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Giant Slalom, Women

Date	27 January 1956 — 11:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Canalone, Cortina d'Ampezzo
Participants	49 from 16 countries
Course Setter	👁 Image UNK
Details	Gates: 46 Length: 1366 m Start Altitude: 2020 m Vertical Drop: 408 m

This was the first Alpine event of the Cortina Winter Olympics. Ossi Reichert had been silver medalist in the slalom at the Oslo Winter Olympcs, but having an injured an ankle in 1954, she was unable to compete at that year’s World Championships. The 1954 giant slalom World Champion was France’s Lucienne Schmith, but she did not compete in Cortina. Reichert was the first starter and she left little suspense as her time of 1:56.5 held up for the gold medal, winning by 1.3 seconds over Austrian Josefine “Putzi” Frandl.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Time
1	1	Ossi Reichert	👁 Image GER	1:56.5	Gold
2	20	Putzi Frandl	👁 Image AUT	1:57.8	Silver
3	13	Thea Hochleitner	👁 Image AUT	1:58.2	Bronze
=4	5	Andrea Mead-Lawrence	👁 Image USA	1:58.3
=4	8	Madeleine Berthod	👁 Image SUI	1:58.3
6	15	Lucile Wheeler	👁 Image CAN	1:58.6
7	14	Borghild Niskin	👁 Image NOR	1:59.0
8	11	Marysette Agnel	👁 Image FRA	1:59.4
9	3	Regina Schöpf	👁 Image AUT	2:00.6
10	12	Josette Nevière	👁 Image FRA	2:00.8
11	21	Frieda Dänzer	👁 Image SUI	2:00.9
12	22	Marianne Seltsam	👁 Image GER	2:01.4
13	6	Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo	👁 Image ITA	2:01.5
=14	30	Inger Bjørnbakken	👁 Image NOR	2:02.3
=14	19	Madeleine Front	👁 Image FRA	2:02.3
=14	32	Annemarie Waser	👁 Image SUI	2:02.3
17	29	Anna Pellissier	👁 Image ITA	2:02.4
18	24	Paule Moris	👁 Image FRA	2:02.5
19	7	Hannelore Glaser	👁 Image GER	2:02.7
20	18	Maria Kowalska	👁 Image POL	2:02.8
21	25	Addie Pryor	👁 Image GBR	2:03.1
=22	9	Astrid Sandvik	👁 Image NOR	2:04.0
=22	27	Gladys Werner	👁 Image USA	2:04.0
24	36	Inger Jørgensen	👁 Image NOR	2:04.4
25	10	Ingrid Englund	👁 Image SWE	2:04.5
26	26	Eivor Berglund	👁 Image SWE	2:04.9
27	17	Mirl Buchner	👁 Image GER	2:05.0
28	39	Maria Grazia Marchelli	👁 Image ITA	2:05.2
29	38	Anne Heggtveit	👁 Image CAN	2:05.3
30	16	Barbara Grocholska	👁 Image POL	2:05.5
31	52	Vivi-Anne Wassdahl	👁 Image SWE	2:06.4
32	33	Slava Zupančič	👁 Image YUG	2:07.9
33	2	Trude Klecker	👁 Image AUT	2:08.5
34	51	Penny Pitou	👁 Image USA	2:10.4
35	37	Maria Gąsienica Daniel	👁 Image POL	2:10.9
36	49	Ginette Séguin	👁 Image CAN	2:16.6
37	47	Christine Davy	👁 Image AUS	2:17.3
38	53	Sue Holmes	👁 Image GBR	2:19.0
39	48	Magdalena Marotineanu	👁 Image ROU	2:21.0
40	4	Yevgeniya Sidorova	👁 Image URS	2:31.3
41	46	Jakobína Jakobsdóttir	👁 Image ISL	2:39.4
42	50	Jocelyn Wardrop-Moore	👁 Image GBR	2:39.8
43	43	Elena Epuran	👁 Image ROU	3:20.5
44	31	Aleksandra Artyomenko	👁 Image URS	4:04.5
34	Hedi Beeler	👁 Image SUI	–	1
35	Carlyn Kruger	👁 Image CAN	–
23	Vera Schenone	👁 Image ITA	–
44	Jean Stanford	👁 Image GBR	–
40	Betsy Snite	👁 Image USA	–
45	Zandra Nowell	👁 Image GBR	–

URL: https://www.olympedia.org/results/1210

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