The women's downhill of the 2006 Winter Olympics was held at San Sicario, Italy, on Wednesday, 15 February. Defending Olympic champion Carole Montillet-Carles was nineteenth in the current season's World Cup downhill standings, headed by Michaela Dorfmeister from Austria. Janica Kostelić of Croatia was defending World Champion, but was fourth in the overall World Cup standings, though she did win a downhill at Bad Kleinkirchheim in mid-January. Dorfmeister won the gold medal, Martina Schild of Switzerland took the silver, and Anja Pärson of Sweden was the bronze medalist. Montillet-Carles finished 28th and Kostelić did not start. The Fraiteve Olympique course started at an elevation of 2538 m above sea level with a vertical drop of 800 m and a course length of 3.058 km. Dorfmeister's winning time was 116.49 seconds, yielding an average course speed of 94.504 km/h, with an average vertical descent rate of 6.868 m/s.

Results

Wednesday, 15 February 2006 The race was started at 12:00 local time, (UTC +1). At the starting gate, the skies were mostly cloudy, the temperature was -1.6 C, and the snow condition was hard packed-variable.