Alpine Skiing at the
1976 Winter Olympics
The 1976 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XII Olympic Winter Games (german: XII. Olympische Winterspiele, french: XIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1976 ( bar, Innschbruck 1976, label= Austro-Bavarian), was a ...
consisted of six
alpine skiing events. Similar to the
1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarc ...
games, the men's downhill was held on
Patscherkofel
Patscherkofel is a mountain and ski area in the Alps, in state of Tyrol, Tyrol in western Austria, 7 km (4 mi.) south of Innsbruck. The peak rises to a summit elevation of Height above mean sea level, above sea level. The town of Igls a ...
(above Igls), the other five events at
Axamer Lizum
Axamer Lizum is a village and ski resort in Austria, located southwest of Innsbruck in the state of Tyrol. At the 1964 Winter Olympics, it hosted five of the six alpine skiing events: women's downhill, and men's and women's slalom and giant slal ...
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[ de.wikipedia.org - Olympische Winterspiele 1976/Ski Alpin - ''(in German)''] The events began on 5 February and ended on 13 February 1976.
Medal summary
Nine nations won medals in Alpine skiing, with
West Germany
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led the medal table with two gold and a silver, all won by
Rosi Mittermaier
Rosa Anna Katharina Mittermaier-Neureuther (; 5 August 1950 – 4 January 2023) was a German alpine skier. She was the overall World Cup champion in 1976 and a double gold medalist at the 1976 Winter Olympics.
Mittermaier competed in alpine ...
. Italy won the most total medals, with four. The two medals won by Liechtenstein were the first for the country at the
Olympic Games
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. The four medals won by West Germany were the first in the sport for the country on its own; Germany had previously won medals when unified as a single team.
Olympic medal table
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Men's events
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Women's events
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Course information
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Participating nations
Thirty-three nations sent alpine skiers to compete in the events in Innsbruck. Andorra and San Marino made their Olympic alpine skiing debuts. Below is a list of the competing nations; in parentheses are the number of national competitors.[
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World championships
From 1948 through 1980, the alpine skiing events at the Winter Olympics
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also served as the World Championships
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, held every two years. With the addition of the giant slalom, the combined event was dropped for 1950
Events January
* January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed.
* January 5 – Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 crashes in a snowstorm. All 19 ...
and 1952
Events January–February
* January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
* February 6
** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...
, but returned as a World Championship event in 1954 as a "paper race" which used the results from the three events. During the Olympics from 1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, ar ...
through 1980, World Championship medals were awarded by the FIS
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for the combined event. The combined returned as a separate event at the World Championships in 1982 and at the Olympics in 1988
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World championships medal table
Inckuded combined events
Combined
Men's Combined
*Downhill
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: 5 February, Giant Slalom: 9–10 February, Slalom: 14 February
Women's Combined
*Downhill
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: 8 February, Giant Slalom: 13 February, Slalom: 11 February
See also
*Alpine skiing at the 1976 Winter Paralympics
Alpine skiing at the 1976 Winter Paralympics consisted of 28 events, 15 for men and 13 for women.
Medal table
Medal summary
The competition events were:
*Giant slalom: men - women
*Slalom: men - women
*Alpine combination: men - women
Each ...
References
External links
FIS-Ski.com
– results – 1976 Olympics – Innsbruck, Austria
– results – 1976 World Championships – Innsbruck, Austria
{{Alpine World Skiing Championships
1976 Winter Olympics events
Alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics
Winter Olympics
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Alpine skiing competitions in Austria