The women's downhill of the 2006 Winter Olympics was held at San Sicario, Italy, on Wednesday, 15 February.

[1] Defending Olympic champion Carole Montillet-Carles was nineteenth in the current season's World Cup downhill standings, headed by Michaela Dorfmeister from Austria.

[2][3] Dorfmeister won the gold medal, Martina Schild of Switzerland took the silver, and Anja Pärson of Sweden was the bronze medalist.

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 −1.6 °C (29 °F), and the snow condition was hard packed-variable.