Alpine skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill

The Women's downhill competition of the Sapporo 1972 Olympics was held at Mount Eniwa on Saturday, February 5.

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. 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.

The starting gate was at an elevation of 870 m above sea level, with a vertical drop of 534 m. The course length was 2.108 km and Nadig's winning run of 96.68 seconds resulted in an average speed of 78.494 km/h, with an average vertical descent rate of 5.523 m/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, snow temperature was -8.0 C, and wind speed was 1.0 m/s.
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