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 1948 Winter Olympics

Alpine skiing at the 1948 Winter Olympics

At the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland, the six alpine skiing events were held from Monday, February 2 to Thursday February 5, 1948.After these games, the combined event was dropped as an Olympic medal event for four decades, until 1988...

 programme. It was the second 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 Monday, February 2, 1948 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 Wednesday, February 4, 1948.

Twenty-eight alpine skiers from ten 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 Monday, February 2, 1948. It was part of the special downhill event

Alpine skiing at the 1948 Winter Olympics - Women's downhill

The women's alpine skiing downhill event was part of the alpine skiing at the 1948 Winter Olympics programme. It was the first appearance of the event. The competition was held on Monday, February 2, 1948....

. Twenty-eight of the 37 women who competed in the downhill race also started in the first slalom heat of the combined event.

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 :...

The slalom race was held on Wednesday, February 4, 1948 and started at 10:00 a.m.

12-hour clock

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Place	Downhill	Competitor	1st run	2nd run	Time	Difference	Points
1	15		58.4	59.7	118.1		0.00
2	11		61.8	59.2	121.0	+2.9	1.45
3	13		62.1	62.2	124.3	+6.2	3.10
4	12		65.9	62.9	128.8	+10.7	5.35
5	7		63.8	65.2	129.0	+10.9	5.45
6	9		65.5	63.8	129.3	+11.2	5.60
7	4		68.2	61.5	129.7	+11.6	5.80
8	2		61.8	68.7	130.5	+12.4	6.20
9	14		65.3	65.3	130.6	+12.5	6.25
10	10		64.0	68.4	132.4	+14.3	7.15
11	27		63.8	71.7	135.5	+17.4	8.70
12	16		69.8	66.6	136.4	+18.3	9.15
13	7		71.0	66.0	137.0	+18.9	9.45
	6		75.0*	62.0	137.0	+18.9	9.45
15	1		71.4	67.1	138.5	+20.4	10.20
16	23		63.9	74.8*	138.7	+20.6	10.30
17	5		63.3	76.3	139.6	+21.5	10.75
18	3		68.9	70.9	139.8	+21.7	10.85
19	20		74.6	67.0	141.6	+23.5	11.75
20	17		69.4	72.5	141.9	+23.8	11.90
21	18		74.1	72.0	146.1	+29.0	14.00
	24		72.6	73.5	146.1	+29.0	14.00
23	25		70.9	79.0	149.9	+32.8	15.90
24	22		82.0	79.7	161.7	+44.6	21.80
25	21		88.1	75.5	163.6	+46.5	22.75
26	26		85.0	84.8	169.8	+52.7	25.85
27	18		104.4	68.5	172.9	+55.8	27.40
–	28		DNF				DNF

* 5 seconds penalty included.

Final standings

The winner of the downhill Hedy Schlunegger

Hedy Schlunegger

Hedy Kaufmann-Schlunegger was a Swiss alpine skier. At the 1948 Winter Olympics, Hedy Schlunegger was the first Olympic Gold medalist in Lady's Downhill skiing....

 finished only 15th in the slalom, while Erika Mahringer

Erika Mahringer

Erika "Riki" Mahringer is an Austrian former alpine skier who competed in the 1948 Winter Olympics and in the 1952 Winter Olympics. In 1948 she won the bronze medal in the slalom event as well as in the Alpine combined competition. In the downhill contest she finished 19th...

, after finishing 15th in the downhill, won the slalom part of the combined event. Overall Mahringer

Erika Mahringer

Erika "Riki" Mahringer is an Austrian former alpine skier who competed in the 1948 Winter Olympics and in the 1952 Winter Olympics. In 1948 she won the bronze medal in the slalom event as well as in the Alpine combined competition. In the downhill contest she finished 19th...

 won the bronze medal, but Schlunegger

Hedy Schlunegger

Hedy Kaufmann-Schlunegger was a Swiss alpine skier. At the 1948 Winter Olympics, Hedy Schlunegger was the first Olympic Gold medalist in Lady's Downhill skiing....

 only finished eighth. Trude Beiser

Trude Beiser

Trude Beiser is a former alpine ski racer....

 won the gold medal with an eighth place in slalom after finishing second in the downhill. Gretchen Fraser

Gretchen Fraser

Gretchen Kunigk Fraser was an alpine ski racer. She was the first American to win an Olympic gold medal for skiing....

came up from eleventh place after the downhill to win the silver medal when finishing second in the slalom.

Place	Competitor	Downhill points	Slalom points	Total
1		0.38	6.20	6.58
2		5.50	1.45	6.95
3		7.04	0.00	7.04
4		1.66	5.80	7.46
5		2.69	5.45	8.14
6		3.20	5.60	8.80
7		6.66	3.10	9.76
8		0.00	10.20	10.20
9		5.63	5.35	10.98
10		4.35	7.15	11.50
		2.05	9.45	11.50
12		1.02	10.85	11.87
13		2.69	9.45	12.14
14		1.79	10.75	12.54
15		6.78	6.25	13.03
16		8.58	9.15	17.73
17		10.11	11.90	22.01
18		11.26	11.75	23.01
19		10.37	14.00	24.37
20		15.49	10.30	25.79
21		22.14	8.70	30.84
22		19.58	14.00	33.58
23		12.16	22.75	34.91
24		20.10	15.90	36.00
25		15.36	21.80	37.16
26		10.62	27.40	38.02
27		21.25	22.85	47.10
–		24.34	DNF	DNF