ESPN Classic - Haas won gold for Austria in 1964

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Monday, July 9, 2001
Haas won gold for Austria in 1964
Associated Press

ANKARA, Turkey -- Christl Haas, the Austrian skier who won the women's downhill at the 1964 Olympics, drowned while swimming at a Mediterranean resort, the Austrian Embassy said. She was 57.

Haas was on a family vacation near the town of Manavgat when she drowned Sunday afternoon, an embassy spokesman said. The circumstances surrounding the drowning were not immediately clear.

Manavgat is 45 miles east of the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya.

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