Olympedia – Downhill, Women

Date	6 February 1964 — 15:15
Status	Olympic
Location	Axamer Lizum, Axams (Hoadl)
Participants	43 from 15 countries
Course Setter		UNK
Details	Gates: 24 Length: 2510 m Start Altitude: 2310 m Vertical Drop: 760 m

Date

6 February 1964 — 15:15

Status

Olympic

Location

Axamer Lizum, Axams (Hoadl)

Participants

43 from 15 countries

Course Setter

UNK

Details

Gates: 24
Length: 2510 m
Start Altitude: 2310 m
Vertical Drop: 760 m

Christl Haas had won the 1962 downhill World Championship and was favored to win in Innsbruck. She went off 13th, with the lead at the time held by her teammates, Edith Zimmermann. But Haas did not disappoint, winning the gold medal with over a second margin. The bronze medal went to Traudl Hecher, as it had in 1960 at Squaw Valley, which completed an Austrian medal sweep, only the second in Winter Olympic Alpine history, after the Austrian sweep of the 1956 men’s giant slalom. The defending gold medalist, German Heidi Biebl, placed fourth.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Time
1	13	Christl Haas	AUT	1:55.39	Gold
2	11	Edith Zimmermann	AUT	1:56.42	Silver
3	4	Traudl Hecher	AUT	1:56.66	Bronze
4	2	Heidi Biebl	GER	1:57.87
5	7	Barbi Henneberger	GER	1:58.03
6	1	Madeleine Bochatay	FRA	1:59.11
7	5	Nancy Greene	CAN	1:59.23
8	9	Christine Terraillon	FRA	1:59.66
9	10	Annie Famose	FRA	1:59.86
10	14	Marielle Goitschel	FRA	2:00.77
11	28	Giustina Demetz	ITA	2:01.20
12	20	Burgl Färbinger	GER	2:01.23
13	12	Patricia du Roy de Blicquy	BEL	2:01.41
14	8	Starr Walton	USA	2:01.45
15	21	Joan Hannah	USA	2:01.88
16	45	Gina Hathorn	GBR	2:02.20
17	31	Heidi Obrecht	SUI	2:02.23
18	6	Pia Riva	ITA	2:02.25
19	3	Theres Obrecht	SUI	2:02.41
20	17	Ruth Adolf	SUI	2:02.59
21	23	Margo Walters	USA	2:02.68
22	27	Edda Kainz	AUT	2:02.69
23	29	Heidi Mittermaier	GER	2:03.05
24	24	Linda Crutchfield	CAN	2:03.10
25	26	Lidia Barbieri Sacconaghi	ITA	2:03.38
26	15	Jean Saubert	USA	2:03.79
27	49	Christine Smith	AUS	2:03.82
28	42	Karen Dokka	CAN	2:04.04
29	38	Liv Jagge	NOR	2:04.07
30	44	Divina Galica	GBR	2:04.10
=31	18	Inge Senoner	ITA	2:04.22
=31	41	Krista Fanedl	YUG	2:04.22
33	22	Majda Ankele	YUG	2:04.46
34	25	Nancy Holland	CAN	2:04.53
35	30	Tania Heald	GBR	2:04.82
36	46	Dikke Eger	NOR	2:05.10
37	50	Yevgeniya Kabina	URS	2:05.19
38	39	Anna Asheshov	GBR	2:05.41
39	40	Galina Sidorova	URS	2:08.32
40	48	Stalina Demidova	URS	2:09.28
41	43	Maria Szatkowska	POL	2:11.75
42	51	Judy Forras	AUS	2:13.83
43	52	Ildikó Szendrődi-Kővári	HUN	2:22.22
DNS	19	Fernande Bochatay	SUI	–