Women's Downhill at the XII Olympic Winter Games
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Venue | Axamer Lizum | ||||||||||||
Date | February 8 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 38 from 15 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 1:46.16 | ||||||||||||
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Rosi Mittermaier | West Germany | ||
Brigitte Totschnig | Austria | ||
Cindy Nelson | United States |
Women's Downhill | |
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Location | Axamer Lizum |
Vertical | 700 m (2,297 ft) |
Top elevation | 2,310 m (7,579 ft) |
Base elevation | 1,610 m (5,282 ft) |
The Women's downhill competition of the Innsbruck 1976 Olympics was held at Axamer Lizum.
The defending world champion was Annemarie Moser-Pröll of Austria, who was also the defending World Cup downhill champion, while Switzerland's Bernadette Zurbriggen led the 1976 World Cup.