13.01.61. Grindelwald Downhill, women course length: 2356 m vertical drop: 605 m number of gates: 15 weather: perfect snow: thin layer of snow started: 59 finished: 56 1. Heidi Biebl FRG 2.24.8 ( 4) 2. Margrit Gertsch SUI 2.25.6 ( 5) 3. Traudl Hecher AUT 2.26.7 ( 1) 4. Therese Leduc FRA 2.27.1 ( 6) 5. Barbara Henneberger FRG 2.27.8 (11) 6. Erika Netzer AUT 2.28.3 ( 7) 7. Jerta Schier ITA 2.30.4 ( 3) 8. Arlette Grosso FRA 2.30.7 (12) 9. Marit Haraldsen NOR 2.30.9 ( 2) 10. Inge Senoner ITA 2.32.0 11. Marie-Jose Duschonnet FRA 2.32.1 (15) 12. Jolanta Schier ITA 2.32.3 13. Giustina Demetz ITA and Daniele Telinge FRA 2.34.1 15. Gertraud Gaber AUT 2.34.6 16. Vreni Fuchs SUI 2.35.4 17. Sieglinde Breuer AUT 2.36.1 (13) 18. Greta Grander AUT 2.36.2 19. Lidia Barbieri-Sacconaghi ITA 2.36.6 20. Ulli Messerschmidt FRG 2.36.8 21. Silvia Zimmermann SUI and Lilo Michel SUI 2.37.1 23. Patricia Duroy de Blicqui BEL 2.37.4 24. Hildegard Koch FRG 2.37.5 25. Tania Heald GBR 2.38.2 26. Kathinka Frisk SWE 2.38.5 27. Annelise Meggl FRG 2.38.8 28. Linda Crutchfield CND 2.39.0 29. Maxi Brutscher FRG 2.39.3 30. Faye Pitt CND 2.39.7 31. Nancy Holland CND 2.40.3 32. Rosa Waser SUI 2.40.6 33. Anna Ashehov GBR 2.41.7 34. Annette Couquelet BEL 2.42.2 35. Wendy Farrington GBR 2.42.3 36. Edith Zimmemrnan AUT 2.43.1 37. Marian Navarro SPA 2.43.2 38. Christl Ditfurth AUT 2.43.5 39. Tina Poloni ITA 2.43.6 40. Alice Baumann SUI 2.44.0 DNS: Christl Haas AUT (10), Marianne Jahn AUT, Christl Staffner AUT (14), Giuliana Minuzzo-Chenal ITA, DNF: Yvonne Rueegg SUI (8), Pia Riva ITA (9), split-time: 1. Heidi Biebl FRG 1.20.2 2. Margrit Gertsch SUI 1.21.8 3. Theres Leduc FRA 1.22.2 4. Erika Netzer AUT 1.22.8 * at www.filmothek.bundesarchiv.de there is a report of some 40 seconds about this event, (from 8:20 till 9:00 minute) in a film journal UFA-Wochenschau No. 234/1961 from 17.01.1961. + British Pathe offers somewhat longer report of about a minute at www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ5J-UgATcE .