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

Alpine skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Downhill		men		women
Giant slalom		men		women
Slalom		men		women

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
	Heidi Biebl	United Team of Germany	1:37.6	-
	Penny Pitou	United States	1:38.6	+1.0
	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
	Carla Marchelli	Italy
11	Barbi Henneberger	United Team of Germany	1:42.4	+4.8
12	Anne Heggtveit	Canada	1:42.9	+5.3
	Marit Haraldsen	Norway
14	Thérèse Leduc Arlette Grosso	France	1:44.2	+6.6
	Jolanda Schir	Italy
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. "VIII Olympic Winter Games Squaw Valley, California 1960 - Final Report" (PDF). California Olympic Commission. LA84 Foundation. 1960. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
2. "1958 World Championships results". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.

External links

• Sports-Reference - 1960 Women's Downhill