Alpine skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics – Ladies' downhill

Women's downhill at the VII Olympic Winter Games
Alpine skiing
Venue	Mt. Tofana, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
Date	1 February 1956
Competitors	44 from 16 nations
Winning time	1:40.7
Medalists
Madeleine Berthod   Switzerland   Frieda Dänzer   Switzerland   Lucile Wheeler   Canada

Alpine skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Downhill	men	women
Giant Slalom	men	women
Slalom	men	women

The women's downhill event at the 1956 Winter Olympics was held on 1 February on Mt. Tofana. The course was 1.552 kilometres (0.96 miles) in length with a vertical drop of 502 metres (1,647 ft) and twenty control gates. The Swiss took the top two spots; Madeleine Berthod won the gold and Frieda Dänzer took the silver, and Lucile Wheeler of Canada won the bronze. Forty-four women from sixteen countries finished the race.^[1]

Source:^[2]

Results

Wednesday, 1 February 1956

Rank	Bib #	Competitor	Time	Difference
	6	Madeleine Berthod (SUI)	1:40.7
	20	Frieda Dänzer (SUI)	1:45.4	+4.7
	4	Lucile Wheeler (CAN)	1:46.0	+5.3
4	12	Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo (ITA)	1:47.3	+6.6
4	15	Hilde Hofherr (AUT)	1:47.3	+6.6
6	1	Carla Marchelli (ITA)	1:47.7	+7.0
7	21	Dorothea Hochleitner (AUT)	1:47.9	+7.2
8	18	Josette Neviere (FRA)	1:49.2	+8.5
9	7	Borghild Niskin (NOR)	1:49.5	+8.8
10	28	Gladys Werner (USA)	1:49.6	+8.9
11	26	Anna Pellissier (ITA)	1:49.7	+9.0
12	22	Trude Klecker (AUT)	1:50.6	+9.9
13	23	Josefine Frandl (AUT)	1:51.0	+10.3
14	51	Aleksandra Artemenko (URS)	1:51.1	+10.4
15	30	Eivor Berglund (SWE)	1:51.6	+10.9
15	32	Rosmarie Reichenbach (SUI)	1:51.6	+10.9
17	10	Barbara Grocholska (POL)	1:51.7	+11.0
18	29	Ingrid Englund (SWE)	1:51.8	+11.1
19	11	Maria Kowalska (POL)	1:51.9	+11.2
20	16	Ossi Reichert (GER)	1:52.3	+11.6
21	14	Marysette Agnel (FRA)	1:52.4	+11.7
22	37	Anne Heggtveit (CAN)	1:53.2	+12.5
22	31	Carlyn Kruger (CAN)	1:53.2	+12.5
24	25	Madeleine Front (FRA)	1:53.6	+12.9
25	2	Hedi Beeler (SUI)	1:54.0	+13.3
26	39	Inger Jorgensen (NOR)	1:54.3	+13.6
27	9	Astrid Sandvik (NOR)	1:54.4	+13.7
28	41	Slava Zupancic (YUG)	1:54.5	+13.8
29	13	Hannelore Glaser (GER)	1:54.7	+14.0
30	5	Andrea Mead Lawrence (USA)	1:55.2	+14.5
31	52	Jakobina Jakobsdottir (ISL)	1:57.2	+16.5
32	19	Sonja Sperl (GER)	1:57.8	+17.1
33	53	Ginette Seguin (CAN)	1:58.2	+17.5
34	47	Penny Pitou (USA)	1:58.9	+18.2
35	50	Zandra Nowell (GBR)	1:59.0	+18.3
36	40	Vera Schenone (ITA)	1:59.2	+18.5
37	17	Yevgenya Sidorova (URS)	1:59.8	+19.1
38	55	Dorothy Surgenor (USA)	2:01.5	+20.8
39	54	Christine Davy (AUS)	2:01.6	+20.9
40	46	Magdalena Marotineanu (ROM)	2:04.0	+23.3
41	49	Sue Holmes (GBR)	2:05.0	+24.3
42	38	Vivi-Anne Wassdahl (SWE)	2:08.0	+27.3
43	45	Ethel Jean Stanford (GBR)	2:15.1	+34.4
44	48	Elena Epuran (ROM)	2:27.7	+47.0
—	3	Marie Edith Bonlieu (FRA)	INJ
	8	Mirl Buchner (GER)	INJ
	33	Maria Gasienica-Daniel (POL)	INJ

Source:^[2]

See also

• Olympic Games
• International Olympic Committee
• List of IOC country codes
• 1956 Winter Olympics

Notes

1. Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (1956), p. 596
2. Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (1956), p. 596–597

References

• Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (1956). VII Olympic Winter Games: Official Report (PDF). Cortina d'Ampezzo. Retrieved 2010-03-02.