Alpine Skiing At The 1964 Winter Olympics – Women's Downhill
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The Women's
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competition of the Innsbruck 1964 Olympics was held at
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on Thursday, 6 February. The defending
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was
Christl Haas Christl Haas (19 September 1943 – 8 July 2001) was an Austrian Alpine skier. She competed at the 1964 and 1968 Winter Olympics and won a gold and a bronze medal, respectively. Biography Haas grew up in Hahnenkamm, Kitzbühel, known for its a ...
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 Waltraud J. "Traudl" Hecher-Görgl (28 September 1943 – 10 January 2023) was an Austrian World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic medalist. Hecher won Olympic bronze medals in the downhill in 1960 at Squaw Valley
also won the bronze medal in the 1960 downhill at age 16: her daughter
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won the same medal in the same event in 2010. The starting gate was at an
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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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