1968 Alpine Skiing World Cup - Women's Giant Slalom
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Women's Giant Slalom World Cup 1967/1968

Calendar

Round Race No Place Country Date Winner Second Third
1 1 Oberstaufen
Oberstaufen
Oberstaufen is a municipality in the district of Oberallgäu in Bavarian Swabia, Germany, situated on the B 308 road from Lindau to Immenstadt.-History:It is first mentioned as Stoufun in AD 868...

 
January 5, 1968   Fernande Bochatay
Fernande Bochatay
Fernande Bochatay is a former Swiss alpine skier. At the 1968 Winter Olympics, she won the bronze medal in Giant Slalom....

 
  Florence Steurer
Florence Steurer
Florence Steurer is a French former alpine skier who competed in the 1968 Winter Olympics and in the 1972 Winter Olympics.She was born in Lyon....

 
  Nancy Greene
Nancy Greene
Nancy Catherine Greene, OC, OBC, OD is a Canadian Senator for British Columbia and a champion alpine skier voted as Canada's Female Athlete of the 20th Century...

2 3 Grindelwald
Grindelwald
Grindelwald is a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The village is located at above sea level in the Bernese Alps.-Winter sports:...

 
January 10, 1968   Nancy Greene
Nancy Greene
Nancy Catherine Greene, OC, OBC, OD is a Canadian Senator for British Columbia and a champion alpine skier voted as Canada's Female Athlete of the 20th Century...

 
  Marielle Goitschel
Marielle Goitschel
Marielle Goitschel is a former French alpine skier. Marielle is the younger sister of Christine Goitschel, another champion skier of the time, and the aunt of current speed skier Philippe Goitschel....

 
  Fernande Bochatay
Fernande Bochatay
Fernande Bochatay is a former Swiss alpine skier. At the 1968 Winter Olympics, she won the bronze medal in Giant Slalom....

3 11 Grenoble
Grenoble
Grenoble is a city in southeastern France, at the foot of the French Alps where the river Drac joins the Isère. Located in the Rhône-Alpes region, Grenoble is the capital of the department of Isère...

 
February 15, 1968   Nancy Greene
Nancy Greene
Nancy Catherine Greene, OC, OBC, OD is a Canadian Senator for British Columbia and a champion alpine skier voted as Canada's Female Athlete of the 20th Century...

 
  Annie Famose
Annie Famose
Annie Famose is a French former Alpine skier. She was a member of the dominating French alpine skiing national team in the 1960s...

 
  Fernande Bochatay
Fernande Bochatay
Fernande Bochatay is a former Swiss alpine skier. At the 1968 Winter Olympics, she won the bronze medal in Giant Slalom....

4 13 Oslo
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

 
February 24, 1968   Fernande Bochatay
Fernande Bochatay
Fernande Bochatay is a former Swiss alpine skier. At the 1968 Winter Olympics, she won the bronze medal in Giant Slalom....

 
  Isabelle Mir
Isabelle Mir
Isabelle Mir is a French former Alpine skier. At the 1968 Olympics in Grenoble Mir was silver medalist in the downhill...

 
  Kiki Cutter
Kiki Cutter
Christina "Kiki" Cutter was a world class alpine skier from the United States. She was the first American to win a World Cup skiing event by placing first in the World Cup slalom race in 1968 in Oslo, Norway....

5 19 Aspen
Aspen, Colorado
The City of Aspen is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the city population was 5,804 in 2005...

 
March 17, 1968   Nancy Greene
Nancy Greene
Nancy Catherine Greene, OC, OBC, OD is a Canadian Senator for British Columbia and a champion alpine skier voted as Canada's Female Athlete of the 20th Century...

 
  Marielle Goitschel
Marielle Goitschel
Marielle Goitschel is a former French alpine skier. Marielle is the younger sister of Christine Goitschel, another champion skier of the time, and the aunt of current speed skier Philippe Goitschel....

 
  Rosi Mittermaier
Rosi Mittermaier
Rosemarie "Rosi" Mittermaier-Neureuther is a former alpine ski racer. She won two gold medals and one silver at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, becoming the most successful athlete there along with Raisa Smetanina of Soviet Union, and earning her the nickname of Gold-Rosi within...

6 21 Rossland
Rossland, British Columbia
Rossland is a city in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia.Tucked high in the Monashee Mountains, Rossland is at an elevation of 1023 metres . Population today is approximately 3500; a number that fluctuates from season to season. The population is at its peak during the winter...

 
March 31, 1968   Nancy Greene
Nancy Greene
Nancy Catherine Greene, OC, OBC, OD is a Canadian Senator for British Columbia and a champion alpine skier voted as Canada's Female Athlete of the 20th Century...

 
  Florence Steurer
Florence Steurer
Florence Steurer is a French former alpine skier who competed in the 1968 Winter Olympics and in the 1972 Winter Olympics.She was born in Lyon....

 
  Gertrude Gabl
Gertrude Gabl
Gertrude Gabl was an alpine skier from Austria.Her best season was 1969/70, when she won the Alpine skiing World Cup. She died in an avalanche in 1976.-References:...

7 22 Heavenly Valley  April 5, 1968   Gertrude Gabl
Gertrude Gabl
Gertrude Gabl was an alpine skier from Austria.Her best season was 1969/70, when she won the Alpine skiing World Cup. She died in an avalanche in 1976.-References:...

 
  Florence Steurer
Florence Steurer
Florence Steurer is a French former alpine skier who competed in the 1968 Winter Olympics and in the 1972 Winter Olympics.She was born in Lyon....

 
  Isabelle Mir
Isabelle Mir
Isabelle Mir is a French former Alpine skier. At the 1968 Olympics in Grenoble Mir was silver medalist in the downhill...



Note: Round 3/Race 11 was the Olympic event, which count also for the World Cup. See also 1968 Winter Olympics
1968 Winter Olympics
The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1968 in Grenoble, France and opened on 6 February. Thirty-seven countries participated...

 and Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics consisted of six events, held near Grenoble, France. The six events were held at Chamrousse from February 9–17, 1968.Jean-Claude Killy won all three men's events, repeating Toni Sailer's triple-gold of 1956...


Final point standings

In Women's Giant Slalom World Cup 1967/68 the best 3 results count. Deductions are given in .
Place Name Country Total Points Deduction 1  3  11  13  19  21  22 
1 Nancy Greene
Nancy Greene
Nancy Catherine Greene, OC, OBC, OD is a Canadian Senator for British Columbia and a champion alpine skier voted as Canada's Female Athlete of the 20th Century...

 
75 (48) (15) 25 25 - 25 (25) (8)
2 Fernande Bochatay
Fernande Bochatay
Fernande Bochatay is a former Swiss alpine skier. At the 1968 Winter Olympics, she won the bronze medal in Giant Slalom....

 
65 (18) 25 15 (15) 25 (2) (1) -
3 Florence Steurer
Florence Steurer
Florence Steurer is a French former alpine skier who competed in the 1968 Winter Olympics and in the 1972 Winter Olympics.She was born in Lyon....

 
60 (19) 20 (8) (11) - - 20 20
4 Gertrude Gabl
Gertrude Gabl
Gertrude Gabl was an alpine skier from Austria.Her best season was 1969/70, when she won the Alpine skiing World Cup. She died in an avalanche in 1976.-References:...

 
51 (16) (3) 11 (2) - (11) 15 25
5 Marielle Goitschel
Marielle Goitschel
Marielle Goitschel is a former French alpine skier. Marielle is the younger sister of Christine Goitschel, another champion skier of the time, and the aunt of current speed skier Philippe Goitschel....

 
44 - 20 4 - 20 - -
6 Isabelle Mir
Isabelle Mir
Isabelle Mir is a French former Alpine skier. At the 1968 Olympics in Grenoble Mir was silver medalist in the downhill...

 
41 (10) 6 (1) (6) 20 - (3) 15
7 Annie Famose
Annie Famose
Annie Famose is a French former Alpine skier. She was a member of the dominating French alpine skiing national team in the 1960s...

 
32 (4) (4) - 20 - - 6 6
8 Rosi Mittermaier
Rosi Mittermaier
Rosemarie "Rosi" Mittermaier-Neureuther is a former alpine ski racer. She won two gold medals and one silver at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, becoming the most successful athlete there along with Raisa Smetanina of Soviet Union, and earning her the nickname of Gold-Rosi within...

 
29 - 3 - - 15 11 -
9 Judy Nagel  28 (4) - - - 11 6 (4) 11
10 Kiki Cutter
Kiki Cutter
Christina "Kiki" Cutter was a world class alpine skier from the United States. She was the first American to win a World Cup skiing event by placing first in the World Cup slalom race in 1968 in Oslo, Norway....

 
25 (2) - 4 - 15 - (2) 6
11 Divina Galica
Divina Galica
Divina Mary Galica MBE is an English sportswoman, best known for her Olympics career and her motorsport racing career.-Skiing career:...

 
17 (2) - 6 3 - 8 - (2)
12 Olga Pall
Olga Pall
Olga Scarzezzini-Pall is a former alpine skier from Austria. At the 1968 Winter Olympics of Grenoble she won the downhill event. In addition to the Olympic gold, Pall had two World Cup victories during her career, both in the downhill discipline.-References:...

 
16 8 - 8 - - - -
13 Burgl Färbinger  14 11 2 1 - - - -
14 Brigitte Seiwald  10 2 - - - - 8 -
15 Judy Leinweber  8 - - - 8 - - -
16 Gina Hathorn  7 - - - - 4 - 3
17 Dietlinde Wurmer  6 - - - 6 - - -
18 Wendy Allen  4 - - - 4 - - -
19 Suzy Chaffee
Suzy Chaffee
Suzanne "Suzy" Chaffee is a former Olympic alpine ski racer and actress. Following her racing career, she modelled in New York with Ford Models and then became the pre-eminent freestyle ballet skier of the early 1970s...

 
3 - - - 3 - - -
Marilyn Cochran
Marilyn Cochran
Marilyn Cochran Brown is a former Alpine ski racer and World Cup champion. In 1969, she became the first American to win a discipline championship in the World Cup, triumphing in giant slalom...

 
3 - - - - 3 - -
21 Betsy Clifford
Betsy Clifford
Betsy Clifford is a retired Canadian alpine skier.At the 1968 Winter Olympics, she was the youngest Canadian skier ever to compete. She finished 7th at the 1970 Alpine Skiing World Cup and 10th at the 1971 Alpine Skiing World Cup...

 
2 - - - 2 - - -
22 Robin Morning  1 1 - - - - - -
Penny McCoy  1 - - - 1 - - -
Christine Béranger  1 - - - - 1 - -
Wiltrud Drexel
Wiltrud Drexel
Wiltrud Drexel is an Austrian former alpine skier and Olympic medalist. She received a bronze medal in the giant slalom at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo.-External links:* - Results - Wiltrud Drexel...

 
1 - - - - - - 1

Women's Giant Slalom Team Results

All points were shown including individual deduction. bold indicate highest score - italics indicate race wins
Place Country Total Points 1  3  11  13  19  21  22  Racers Wins
1 211 30 29 41 20 21 29 41 5 0
2 133 15 25 25 10 25 25 8 3 4
3 94 13 11 10 - 11 23 26 4 1
4 83 25 15 15 25 2 1 - 1 2
5 71 1 4 - 34 9 6 17 7 0
6 49 11 5 1 6 15 11 - 3 0
7 26 - 6 3 - 12 - 5 2 0



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