| Women's singles at the IX Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 30 January – 4 February | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 17 from 7 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 3:24.67 | ||||||||||||
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| Luge at the 1964 Winter Olympics | ||
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| Singles | men | women |
| Doubles | men | |
The Women's singles luge competition at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck was held from 30 January to 4 February, at Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck. [1] [2]
| Rank [1] | Athlete | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total |
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 | Ortrun Enderlein |  United Team of Germany | 51.13 | 51.12 | 50.87 | 51.55 | 3:24.67 |
 | Ilse Geisler | United Team of Germany | 51.28 | 51.48 | 51.20 | 53.46 | 3:27.42 |
 | Leni Thurner |  Austria | 52.08 | 52.08 | 52.42 | 52.48 | 3:29.06 |
| 4 | Irena Pawełczyk |  Poland | 52.81 | 52.42 | 52.47 | 52.82 | 3:30.52 |
| 5 | Barbara Gorgoń-Flont | Poland | 54.24 | 53.01 | 52.46 | 53.02 | 3:32.73 |
| 6 | Olina Hátlová-Tylová |  Czechoslovakia | 51.37 | 57.94 | 51.65 | 51.80 | 3:32.76 |
| 7 | Friederike Matejka | Austria | 53.61 | 52.98 | 53.94 | 54.15 | 3:34.68 |
| 8 | Helena Macher | Poland | 53.15 | 54.50 | 54.55 | 53.67 | 3:35.87 |
| 9 | Hana Nesvadbová | Czechoslovakia | 53.56 | 53.45 | 54.67 | 54.42 | 3:36.10 |
| 10 | Minna Blüml | United Team of Germany | 56.87 | 53.80 | 52.33 | 53.32 | 3:36.32 |
| 11 | Ursula Amstein |  Switzerland | 54.25 | 56.58 | 55.90 | 56.08 | 3:42.81 |
| 12 | Elisabeth Nagele | Switzerland | 55.28 | 55.10 | 57.61 | 55.30 | 3:43.29 |
| 13 | Erica Prugger |  Italy | 55.24 | 87.28 | 54.98 | 55.69 | 4:13.19 |
| - | Erica Außendorfer | Italy | 56.03 | ? | ? | DNF | - |
| - | Antonia Lanthaler | Austria | 54.30 | DNF | - | - | - |
| - | Monika Lücker | Switzerland | 55.35 | DNF | - | - | - |
| - | Dorothy Hirschland |  United States | 86.06 | DNS | - | - | - |
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