| Alpine Skiing at the V Olympic Winter Games | |
|---|---|
 St. Moritz sixty years later, in 2008 | |
| Venue | Piz Nair, St. Moritz Graubünden, Switzerland |
| Dates | 2–5 February 1948 |
| Competitors | 174 from 25 nations |
| Alpine skiing at the 1948 Winter Olympics | ||
|---|---|---|
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| Combined | men | women |
| Downhill | men | women |
| Slalom | men | women |
At the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland, the six alpine skiing events were held on Piz Nair from Monday, 2 February to Thursday, 5 February 1948.[1][2]
After these games, the giant slalom was added and the combined event was dropped as an Olympic medal event for four decades, until 1988. From 1956 through 1980, the combined continued as an FIS medal event for the concurrent World Championships, using the results from three events, conducted as a "paper race."
Henri Oreiller of France earned a medal in all three events, with two golds and a bronze. Trude Beiser of Austria and Gretchen Fraser of the United States both won two medals, a gold and a silver each.
The first Olympics after World War II did not invite Germany or Japan.
- ^ "Rapport Général sur les V Jeux Olympiques" (PDF). Comité Olympique Suisse. LA84 Foundation. 1948. pp. 38–46, 49–52. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
- ^ "Alpine Skiing at the 1948 St. Moritz Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 22 February 2018.