A women's

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event was held at the

1952 Winter Olympics The 1952 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VI Olympic Winter Games ( no, De 6. olympiske vinterleker; nn, Dei 6. olympiske vinterleikane) and commonly known as Oslo 1952, was a winter multi-sport event held from 14 to 25 February 195 ...

in Oslo, Norway as part of the

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programme. On 24 January, a decision was taken that

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would hold the slalom events, but at that time there was only of snow at the site and additional work lasting three days had to be done to ensure the hill would be usable for training and the races.Organising Committee for the VI Olympic Winter Games, p. 201. However, the athletes had to shift their training to Norefjell by 9 February after more problems with the snow resulted in the hill " ookingalmost like a skating rink" according to the official report. It took a further week of work by the military, volunteers and hired help to spread of snow resulting in a new snow depth of around .Organising Committee for the VI Olympic Winter Games, p. 202. The event eventually took place as scheduled on 20 February, a day after the men's slalom races. It was the final alpine skiing event of the Games. There were a total of 26 gates on the women's course. A total of 14 National Olympic Committees were represented at the event by 40 skiers.Organising Committee for the VI Olympic Winter Games, p. 231.

Andrea Mead Lawrence Andrea Mead Lawrence (April 19, 1932 – March 30, 2009) was an American alpine ski racer and environmentalist. She competed in three Winter Olympics and one additional World Championship (Olympic competitions also counted as the Worlds during t ...

, representing the

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, and

Dagmar Rom Dagmar Rom (16 June 1928 – 13 October 2022) was an alpine ski racer from Austria. At age 21 she won two gold medals at the 1950 World Championships in Aspen, Colorado, in the slalom and giant slalom events. Two years later she won a silver m ...

, representing

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, were considered to be the favourites in the event. However, both skiers suffered falls on their first run, with Mead Lawrence placing fourth and Rom finishing last, effectively putting the latter out of contention. Mead Lawrence managed to post the best time of the second runs, enough to win the gold medal. It was her second gold medal in Oslo after her

giant slalom Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline. It involves skiing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in slalom but less than in Super-G. Giant slalom and slalom make up t ...

victory. By winning the title, she became the first American skier to win two gold medals at the same Olympics. Ossi Reichert, who led the field after the first run, finished two seconds behind Mead Lawrence in the second run and ended up second overall. Reichert's teammate

Annemarie Buchner Annemarie "Mirl" Buchner-Fischer (; 16 February 1924 – 9 November 2014) was a German Alpine skier. She was born in Ettal. At the 1952 Olympics in Oslo Buchner was silver medalist in the downhill, and bronze medalist in the slalom an ...

won bronze.

Results

The official results as published by the Organising Committee for the VI Olympic Winter Games were as follows:

References

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