The women's downhill competition in the 2005 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved eight events, including the World Cup season finals in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. In the finals, generally only the top 25 racers in the discipline (along with skiers having more than 500 points overall and the world juniors champion in the discipline) are eligible to compete, and only the top 15 finishers receive points.
Defending discipline champion Renate Götschl of Austria entered the finals with a 32-point lead over Germany's Hilde Gerg and then clinched her fourth championship in this discipline by winning the finals race, as Gerg finished third.[1]
The season was interrupted by the 2005 World Ski Championships, which were held from 28 January to 13 February in Bormio, Italy. The women's downhill was held on 6 February.
| Skier |  | |  | | | | | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left bgcolor=ffcf40 |  Renate Götschl | 45 | 80 | 50 | 80 | 100 | 80 | 32 | 100 | 567 | ||
| 2 | align=left bgcolor=c0c0c0 | Hilde Gerg | 60 | 100 | 60 | 45 | 50 | 60 | 60 | 60 | 495 | |
| 3 | align=left bgcolor=cc9966 | Michaela Dorfmeister | 50 | 32 | 100 | 15 | 45 | 100 | 50 | 40 | 432 | |
| 4 | Janica Kostelić | 20 | 26 | 36 | 45 | 80 | 50 | 80 | 50 | 387 | ||
| 5 |  Lindsey Kildow | 100 | 45 | 80 | 50 | 60 | 13 | 36 | DNF | 384 | ||
| 6 |  Ingrid Jacquemod | 18 | 16 | 18 | 100 | 40 | 12 | 14 | 80 | 298 | ||
| 7 | Carole Montillet | 80 | 60 | 45 | 60 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 18 | 284 | ||
| 8 |  Anja Pärson | 15 | 14 | 1 | bgcolor=lavender | DNS | 2 | 45 | 100 | 32 | 209 | |
| 9 | Sylviane Berthod | 36 | 22 | 40 | 11 | 18 | 40 | 40 | bgcolor=lavender | DNS | 207 | |
| 10 | Julia Mancuso | 16 | 0 | 9 | 20 | 14 | 32 | 29 | 50 | 170 | ||
| 11 | Caroline Lalive | 29 | 29 | 26 | 32 | 22 | 20 | 8 | 0 | 166 | ||
| 12 | DNF | 13 | 15 | 26 | DNF | 36 | 45 | 20 | 155 | |||
| 13 | Petra Haltmayr | 40 | 36 | 0 | 36 | 10 | 3 | bgcolor=lavender | DNS | 29 | 154 | |
| 14 | Isolde Kostner | 32 | 40 | 29 | 18 | 16 | 15 | DNF | DNF | 150 | ||
| 15 | Kirsten Clark | 11 | 11 | 22 | 22 | 32 | 26 | 0 | 24 | 148 | ||
| 16 | Janette Hargin | 13 | 18 | 0 | 29 | 29 | 20 | 6 | 0 | 115 | ||
| 17 | Brigitte Obermoser | 24 | 50 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 16 | 112 | ||
| 18 | Katja Wirth | 22 | 24 | 32 | 16 | 4 | 9 | 1 | DNF | 108 | ||
| 19 | Daniela Ceccarelli | 5 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 26 | 36 | 103 | ||
| 20 | Nadia Styger | bgcolor=lavender | DNS | 0 | 11 | 13 | 36 | 10 | 20 | 0 | 90 | |
| 21 | Alexandra Meissnitzer | 0 | DNF | 22 | 8 | 26 | 29 | 0 | DNF | 85 | ||
| 22 | Fränzi Aufdenblatten | 26 | 0 | 0 | bgcolor=lavender | DNS | 15 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 67 | |
| 23 | Bryna McCarty | 14 | 20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 15 | 0 | 59 | ||
| 24 | Jessica Lindell-Vikarby | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 22 | DNF | 0 | 53 | ||
| Astrid Vierthaler | 3 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 11 | 13 | bgcolor=lavender | DNS | 53 | ||
| 26 | Jonna Mendes | 12 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 16 | bgcolor=palegreen | NE | 50 | |
| 27 | Maria Riesch | DNS | 24 | 24 | DNS | bgcolor=palegreen | NE | 48 | ||||
| 28 | Karin Blaser | 7 | 0 | 0 | DNF | 24 | 14 | bgcolor=lavender | DNS | bgcolor=palegreen | NE | 45 |
| 29 | Martina Ertl | DNS | 3 | 10 | DNS | 26 | 39 | |||||
| 30 | Marlies Schild | 7 | bgcolor=lavender | DNS | 0 | DNS | 5 | 22 | 34 | |||
| 31 | Tina Maze | 0 | bgcolor=lavender | DNS | 7 | DNS | 24 | bgcolor=lavender | DNS | 31 | ||
| 32 | Elena Fanchini | DNS | 14 | 14 | 0 | 0 | bgcolor=lavender | DNS | bgcolor=palegreen | NE | 28 | |
| 33 | Kelly VanderBeek | 0 | 12 | 0 | bgcolor=lavender | DNS | 5 | 7 | 3 | bgcolor=palegreen | NE | 27 |
| 34 | Isabelle Huber | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 16 | bgcolor=lavender | DNS | bgcolor=palegreen | NE | 26 |
| Elisabeth Görgl | DNF | 3 | 16 | DNF | 0 | bgcolor=lavender | DNS | 7 | DNF | 26 | ||
| 36 | Lucia Recchia | 5 | DNS | 20 | bgcolor=palegreen | NE | 25 | |||||
| 37 | Marion Rolland | 0 | 0 | DNS | 22 | bgcolor=palegreen | NE | 22 | ||||
| 38 | Barbara Kleon | 10 | 9 | DNS | bgcolor=palegreen | NE | 19 | |||||
| 2 | 6 | 6 | 5 | DNS | DNF | bgcolor=palegreen | NE | 19 | ||||
| 40 | Magda Mattel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 11 | bgcolor=palegreen | NE | 18 | |
| 41 | Mélanie Turgeon | 1 | 15 | DNS | bgcolor=palegreen | NE | 16 | |||||
| 42 | Catherine Borghi | 9 | 5 | 0 | DNS | bgcolor=palegreen | NE | 14 | ||||
 Chemmy Alcott | 0 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 0 | bgcolor=lavender | DNS | 0 | bgcolor=palegreen | NE | 14 | |
| Kathrin Wilhelm | 8 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | bgcolor=palegreen | NE | 14 | ||
| 45 | Marie Marchand-Arvier | DNS | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | bgcolor=lavender | DNS | bgcolor=palegreen | NE | 13 | |
| Julie Duvillard | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | bgcolor=palegreen | NE | 13 | ||
| 47 | Andrea Fischbacher | DNS | 11 | DNS | bgcolor=palegreen | NE | 11 | |||||
| 48 | Ella Alpiger | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | DNF | 9 | bgcolor=palegreen | NE | 9 | |
| 49 | Nadia Fanchini | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | DNS | DNF | 8 | ||||
| 50 | Anne-Marie LeFrançois | 0 | 7 | 0 | DNF | DNF | 0 | bgcolor=lavender | DNS | bgcolor=palegreen | NE | 7 |
| Selina Heregger | 0 | 4 | DSQ | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | bgcolor=palegreen | NE | 7 | ||
| 52 | Carmen Casanova | DNS | 5 | DNF | DNS | 0 | bgcolor=palegreen | NE | 5 | |||
| 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | bgcolor=lavender | DNS | 0 | bgcolor=palegreen | NE | 4 | |
| Regina Häusl | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | bgcolor=lavender | DNS | bgcolor=palegreen | NE | 4 | |
| 55 | Wendy Siorpaes | DNS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | bgcolor=lavender | DNS | bgcolor=palegreen | NE | 1 | |
| References | [2] | [3] | [4] | [5] | [6] | [7] | [8] | [9] |