Olympian Database
Women's Downhill - Alpine Skiing |  | ||||
 Women's Downhill 1956
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| Final | |||||
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Madeleine Berthod |  |
SUI | 1.40,7 | |
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Frieda Dänzer | |
SUI | 1.45,4 | |
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Lucile Wheeler |  |
CAN | 1.45,9 | |
| 4. | Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo |  |
ITA | 1.47,3 | |
| - | Hilde Hofherr |  |
AUT | 1.47,3 | |
| 6. | Carla Marchelli | |
ITA | 1.47,7 | |
| 7. | Dorothea Hochleitner | |
AUT | 1.47,9 | |
| 8. | Josette Neviere |  |
FRA | 1.49,2 | |
| 9. | Borghild Niskin |  |
NOR | 1.49,5 | |
| 10. | Gladys Werner |  |
USA | 1.49,6 | |
| 11. | Anna Pellissier | |
ITA | 1.49,7 | |
| 12. | Trude Klecker | |
AUT | 1.50,6 | |
| 13. | Josefine Frandl | |
AUT | 1.51,0 | |
| 14. | Aleksandra Artemenko |  |
URS | 1.51,1 | |
| 15. | Eivor Berglund |  |
SWE | 1.51,6 | |
| - | Rosmarie Reichenbach | |
SUI | 1.51,6 | |
| 17. | Barbara Grocholska |  |
POL | 1.51,7 | |
| 18. | Ingrid Englund | |
SWE | 1.51,8 | |
| 19. | Maria Kowalska | |
POL | 1.51,9 | |
| 20. | Ossi Reichert |  |
GER | 1.52,3 | |
| 21. | Marysette Agnel | |
FRA | 1.52,4 | |
| 22. | Anne Heggtveit | |
CAN | 1.53,2 | |
| - | Carlyn Kruger | |
CAN | 1.53,2 | |
| 24. | Madeleine Front | |
FRA | 1.53,6 | |
| 25. | Hedi Beeler | |
SUI | 1.54,0 | |
| 26. | Inger Jorgensen | |
NOR | 1.54,3 | |
| 27. | Astrid Sandvik | |
NOR | 1.54,4 | |
| 28. | Slava Zupancic |  |
YUG | 1.54,5 | |
| 29. | Hannelore Glaser | |
GER | 1.54,7 | |
| 30. | Andrea Mead Lawrence | |
USA | 1.55,2 | |
| 31. | Jakobina Jakobsdottir |  |
ISL | 1.57,2 | |
| 32. | Sonja Sperl | |
GER | 1.57,8 | |
| 33. | Ginette Seguin | |
CAN | 1.58,2 | |
| 34. | Penelope Pitou | |
USA | 1.58,9 | |
| 35. | Zandra Nowell |  |
GBR | 1.59,0 | |
| 36. | Vera Schenone | |
ITA | 1.59,2 | |
| 37. | Yevgenya Sidorova | |
URS | 1.59,8 | |
| 38. | Dorothy Surgenor | |
USA | 2.01,5 | |
| 39. | Christine Davy |  |
AUS | 2.01,6 | |
| 40. | Magdalena Marotineanu |  |
ROU | 2.04,0 | |
| 41. | Renate Holmes | |
GBR | 2.05,0 | |
| 42. | Vivi-Anne Wassdahl | |
SWE | 2.08,0 | |
| 43. | Jeanne Sandford | |
GBR | 2.15,1 | |
| 44. | Elena Epuran | |
ROU | 2.27,7 | |
| Maria Gasienica Daniel | |
POL | dnf | ||
| Edith Bonlieu | |
FRA | dnf | ||
| Mirl Buchner | |
GER | dnf | ||
| Women's Downhill - Alpine Skiing - Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 Winter Olympics
Event Format:
Each skier ran a single race down a steep downhill course. Downhill was the Alpine Skiing event with the longest course and the highest speed. The Gold Medal winner was the skier with the best time for the race. Event facts: Women's Downhill competition was held at the Tofana di Mezzo and 47 athletes participated in the event. |
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| These results for Women's Downhill - Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 Winter Olympics - are based on the official olympic reports and the Olympian Database | |||||
