Olympedia – Giant Slalom, Women

Date	23 February 1960 — 10:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Little Papoose Peak, Squaw Valley, California
Participants	44 from 14 countries
Course Setter	Gordy Wren	USA
Details	Gates: 56 Length: 1300 m Start Altitude: 2276 m Vertical Drop: 382 m

Date

23 February 1960 — 10:00

Status

Olympic

Location

Little Papoose Peak, Squaw Valley, California

Participants

44 from 14 countries

Course Setter

Gordy Wren

USA

Details

Gates: 56
Length: 1300 m
Start Altitude: 2276 m
Vertical Drop: 382 m

Switzerland’s Yvonne Rüegg was the third skier off, her time of 1:39.9 taking the lead by three seconds at that time. Nobody came close to that until Penny Pitou, already a silver medalist in the downhill, came down as the 11th starter. Pitou narrowly missed catching Rüegg, posting 1:40.0 and the two would place 1-2. The bronze went to Italy’s Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo, who had also won a bronze in 1952 in the downhill, and in 1956 took the Oath of the Athletes at the Cortina Olympics.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Time
1	3	Yvonne Rüegg	SUI	1:39.9	Gold
2	11	Penny Pitou	USA	1:40.0	Silver
3	18	Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo	ITA	1:40.2	Bronze
4	12	Betsy Snite	USA	1:40.4
=5	34	Anneliese Meggl	GER	1:40.7
=5	13	Carla Marchelli	ITA	1:40.7
7	9	Thérèse Leduc	FRA	1:40.8
8	23	Anne-Marie Leduc	FRA	1:41.5
=9	7	Hilde Hofherr	AUT	1:41.9
=9	8	Sonja Sperl	GER	1:41.9
=9	10	Madeleine Chamot-Berthod	SUI	1:41.9
12	17	Anne Heggtveit	CAN	1:42.1
13	35	Janine Monterrain	FRA	1:42.4
14	20	Lilo Michel	SUI	1:42.5
=15	4	Jerta Schir	ITA	1:42.6
=15	22	Barbi Henneberger	GER	1:42.6
17	2	Pia Riva	ITA	1:42.9
18	24	Arlette Grosso	FRA	1:43.9
19	15	Astrid Sandvik	NOR	1:45.4
20	21	Inger Bjørnbakken	NOR	1:45.5
=21	25	Putzi Frandl	AUT	1:45.7
=21	32	Stalina Korzukhina	URS	1:45.7
23	16	Annemarie Waser	SUI	1:46.0
24	28	Liv Christiansen	NOR	1:46.4
25	29	Traudl Hecher	AUT	1:46.7
26	37	Nancy Greene	CAN	1:47.4
27	43	Cecilia Womersley	NZL	1:47.7
28	47	Elizabeth Greene	CAN	1:48.4
29	33	Nancy Holland	CAN	1:48.7
30	30	Lyubov Volkova	URS	1:48.9
31	38	Yevgeniya Kabina	URS	1:50.0
32	44	Christine Davy	AUS	1:50.7
33	36	Josephine Gibbs	GBR	1:51.9
34	42	Tish Prain	NZL	1:52.4
35	46	María Cristina Schweizer	ARG	1:55.2
36	31	Beverly Anderson	USA	1:57.4
37	5	Heidi Biebl	GER	2:01.5
38	48	Sue Holmes	GBR	2:03.9
39	49	Wendy Farrington	GBR	2:04.2
40	45	Sonja McCaskie	GBR	2:06.1
DNF	1	Erika Netzer	AUT	–		fall	1
DNF	6	Marit Haraldsen	NOR	–		fall	2
DNF	14	Linda Meyers	USA	–
DQ	39	María Navarro	ESP	[2:06.1]