Alpine skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics – Women's giant slalom

Women's giant slalom
at the IX Olympic Winter Games
Alpine skiing
VenueAxamer Lizum
DateFebruary 3
Competitors46 from 16 nations
Winning time1:46.71
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Marielle Goitschel  France
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Christine Goitschel  France
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Jean Saubert  United States
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Alpine skiing at the
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The Women's giant slalom competition of the Innsbruck 1964 Olympics was held at Axamer Lizum.[1][2]

The defending world champion was Marianne Jahn of Austria.[3]

The final results saw the second ever occurrence of female siblings on the same individual's event Olympic podium, with French sisters Marielle Goitschel (gold) and Christine Goitschel (silver) repeating (in reverse order) their top two finish in the slalom two days earlier.[4]

Results

Rank Name Country Time Difference
1st place, gold medalist(s) Marielle Goitschel  France 1:52.24 —
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Christine Goitschel  France 1:53.11 +0.87
Jean Saubert  United States
4 Christl Haas  Austria 1:53.86 +1.62
5 Annie Famose  France 1:53.89 +1.65
6 Edith Zimmermann  Austria 1:54.21 +1.97
7 Barbi Henneberger  United Team of Germany 1:54.26 +2.02
8 Traudl Hecher  Austria 1:54.55 +2.31
9 Pia Riva  Italy 1:54.59 +2.35
Fernande Bochatay  Switzerland
11 Theres Obrecht  Switzerland 1:54.91 +2.67
12 Ruth Adolf  Switzerland 1:55.83 +3.59
13 Marianne Jahn-Nutt  Austria 1:55.95 +3.71
14 Giustina Demetz  Italy 1:56.52 +4.28
15 Françoise Gay  Switzerland 1:57.21 +4.97
16 Nancy Greene  Canada 1:57.76 +5.52
17 Patricia du Roy de Blicquy  Belgium 1:58.76 +6.52
18 Burgl Färbinger  United Team of Germany 1:58.84 +6.60
19 Patrizia Medail  Italy 1:59.29 +7.05
20 Barbara Ferries  United States 1:59.44 +7.20
21 Astrid Sandvik  Norway 2:00.74 +8.50
22 Heidi Mittermaier  United Team of Germany 2:00.77 +8.53
23 Divina Galica  Great Britain 2:00.79 +8.55
24 Jane Gissing  Great Britain 2:01.66 +9.42
25 Majda Ankele  Yugoslavia 2:01.81 +9.57
26 Joan Hannah  United States 2:01.97 +9.73
27 Gina Hathorn  Great Britain 2:02.61 +10.37
28 Lidia Barbieri Sacconaghi  Italy 2:02.73 +10.49
29 Liv Jagge-Christiansen  Norway 2:02.98 +10.74
30 Linda Meyers  United States 2:03.46 +11.22
31 Nancy Holland  Canada 2:04.39 +12.15
32 Linda Crutchfield-Bocock  Canada 2:05.04 +12.80
33 Dikke Eger-Bergman  Norway 2:08.62 +16.38
34 Karen Dokka  Canada 2:09.63 +17.39
35 Stalina Demidova-Korzukhina  Soviet Union 2:10.11 +17.87
36 Maria Gąsienica Daniel-Szatkowska  Poland 2:10.20 +17.96
37 Krista Fanedl  Yugoslavia 2:10.76 +18.52
38 Yevgeniya Kabina-Sidorova  Soviet Union 2:11.06 +18.82
39 Galina Sidorova  Soviet Union 2:12.98 +20.74
40 Judy Forras  Australia 2:17.36 +25.12
41 Ildikó Szendrődi-Kővári  Hungary 2:19.24 +27.00
42 María Cristina Schweizer  Argentina 2:19.81 +27.57
- Madeleine Bochatay  France DNF -
- Heidi Biebl  United Team of Germany DQ -
- Wendy Farrington  Great Britain DQ -
- Christine Smith  Australia DQ -
Source:[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Offizieller Bericht der IX. Olympischen Winterspiele Innsbruck 1964" (PDF). Austrian Federal Publishing House for Instruction, Science and Art, Vienna and Munich. LA84 Foundation. 1964. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
  2. ^ "Alpine Skiing at the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Games: Women's Giant Slalom". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
  3. ^ "1962 World Championships results". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
  4. ^ QMI Agency writer (2014-02-09). "Dufour-Lapointe duo not first 1-2 Olympics sister act". Toronto Sun.com. Retrieved 2014-02-13.