JEONGSEON, South Korea — Bend’s Laurenne Ross finished 15th in the women’s downhill Wednesday at the Pyeongchang Winter Games.

It was the third top-15 finish for Ross in the Olympics — she finished 15th in Saturday’s super-G and placed 11th in the downhill at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.

Sofia Goggia of Italy won the gold medal Wednesday, navigating the Jeongseon Alpine Centre course in 1 minute, 39.22 seconds.

Ragnhild Mowinckel of Norway took silver, .09 seconds back.

Ross’ performance was part of a strong showing for the Americans, as Lindsey Vonn won the bronze medal (.047 back), Alice McKennis finished fifth (1.02 back), and Breezy Johnson took seventh (1.12 back) in a field of 39 starters. It marked the first time that three U.S. skiers finished in the top 10 in an Olympic women’s downhill race.

Ross — who finished 1.88 seconds behind Goggia — was competing in her second Olympics only 11 months removed from a devastating knee injury. Just a few months ago, she did not know if she would even have a chance to qualify for the Olympics after tearing the ACL and meniscus in her right knee last March at the U.S. championships in Maine.

But Ross, 29, was back training on snow by October and back racing on the World Cup circuit in early December, just in time to qualify for Pyeongchang.

Ross had respectable 13th-place and 17th-place finishes in World Cup downhill races in January. She finished fourth in the Olympic downhill test event here last year, and she was fifth in another World Cup downhill in Aspen, Colorado, last season.

Thursday’s alpine combined (downhill and slalom) was believed to be a possibility for Ross, but her father, Rob Ross, said in a text message to The Bulletin on Monday that it was unlikely she would race in the alpine combined.