Alpine_skiing_at_the_1948_Winter_Olympics

Alpine Skiing
at the V Olympic Winter Games
Alpine Skiing; at the V Olympic Winter Games
	St. Moritz sixty years later, in 2008
Venue	Piz Nair,; St. Moritz; Graubünden, Switzerland
Dates	2–5 February 1948
Competitors	174 from 25 nations
	← 1936 1952 →

Alpine skiing at the 1948 Winter Olympics

Add article description

At the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland, the six alpine skiing events were held on Piz Nair from Monday, 2 February to Thursday, 5 February 1948.^[1]^[2]

Quick Facts Alpine Skiing at the V Olympic Winter Games, Venue ...

After these games, the giant slalom was added and the combined event was dropped as an Olympic medal event for four decades, until 1988. From 1956 through 1980, the combined continued as an FIS medal event for the concurrent World Championships, using the results from three events, conducted as a "paper race."

Henri Oreiller of France earned a medal in all three events, with two golds and a bronze. Trude Beiser of Austria and Gretchen Fraser of the United States both won two medals, a gold and a silver each.

The first Olympics after World War II did not invite Germany or Japan.

Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Alpine_skiing_at_the_1948_Winter_Olympics, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[OfficialReport-1] [1]
"Rapport Général sur les V Jeux Olympiques" (PDF). Comité Olympique Suisse. LA84 Foundation. 1948. pp. 38–46, 49–52. Retrieved February 18, 2014.

[SR-2] [2]
"Alpine Skiing at the 1948 St. Moritz Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 22 February 2018.

[1]

[2]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Downhill details	Henri Oreiller France	2:55.0	Franz Gabl Austria	2:59.1	Rolf Olinger Switzerland Karl Molitor Switzerland	3:00.3
Slalom details	Edy Reinalter Switzerland	2:10.3	James Couttet France	2:10.8	Henri Oreiller France	2:12.8
Combined details	Henri Oreiller France	3.27	Karl Molitor Switzerland	6.44	James Couttet France	6.95

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Downhill details	Hedy Schlunegger Switzerland	2:28.3	Trude Beiser Austria	2:29.1	Resi Hammerer Austria	2:30.2
Slalom details	Gretchen Fraser United States	1:57.2	Antoinette Meyer Switzerland	1:57.7	Erika Mahringer Austria	1:58.0
Combined details	Trude Beiser Austria	6.58	Gretchen Fraser United States	6.95	Erika Mahringer Austria	7.04

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Switzerland	2	2	2	6
2	France	2	1	2	5
3	Austria	1	2	3	6
4	United States	1	1	0	2
Totals (4 entries)		6	6	7	19

Date	Race	Start Elevation	Finish Elevation	Vertical Drop	Course Length	Average Gradient
Mon 2 Feb	Downhill – men	2,700 m (8,858 ft)	1,870 m (6,135 ft)	830 m (2,723 ft)	3.371 km (2.095 mi)	24.6%
Mon 2 Feb	Downhill – women	2,394 m (7,854 ft)	1,870 m (6,135 ft)	524 m (1,719 ft)	2.135 km (1.327 mi)	24.5%
Thu 5 Feb	Slalom – men	2,090 m (6,857 ft)	1,870 m (6,135 ft)	220 m (722 ft)
Thu 5 Feb	Slalom – women	2,050 m (6,726 ft)	1,870 m (6,135 ft)	180 m (591 ft)
Wed 4 Feb	Slalom – (K) – men	2,090 m (6,857 ft)	1,870 m (6,135 ft)	220 m (722 ft)
Wed 4 Feb	Slalom – (K) – women	2,050 m (6,726 ft)	1,870 m (6,135 ft)	220 m (722 ft)

Alpine_skiing_at_the_1948_Winter_Olympics

Alpine skiing at the 1948 Winter Olympics

Medal summary

Men's events

Women's events

Medal table

Course information

Participating nations

References

External links

Share this article:

Alpine Skiing at the V Olympic Winter Games
St. Moritz sixty years later, in 2008
Venue	Piz Nair, St. Moritz Graubünden, Switzerland
Dates	2–5 February 1948
Competitors	174 from 25 nations
← 1936 1952 →