Olympedia – Downhill, Women

Downhill, Women1

Date	12 February 2002 — 10:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Snowbasin Ski Resort, Huntsville, Utah (Wildflower)
Participants	38 from 17 countries
Course Setter	Jan Tischhauser	IFR
Details	Gates: 37 Length: 2694 m Start Altitude: 2748 m Vertical Drop: 800 m

Date

12 February 2002 — 10:00

Status

Olympic

Location

Snowbasin Ski Resort, Huntsville, Utah (Wildflower)

Participants

38 from 17 countries

Course Setter

Jan Tischhauser

IFR

Details

Gates: 37
Length: 2694 m
Start Altitude: 2748 m
Vertical Drop: 800 m

The women’s downhill was postponed by one day because of strong winds. Italy’s Isolde Kostner was the favorite, as she had won the 2001 World Cup and was leading the 2001-02 event. Second and third in the World Cup coming into Salt Lake were Renate Götschl (AUT) and German Hilde Gerg. They were the three last skiers to go off among the seeds. Just before them, France’s Carole Montillet moved into the lead with 1:39.56, and none of the favorites could better that time, giving Montillet a shocking gold medal. She had never previously won a World Cup downhill, and she was still in mourning over the death of Régine Cavagnoud, her close friend and teammate, who died in October 2001 in a training accident. Behind her, Kostner, Götschl, and Gerg finished in that order, the same as their World Cup standings.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Time
1	11	Carole Montillet	FRA	1:39.56	Gold
2	14	Isolde Kostner	ITA	1:40.01	Silver
3	15	Renate Götschl	AUT	1:40.39	Bronze
4	13	Hilde Gerg	GER	1:40.49
5	21	Corinne Rey-Bellet	SUI	1:40.54
6	12	Selina Heregger	AUT	1:40.56
7	18	Sylviane Berthod	SUI	1:40.67
8	24	Mélanie Turgeon	CAN	1:40.71
9	25	Michaela Dorfmeister	AUT	1:40.83
10	16	Regina Häusl	GER	1:40.84
11	28	Jonna Mendes	USA	1:40.97
12	17	Kirsten Clark	USA	1:41.03
13	10	Ingeborg Helen Marken	NOR	1:41.08
14	20	Pernilla Wiberg	SWE	1:41.09
15	8	Mélanie Suchet	FRA	1:41.15
16	26	Picabo Street	USA	1:41.17
17	3	Patrizia Bassis	ITA	1:41.56
18	19	Brigitte Obermoser	AUT	1:41.64
19	9	Catherine Borghi	SUI	1:41.88
20	22	Daniela Ceccarelli	ITA	1:42.03
21	30	Varvara Zelenskaya	RUS	1:42.43
22	1	Špela Bračun	SLO	1:42.48
23	23	Ingrid Jacquemod	FRA	1:42.70
24	5	Lucia Recchia	ITA	1:42.80
25	4	Janette Hargin	SWE	1:42.83
26	29	Sibylle Brauner	GER	1:42.97
27	33	Alice Jones	AUS	1:43.07
28	6	Mojca Suhadolc	SLO	1:43.10
29	31	Jenny Owens	AUS	1:44.15
30	35	Gabriela Martinovová	CZE	1:44.25
31	37	Dagný Linda Kristjánsdóttir	ISL	1:44.72
32	34	Chemmy Alcott	GBR	1:45.98
33	36	Alexandra Munteanu	ROU	1:46.29
34	38	Macarena Simari Birkner	ARG	1:46.77
35	39	María Belén Simari Birkner	ARG	1:46.97
DNF	2	Caroline Lalive	USA	–
DNF	7	Petra Haltmayr	GER	–
DNF	27	Anne-Marie LeFrançois	CAN	–
DNS	32	Sara-Maude Boucher	CAN	–