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

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

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 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]