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.[1][2]

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

The defending world champion was Christl Haas of Austria;[3] she won the event and led a sweep of the medals for the home country, as Edith Zimmermann took the silver.[4][5][6] 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 2,310 m (7,579 ft), and the vertical drop was 705 m (2,313 ft).[1] The course length was 2.510 km (1.56 mi) and Haas' winning run of 115.39 seconds resulted in an average speed of 78.308 km/h (48.7 mph), with an average vertical descent rate of 6.110 m/s (20.0 ft/s).