Alpine skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Alpine skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, California, United States, consisted of six events. Competitions took place at Squaw Peak (Men's downhill), KT-22 (Women's downhill, Men's slalom and giant slalom), and Papoose Peak (Women's slalom and giant slalom).^[1][2]

Alpine skiing at the VIII Olympic Winter Games
Olympic runs of 1960
Venue	Squaw Valley, California, United States
Dates	February 20–26, 1960
No. of events	6
Competitors	133 from 22 nations
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Squaw Valley

Location in the western United States

 Squaw Valley

Location in California

The 1960 Winter Games marked the last where race result times were recorded in tenths of a second; at the 1964 Winter Games, the race result times would be recorded in hundredths.

Medal summary

Seven nations won medals in alpine skiing, with Switzerland leading the medal table, winning two golds. Austria won the most total medals with five, one gold, two silver, and two bronze. Austria's Ernst Hinterseer led the individual medal table, with one gold and one bronze. The top women's medalist was the United States' Penny Pitou with two silver medals, having lost giant slalom by a tenth of a second.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Switzerland (SUI)	2	0	0	2
2	Austria (AUT)	1	2	2	5
3	United Team of Germany (EUA)	1	1	1	3
4	France (FRA)	1	0	2	3
5	Canada (CAN)	1	0	0	1
6	United States (USA)	0	3	0	3
7	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		6	6	6	18

Source:^[1]

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Downhill details	Jean Vuarnet  France	2:06.0	Hans-Peter Lanig  United Team of Germany	2:06.5	Guy Périllat  France	2:06.9
Giant slalom details	Roger Staub  Switzerland	1:48.3	Josef Stiegler  Austria	1:48.7	Ernst Hinterseer  Austria	1:49.1
Slalom details	Ernst Hinterseer  Austria	2:08.9	Hias Leitner  Austria	2:10.3	Charles Bozon  France	2:10.4

Source:^[1]

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Downhill details	Heidi Biebl  United Team of Germany	1:37.6	Penny Pitou  United States	1:38.6	Traudl Hecher  Austria	1:38.9
Giant slalom details	Yvonne Rüegg  Switzerland	1:39.9	Penny Pitou  United States	1:40.0	Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo  Italy	1:40.2
Slalom details	Anne Heggtveit  Canada	1:49.6	Betsy Snite  United States	1:52.9	Barbi Henneberger  United Team of Germany	1:56.6

Source:^[1]

Course information

Date	Race	Start Elevation	Finish Elevation	Vertical Drop	Course Length	Average Gradient
Mon 22-Feb	Downhill – men	2,707 m (8,881 ft)	1,949 m (6,394 ft)	758 m (2,487 ft)	3.095 km (1.923 mi)	24.5%
Sat 20-Feb	Downhill – women	2,447 m (8,028 ft)	1,894 m (6,214 ft)	553 m (1,814 ft)	1.828 km (1.136 mi)	30.3%
Sun 21-Feb	Giant slalom – men	2,447 m (8,028 ft)	1,894 m (6,214 ft)	553 m (1,814 ft)	1.800 km (1.118 mi)	30.7%
Tue 23-Feb	Giant slalom – women	2,276 m (7,467 ft)	1,894 m (6,214 ft)	382 m (1,253 ft)	1.300 km (0.808 mi)	29.4%
Wed 24-Feb	Slalom – men	2,110 m (6,923 ft)	1,894 m (6,214 ft)	216 m (709 ft)	0.590 km (0.367 mi)	36.6%
Fri 26-Feb	Slalom – women	2,080 m (6,824 ft)	1,894 m (6,214 ft)	186 m (610 ft)	0.480 km (0.298 mi)	38.8%

Participating nations

Twenty-two nations sent alpine skiers to compete in the events in Squaw Valley, and South Korea made its Olympic alpine skiing debut. Below is a list of the competing nations; in parentheses are the number of competitors.^[1]

•  Argentina (5)
•  Australia (3)
•  Austria (13)
•  Bulgaria (3)
•  Canada (9)
•  Chile (5)
•  France (10)
•  United Team of Germany (10)
•  Great Britain (8)
•  Iceland (3)
•  Italy (10)
•  Japan (4)
•  South Korea (1)
•  Lebanon (2)
•  Liechtenstein (3)
•  New Zealand (4)
•  Norway (5)
•  Soviet Union (3)
•  Spain (4)
•  Switzerland (12)
•  Turkey (2)
•  United States (14)

World championships

From 1948 through 1980, 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, the combined event was dropped for 1950 and 1952, but returned as a World Championship event in 1954 as a "paper race" which used the results from the three events. During the Olympics from 1956 through 1980, World Championship medals were awarded by the FIS for the combined event. The combined returned as a separate event at the World Championships in 1982 and at the Olympics in 1988.

Combined

Men's Combined Medal Athlete   Points   DH GS SL Guy Périllat (FRA) 3.98 6 6 Charles Bozon (FRA) 5.52 8 9 Hans-Peter Lanig (FRG)   5.66 13 7 4 Pepi Stiegler (AUT) 6.75 15 5 5 Ludwig Leitner (FRG) 8.00 11 18 4 6 Paride Milianti (ITA) 8.22 12 8 8 Downhill: February 22, Giant slalom: February 21, Slalom: February 24

Women's Combined Medal Athlete   Points   DH GS SL Anne Heggtveit (CAN) 6.96 12 12 Sonja Sperl (FRG) 10.08 7 9 8 Barbi Henneberger (FRG)   10.80 11 15 4 Anneliese Meggl (FRG) 10.88 6 5 13 5 Thérèse Leduc (FRA) 11.44 14 7 4 6 Carla Marchelli (ITA) 11.93 9 5 15 Downhill: February 20, Giant slalom: February 23, Slalom: February 26