Venue Axamer Lizum Competitors 43 from 15 nations | Date February 6 Winning time 1:55.39 | |
The Women's downhill competition of the Innsbruck 1964 Olympics was held at Axamer Lizum.
The defending world champion was Christl Haas of Austria. She won the event and lead a sweep of the medals for Austria on home snow. 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.
References
Alpine skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA