Alpine skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics – Ladies' downhill

Women's downhill; at the VII Olympic Winter Games
	Alpine skiing
Venue	Mt. Tofana,; Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
Date	1 February 1956
Competitors	44 from 16 nations
Winning time	1:40.7
Medalists
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Alpine skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Downhill	men	women
Giant Slalom	men	women
Slalom	men	women

The women's downhill event at the 1956 Winter Olympics was held on 1 February on Mt. Tofana. The course was 1.552 kilometres (0.96 miles) in length with a vertical drop of 502 metres (1,647 ft) and twenty control gates. The Swiss took the top two spots; Madeleine Berthod won the gold and Frieda Dänzer took the silver, and Lucile Wheeler of Canada won the bronze. Forty-four women from sixteen countries finished the race.^[1]

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Results

Wednesday, 1 February 1956

Rank	Bib #	Competitor	Time	Difference
	6	Madeleine Berthod (SUI)	1:40.7
	20	Frieda Dänzer (SUI)	1:45.4	+4.7
	4	22x20px Lucile Wheeler (CAN)	1:46.0	+5.3
4	12	Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo (ITA)	1:47.3	+6.6
4	15	Hilde Hofherr (AUT)	1:47.3	+6.6
6	1	Carla Marchelli (ITA)	1:47.7	+7.0
7	21	Dorothea Hochleitner (AUT)	1:47.9	+7.2
8	18	Josette Neviere (FRA)	1:49.2	+8.5
9	7	Borghild Niskin (NOR)	1:49.5	+8.8
10	28	Gladys Werner (USA)	1:49.6	+8.9
11	26	Anna Pellissier (ITA)	1:49.7	+9.0
12	22	Trude Klecker (AUT)	1:50.6	+9.9
13	23	Josefine Frandl (AUT)	1:51.0	+10.3
14	51	Aleksandra Artemenko (URS)	1:51.1	+10.4
15	30	Eivor Berglund (SWE)	1:51.6	+10.9
15	32	Rosmarie Reichenbach (SUI)	1:51.6	+10.9
17	10	Barbara Grocholska (POL)	1:51.7	+11.0
18	29	Ingrid Englund (SWE)	1:51.8	+11.1
19	11	Maria Kowalska (POL)	1:51.9	+11.2
20	16	Ossi Reichert (GER)	1:52.3	+11.6
21	14	Marysette Agnel (FRA)	1:52.4	+11.7
22	37	22x20px Anne Heggtveit (CAN)	1:53.2	+12.5
22	31	22x20px Carlyn Kruger (CAN)	1:53.2	+12.5
24	25	Madeleine Front (FRA)	1:53.6	+12.9
25	2	Hedi Beeler (SUI)	1:54.0	+13.3
26	39	Inger Jorgensen (NOR)	1:54.3	+13.6
27	9	Astrid Sandvik (NOR)	1:54.4	+13.7
28	41	Slava Zupancic (YUG)	1:54.5	+13.8
29	13	Hannelore Glaser (GER)	1:54.7	+14.0
30	5	Andrea Mead Lawrence (USA)	1:55.2	+14.5
31	52	Jakobina Jakobsdottir (ISL)	1:57.2	+16.5
32	19	Sonja Sperl (GER)	1:57.8	+17.1
33	53	22x20px Ginette Seguin (CAN)	1:58.2	+17.5
34	47	Penny Pitou (USA)	1:58.9	+18.2
35	50	Zandra Nowell (GBR)	1:59.0	+18.3
36	40	Vera Schenone (ITA)	1:59.2	+18.5
37	17	Yevgenya Sidorova (URS)	1:59.8	+19.1
38	55	Dorothy Surgenor (USA)	2:01.5	+20.8
39	54	Christine Davy (AUS)	2:01.6	+20.9
40	46	Magdalena Marotineanu (ROM)	2:04.0	+23.3
41	49	Sue Holmes (GBR)	2:05.0	+24.3
42	38	Vivi-Anne Wassdahl (SWE)	2:08.0	+27.3
43	45	Ethel Jean Stanford (GBR)	2:15.1	+34.4
44	48	Elena Epuran (ROM)	2:27.7	+47.0
—	3	Marie Edith Bonlieu (FRA)	INJ
	8	Mirl Buchner (GER)	INJ
	33	Maria Gasienica-Daniel (POL)	INJ