Alpine skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Template:Short description Template:Short description Template:Sidebar games events At the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, the six alpine skiing events were held from Friday, 27 January to Friday, 3 February.

Toni Sailer of Austria won all three men's events to become the first alpine ski racer to win three gold medals in a single Olympics. The feat has been repeated once, by Jean-Claude Killy in 1968.

The races were held at the adjacent Tofana, except for the men's giant slalom, which was held at Monte Faloria. The men's downhill was the final event.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Downhill Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:52.2	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:55.7	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:56.2
Giant Slalom Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:00.1	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:06.3	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:07.2
Slalom Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:14.7	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:18.7	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:20.2

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Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Downhill Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:40.7	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:45.4	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:45.9
Giant Slalom Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:56.5	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:57.8	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:58.2
Slalom Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:52.3	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:55.4	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:56.7

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Course information

Date	Race	Start Elevation	Finish Elevation	Vertical Drop	Course Length	Average Gradient
Fri  3-Feb	Downhill - men
Wed  1-Feb	Downhill - women
Sun 29-Jan	Giant Slalom - men
Fri 27-Jan	Giant Slalom - women
Tue 31-Jan	Slalom - men
Mon 30-Jan	Slalom - women

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World championships

From 1948 through 1980, the alpine skiing events at the Winter Olympics also served as the World Championships, held every two years. With the addition of the giant slalom, the combined event was dropped for 1950 and 1952, but returned as a World Championship event in 1954 as a "paper race" which used the results from the three events. During the Olympics from 1956 through 1980, World Championship medals were awarded by the FIS for the combined event. The combined returned as a separate event at the World Championships in 1982 and at the Olympics in 1988.

Combined

Men's Combined

Medal	Athlete	Points	DH	GS	SL
	Template:Flagicon Toni Sailer (AUT)	0.00
	Template:Flagicon Charles Bozon (FRA)	12.65	8	5	7
	Template:Flagicon Stig Sollander (SWE)	16.92	10	16
4	Template:Flagicon  Raymond Fellay (SUI)	18.39		27	11
5	Template:Flagicon Asle Sjåstad (NOR)	27.25	14	22	18
6	Template:Flagicon Gino Burrini (ITA)	30.43	6	10	27

• Downhill: 3 February, Giant Slalom: 29 January, Slalom: 31 January

Women's Combined

Medal	Athlete	Points	DH	GS	SL
	Template:Flagicon  Madeleine Berthod (SUI)	9.85		4	17
	Template:Flagicon  Frieda Dänzer (SUI)	11.19		11	10
	Template:Flagicon Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo (ITA)	12.31	4	13	4
4	Template:Flagicon Dorothea Hochleitner (AUT)	12.79	7		12
5	Template:Flagicon Borghild Niskin (NOR)	13.80	9	7	11
	Template:Flagicon Josefine Frandl (AUT)	13.80	13		5

• Downhill: 1 February, Giant Slalom: 27 January, Slalom: 30 January

External links

• International Olympic Committee results database
• FIS-Ski.com – results – 1956 Olympics – Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
• FIS-Ski.com – results – 1956 World Championships – Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy