Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill

The Women's downhill competition of the Lake Placid 1980 Olympics was held at Whiteface Mountain on Sunday, February 17.

The defending world champion was Annemarie Moser-Pröll of Austria, who was also the defending World Cup downhill champion, while Switzerland's Marie-Theres Nadig led the current season. Defending Olympic champion Rosi Mittermaier retired four years earlier.

Moser-Pröll won the gold, Hanni Wenzel of Liechtenstein took the silver, and Nadig was the bronze medalist.

The course started at an elevation of 1181 m above sea level with a vertical drop of 700 m and a length of 2.698 km. Moser-Pröll's winning time was 97.52 seconds, yielding an average speed of 99.598 km/h, with an average vertical descent rate of 7.178 m/s.

Results
The race was started at 11:30 local time, (UTC −5). At the starting gate, the skies were partly cloudy, the temperature was -14 C, wind speed was 25 –, and the snow condition was hard packed.
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