| Men's slalom at the IX Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Axamer Lizum | ||||||||||||
| Date | February 7–8 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 96 from 28 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 2:11.13 | ||||||||||||
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| Alpine skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics | ||
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| Downhill | men | women |
| Giant slalom | men | women |
| Slalom | men | women |
The Men's slalom competition of the Innsbruck 1964 Olympics was held on 8 February at Axamer Lizum. [1] [2] [3]
The defending world champion was Charles Bozon of France. [4]
| Rank | Name | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | Difference |
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 | Pepi Stiegler |  Austria | 1:09.03 | 1:02.10 | 2:11.13 | — |
 | Billy Kidd |  United States | 1:10.96 | 1:00.31 | 2:11.27 | +0.14 |
 | Jimmie Heuga | United States | 1:10.16 | 1:01.36 | 2:11.52 | +0.39 |
| 4 | Michel Arpin |  France | 1:11.16 | 1:01.75 | 2:12.91 | +1.78 |
| 5 | Luggi Leitner |  United Team of Germany | 1:11.19 | 1:01.75 | 2:12.94 | +1.81 |
| 6 | Adolf Mathis |  Switzerland | 1:10.77 | 1:02.22 | 2:12.99 | +1.86 |
| 7 | Gerhard Nenning | Austria | 1:10.29 | 1:02.91 | 2:13.20 | +2.07 |
| 8 | Buddy Werner | United States | 1:11.64 | 1:01.82 | 2:13.46 | +2.33 |
| 9 | Wolfgang Bartels | United Team of Germany | 1:13.83 | 1:02.09 | 2:15.92 | +4.79 |
| 10 | Stefan Kälin | Switzerland | 1:13.92 | 1:02.12 | 2:16.04 | +4.91 |
| 11 | Italo Pedroncelli |  Italy | 1:13.94 | 1:02.38 | 2:16.32 | +5.19 |
| 12 | Guy Périllat | France | 1:17.00 | 0:59.33 | 2:16.33 | +5.20 |
| 13 | Ernst Scherzer | United Team of Germany | 1:14.67 | 1:03.43 | 2:18.10 | +6.97 |
| 14 | Willy Favre | Switzerland | 1:13.63 | 1:04.59 | 2:18.22 | +7.09 |
| 15 | Ivo Mahlknecht | Italy | 1:13.69 | 1:04.54 | 2:18.23 | +7.10 |
| 16 | Per Martin Sunde |  Norway | 1:14.23 | 1:04.13 | 2:18.36 | +7.23 |
| 17 | Paride Milianti | Italy | 1:13.50 | 1:04.90 | 2:18.40 | +7.27 |
| 18 | Eberhard Riedel | United Team of Germany | 1:13.57 | 1:05.28 | 2:18.85 | +7.72 |
| 19 | Peter Duncan |  Canada | 1:14.22 | 1:04.88 | 2:19.10 | +7.97 |
| 20 | Martino Fill | Italy | 1:14.53 | 1:05.10 | 2:19.63 | +8.50 |
| 21 | Hias Leitner | Austria | 1:17.07 | 1:02.57 | 2:19.64 | +8.51 |
| 22 | Raimo Manninen |  Finland | 1:14.82 | 1:05.45 | 2:20.27 | +9.14 |
| 23 | Yoshiharu Fukuhara |  Japan | 1:14.35 | 1:06.36 | 2:20.71 | +9.58 |
| 24 | Karl Schranz | Austria | 1:10.04 | 1:11.54 | 2:21.58 | +10.45 |
| 25 | Vasily Melnikov |  Soviet Union | 1:16.18 | 1:06.43 | 2:22.61 | +11.48 |
| 26 | Rune Lindström |  Sweden | 1:16.00 | 1:06.68 | 2:22.68 | +11.55 |
| 27 | Bronisław Trzebunia |  Poland | 1:16.27 | 1:06.46 | 2:22.73 | +11.60 |
| 28 | Olle Rolén | Sweden | 1:16.14 | 1:06.94 | 2:23.08 | +11.95 |
| 29 | Jon Terje Øverland | Norway | 1:19.16 | 1:05.68 | 2:24.84 | +13.71 |
| 30 | Jerzy Woyna Orlewicz | Poland | 1:18.31 | 1:06.68 | 2:24.99 | +13.86 |
| 31 | Hajime Tomii | Japan | 1:18.49 | 1:06.60 | 2:25.09 | +13.96 |
| 32 | Peter Lakota |  Yugoslavia | 1:18.59 | 1:07.65 | 2:26.24 | +15.11 |
| 33 | Andrzej Dereziński | Poland | 1:18.21 | 1:09.30 | 2:27.51 | +16.38 |
| 34 | Yoshinari Kida | Japan | 1:19.11 | 1:10.00 | 2:29.11 | +17.98 |
| 35 | Arild Holm | Norway | 1:21.14 | 1:08.77 | 2:29.91 | +18.78 |
| 36 | Hans-Walter Schädler |  Liechtenstein | 1:20.29 | 1:11.71 | 2:32.00 | +20.87 |
| 37 | Javier Masana |  Spain | 1:22.10 | 1:13.57 | 2:35.67 | +24.54 |
| 38 | Yoshihiro Ohira | Japan | 1:28.79 | 1:09.08 | 2:37.87 | +26.74 |
| 39 | Árni Sigurðsson |  Iceland | 1:25.34 | 1:13.78 | 2:39.12 | +27.99 |
| - | Jos Minsch | Switzerland | 1:15.07 | DQ | - | - |
| - | Lars Olsson | Sweden | 1:18.74 | DQ | - | - |
| - | Anton Šoltýs |  Czechoslovakia | 1:30.00 | DQ | - | - |
| - | François Bonlieu | France | DQ | - | - | - |
| - | Jean-Guy Brunet | Canada | DQ | - | - | - |
| - | Bengt-Erik Grahn | Sweden | DQ | - | - | - |
| - | Chuck Ferries | United States | DQ | - | - | - |
| - | Jean-Claude Killy | France | DQ | - | - | - |
| - | Rod Hebron | Canada | DQ | - | - | - |
| - | Ulf Ekstam | Finland | DQ | - | - | - |
Source: [1]
The top 25 finishers advanced directly to the final, the others went to round two. [1]
The top 25 finishers advanced directly to the final, the others went to round two. [1]
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