| Women's Downhill at the XI Olympic Winter Games
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| Venue | Mount Eniwa | ||||||||||||
| Date | February 5 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 41 from 15 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 1:36.68 | ||||||||||||
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Marie-Theres Nadig |
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Annemarie Moser-Pröll |
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Susie Corrock |
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| Location | Mount Eniwa |
| Vertical | 534 m (1,752 ft) |
| Top elevation | 870 m (2,854 ft) |
| Base elevation | 336 m (1,102 ft) |
The Women's downhill competition of the Sapporo 1972 Olympics was held at Mount Eniwa.
The defending world champion was Annerosli Zryd of Switzerland, while Austria's Annemarie Moser-Pröll was the defending World Cup downhill champion and led the 1972 World Cup.