title: Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill
text: # Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill
  
  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 2,538 m (8,327 ft) above sea level with a vertical drop of 800 m (2,625 ft) and a course length of 3.058 km (1.90 mi). Dorfmeister's winning time was 116.49 seconds, yielding an average course speed of 94.504 km/h (58.7 mph), with an average vertical descent rate of 6.868 m/s (22.5 ft/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 (29 °F), and the snow condition was hard packed-variable.
  
  | Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Difference |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 23 | Michaela Dorfmeister | Austria | 1:56.49 | — |
  | | 26 | Martina Schild | Switzerland | 1:56.86 | +0.37 |
  | | 29 | Anja Pärson | Sweden | 1:57.13 | +0.64 |
  | 4 | 24 | Renate Götschl | Austria | 1:57.20 | +0.71 |
  | 5 | 20 | Nadia Styger | Switzerland | 1:57.62 | +1.13 |
  | 6 | 19 | Petra Haltmayr | Germany | 1:57.69 | +1.20 |
  | 7 | 28 | Julia Mancuso | United States | 1:57.71 | +1.22 |
  | 8 | 31 | Lindsey Kildow | United States | 1:57.78 | +1.29 |
  | 8 | 11 | Alexandra Meissnitzer | Austria | 1:57.78 | +1.29 |
  | 10 | 22 | Nadia Fanchini | Italy | 1:57.84 | +1.35 |
  | 11 | 14 | Chemmy Alcott | Great Britain | 1:57.85 | +1.36 |
  | 12 | 25 | Fränzi Aufdenblatten | Switzerland | 1:57.96 | +1.47 |
  | 13 | 27 | Lucia Recchia | Italy | 1:58.30 | +1.81 |
  | 14 | 3 | Sylviane Berthod | Switzerland | 1:58.36 | +1.87 |
  | 15 | 1 | Marie Marchand-Arvier | France | 1:58.39 | +1.90 |
  | 16 | 5 | Ingrid Jacquemod | France | 1:58.46 | +1.97 |
  | 17 | 18 | Janette Hargin | Sweden | 1:58.53 | +2.04 |
  | 18 | 15 | Jessica Lindell-Vikarby | Sweden | 1:58.56 | +2.07 |
  | 19 | 16 | Stacey Cook | United States | 1:58.70 | +2.21 |
  | 20 | 21 | Emily Brydon | Canada | 1:58.97 | +2.48 |
  | 21 | 13 | Kirsten Clark | United States | 1:59.07 | +2.58 |
  | 22 | 33 | Nike Bent | Sweden | 1:59.17 | +2.68 |
  | 23 | 38 | Dagný Kristjánsdóttir | Iceland | 1:59.43 | +2.94 |
  | 24 | 30 | Kelly Vanderbeek | Canada | 1:59.63 | +3.14 |
  | 25 | 8 | Petra Robnik | Slovenia | 1:59.66 | +3.17 |
  | 26 | 4 | Shona Rubens | Canada | 2:00.30 | +3.81 |
  | 27 | 6 | Sherry Lawrence | Canada | 2:00.47 | +3.98 |
  | 28 | 34 | Carole Montillet-Carles | France | 2:01.03 | +4.54 |
  | 29 | 17 | Elena Fanchini | Italy | 2:01.06 | +4.57 |
  | 30 | 2 | Carolina Ruiz Castillo | Spain | 2:01.09 | +4.60 |
  | 31 | 35 | Alexandra Coletti | Monaco | 2:01.34 | +4.85 |
  | 32 | 9 | Daniela Merighetti | Italy | 2:01.76 | +5.27 |
  | 33 | 36 | Olesya Alieva | Russia | 2:02.06 | +5.57 |
  | 34 | 37 | Chirine Njeim | Lebanon | 2:02.86 | +6.37 |
  | 35 | 39 | Soňa Maculová | Slovakia | 2:03.63 | +7.14 |
  | 36 | 42 | Jana Gantnerová | Slovakia | 2:04.60 | +8.11 |
  | 37 | 41 | Eva Hučková | Slovakia | 2:05.32 | +8.83 |
  | 38 | 43 | Andrea Casasnovas | Spain | 2:06.73 | +10.24 |
  | 39 | 44 | Miriam Vázquez | Argentina | 2:07.42 | +10.93 |
  | 40 | 45 | Christelle Laura Douibi | Algeria | 2:09.68 | +13.19 |
  | | 32 | Janica Kostelić | Croatia | DNS | |
  | | 7 | Tina Weirather | Liechtenstein | DNF | |
  | | 10 | Urška Rabič | Slovenia | DNF | |
  | | 12 | Elisabeth Görgl | Austria | DNF | |
  | | 40 | Leire Morlans | Spain | DNF | |
  