Haas grew up in
Hahnenkamm, Kitzbühel, known for its alpine skiing courses. At the
World Cup she won four
downhill competitions in total. 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 event at the first
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. In 2001, she had a heart attack while swimming in the
Mediterranean Sea at
Antalya,
Turkey and died as a result. ==Notes and references==