Do men and women run the same course in downhill? Their times are comparable.
Now I’ve been on skis only one night - my sense of it was that you crouch and start accelerating...so I’m not surprised there’s not a huge difference in the times.
Do men and women run the same course in downhill?
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What If Men And Women Skied Against Each Other In The Olympics?
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-if-men-and-women-skied-against-each-other-in-the-olympics/
Excerpt:
But these comparisons hide a key difference between the men’s and women’s competitions: namely, the courses themselves. Men and women rarely race on the same courses, which are set according to different guidelines, with men’s courses requiring a greater change in elevation. Courses also vary in their steepness, but there has not been a marked difference in the average gradient of men’s and women’s courses. This means that men’s courses, which tend to have the same gradient as women’s but a greater vertical change, are usually longer than women’s. In other Winter Olympic sports where events are defined by their lengths, such as cross-country skiing and biathlon, the women’s races are also almost always significantly shorter.7