William Beck (September 1, 1929 – February 16, 2017) was an American alpine ski racer.
[1] Born in Melrose, Massachusetts, Beck graduated from South Kingstown High School in Wakefield, Rhode Island, and skied for Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Beck's fifth place in the 1952 Olympic downhill was the best result for an American male in that event for over three decades (tied by Pete Patterson in 1980), until Bill Johnson's gold medal in 1984.
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