The women's alpine skiing

Alpine skiing

Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. Alpine skiing can be contrasted with skiing using free-heel bindings: Ski mountaineering and nordic skiing – such as cross-country; ski jumping; and Telemark. In competitive alpine skiing races four...

 combined

Alpine skiing combined

Combined is an alpine skiing event. Although not technically a discipline of its own, it is sometimes referred to as a fifth alpine discipline, along with downhill, super G, giant slalom, and slalom.-Traditional & Super-Combined:...

event was part of the alpine skiing at the 1936 Winter Olympics

Alpine skiing at the 1936 Winter Olympics

At the 1936 Winter Olympics at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, alpine skiing was arranged for the first time in the Olympics, a combined event for men and women....

 programme. It was the first appearance of the event. The competition consisted of a downhill

Downhill

Downhill is an alpine skiing discipline. The rules for the Downhill were originally developed by Sir Arnold Lunn for the 1921 British National Ski Championships....

 race held on Friday, February 7, 1936 and two slalom

Slalom skiing

Slalom is an alpine skiing discipline, involving skiing between poles spaced much closer together than in Giant Slalom, Super-G or Downhill, thereby causing quicker and shorter turns.- Origins :...

 heats held on Saturday, February 8, 1936.

Thirty-seven alpine skiers from 13 nations competed.

Medalists

Downhill

Downhill

Downhill is an alpine skiing discipline. The rules for the Downhill were originally developed by Sir Arnold Lunn for the 1921 British National Ski Championships....

The downhill race was held on Friday, February 7, 1936.

The start was under the Kreuzjoch

Kreuzjoch

Kreuzjoch is a mountain of Bavaria, Germany. For the 1936 Winter Olympics in neighboring Garmisch-Partenkirchen, it was the starting line for the alpine skiing downhill part of the combined event.-Reference:* pp. 289-303....

 in 1580 metres height and the finish was at the station at the bottom of the Kreuzeckbahn in 760 metres height. So there was a height difference of 820 metres. The course had a length of 3300 metres.

The race started at 11 a.m.

12-hour clock

The 12-hour clock is a time conversion convention in which the 24 hours of the day are divided into two periods called ante meridiem and post meridiem...

. The conditions were good with temperatures between -5° to -4° Celsius.

All starters were able to finish the race.

Place	No.	Competitor	Time	Difference	Points
1	16		5:04.4		100.00
2	9		5:08.4	+4.0	98.70
3	6		5:11.0	+6.6	97.88
4	31		5:20.4	+16.0	95.01
5	13		5:21.6	+17.2	94.65
6	11		5:23.4	+19.0	94.12
7	1		5:27.2	+22.8	93.03
8	26		5:32.0	+27.6	91.69
9	23		5:51.6	+47.2	86.58
10	4		5:55.2	+50.8	85.70
11	40		5:57.4	+53.0	85.17
12	10		6:05.4	+1:01.0	83.31
13	5		6:09.8	+1:05.4	82.31
14	27		6:12.8	+1:08.4	81.65
	29		6:12.8	+1:08.4	81.65
16	32		6:16.8	+1:12.4	80.79
17	22		6:17.8	+1:13.4	80.57
18	8		6:20.0	+1:15.6	80.11
19	28		6:37.2	+1:32.8	76.64
20	21		6:40.8	+1:36.4	75.95
21	3		6:47.0	+1:42.6	74.79
22	30		6:54.6	+1:50.2	74.79
23	12		7:02.4	+1:58.0	72.06
24	36		7:03.2	+1:58.8	71.93
25	7		7:17.4	+2:13.0	69.59
26	15		7:21.0	+2:16.6	69.02
27	24		7:24.4	+2:20.0	68.50
28	20		7:26.4	+2:22.0	68.19
29	25		7:30.4	+2:26.0	67.58
30	38		7:39.2	+2:34.8	66.29
31	18		7:58.4	+2:54.0	63.63
32	33		8:03.8	+2:59.4	62.92
33	19		8:32.4	+3:28.0	59.41
34	35		8:46.8	+3:44.4	57.78
35	39		10:52.4	+5:50.0	46.66
36	17		15:21.6	+10:17.2	33.03
37	34		18:51.4	+13:47.0	26.90
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