The Women's
downhill competition of the
Innsbruck 1964 Olympics was held at
Axamer Lizum
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on Thursday, 6 February.
The defending
world champion
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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.
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
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.
The starting gate was at an
elevation
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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
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Women's downhill
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