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{{short description|Austrian alpine skier (1943–2001)}}
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| image          = Christl Haas 1962.jpg
| image_size     = 230px
| caption        = Christl Haas in 1962
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| birth_date     = 19 September 1943 
| birth_place    = [[Kitzbühel]], [[Tyrol (state)|Tyrol]], [[Nazi Germany]]<ref name=sr>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418113655/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/christl-haas-1.html Christl Haas]. sports-reference.com</ref>
| death_date     =8 July 2001 (aged 57)
| death_place    =[[Manavgat]], [[Turkey]]
| height =        177&nbsp;cm
| weight =        70&nbsp;kg
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| sport          = [[Alpine skiing]]
| club           = Kitzbüheler Ski Club
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| show-medals    = yes
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{{MedalCountry | {{AUT}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Olympic Games]] }}
{{MedalGold | [[1964 Winter Olympics|1964 Innsbruck]] | [[Alpine skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill|Downhill]] }}
{{MedalBronze | [[1968 Winter Olympics|1968 Grenoble]] | [[Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill|Downhill]] }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[FIS Alpine World Ski Championships|World Championships]] }}
{{MedalGold | [[FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1962|1962 Chamonix]] | [[FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1962#Downhill|Downhill]] }}
{{MedalSilver | [[FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1964|1964 Innsbruck]] | [[FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1964#Combined|Combined]] }}
}}

'''Christl Haas''' (19 September 1943 – 8 July 2001) was an [[Austria]]n Alpine skier. She competed at the 1964 and 1968 Winter Olympics and won a gold and a bronze medal, respectively.

==Biography==
Haas grew up in [[Hahnenkamm, Kitzbühel]], known for its alpine skiing courses. At the [[Alpine skiing World Cup|World Cup]] she won four [[Downhill (ski competition)|downhill]] competitions in total.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ski-db.com/db/profiles/whasc..asp |title= Christl Haas AUT |accessdate=4 August 2008 |work= SKI-DB }}</ref> At the Alpine skiing World Championship 1962 in [[Chamonix]], [[France]], she won gold in the downhill competition.

Haas became a national hero as a twenty-year-old Olympic champion in the [[Downhill (ski competition)|downhill]] event at the first [[1964 Winter Olympics|Innsbruck Winter Olympics]]. She became an instant superstar in her homeland as she won the gold medal in her home nation. Haas followed up her success at Innsbruck with a bronze medal at the [[1968 Winter Olympics]] in [[Grenoble, France]].<ref name=sr/>

After retiring from competitions Haas became a ski instructor and opened a sporting goods store in Sankt Johann. As an Austrian gold medalist, Haas was selected with luger [[Josef Feistmantl]] to light the Olympic torch for the opening of the [[1976 Winter Olympics]] on 4 February 1976.<ref name=sr/><ref>{{cite news | title = WHAT'S IN A FLAME? | url = http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-93341.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121021053706/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-93341.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 21 October 2012 | accessdate = 4 August 2008 | work = The Washington Post | date = 8 February 2006}}</ref> In 2001, she had a heart attack while swimming in the [[Mediterranean Sea]] at [[Antalya]], [[Turkey]] and died as a result.<ref>{{cite news | title = Christl Haas; Skier, 57 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/10/sports/christl-haas-skier-57.html | accessdate = 4 August 2008 | work = The New York Times | date = 10 July 2001}}</ref>

==Notes and references==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Christl Haas}}
* {{austriaforum|AEIOU/Haas%2C_Christine_Christl}}
* [http://www.oeoc.at/museum/main.asp?VID=1&kat1=13&kat2=142&kat3=&MBIOPID=404&MBIOTID=841 Short biography from the Austrian Olympic Committee] {{in lang|de}}

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{{succession box
| title = [[List of people who have lit the Olympic Cauldron|Final Olympic torchbearer]] |with =  [[Josef Feistmantl]]
| before = Günther Zahn	
| after = [[Stéphane Préfontaine]] and [[Sandra Henderson]]
| years = [[1976 Winter Olympics|1976 Innsbruck]]
}}
{{succession box
| title = [[List of people who have lit the Olympic Cauldron|Final Winter Olympic torchbearer]] |with =  [[Josef Feistmantl]]
| before = Hideo Takada
| after = Charles Morgan Kerr
| years = [[1976 Winter Olympics|1976 Innsbruck]]
}}
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[[Category:Alpine skiers at the 1964 Winter Olympics]]
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[[Category:Austrian female alpine skiers]]
[[Category:Olympic alpine skiers for Austria]]
[[Category:Olympic gold medalists for Austria]]
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[[Category:Deaths by drowning]]
[[Category:Accidental deaths in Turkey]]
[[Category:Skiers from Tyrol (federal state)]]
[[Category:Olympic medalists in alpine skiing]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1964 Winter Olympics]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1968 Winter Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic cauldron lighters]]
[[Category:20th-century Austrian sportswomen]]
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