Slalom, Women
| Date | 5 February 1948 — 10:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Suvretta, St. Moritz | |
| Participants | 28 from 10 countries | |
| Format | Two runs, total time determined placement. | |
| Details | Gates: ? Length: ? Start Altitude: ? Vertical Drop: ? | |
The first skier in the first run was American Gretchen Fraser, followed by Austria’s Erika Mahringer, and they placed 1-2 after the first run. Fraser held on in the second run with the second fastest time to win the gold medal by ½-second over Switzerland’s Antoinette Meyer, with Mahringer struggling slightly in the second run to place third. Fraser was the first American to win a ski medal in the Olympics, and she also added a silver in the combined in St. Moritz. She had acted as a ski double for Sonja Henie in two films: Thin Ice (1937) and Sun Valley Serenade (1941). Meyer would later marry Karl Molitor, who won bronze in the men’s downhill in 1948. Mahringer would return in 1950 to win two silver medals at the World Championships, in the downhill and slalom. Her daughter, Nicola Spieß, would compete in Alpine skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics.
| Pos | Number | Competitor | NOC | Time | Run #1 | Run #2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Gretchen Fraser |  USA | 1:57.2 | 59.7 (1) | 57.5 (=2) | Gold | ||
| 2 | 13 | Antoinette Meyer |  SUI | 1:57.7 | 1:00.7 (4) | 57.0 (1) | Silver | ||
| 3 | 2 | Erika Mahringer |  AUT | 1:58.0 | 59.8 (2) | 58.2 (5) | Bronze | ||
| 4 | 6 | Georgette Thiollière-Miller |  FRA | 1:58.8 | 1:00.8 (5) | 58.0 (4) | |||
| 5 | 14 | Renée Clerc | SUI | 2:05.8 | 1:03.8 (8) | 1:02.0 (=9) | |||
| 6 | 11 | Anneliese Schuh-Proxauf | AUT | 2:06.7 | 1:06.9 (15) | 59.8 (7) | |||
| 7 | 3 | Resi Hammerer | AUT | 2:08.6 | 1:04.4 (9) | 1:04.2 (13) | |||
| 8 | 4 | Andrea Mead | USA | 2:08.8 | 1:05.1 (11) | 1:03.7 (11) | |||
| 9 | – | Brynhild Grasmoen | USA | 2:09.6 | 1:05.6 (12) | 1:04.0 (12) | |||
| 10 | 7 | May Nilsson |  SWE | 2:09.7 | 1:12.2 (19) | 57.5 (=2) | |||
| 11 | 9 | Paula Kann | USA | 2:09.8 | 1:07.8 (16) | 1:02.0 (=9) | |||
| 12 | 12 | Françoise Gignoux | FRA | 2:10.3 | 1:05.0 (10) | 1:05.3 (16) | |||
| 13 | – | Rosmarie Bleuer | SUI | 2:10.6 | 1:06.2 (13) | 1:04.4 (14) | |||
| =14 | 8 | Laila Schou Nilsen |  NOR | 2:11.5 | 1:06.8 (14) | 1:04.7 (15) | |||
| =14 | 10 | Celina Seghi |  ITA | 2:11.5 | 1:13.2 (21) | 58.3 (6) | |||
| 16 | 16 | Alexandra Nekvapilová |  TCH | 2:12.0 | 1:03.2 (7) | 1:08.8 (18) | |||
| 17 | – | Olivia Ausoni | SUI | 2:18.6 | 1:18.7 (22) | 59.9 (8) | |||
| 18 | – | Renata Carraretto | ITA | 2:19.9 | 1:09.2 (17) | 1:10.7 (19) | |||
| 19 | 15 | Božena Moserová | TCH | 2:20.1 | 1:12.5 (20) | 1:07.6 (17) | |||
| 20 | – | Lucienne Schmith-Couttet | FRA | 2:20.6 | 1:00.1 (3) | 1:20.5 (23) | |||
| 21 | – | Sheena Mackintosh |  GBR | 2:30.9 | 1:10.5 (18) | 1:20.4 (22) | |||
| 22 | – | Anikó Iglói |  HUN | 2:48.9 | 1:30.2 (24) | 1:18.7 (20) | |||
| 23 | – | Isobel Roe | GBR | 2:49.6 | 1:24.5 (23) | 1:25.1 (24) | |||
| 24 | – | Biddy Duke-Woolley | GBR | 2:53.7 | 1:34.7 (25) | 1:19.0 (21) | |||
| – | Suzanne Thiollière | FRA | – | 1:01.1 (6) | – ( | 1 | |||
| – | Bunty Greenland | GBR | – | – ( | – | ||||
| – | Borghild Niskin | NOR | – | – ( | – | ||||
| – | Annelore Zückert | AUT | – | – ( | – | ||||
| – | Rhona Wurtele |  CAN | – | – | – | ||||
| – | Rhoda Wurtele-Eaves | CAN | – | – | – | ||||
| – | Malu Reinwartová | TCH | – | – | – |