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Downhill, Women

Date 2 February 1948 — 14:31
StatusOlympic
LocationPiz Nair, St. Moritz
Participants37 from 11 countries
Course SetterUNK
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This was the first women’s Olympic downhill, held on the same day as the men’s event. The winner was Switzerland’s Hedy Schlunegger, who led Austria’s Trude Beiser by 8/10ths of a second. Beiser would win the 1950 World Championship downhill and returned in 1952 to win Olympic gold in the downhill. She would also win the combined gold medal in St. Moritz. Schlunegger settled in her hometown of Grindelwald and she and her husband managed a sporting goods store. Beiser would later become a ski trainer and opened a café in her hometown of Lech am Arlberg.

PosNumberCompetitorNOCTime
1–Hedy SchluneggerSUI2:28.3Gold
2–Trude BeiserAUT2:29.1Silver
3–Resi HammererAUT2:30.2Bronze
4–Celina SeghiITA2:31.1
5–Lina MittnerSUI2:31.2
6–Suzanne ThiollièreFRA2:31.4
=7–Laila Schou NilsenNOR2:32.4
=7–Françoise GignouxFRA2:32.4
9–Rosmarie BleuerSUI2:33.3
10–Lucienne Schmith-CouttetFRA2:35.2
11–Antoinette MeyerSUI2:35.4
12–Brynhild GrasmoenUSA2:36.0
13–Gretchen FraserUSA2:37.1
=14–Irène MolitorSUI2:37.2
=14–Alexandra NekvapilováTCH2:37.2
16–Annelore ZückertAUT2:38.4
17–Anneliese Schuh-ProxaufAUT2:39.0
18–May NilssonSWE2:39.1
19–Erika MahringerAUT2:39.3
20–Ruth-Marie StewartUSA2:42.0
21–Fernande BayettoFRA2:43.1
22–Becky CremerUSA2:44.2
23–Borghild NiskinNOR2:44.4
24–Olivia AusoniSUI2:45.1
25–Božena MoserováTCH2:46.1
26–Sophie NoglerAUT2:47.0
27–Isobel RoeGBR2:47.3
28–Paula KannUSA2:49.0
29–Micheline DesmazièresFRA2:50.2
30–Rosemarie SparrowGBR2:52.3
31–Georgette Thiollière-MillerFRA2:52.4
32–Renata CarrarettoITA2:59.1
33–Sheena MackintoshGBR3:00.0
34–Xanthe RyderGBR3:01.4
35–Andrea MeadUSA3:03.1
36–Anikó IglóiHUN3:07.1
37–Rhona WurteleCAN3:26.1
DNS–Dagmar RomAUT–
DNS–Malu ReinwartováTCH–