Alpine skiing at the 1984 Winter Paralympics – Women's downhill

Women's Downhill
at the III Paralympic Winter Games
1988

The Women's Downhill competition of the Innsbruck 1984 Paralympics.

Visually impaired

In the downhill visually impaired, the athlete with a visual impairment has a sighted guide.

B1

[1] B1 - visually impaired: no functional vision

Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference
1st place, gold medalist(s) Veronika Preining
Guide: ?
 Austria 2:06.14
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Sheila Holzworth
Guide: ?
 United States 2:32.42 +26.28
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Cara Dunne
Guide: Richard Zabelski
 United States 2:36.93 +30.79

B2

[2] B2 - visually impaired: up to ca 3-5% functional vision

Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference
1st place, gold medalist(s) Edith Hoelzl
Guide: ?
 Austria 1:43.06
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Vivienne Martin
Guide: ?
 New Zealand 1:48.16 +5.10
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Connie Conley
Guide: ?
 United States 1:55.27 +12.21
4 Monika Rumpler
Guide: ?
 Austria 1:55.41 +12.35
5 Karen Rosmarin
Guide: ?
 United States 1:58.93 +15.87
6 Chris Montgomery
Guide: ?
 United States 2:02.68 +19.62
7 Suzy Germano
Guide: ?
 United States 2:06.41 +23.35
Gabriele Berghofer
Guide: ?
 Austria DNF

Standing

LW2

[3] LW2 - standing: single leg amputation above the knee

Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference
1st place, gold medalist(s) Christine Winkler  Austria 1:17.66
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Marianne Reiter  Austria 1:18.38 +0.72
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Lynda Chyzyk  Canada 1:20.28 +2.62
4 Martha Hill  United States 1:20.62 +2.96
5 Virginie Lopez  France 1:24.41 +6.75
6 Brigitte Rajchl  Austria 1:25.77 +8.11
7 Bonnie St. John  United States 1:25.93 +8.27
8 Patricia Craig  New Zealand 1:36.02 +18.36
9 Patti Werner  United States 1:36.57 +18.91
10 Wendy Mason  Great Britain 1:42.85 +25.19
11 Barbara Morrison  United States 1:43.77 +26.11
Annemie Schneider  West Germany DNS
Christine Tschuemperlin  Switzerland DNF

LW4

[4] LW4 - standing: single leg amputation below the knee

Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference
1st place, gold medalist(s) Reinhild Moeller  West Germany 1:13.01
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Lana Spreeman  Canada 1:17.97 +4.96
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Lana Jo Chapin  United States 1:19.76 +6.75
4 Elisabeth Osterwalder  Switzerland 1:26.25 +13.24
5 Beatrice Berthet  Switzerland 1:31.87 +18.86
6 Elisabeth Zerobin  Austria 2:39.37 +1:26.36
Janet Penn  United States DNF +.

LW5/7

[5] LW5/7 - standing: double arm amputation

Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference
1st place, gold medalist(s) Brigitte Madlener  Austria 1:24.92
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Sabine Barisch  West Germany 1:27.65 +2.73
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Sabine Stiefbold  West Germany 1:36.27 +11.35

LW6/8

[6] LW6/8 - standing: single arm amputation

Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference
1st place, gold medalist(s) Gunilla Ahren  Sweden 1:09.20
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Kathy Poohachof  United States 1:12.44 +3.24
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Gerlinde Dullnig  Austria 1:14.89 +5.69
4 Eszbieta Dadok  Poland 1:17.65 +8.45
5 Eva Prihodova  Czechoslovakia 1:23.00 +13.80
6 Siv K. Tunge  Norway 1:25.24 +16.04
Josiane Guichard  France DNS

See also

References