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, and the vertical drop was. The course length was and Haas' winning run of 115.39 seconds resulted in an average speed of, with an average vertical descent rate of.
Results
Thursday, 6 February 1964| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Difference |
| 13 | Christl Haas | 1:55.39 | — | ||
| 11 | Edith Zimmermann | 1:56.42 | +1.03 | ||
| 4 | Traudl Hecher | 1:56.66 | +1.27 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Heidi Biebl | 1:57.87 | +2.48 | |
| 5 | 7 | Barbi Henneberger | 1:58.03 | +2.64 | |
| 6 | 1 | Madeleine Bochatay | 1:59.11 | +3.72 | |
| 7 | 5 | Nancy Greene | 1:59.23 | +3.84 | |
| 8 | 9 | Christine Terraillon | 1:59.66 | +4.27 | |
| 9 | 10 | Annie Famose | 1:59.86 | +4.47 | |
| 10 | 14 | Marielle Goitschel | 2:00.77 | +5.38 | |
| 11 | 28 | Giustina Demetz | 2:01.20 | +5.81 | |
| 12 | 20 | Burgl Färbinger | 2:01.23 | +5.84 | |
| 13 | 12 | Patricia du Roy de Blicquy | 2:01.41 | +6.02 | |
| 14 | 8 | Starr Walton | 2:01.45 | +6.06 | |
| 15 | 21 | Joan Hannah | 2:01.88 | +6.49 | |
| 16 | 45 | Gina Hathorn | 2:02.20 | +6.81 | |
| 17 | 31 | Heidi Obrecht | 2:02.23 | +6.84 | |
| 18 | 6 | Pia Riva | 2:02.25 | +6.86 | |
| 19 | 3 | Theres Obrecht | 2:02.41 | +7.02 | |
| 20 | 17 | Ruth Adolf | 2:02.59 | +7.20 | |
| 21 | 23 | Margo Walters | 2:02.68 | +7.29 | |
| 22 | 27 | Edda Kainz | 2:02.69 | +7.30 | |
| 23 | 29 | Heidi Mittermaier | 2:03.05 | +7.66 | |
| 24 | 24 | Linda Crutchfield | 2:03.10 | +7.71 | |
| 25 | 26 | Lidia Barbieri Sacconaghi | 2:03.38 | +7.99 | |
| 26 | 15 | Jean Saubert | 2:03.79 | +8.40 | |
| 27 | 49 | Christine Smith | 2:03.82 | +8.43 | |
| 28 | 42 | Karen Dokka | 2:04.04 | +8.65 | |
| 29 | 38 | Liv Jagge | 2:04.07 | +8.68 | |
| 30 | 44 | Divina Galica | 2:04.10 | +8.71 | |
| 31 | 18 | Inge Senoner | 2:04.22 | +8.83 | |
| 31 | 41 | Krista Fanedl | 2:04.22 | +8.83 | |
| 33 | 22 | Majda Ankele | 2:04.46 | +9.07 | |
| 34 | 25 | Nancy Holland | 2:04.53 | +9.14 | |
| 35 | 30 | Tania Heald | 2:04.82 | +9.43 | |
| 36 | 46 | Dikke Eger | 2:05.10 | +9.71 | |
| 37 | 50 | Yevgeniya Kabina | 2:05.19 | +9.80 | |
| 38 | 39 | Anna Asheshov | 2:05.41 | +10.02 | |
| 39 | 40 | Galina Sidorova | 2:08.32 | +12.93 | |
| 40 | 48 | Stalina Demidova | 2:09.28 | +13.89 | |
| 41 | 43 | Maria Szatkowska | 2:11.75 | +16.36 | |
| 42 | 51 | Judy Forras | 2:13.83 | +18.44 | |
| 43 | 52 | Ildikó Szendrődi-Kővári | 2:22.22 | +26.83 | |
| 19 | Fernande Bochatay | DNS |