Olympedia – Giant Slalom, Women

Date	27 January 1956 — 11:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Canalone, Cortina d'Ampezzo
Participants	49 from 16 countries
Course Setter		UNK
Details	Gates: 46 Length: 1366 m Start Altitude: 2020 m Vertical Drop: 408 m

Date

27 January 1956 — 11:00

Status

Olympic

Location

Canalone, Cortina d'Ampezzo

Participants

49 from 16 countries

Course Setter

UNK

Details

Gates: 46
Length: 1366 m
Start Altitude: 2020 m
Vertical Drop: 408 m

This was the first Alpine event of the Cortina Winter Olympics. Ossi Reichert had been silver medalist in the slalom at the Oslo Winter Olympcs, but having an injured an ankle in 1954, she was unable to compete at that year’s World Championships. The 1954 giant slalom World Champion was France’s Lucienne Schmith, but she did not compete in Cortina. Reichert was the first starter and she left little suspense as her time of 1:56.5 held up for the gold medal, winning by 1.3 seconds over Austrian Josefine “Putzi” Frandl.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Time
1	1	Ossi Reichert	GER	1:56.5	Gold
2	20	Putzi Frandl	AUT	1:57.8	Silver
3	13	Thea Hochleitner	AUT	1:58.2	Bronze
=4	5	Andrea Mead-Lawrence	USA	1:58.3
=4	8	Madeleine Berthod	SUI	1:58.3
6	15	Lucile Wheeler	CAN	1:58.6
7	14	Borghild Niskin	NOR	1:59.0
8	11	Marysette Agnel	FRA	1:59.4
9	3	Regina Schöpf	AUT	2:00.6
10	12	Josette Nevière	FRA	2:00.8
11	21	Frieda Dänzer	SUI	2:00.9
12	22	Marianne Seltsam	GER	2:01.4
13	6	Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo	ITA	2:01.5
=14	30	Inger Bjørnbakken	NOR	2:02.3
=14	19	Madeleine Front	FRA	2:02.3
=14	32	Annemarie Waser	SUI	2:02.3
17	29	Anna Pellissier	ITA	2:02.4
18	24	Paule Moris	FRA	2:02.5
19	7	Hannelore Glaser	GER	2:02.7
20	18	Maria Kowalska	POL	2:02.8
21	25	Addie Pryor	GBR	2:03.1
=22	9	Astrid Sandvik	NOR	2:04.0
=22	27	Gladys Werner	USA	2:04.0
24	36	Inger Jørgensen	NOR	2:04.4
25	10	Ingrid Englund	SWE	2:04.5
26	26	Eivor Berglund	SWE	2:04.9
27	17	Mirl Buchner	GER	2:05.0
28	39	Maria Grazia Marchelli	ITA	2:05.2
29	38	Anne Heggtveit	CAN	2:05.3
30	16	Barbara Grocholska	POL	2:05.5
31	52	Vivi-Anne Wassdahl	SWE	2:06.4
32	33	Slava Zupančič	YUG	2:07.9
33	2	Trude Klecker	AUT	2:08.5
34	51	Penny Pitou	USA	2:10.4
35	37	Maria Gąsienica Daniel	POL	2:10.9
36	49	Ginette Seguin	CAN	2:16.6
37	47	Christine Davy	AUS	2:17.3
38	53	Sue Holmes	GBR	2:19.0
39	48	Magdalena Marotineanu	ROU	2:21.0
40	4	Yevgeniya Sidorova	URS	2:31.3
41	46	Jakobína Jakobsdóttir	ISL	2:39.4
42	50	Jocelyn Wardrop-Moore	GBR	2:39.8
43	43	Elena Epuran	ROU	3:20.5
44	31	Aleksandra Artyomenko	URS	4:04.5
DQ	34	Hedi Beeler	SUI	–		1
DQ	35	Carlyn Kruger	CAN	–
DQ	23	Vera Schenone	ITA	–
DQ	44	Jean Stanford	GBR	–
DQ	40	Betsy Snite	USA	–
DNS	45	Zandra Nowell	GBR	–