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United States At The 1964 Winter Olympics
The United States competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. Medalists The following U.S. competitors won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded. , width="78%" align="left" valign="top" , , width=22% align=left valign=top , Alpine skiing Men Women Biathlon Bobsleigh Cross-country skiing Figure skating Individual Pairs Ice hockey Summary Roster First Round Winners (in bold) qualified for the Group A to play for 1st-8th places. Teams, which lost their qualification matches, played in Group B for 9th-16th places. Medal Round First place team wins gold, second silver and third bronze. *USSR 5-1 USA *USA 8-0 Germany (UTG) *Sweden 7-4 USA *Canada 8-6 USA *Czechoslovakia 7-1 USA *Finland 3-2 USA *USA 7-3 Switzerland Luge Nordic combined Ski jumping Speed skating Men Women ReferencesOfficial Olympic ReportsOlympic Winter Games 1964, full results by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Olympic Committee
The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) is the National Olympic Committee and the National Paralympic Committee for the United States. It was founded in 1895 as the United States Olympic Committee, and is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The USOPC is one of only four NOCs in the world that also serve as the National Paralympic Committee for their country. The USOPC is responsible for supporting, entering and overseeing U.S. teams for the Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, Youth Olympic Games, Pan American Games, and Parapan American Games and serves as the steward of the Olympic and Paralympic Movements in the United States. The Olympic Movement is overseen by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The IOC is supported by 35 international federations that govern each sport on a global level, National Olympic Committees that oversee Olympic sport as a whole in their respective nations, and national federations that administer each sport at the nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpine Skiing At The 1964 Winter Olympics – Men's Downhill
The Men's downhill competition of the 1964 Winter Olympics at Innsbruck, Austria, was held at Patscherkofel on Thursday, 30 January. The defending world champion was Karl Schranz of Austria, and defending Olympic champion Jean Vuarnet of France had retired from competition. The race course had a number of casualties during training runs, including the death of Ross Milne of Australia, which led to a label of "Course of Fear." Zimmermann was favored by many to win the downhill and to the delight of the Austrian fans he won by 0.74 seconds. The starting gate was at an elevation of , and the vertical drop was . The course length was and Zimmerman's winning run resulted in an average speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of . Following the victory, Zimmerman was featured on the cover of ''Sports Illustrated'' in the United States. A dozen years later in 1976, Franz Klammer raced on a slightly shorter course (by ) and shaved more than 32 seconds off of Zimmerman's time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Akers
Charles Arthur Akers (July 12, 1939 – June 30, 2016) was an American biathlete. He competed in the 20 km individual event at the 1964 Winter Olympics The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games (german: IX. Olympische Winterspiele) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1964 ( bar, Innschbruck 1964, label=Austro-Bavarian), was a winter multi-sport event which was celebr .... Akers grew up in Andover, Maine, attended the University of Maine, and retired to Palmer, Alaska after his athletics career, becoming a member of the National Ski Patrol. References External links * 1939 births 2016 deaths American male biathletes American male cross-country skiers Olympic biathletes for the United States Olympic cross-country skiers for the United States Biathletes at the 1964 Winter Olympics Cross-country skiers at the 1960 Winter Olympics People from Rumford, Maine 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-crosscountry-skiing-bio-stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Meyers
Linda Meyers (later ''Tikalsky'', born July 1, 1937) is a retired American Alpine skiing, alpine ski racer, a former member of the United States Ski Team. She competed at the Alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics, Winter Olympics in Alpine skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics, 1960 and Alpine skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics, 1964. On home state snow in 1960, Meyers tumbled in the Alpine skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill, downhill event, but completed the descent and placed 33rd;:File:Linda Meyers 1960.jpg she failed to finish the Alpine skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics – Women's giant slalom, giant slalom. In 1964, she placed 12th in the Alpine skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics – Women's slalom, slalom and 30th in the Alpine skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics – Women's giant slalom, giant slalom. At age fourteen, Meyers moved with her family from Los Angeles to Bishop, California, near Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, Mammoth Mountain, and took u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Ferries
Barbara Ferries (born September 5, 1944) is an American skier. She competed in Alpine skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games (german: IX. Olympische Winterspiele) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1964 ( bar, Innschbruck 1964, label=Austro-Bavarian), was a winter multi-sport event which was celebr .... References External links * 1944 births Living people Alpine skiers at the 1964 Winter Olympics American female alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for the United States Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women {{US-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starr Walton
Starr Walton (born May 13, 1942) is an American alpine skier. She competed in the women's downhill at the 1964 Winter Olympics The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games (german: IX. Olympische Winterspiele) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1964 ( bar, Innschbruck 1964, label=Austro-Bavarian), was a winter multi-sport event which was celebr .... References External links * 1942 births Living people American female alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for the United States Alpine skiers at the 1964 Winter Olympics People from Yuba City, California 21st-century American women {{US-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margo Walters
Margo Walters (born March 11, 1942) is an American alpine skier. She competed in the women's downhill at the 1964 Winter Olympics The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games (german: IX. Olympische Winterspiele) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1964 ( bar, Innschbruck 1964, label=Austro-Bavarian), was a winter multi-sport event which was celebr .... References External links * 1942 births Living people American female alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for the United States Alpine skiers at the 1964 Winter Olympics People from Rexburg, Idaho 21st-century American women {{US-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpine Skiing At The 1964 Winter Olympics – Women's Downhill
The Women's downhill competition of the Innsbruck 1964 Olympics was held at Axamer Lizum on Thursday, 6 February. The defending world champion was Christl Haas of Austria; she won the event and led a sweep of the medals for the home country, as Edith Zimmermann took the silver. 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. The starting gate was at an elevation of , and the vertical drop was . The course length was and Haas' winning run of 115.39 seconds resulted in an average speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of . Results Thursday, 6 February 1964 : References {{DEFAULTSORT:Alpine skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics - Women's downhill Women's downhill Oly Oly may refer to: * Oly, informal name for Olympia, Washington, United States * OLY (: ), postnominals granted to participants in the Olympics People with the name * Oly (born 1992), Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Hannah
Joan Hannah (born April 27, 1939) is a retired American alpine ski racer, a former member of the United States Ski Team. She competed at the Winter Olympics in 1960 and 1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch .... Olympic results References External links * 1939 births Living people Alpine skiers at the 1960 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 1964 Winter Olympics American female alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers of the United States Place of birth missing (living people) Sportspeople from Boston 20th-century American women {{US-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Marolt
William Charles Marolt (born September 1, 1943) is a retired American alpine ski racer, coach, and sports administrator. Originally from Aspen, Colorado, Marolt made the U.S. Olympic team in 1964 at age twenty and was twelfth in the giant slalom. Domestically, he won four individual NCAA titles: downhill (1963, 1965), slalom (1966), and combined (1966). After graduating from the University of Colorado in Boulder, Marolt was a ski coach there, leading the Buffaloes to seven consecutive NCAA titles from 1972 through 1978. He then became a national coach, but after the 1984 Winter Olympics, returned to Boulder to succeed the retiring Eddie Crowder as CU's athletic director, and remained in that position for twelve years. In 1996, Marolt was appointed president and chief executive officer of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association, and retired in 2014. He is a member of the National Ski Hall of Fame and the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame The Colorado Sports Hall of Fame (CSHoF) is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpine Skiing At The 1964 Winter Olympics – Men's Giant Slalom ...
The Men's giant slalom competition of the Innsbruck 1964 Olympics was held on 2 February at Axamer Lizum. The defending world champion was Egon Zimmerman of Austria. Results : References {{DEFAULTSORT:Alpine skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics - Men's giant slalom Men's giant slalom Winter Olympics The Winter Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Heuga
James Frederic Heuga (September 22, 1943 – February 8, 2010) was an American alpine ski racer who became one of the first two members of the U.S. men's team to win an Olympic medal in his sport. After multiple sclerosis prematurely ended his athletic career, he became an advocate of exercise and activity to combat the disease. Born in San Francisco, California, Heuga grew up in Squaw Valley, California, where his father Pascal (1909–2011), a Basque immigrant from southwestern France, opened a grocery store in 1945 in Lake Forest and later operated the resort's cable car (1968–1988). Heuga was on skis at age two and began to compete in the sport at age five; he appeared in a Warren Miller ski film at age nine. Heuga was named to the U.S. Ski Team in 1958, becoming the youngest man ever to make the squad as a fifteen-year-old. He went to the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he was coached by Bob Beattie. A three-time letterman, Heuga won the NCAA champi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
