Monte Faloria
Peak · 2352 m · Dolomites
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Monte Faloria, reached by cable car from Cortina d'Ampezzo, hosted the men's giant slalom of the 1956 Winter Olympics on its Ilio Colli run. Toni Sailer of Austria won by 6.2 seconds, still the largest winning margin in Olympic alpine skiing history, on his way to a clean sweep of all three golds. Ski slopes and two mountain refuges now cover the peak at 2,352 metres.
The giant slalom went off on 29 January 1956, down Monte Faloria's Ilio Colli course: 2.66 kilometres long, dropping 623 metres from top to finish. Toni Sailer beat Anderl Molterer into second by 6.2 seconds, a margin that still stands as the largest in Olympic alpine skiing history. It was the first leg of Sailer's sweep of all three men's alpine golds at the Cortina Games. The same slopes now carry ten kilometres of pistes and a snow park, the Olympic course folded into an ordinary ski area.
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