page_title: FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1950
section_title: Giant Slalom
hierarchical_section_title: FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1950 / Men's competitions / Giant Slalom
caption_attribution_description: LF57 1950 Wire Photo ZENO COLO FERNAND GROSJEAN JAMES COUTTET Mens Giant Slalom
context_page_description: The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1950 were the 11th FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, held February 13–18 in the United States at Aspen, Colorado.
  These were the first world championships held outside of Europe, and the first official world championships not concurrent with the Olympics since 1939. The Giant slalom made its world championships debut and displaced the combined event, which returned to the program in 1954 as a "paper race," using the results of the three races through 1980.
  At Aspen's Ajax Mountain, Zeno Colò of Italy won the downhill and giant slalom, and just missed a sweep of the gold medals; he finished 0.3 seconds behind in the slalom, taking the silver. Austria dominated the women's races: Dagmar Rom won the giant slalom and slalom, Trude Jochum-Beiser won gold in the downhill and silver in the GS, and Erika Mahringer took two silver medals, in the downhill and slalom.
  Aspen was in its fourth year as a ski area; it opened in December 1946 with a single chairlift.
  The Nordic world championships were also held in the U.S. in 1950, at Lake Placid, New York. Due to lack of snow at Lake Placid, the cross-country events were moved to Rumford, Maine.
context_section_description: In the first men's race, Colò averaged 40 mph (64 km/h) in the one-run event.
  The course had 35 gates with a vertical drop of 1,600 feet (490 m).
caption: Left-right: Zeno Colò, Fernand Grosjean and James Couttet after the giant slalom competition
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