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.

The defending world champion 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. 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 2310 m, and the vertical drop was 705 m. The course length was 2.510 km and Haas' winning run of 115.39 seconds resulted in an average speed of 78.308 km/h, with an average vertical descent rate of 6.110 m/s.

Results
Thursday, 6 February 1964
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