Alpine skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill

Women's downhill

at the VIII Olympic Winter Games

Alpine skiing

Venue

Squaw Valley

Date

February 20

Competitors

42 from 14 nations

Winning time

1:37.6

Medalists

	Heidi Biebl	United Team of Germany
	Penny Pitou	United States
	Traudl Hecher	Austria

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The Women's downhill competition of the Squaw Valley 1960 Olympics was held at Squaw Valley.^[1]

The defending world champion was Lucille Wheeler of Canada.^[2]

Results

^[1]

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Difference
01 !	Heidi Biebl	United Team of Germany	1:37.6	-
02 !	Penny Pitou	United States	1:38.6	+1.0
03 !	Traudl Hecher	Austria	1:38.9	+1.3
4	Pia Riva	Italy	1:39.9	+2.3
5	Jerta Schir	Italy	1:40.5	+2.9
6	Anneliese Meggl	United Team of Germany	1:40.8	+3.2
7	Sonja Sperl	United Team of Germany	1:41.0	+3.4
8	Erika Netzer	Austria	1:41.1	+3.5
9	Yvonne Rüegg	Switzerland	1:41.6	+4.0
9	Carla Marchelli	Italy	1:41.6	+4.0
11	Barbi Henneberger	United Team of Germany	1:42.4	+4.8
12	Anne Heggtveit	Canada	1:42.9	+5.3
12	Marit Haraldsen	Norway	1:42.9	+5.3
14	Thérèse Leduc Arlette Grosso	France	1:44.2	+6.6
14	Jolanda Schir	Italy	1:44.2	+6.6
17	Nancy Holland	Canada	1:45.2	+7.6
18	Marguerite Leduc	France	1:45.6	+8.0
19	Stalina Demidova-Korzukhina	Soviet Union	1:46.5	+8.9
20	Yevgeniya Kabina-Sidorova	Soviet Union	1:46.7	+9.1
21	Joan Hannah	United States	1:47.9	+10.3
22	Nancy Greene	Canada	1:48.3	+10.7
23	Lyubov Volkova	Soviet Union	1:49.2	+11.6
24	Marían Navarro	Spain	1:49.7	+12.1
25	Josephine Gibbs	Great Britain	1:50.3	+12.7
26	Margrit Gertsch	Switzerland	1:50.4	+12.8
27	Christine Davy	Australia	1:50.6	+13.0
28	Wendy Farrington	Great Britain	1:50.8	+13.2
29	María Cristina Schweizer	Argentina	1:51.0	+13.4
30	Liv Jagge-Christiansen	Norway	1:51.2	+13.6
31	Renate Holmes	Great Britain	1:51.9	+14.3
32	Elizabeth Greene	Canada	1:53.3	+15.7
33	Linda Meyers	United States	1:53.4	+15.8
34	Cecilia Womersley	New Zealand	1:59.5	+21.9
35	Liselotte Michel	Switzerland	2:01.0	+23.4
36	Trish Prain	New Zealand	2:01.5	+23.9
37	Astrid Sandvik	Norway	2:02.9	+25.3
38	Janine Monterrain	France	2:03.0	+25.4
39	Putzi Frandl	Austria	2:11.6	+34.0
-	Betsy Snite	United States	DQ	-
-	Annemarie Waser	Switzerland	DQ	-
-	Herlinde Beutlhauser	Austria	DQ	-

References

1 2 "VIII Olympic Winter Games Squaw Valley, California 1960 - Final Report" (PDF). California Olympic Commission. LA84 Foundation. 1960. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
↑ "1958 World Championships results". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.

External links

Sports-Reference - 1960 Women's Downhill

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