Tags: Olympic Event, Olympics.
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.