Alpine skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill

Women's downhill at the IX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Axamer Lizum
Date	February 6
Competitors	43 from 15 nations
Winning time	1:55.39
Medalists
Christl Haas   Austria   Edith Zimmermann   Austria   Traudl Hecher   Austria

Alpine skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Downhill		men		women
Giant slalom		men		women
Slalom		men		women

Women's Downhill
Location	Axamer Lizum
Vertical	705 m (2,313 ft)
Top elevation	2,310 m (7,579 ft)
Base elevation	1,605 m (5,266 ft)

The Women's downhill competition of the Innsbruck 1964 Olympics was held at Axamer Lizum.^[1]

The defending world champion was Christl Haas of Austria.^[2] She won the event and lead a sweep of the medals for Austria on home snow. Traudl Hecher also won the bronze medal in the 1960 downhill at age 16: her daughter Elisabeth Görgl won the same medal in the same event in 2010.

Results

^[1]

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Difference
	Christl Haas	Austria	1:55.39	-
	Edith Zimmermann	Austria	1:56.42	+1.03
	Traudl Hecher	Austria	1:56.66	+1.27
4	Heidi Biebl	United Team of Germany	1:57.87	+2.48
5	Barbi Henneberger	United Team of Germany	1:58.03	+2.64
6	Madeleine Bochatay	France	1:59.11	+3.72
7	Nancy Greene	Canada	1:59.23	+3.84
8	Christine Terraillon	France	1:59.66	+4.27
9	Annie Famose	France	1:59.86	+4.47
10	Marielle Goitschel	France	2:00.77	+5.38
11	Giustina Demetz	Italy	2:01.20	+5.81
12	Burgl Färbinger	United Team of Germany	2:01.23	+5.84
13	Patricia du Roy de Blicquy	Belgium	2:01.41	+6.02
14	Starr Walton	United States	2:01.45	+6.06
15	Joan Hannah	United States	2:01.88	+6.49
16	Gina Hathorn	Great Britain	2:02.20	+6.81
17	Heidi Obrecht	Switzerland	2:02.23	+6.84
18	Pia Riva	Italy	2:02.25	+6.86
19	Theres Obrecht	Switzerland	2:02.41	+7.02
20	Ruth Adolf	Switzerland	2:02.59	+7.20
21	Margo Walters	United States	2:02.68	+7.29
22	Edda Kainz	Austria	2:02.69	+7.30
23	Heidi Mittermaier	United Team of Germany	2:03.05	+7.66
24	Linda Crutchfield-Bocock	Canada	2:03.10	+7.71
25	Lidia Barbieri Sacconaghi	Italy	2:03.38	+7.99
26	Jean Saubert	United States	2:03.79	+8.40
27	Christine Smith	Australia	2:03.82	+8.43
28	Karen Dokka	Canada	2:04.04	+8.65
29	Liv Jagge-Christiansen	Norway	2:04.07	+8.68
30	Divina Galica	Great Britain	2:04.10	+8.71
31	Inge Senoner	Italy	2:04.22	+8.83
	Krista Fanedl	Yugoslavia
33	Majda Ankele	Yugoslavia	2:04.46	+9.07
34	Nancy Holland	Canada	2:04.53	+9.14
35	Tania Heald	Great Britain	2:04.82	+9.43
36	Dikke Eger-Bergman	Norway	2:05.10	+9.71
37	Yevgeniya Kabina-Sidorova	Soviet Union	2:05.19	+9.80
38	Anna Asheshov	Great Britain	2:05.41	+10.02
39	Galina Sidorova	Soviet Union	2:08.32	+12.93
40	Stalina Demidova-Korzukhina	Soviet Union	2:09.28	+13.89
41	Maria Gąsienica Daniel-Szatkowska	Poland	2:11.75	+16.36
42	Judy Forras	Australia	2:13.83	+18.44
43	Ildikó Szendrődi-Kővári	Hungary	2:22.22	+26.83

References

1. "Offizieller Bericht der IX. Olympischen Winterspiele Innsbruck 1964" (PDF). Austrian Federal Publishing House for Instruction, Science and Art, Vienna and Munich. LA84 Foundation. 1964. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
2. "1962 World Championships results". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.

External links

• Sports-Reference - 1964 Women's Downhill