Alpine skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill

Women's downhill; at the VIII Olympic Winter Games
	Alpine skiing
Venue	Squaw Valley
Date	February 20
Competitors	42 from 14 nations
Winning time	1:37.6
Medalists
	← 1956 1964 →

Alpine skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Downhill	men	women
Giant slalom	men	women
Slalom	men	women

The Women's downhill competition of the Squaw Valley 1960 Olympics was held at Squaw Valley.^[1]

The defending world champion was Lucille Wheeler of Canada.^[2]

Results

^[1]

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Difference
	Heidi Biebl	United Team of Germany	1:37.6	-
	Penny Pitou	United States	1:38.6	+1.0
	Traudl Hecher	Austria	1:38.9	+1.3
4	Pia Riva	Italy	1:39.9	+2.3
5	Jerta Schir	Italy	1:40.5	+2.9
6	Anneliese Meggl	United Team of Germany	1:40.8	+3.2
7	Sonja Sperl	United Team of Germany	1:41.0	+3.4
8	Erika Netzer	Austria	1:41.1	+3.5
9	Yvonne Rüegg	Switzerland	1:41.6	+4.0
9	Carla Marchelli	Italy	1:41.6	+4.0
11	Barbi Henneberger	United Team of Germany	1:42.4	+4.8
12	Anne Heggtveit	23x15px Canada	1:42.9	+5.3
12	Marit Haraldsen	Norway	1:42.9	+5.3
14	Thérèse Leduc	France	1:44.2	+6.6
14	Jolanda Schir	Italy	1:44.2	+6.6
14	Arlette Grosso	France	1:44.2	+6.6
17	Nancy Holland	23x15px Canada	1:45.2	+7.6
18	Marguerite Leduc	France	1:45.6	+8.0
19	Stalina Demidova-Korzukhina	Soviet Union	1:46.5	+8.9
20	Yevgeniya Kabina-Sidorova	Soviet Union	1:46.7	+9.1
21	Joan Hannah	United States	1:47.9	+10.3
22	Nancy Greene	23x15px Canada	1:48.3	+10.7
23	Lyubov Volkova	Soviet Union	1:49.2	+11.6
24	Marían Navarro	23x15px Spain	1:49.7	+12.1
25	Josephine Gibbs	Great Britain	1:50.3	+12.7
26	Margrit Gertsch	Switzerland	1:50.4	+12.8
27	Christine Davy	Australia	1:50.6	+13.0
28	Wendy Farrington	Great Britain	1:50.8	+13.2
29	María Cristina Schweizer	Argentina	1:51.0	+13.4
30	Liv Jagge-Christiansen	Norway	1:51.2	+13.6
31	Renate Holmes	Great Britain	1:51.9	+14.3
32	Elizabeth Greene	23x15px Canada	1:53.3	+15.7
33	Linda Meyers	United States	1:53.4	+15.8
34	Cecilia Womersley	New Zealand	1:59.5	+21.9
35	Liselotte Michel	Switzerland	2:01.0	+23.4
36	Trish Prain	New Zealand	2:01.5	+23.9
37	Astrid Sandvik	Norway	2:02.9	+25.3
38	Janine Monterrain	France	2:03.0	+25.4
39	Putzi Frandl	Austria	2:11.6	+34.0
-	Betsy Snite	United States	DQ	-
-	Annemarie Waser	Switzerland	DQ	-
-	Herlinde Beutlhauser	Austria	DQ	-