Alpine skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill
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The Women's downhill competition of the Sapporo 1972 Olympics was held at Mount Eniwa on Saturday, February 5.[1][2]
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| Venue | Mount Eniwa | ||||||||||||
| Date | February 5 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 41 from 15 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 1:36.68 | ||||||||||||
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| Location | Mount Eniwa |
| Vertical | 534 m (1,752 ft) |
| Top elevation | 870 m (2,854 ft) |
| Base elevation | 336 m (1,102 ft) |
The defending world champion was Annerosli Zryd of Switzerland, while Austria's Annemarie Moser-Pröll was the defending World Cup downhill champion and led the current season.[3][4] Defending Olympic champion Olga Pall retired from competition two years earlier.
Marie-Theres Nadig of Switzerland won the gold medal, Moser-Pröll took the silver, and American Susan Corrock was the bronze medalist.[5][6][7]
The starting gate was at an elevation of 870 m (2,854 ft) above sea level, with a vertical drop of 534 m (1,752 ft).[1] The course length was 2.108 km (1.31 mi) and Nadig's winning run of 96.68 seconds resulted in an average speed of 78.494 km/h (48.8 mph), with an average vertical descent rate of 5.523 m/s (18.1 ft/s).
Results
Saturday, February 5, 1972
The race was started at 13:30 local time, (UTC+9). At the starting gate, the skies were fair, the air temperature was −7.0 °C (19.4 °F), snow temperature was −8.0 °C (17.6 °F), and wind speed was 1.0 m/s (2.2 mph).
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