Alpine skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics – Women's giant slalom

Women's giant slalom at the VIII Olympic Winter Games
Alpine skiing
Venue	Squaw Valley
Date	February 23, 1960
Competitors	44 from 14 nations
Winning time	1:39.9
Medalists
Yvonne Rüegg   Switzerland Penny Pitou   United States Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo   Italy
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Alpine runs of the 1960 Winter Olympics

The Women's giant slalom competition of the 1960 Winter Olympics was held at Squaw Valley on Tuesday, February 23. ^{[1] [2]}

The defending world champion was Lucile Wheeler of Canada, ^[3] who had retired from international competition.

Yvonne Rüegg of Switzerland edged Penny Pitou of the United States by a tenth of a second, the smallest margin at the time. ^[4]

Results

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Difference
	Yvonne Rüegg	Switzerland	1:39.9	—
	Penny Pitou	United States	1:40.0	+ 0.1
	Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo	Italy	1:40.2	+ 0.3
4	Betsy Snite	United States	1:40.4	+ 0.5
5	Anneliese Meggl	United Team of Germany	1:40.7	+ 0.8
	Carla Marchelli	Italy
7	Thérèse Leduc	France	1:40.8	+ 0.9
8	Anne-Marie Leduc	France	1:41.5	+ 1.6
9	Hilde Hofherr	Austria	1:41.9	+ 2.0
	Sonja Sperl	United Team of Germany
	Madeleine Chamot-Berthod	Switzerland
12	Anne Heggtveit	Canada	1:42.1	+ 2.2
13	Janine Monterrain	France	1:42.4	+ 2.5
14	Liselotte Michel	Switzerland	1:42.5	+ 2.6
15	Jerta Schir	Italy	1:42.6	+ 2.7
	Barbi Henneberger	United Team of Germany
17	Pia Riva	Italy	1:42.9	+ 3.0
18	Arlette Grosso	France	1:43.9	+ 4.0
19	Astrid Sandvik	Norway	1:45.4	+ 5.5
20	Inger Bjørnbakken	Norway	1:45.5	+ 5.6
21	Putzi Frandl	Austria	1:45.7	+ 5.8
	Stalina Demidova-Korzukhina	Soviet Union
23	Annemarie Waser	Switzerland	1:46.0	+ 6.1
24	Liv Jagge-Christiansen	Norway	1:46.4	+ 6.5
25	Traudl Hecher	Austria	1:46.7	+ 6.8
26	Nancy Greene	Canada	1:47.4	+ 7.5
27	Cecilia Womersley	New Zealand	1:47.7	+ 7.8
28	Elizabeth Greene	Canada	1:48.4	+ 8.5
29	Nancy Holland	Canada	1:48.7	+ 8.8
30	Lyubov Volkova	Soviet Union	1:48.9	+ 9.0
31	Yevgeniya Kabina-Sidorova	Soviet Union	1:50.0	+ 10.1
32	Christine Davy	Australia	1:50.7	+ 10.8
33	Josephine Gibbs	Great Britain	1:51.9	+ 12.0
34	Trish Prain	New Zealand	1:52.4	+ 12.5
35	María Cristina Schweizer	Argentina	1:55.2	+ 15.3
36	Beverley Anderson	United States	1:57.4	+ 17.5
37	Heidi Biebl	United Team of Germany	2:01.5	+ 21.6
38	Renate Holmes	Great Britain	2:03.9	+ 24.0
39	Wendy Farrington	Great Britain	2:04.2	+ 24.3
40	Sonja McCaskie	Great Britain	2:06.1	+ 26.2
-	Erika Netzer	Austria	DQ	-
-	Marit Haraldsen	Norway	DQ	-
-	Linda Meyers	United States	DQ	-
-	Marían Navarro	Spain	DQ	-

Source: ^[1]

References

1. "VIII Olympic Winter Games Squaw Valley, California 1960 - Final Report" (PDF). California Olympic Commission. LA84 Foundation. 1960. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
2. "Alpine Skiing at the 1960 Squaw Valley Winter Games: Women's Giant Slalom". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
3. "1958 World Championships results". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
4. Sullivan, Jack (February 24, 1960). "Yvonne Ruegg giant slalom champion". Montreal Gazette. Canadian Press. p. 20.