# Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill

The Women's Downhill competition of the Grenoble 1968 Olympics was held at Chamrousse on Saturday, 10 February.
The defending world champion was Marielle Goitschel of France, who was also the defending World Cup downhill champion and Austria's Olga Pall led the current season. Christl Haas of Austria was the defending Olympic champion.
Pall won the gold medal, Isabelle Mir of France took the silver, and Haas was the bronze medalist.
The starting gate was at an elevation of 2,252 m (7,388 ft), and the vertical drop was 602 m (1,975 ft). The course length was 2.160 km (1.34 mi) and Pall's winning time of 100.87 seconds resulted in an average speed of 77.089 km/h (47.9 mph), with an average vertical descent rate of 5.968 m/s (19.6 ft/s).
About an hour before the race, eighteen-year-old American Karen Budge was testing her wax on the practice course and narrowly avoided a full collision with a member of the Moroccan men's team, Said Housni, who had been warned once before to stay off the hill. She fell, suffered a dislocated shoulder, and did not start.

## Results

Saturday, 10 February 1968
| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Difference |
| | 15 | Olga Pall | Austria | 1:40.87 | — |
| | 13 | Isabelle Mir | France | 1:41.33 | +0.46 |
| | 7 | Christl Haas | Austria | 1:41.41 | +0.54 |
| 4 | 8 | Brigitte Seiwald | Austria | 1:41.82 | +0.95 |
| 5 | 14 | Annie Famose | France | 1:42.15 | +1.28 |
| 6 | 21 | Felicity Field | Great Britain | 1:42.79 | +1.92 |
| 7 | 18 | Fernande Bochatay | Switzerland | 1:42.87 | +2.00 |
| 8 | 11 | Marielle Goitschel | France | 1:42.95 | +2.08 |
| 9 | 3 | Florence Steurer | France | 1:43.00 | +2.13 |
| 10 | 5 | Nancy Greene | Canada | 1:43.12 | +2.25 |
| 11 | 10 | Annerösli Zryd | Switzerland | 1:43.76 | +2.89 |
| 12 | 30 | Gertrud Gabl | Austria | 1:43.97 | +3.10 |
| 13 | 6 | Giustina Demetz | Italy | 1:44.22 | +3.35 |
| 14 | 2 | Burgl Färbinger | West Germany | 1:44.29 | +3.42 |
| 15 | 31 | Gina Hathorn | Great Britain | 1:44.36 | +3.49 |
| 16 | 32 | Madeleine Wuilloud | Switzerland | 1:44.49 | +3.62 |
| 17 | 25 | Kiki Cutter | United States | 1:44.94 | +4.07 |
| 18 | 28 | Vreni Inäbnit | Switzerland | 1:45.16 | +4.29 |
| 19 | 1 | Margret Hafen | West Germany | 1:45.33 | +4.46 |
| 20 | 38 | Judi Leinweber | Canada | 1:45.60 | +4.73 |
| 21 | 29 | Sandy Shellworth | United States | 1:46.53 | +5.66 |
| 22 | 20 | Karen Dokka | Canada | 1:47.55 | +6.68 |
| 23 | 27 | Betsy Clifford | Canada | 1:47.60 | +6.73 |
| 24 | 24 | Christine Laprell | West Germany | 1:47.62 | +6.75 |
| 25 | 19 | Rosi Mittermaier | West Germany | 1:47.73 | +6.86 |
| 26 | 37 | Helen Jamieson | Great Britain | 1:48.03 | +7.16 |
| 27 | 36 | Nina Merkulova | Soviet Union | 1:48.04 | +7.17 |
| 28 | 9 | Suzy Chaffee | United States | 1:48.50 | +7.63 |
| 29 | 46 | Alfina Sukhanova | Soviet Union | 1:48.74 | +7.87 |
| 30 | 39 | Clotilde Fasolis | Italy | 1:48.90 | +8.03 |
| 31 | 22 | Glorianda Cipolla | Italy | 1:49.02 | +8.15 |
| 32 | 12 | Divina Galica | Great Britain | 1:49.39 | +8.52 |
| 33 | 23 | Anna Mohrová | Czechoslovakia | 1:50.22 | +9.35 |
| 34 | 48 | Mihoko Otsue | Japan | 1:51.60 | +10.73 |
| 35 | 34 | Galina Sidorova | Soviet Union | 1:51.74 | +10.87 |
| 36 | 35 | Majda Ankele | Yugoslavia | 1:52.13 | +11.26 |
| 37 | 44 | Anne Reid | New Zealand | 1:53.12 | +12.25 |
| 38 | 47 | Marta Bühler | Liechtenstein | 1:53.53 | +12.66 |
| - | 26 | Lotte Nogler | Italy | DNF | - |
| - | 4 | Karen Budge | United States | DNS | - |
| - | 45 | Irina Touroundaevsk | Soviet Union | DNS | - |
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