 +2.23 17 Régine Cavagnoud 1:54.94 +2.39 18 Michaela Gerg 1:54.99 +2.44 19 Tetiana Lebedeva 1:55.15 +2.60 20 Michelle McKendry 1:55.61 +3.06 21 Marlis Spescha 1:55.83 +3.28 22 Cathy Chedal 1:55.91 +3.36 23 Marie-Pierre Gatel 1:56.25 +3.70 24 Ľudmila Milanová 1:57.85 +5.30 25 Edith Thys 1:58.13 +5.58 26 Sachiko Yamamoto 1:58.52 +5.97 27 Svetlana Novikova 1:59.18 +6.63 28 Mihaela Fera 2:01.27 +8.72 29 Carolina Eiras 2:02.81 +10.26 - Chantal Bournissen DNF - - Warwara Zelenskaja DNS -

References

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