| | Event type
Slalom, Women
| Date | 30 January 1956 — 11:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Col Drusciè, Cortina d'Ampezzo | |
| Participants | 48 from 16 countries | |
| Format | Two runs, total time determined placement. | |
| Details | Gates: 41 Length: 456 m Start Altitude: 1673 m Vertical Drop: 175 m | |
The 1954 World Champion was Trude Klecker, but the Austrian team was so deep that she did not make the Olympic team in 1956. Swiss student Renée Colliard had never before competed for the Swiss national team, but she won the gold medal handily, posting the fastest time on each of two runs to win by over three seconds over Austrian Regine Schöpf. The bronze medal went to Soviet skier Yevgeniya Sidorova, the first ever won by an Alpine skier from the USSR. The fourth-place finisher, homecrowd favorite Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo, had the bad luck to have also placed fourth in the downhill in Cortina. She had taken the Oath of the Athletes at the Opening Ceremony, the first woman ever to do that, and had won a bronze medal in downhill in 1952.
| Pos | Number | Competitor | NOC | Time | Run #1 | Run #2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Renée Colliard |  SUI | 1:52.3 | 55.6 (1) | 56.7 (1) | Gold | ||
| 2 | 6 | Regina Schöpf |  AUT | 1:55.4 | 56.0 (2) | 59.4 (7) | Silver | ||
| 3 | 12 | Yevgeniya Sidorova |  URS | 1:56.7 | 56.9 (=3) | 59.8 (10) | Bronze | ||
| 4 | 8 | Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo |  ITA | 1:56.8 | 56.9 (=3) | 59.9 (11) | |||
| 5 | 2 | Putzi Frandl | AUT | 1:57.9 | 1:00.4 (=14) | 57.5 (2) | |||
| =6 | 20 | Inger Bjørnbakken |  NOR | 1:58.0 | 58.7 (=8) | 59.3 (6) | |||
| =6 | 17 | Astrid Sandvik | NOR | 1:58.0 | 58.9 (10) | 59.1 (5) | |||
| 8 | 5 | Josette Nevière |  FRA | 1:58.3 | 1:00.3 (13) | 58.0 (3) | |||
| 9 | 18 | Marysette Agnel | FRA | 1:58.8 | 58.2 (=6) | 1:00.6 (=13) | |||
| 10 | 11 | Frieda Dänzer | SUI | 1:58.9 | 59.2 (12) | 59.7 (9) | |||
| 11 | 13 | Borghild Niskin | NOR | 1:59.0 | 59.0 (11) | 1:00.0 (12) | |||
| 12 | 3 | Thea Hochleitner | AUT | 2:01.0 | 1:00.4 (=14) | 1:00.6 (=13) | |||
| 13 | 24 | Inger Jørgensen | NOR | 2:02.3 | 1:01.4 (17) | 1:00.9 (15) | |||
| 14 | 27 | Hannelore Glaser |  GER | 2:04.7 | 1:01.8 (19) | 1:02.9 (17) | |||
| 15 | 25 | Hedi Beeler | SUI | 2:05.1 | 1:01.9 (20) | 1:03.2 (18) | |||
| 16 | 26 | Anna Pellissier | ITA | 2:06.5 | 1:01.2 (16) | 1:05.3 (19) | |||
| 17 | 7 | Madeleine Berthod | SUI | 2:08.3 | 1:09.7 (26) | 58.7 (4) | |||
| =18 | 9 | Paule Moris | FRA | 2:15.6 | 1:13.9 (=28) | 1:01.7 (16) | |||
| =18 | 41 | Ginette Seguin |  CAN | 2:15.6 | 1:05.6 (22) | 1:10.0 (24) | |||
| 20 | 56 | Dorothy Surgenor |  USA | 2:17.3 | 1:09.1 (25) | 1:08.2 (22) | |||
| 21 | 19 | Mirl Buchner | GER | 2:18.5 | 1:01.7 (18) | 1:16.8 (28) | |||
| 22 | 16 | Maria Kowalska |  POL | 2:21.7 | 58.7 (=8) | 1:23.0 (30) | |||
| 23 | 30 | Carlyn Kruger | CAN | 2:22.3 | 1:14.7 (30) | 1:07.6 (21) | |||
| 24 | 10 | Hilde Hofherr | AUT | 2:23.5 | 58.2 (=6) | 1:25.3 (31) | |||
| =25 | 15 | Andrea Mead-Lawrence | USA | 2:25.8 | 1:10.5 (27) | 1:15.3 (25) | |||
| =25 | 45 | Zandra Nowell |  GBR | 2:25.8 | 57.5 (5) | 1:28.3 (33) | |||
| 27 | 38 | Gladys Werner | USA | 2:30.1 | 1:13.9 (=28) | 1:16.2 (26) | |||
| 28 | 28 | Vivi-Anne Wassdahl |  SWE | 2:30.8 | 1:31.2 (35) | 59.6 (8) | |||
| 29 | 32 | Vera Schenone | ITA | 2:37.2 | 1:05.1 (21) | 1:32.1 (34) | |||
| 30 | 43 | Anne Heggtveit | CAN | 1:07.2 | 1:31.0 (34) | 1:07.5 (20) | |||
| 31 | 52 | Penny Pitou | USA | 2:42.5 | 1:26.2 (33) | 1:16.3 (27) | |||
| 32 | 47 | Slava Zupančič |  YUG | 2:43.5 | 1:35.0 (36) | 1:08.5 (23) | |||
| 33 | 42 | Christine Davy |  AUS | 2:47.6 | 1:26.1 (32) | 1:21.5 (29) | |||
| 34 | 55 | Sue Holmes | GBR | 2:55.9 | 1:15.0 (31) | 1:40.9 (35) | |||
| 35 | 54 | Jocelyn Wardrop-Moore | GBR | 3:20.4 | 1:54.4 (39) | 1:26.0 (32) | |||
| 37 | Jakobína Jakobsdóttir |  ISL | [1:18.4] | 1:06.4 (23) | [1:18.4] ( | ||||
| 4 | Lucile Wheeler | CAN | [1:02.3] | 1:36.7 (38) | [1:02.3] ( | ||||
| 14 | Ossi Reichert | GER | – | 1:07.8 (24) | – ( | ||||
| 36 | Addie Pryor | GBR | – | 1:35.2 (37) | – ( | ||||
| 23 | Muriel Lip | FRA | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 29 | Marianne Seltsam | GER | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 31 | Ingrid Englund | SWE | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 39 | Eivor Berglund | SWE | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 46 | Maria Gąsienica Daniel | POL | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 48 | Cristina Ebner | ITA | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 50 | Aleksandra Artyomenko | URS | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 51 | Magdalena Marotineanu |  ROU | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 53 | Elena Epuran | ROU | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 22 | Barbara Grocholska | POL | – | – | – | ||||
| 40 | Maria Grazia Marchelli | ITA | – | – | – | ||||
| 44 | Betsy Snite | USA | – | – | – |