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Alpine skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill

Alpine skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill

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The Women's downhill competition of the Innsbruck 1964 Olympics was held at Axamer Lizum on Thursday, 6 February.[1][2]

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).

Results

Thursday, 6 February 1964

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References

  1. [1]
    "Offizieller Bericht der IX. Olympischen Winterspiele Innsbruck 1964". Austrian Federal Publishing House for Instruction, Science and Art, Vienna and Munich. LA84 Foundation. 1964. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
  2. [2]
    "Alpine Skiing at the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Games: Women's Downhill". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  3. [3]
    "1962 World Championships results". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
  4. [4]
    "Saubert fails in bid for Olympic third medal". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. February 6, 1964. p. 1D.
  5. [5]
    Thornberry, Henry W. (February 6, 1964). "Saubert gets 26th in downhill, Walton 14th; Austrians win". The Bulletin. (Bend, Oregon). UPI. p. 7.
  6. [6]
    Smits, Ted (February 7, 1964). "Three-pronged disaster hits American Olympic team". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. p. 16.
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