Alpine

All you want to know about Alpine

At the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, the six alpine skiing events were held from Friday, January 27 to Friday, February 3, 1956.

Toni Sailer of Austria won all three men's events to become the first alpine ski racer to win three gold medals in a single Olympics. The feat has been repeated once, by Jean-Claude Killy in 1968.

Contents

1 Medal summary
- 1.1 Men's events
- 1.2 Women's events
2 Medal table
3 References

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Downhill details	Toni Sailer Austria (AUT)	Raymond Fellay Switzerland (SUI)	Anderl Molterer Austria (AUT)
Giant Slalom details	Toni Sailer Austria (AUT)	Anderl Molterer Austria (AUT)	Walter Schuster Austria (AUT)
Slalom details	Toni Sailer Austria (AUT)	Chiharu Igaya Japan (JPN)	Stig Sollander Sweden (SWE)

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Downhill details	Madeleine Berthod Switzerland (SUI)	Frieda Dänzer Switzerland (SUI)	Lucille Wheeler Canada (CAN)
Giant Slalom details	Ossi Reichert Germany (EUA)	Putzi Frandl Austria (AUT)	Thea Hochleitner Austria (AUT)
Slalom details	Renée Colliard Switzerland (SUI)	Regine Schöpf Austria (AUT)	Yevgeniya Sidorova Soviet Union (URS)

Medal table

Total		6	6	6	18
Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Austria	3	3	3	9
2	Switzerland	2	2	0	4
3	Germany	1	0	0	1
4	Japan	0	1	0	1
5	Soviet Union	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
	Canada	0	0	1	1

References

International Olympic Committee results database
FIS-Ski.com - results - 1956 Olympics - Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
FIS-Ski.com - results - 1956 World Championships - Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy

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List of medalists

v • d • e Events at the 1956 Winter Olympics (Cortina d'Ampezzo)

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See also: List of Alpine Skiing World Champions.

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