Women's downhill at the VIII Olympic Winter Games
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Venue | Squaw Valley | ||||||||||||
Date | February 20 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 42 from 14 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 1:37.6 | ||||||||||||
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Heidi Biebl | United Team of Germany | ||
Penny Pitou | United States | ||
Traudl Hecher | Austria |
The Women's downhill competition of the Squaw Valley 1960 Olympics was held at Squaw Valley.
The defending world champion was Lucille Wheeler of Canada.