| 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 |
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Penny Pitou |
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Traudl Hecher |
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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.