The women's
downhill event was part of the
alpine skiing at the 1952 Winter Olympics program, and was the second appearance of the event. The competition was held at
Norefjell Ski Resort
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near
Krødsherad
Krødsherad (''Krødsherad kommune'') is a Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Buskerud Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Noresund. The municipality of Krødsherad was establ ...
,
Norway
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, on Sunday, 17 February.
Forty-two alpine skiers from 13 nations competed.
Austria's
Trude Jochum-Beiser won the gold medal,
Annemarie Buchner
Annemarie "Mirl" Buchner-Fischer (; 16 February 1924 – 9 November 2014) was a Germans, German Alpine skiing, Alpine skier. She was born in Ettal. At the 1952 Winter Olympics, 1952 Olympics in Oslo Buchner was silver medalist in the d ...
of Germany took the silver, and
Giuliana Minuzzo
Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo (née Minuzzo, 26 November 1931 – 11 November 2020) was an Italian alpine skier.
Career
She was born in Vallonara di Marostica. At the 1952 Olympics in Oslo
Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of ...
of Italy was the bronze medalist.
The race's starting
elevation
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was above
sea level
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; the course length was , with a vertical drop of . Jochum-Beiser's winning time of 107.1 seconds yielded an average speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of .
Results
''Sunday, 17 February 1952''
The race was started at 13:00
local time, (
UTC
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+1).
References
External links
Official Olympic Report*
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Women's alpine skiing at the 1952 Winter Olympics
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