# 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 2,310 m (7,579 ft), and the vertical drop was 705 m (2,313 ft). 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).

## Results

Thursday, 6 February 1964
| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Difference |
| | 13 | Christl Haas | Austria | 1:55.39 | — |
| | 11 | Edith Zimmermann | Austria | 1:56.42 | +1.03 |
| | 4 | Traudl Hecher | Austria | 1:56.66 | +1.27 |
| 4 | 2 | Heidi Biebl | United Team of Germany | 1:57.87 | +2.48 |
| 5 | 7 | Barbi Henneberger | United Team of Germany | 1:58.03 | +2.64 |
| 6 | 1 | Madeleine Bochatay | France | 1:59.11 | +3.72 |
| 7 | 5 | Nancy Greene | Canada | 1:59.23 | +3.84 |
| 8 | 9 | Christine Terraillon | France | 1:59.66 | +4.27 |
| 9 | 10 | Annie Famose | France | 1:59.86 | +4.47 |
| 10 | 14 | Marielle Goitschel | France | 2:00.77 | +5.38 |
| 11 | 28 | Giustina Demetz | Italy | 2:01.20 | +5.81 |
| 12 | 20 | Burgl Färbinger | United Team of Germany | 2:01.23 | +5.84 |
| 13 | 12 | Patricia du Roy de Blicquy | Belgium | 2:01.41 | +6.02 |
| 14 | 8 | Starr Walton | United States | 2:01.45 | +6.06 |
| 15 | 21 | Joan Hannah | United States | 2:01.88 | +6.49 |
| 16 | 45 | Gina Hathorn | Great Britain | 2:02.20 | +6.81 |
| 17 | 31 | Heidi Obrecht | Switzerland | 2:02.23 | +6.84 |
| 18 | 6 | Pia Riva | Italy | 2:02.25 | +6.86 |
| 19 | 3 | Theres Obrecht | Switzerland | 2:02.41 | +7.02 |
| 20 | 17 | Ruth Adolf | Switzerland | 2:02.59 | +7.20 |
| 21 | 23 | Margo Walters | United States | 2:02.68 | +7.29 |
| 22 | 27 | Edda Kainz | Austria | 2:02.69 | +7.30 |
| 23 | 29 | Heidi Mittermaier | United Team of Germany | 2:03.05 | +7.66 |
| 24 | 24 | Linda Crutchfield | Canada | 2:03.10 | +7.71 |
| 25 | 26 | Lidia Barbieri Sacconaghi | Italy | 2:03.38 | +7.99 |
| 26 | 15 | Jean Saubert | United States | 2:03.79 | +8.40 |
| 27 | 49 | Christine Smith | Australia | 2:03.82 | +8.43 |
| 28 | 42 | Karen Dokka | Canada | 2:04.04 | +8.65 |
| 29 | 38 | Liv Jagge | Norway | 2:04.07 | +8.68 |
| 30 | 44 | Divina Galica | Great Britain | 2:04.10 | +8.71 |
| 31 | 18 | Inge Senoner | Italy | 2:04.22 | +8.83 |
| 31 | 41 | Krista Fanedl | Yugoslavia | 2:04.22 | +8.83 |
| 33 | 22 | Majda Ankele | Yugoslavia | 2:04.46 | +9.07 |
| 34 | 25 | Nancy Holland | Canada | 2:04.53 | +9.14 |
| 35 | 30 | Tania Heald | Great Britain | 2:04.82 | +9.43 |
| 36 | 46 | Dikke Eger | Norway | 2:05.10 | +9.71 |
| 37 | 50 | Yevgeniya Kabina | Soviet Union | 2:05.19 | +9.80 |
| 38 | 39 | Anna Asheshov | Great Britain | 2:05.41 | +10.02 |
| 39 | 40 | Galina Sidorova | Soviet Union | 2:08.32 | +12.93 |
| 40 | 48 | Stalina Demidova | Soviet Union | 2:09.28 | +13.89 |
| 41 | 43 | Maria Szatkowska | Poland | 2:11.75 | +16.36 |
| 42 | 51 | Judy Forras | Australia | 2:13.83 | +18.44 |
| 43 | 52 | Ildikó Szendrődi-Kővári | Hungary | 2:22.22 | +26.83 |
| | 19 | Fernande Bochatay | Switzerland | DNS | |
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