Alpine skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics

At the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California, U.S.A., the six alpine skiing events were held February 20-26, 1960. [1]

These were the last Olympics with times recorded in tenths of a second; times in 1964 were recorded in hundreths.

Contents 1 Men's events 1.1 Downhill 1.2 Giant Slalom 1.3 Slalom 2 Women's events 2.1 Downhill 2.2 Giant Slalom 2.3 Slalom 3 World Championships 3.1 Combined 4 Footnotes 5 External Links

Men's events

Downhill

February 22, 1960

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Jean Vuarnet (FRA)	2:06.0
Silver	Hans-Peter Lanig (FRG) [1]	2:06.5
Bronze	Guy Périllat (FRA)	2:06.9
4th	Willy Forrer (SUI)	2:07.8
5th	Roger Staub (SUI)	2:08.9
6th	Bruno Alberti (ITA)	2:09.1
7th	Karl Schranz (AUT)	2:09.2
8th	--	2:09.x
9th	Willy Bogner (FRG)	2:09.7
10th	Egon Zimmermann (AUT)	2:09.8

Giant Slalom

February 21, 1960

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Roger Staub (SUI)	1:48.3
Silver	Pepi Stiegler (AUT)	1:48.7
Bronze	Ernst Hinterseer (AUT)	1:49.1
4th	Tom Corcoran (USA)	1:49.7
5th	Bruno Alberti (ITA)	1:50.1
6th	Guy Périllat (FRA)	1:50.7
7th	Karl Schranz (AUT)	1:50.8

Slalom

February 24, 1960

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Ernst Hinterseer (AUT)	2:08.9
Silver	Matthias Leitner (AUT)	2:10.3
Bronze	Charles Bozon (FRA)	2:10.4
4th	Ludwig Leitner (FRG)	2:10.5
5th	Pepi Stiegler (AUT)	2:11.1
6th	Guy Périllat (FRA)	2:11.8
7th	Hans-Peter Lanig (FRG)	2:14.3

Women's events

Downhill

February 20, 1960

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Heidi Biebl (FRG) [1]	1:37.6
Silver	Penny Pitou (USA)	1:38.6
Bronze	Traudl Hecher (AUT)	1:38.9
4th	Pia Riva (ITA)	1:39.9
5th	Jerta Schir (ITA)	1:40.5
6th	Anneliese Meggl (FRG)	1:40.8
7th	Sonja Sperl (FRG)	1:41.0
8th	Erika Netzer (AUT)	1:41.1
9th	Yvonne Rüegg (SUI)	1:41.6

Giant Slalom

February 23, 1960

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Yvonne Rüegg (SUI)	1:39.9
Silver	Penny Pitou (USA)	1:40.0
Bronze	Giuliana Minuzzo (ITA)	1:40.2
4th	Betsy Snite (USA)	1:40.4
5th	Carla Marchelli (ITA)	1:40.7
5th	Anneliese Meggl (FRG)	1:40.7

Slalom

February 26, 1960

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Anne Heggtveit (CAN)	1:49.6
Silver	Betsy Snite (USA)	1:52.9
Bronze	Barbara Henneberger (FRG) [1]	1:56.6
4th	Thérèse Leduc (FRA)	1:57.4
5th	Liselotte Michel (SUI)	1:58.0
5th	Hilde Hofherr (AUT)	1:58.0

World Championships

From 1948-80, the alpine skiing events at the Winter Olympics also served as the World Championships, held every two years. With the addition of the giant slalom in 1952, the combined event was dropped as an Olympic event until 1988, but remained as a World Championship event. From 1956-80, World Championship medals were awarded in the combined event, which used the results from the downhill and slalom events.

Combined

Men's Combined

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Guy Périllat (FRA)	3.98
Silver	Charles Bozon (FRA)	5.52
Bronze	Hans-Peter Lanig (FRG)	5.66
4th	Pepi Stiegler (AUT)	6.75
5th	Ludwig Leitner (FRG)	8.00
6th	Pariade Milianti (ITA)	8.22

Women's Combined

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Anne Heggtveit (CAN)	6.96
Silver	Sonja Sperl (FRG)	10.08
Bronze	Barbara Henneberger (FRG)	10.80
4th	Anneliese Meggl (FRG)	10.88
5th	Thérèse Leduc (FRA)	11.44
6th	Carla Marchelli (ITA)	11.93

Footnotes

1. ^{1a  1b  1c}  Athletes from East and West Germany competed together as the "United Team of Germany," designated as the EUA. This combined team appeared in the 1956, 1960, and 1964 Winter Olympics.

External Links

• FIS-Ski.com - results - 1960 Olympics - Squaw Valley, CA, USA
• FIS-Ski.com - results - 1960 World Championships - Squaw Valley, CA, USA

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