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

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