title: Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill
text: 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  above sea level with a vertical drop of  and a course length of . Dorfmeister's winning time was 116.49 seconds, yielding an average course speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of .
  
  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 , and the snow condition was hard packed-variable.
  
  References
  
  External links
  Official Olympic Report
  FIS results
   
  
  Downhill