Men's giant slalom at the X Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Chamrousse | ||||||||||||
Date | February 11–12 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 101 from 33 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 3:29.28 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics | ||
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Downhill | men | women |
Giant slalom | men | women |
Slalom | men | women |
The Men's giant slalom competition of the Grenoble 1968 Olympics was held at Chamrousse. [1] [2]
The defending world champion was Guy Perillat of France, while France's Jean-Claude Killy was the defending World Cup giant slalom champion, who also led the 1968 World Cup, along with Switzerland's Edmund Bruggmann. [3] [4]
Rank | Name | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | Difference |
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Jean-Claude Killy | France | 1:42.74 | 1:46.54 | 3:29.28 | — | |
Willy Favre | Switzerland | 1:43.94 | 1:47.56 | 3:31.50 | +2.22 | |
Heini Messner | Austria | 1:45.16 | 1:46.67 | 3:31.83 | +2.55 | |
4 | Guy Périllat | France | 1:44.78 | 1:47.28 | 3:32.06 | +2.78 |
5 | Billy Kidd | United States | 1:45.91 | 1:46.46 | 3:32.37 | +3.09 |
6 | Karl Schranz | Austria | 1:45.28 | 1:47.80 | 3:33.08 | +3.80 |
7 | Dumeng Giovanoli | Switzerland | 1:46.13 | 1:47.42 | 3:33.55 | +4.27 |
8 | Gerhard Nenning | Austria | 1:46.47 | 1:47.14 | 3:33.61 | +4.33 |
9 | Georges Mauduit | France | 1:44.86 | 1:48.92 | 3:33.78 | +4.50 |
10 | Jimmy Heuga | United States | 1:45.46 | 1:48.43 | 3:33.89 | +4.61 |
11 | Bruno Piazzalunga | Italy | 1:45.95 | 1:48.57 | 3:34.52 | +5.24 |
12 | Edy Bruggmann | Switzerland | 1:46.00 | 1:48.91 | 3:34.91 | +5.63 |
13 | Andrzej Bachleda | Poland | 1:46.46 | 1:49.25 | 3:35.71 | +6.43 |
14 | Spider Sabich | United States | 1:46.34 | 1:49.81 | 3:36.15 | +6.87 |
15 | Rick Chaffee | United States | 1:46.44 | 1:49.75 | 3:36.19 | +6.91 |
16 | Rune Lindström | Sweden | 1:46.94 | 1:50.11 | 3:37.05 | +7.77 |
17 | Gerhard Mussner | Italy | 1:47.27 | 1:49.93 | 3:37.20 | +7.92 |
18 | Peter Duncan | Canada | 1:47.06 | 1:51.11 | 3:38.17 | +8.89 |
19 | Håkon Mjøen | Norway | 1:47.63 | 1:50.71 | 3:38.34 | +9.06 |
20 | Olle Rolén | Sweden | 1:47.52 | 1:50.83 | 3:38.35 | +9.07 |
21 | Scott Henderson | Canada | 1:47.85 | 1:50.65 | 3:38.50 | +9.22 |
22 | Willi Lesch | West Germany | 1:47.48 | 1:51.35 | 3:38.83 | +9.55 |
23 | Luggi Leitner | West Germany | 1:47.64 | 1:51.21 | 3:38.85 | +9.57 |
24 | Sepp Heckelmiller | West Germany | 1:48.25 | 1:50.70 | 3:38.95 | +9.67 |
25 | Jon Terje Øverland | Norway | 1:49.30 | 1:50.27 | 3:39.57 | +10.29 |
26 | Ivo Mahlknecht | Italy | 1:49.04 | 1:51.04 | 3:40.08 | +10.80 |
27 | Milan Pažout | Czechoslovakia | 1:48.98 | 1:51.34 | 3:40.32 | +11.04 |
28 | Stefan Kälin | Switzerland | 1:48.98 | 1:51.44 | 3:40.42 | +11.14 |
29 | Bjarne Strand | Norway | 1:49.69 | 1:51.48 | 3:41.17 | +11.89 |
30 | Raimo Manninen | Finland | 1:49.92 | 1:52.11 | 3:42.03 | +12.75 |
31 | Josef Gassner | Liechtenstein | 1:51.10 | 1:51.28 | 3:42.38 | +13.10 |
32 | Wolfgang Ender | Liechtenstein | 1:50.57 | 1:52.86 | 3:43.43 | +14.15 |
33 | Malcolm Milne | Australia | 1:51.25 | 1:52.60 | 3:43.85 | +14.57 |
34 | Jaroslav Janda | Czechoslovakia | 1:52.20 | 1:52.07 | 3:44.27 | +14.99 |
35 | Jeremy Palmer-Tomkinson | Great Britain | 1:53.24 | 1:51.06 | 3:44.30 | +15.02 |
36 | Ulf Ekstam | Finland | 1:53.09 | 1:52.66 | 3:45.75 | +16.47 |
37 | Ryszard Ćwikła | Poland | 1:51.79 | 1:54.17 | 3:45.96 | +16.68 |
38 | Francisco Fernández Ochoa | Spain | 1:52.57 | 1:53.40 | 3:45.97 | +16.69 |
39 | Bengt-Erik Grahn | Sweden | 1:48.68 | 1:57.78 | 3:46.46 | +17.18 |
40 | Tsuneo Noto | Japan | 1:52.55 | 1:54.10 | 3:46.65 | +17.37 |
41 | Eberhard Riedel | East Germany | 1:55.59 | 1:51.08 | 3:46.67 | +17.39 |
42 | Aurelio García | Spain | 1:51.57 | 1:56.61 | 3:48.18 | +18.90 |
43 | Blaž Jakopič | Yugoslavia | 1:53.77 | 1:54.77 | 3:48.54 | +19.26 |
44 | Antonio Campaña | Spain | 1:53.77 | 1:55.18 | 3:48.95 | +19.67 |
45 | Vasily Melnikov | Soviet Union | 1:52.42 | 1:56.55 | 3:48.97 | +19.69 |
46 | Viktor Belyakov | Soviet Union | 1:55.72 | 1:53.55 | 3:49.27 | +19.99 |
47 | Tomio Sasaki | Japan | 1:53.16 | 1:56.99 | 3:50.15 | +20.87 |
48 | Richard Leatherbee | Chile | 1:53.53 | 1:57.18 | 3:50.71 | +21.43 |
49 | Dan Cristea | Romania | 1:54.66 | 1:56.98 | 3:51.64 | +22.36 |
50 | Yoshiharu Fukuhara | Japan | 1:53.96 | 1:58.01 | 3:51.97 | +22.69 |
51 | Mario Vera | Chile | 1:56.46 | 1:56.04 | 3:52.50 | +23.22 |
52 | Andrej Klinar | Yugoslavia | 1:55.89 | 1:56.94 | 3:52.83 | +23.55 |
Andrey Belokrinkin | Soviet Union | 1:56.47 | 1:56.36 | |||
54 | Luke O'Reilly | Great Britain | 1:56.25 | 1:57.77 | 3:54.02 | +24.74 |
55 | Dorin Munteanu | Romania | 1:55.78 | 1:59.18 | 3:54.96 | +25.68 |
56 | Albert Frick | Liechtenstein | 1:57.75 | 1:58.15 | 3:55.90 | +26.62 |
57 | Hans-Walter Schädler | Liechtenstein | 2:01.38 | 1:55.58 | 3:56.96 | +27.68 |
58 | Jože Gazvoda | Yugoslavia | 1:58.26 | 1:58.89 | 3:57.15 | +27.87 |
59 | Jorge Rodríguez | Spain | 1:57.92 | 1:59.32 | 3:57.24 | +27.96 |
60 | Ian Todd | Great Britain | 1:59.66 | 1:57.81 | 3:57.47 | +28.19 |
61 | Roberto Thostrup | Argentina | 1:58.92 | 1:58.70 | 3:57.62 | +28.34 |
62 | Julian Vasey | Great Britain | 1:59.44 | 2:00.29 | 3:59.73 | +30.45 |
63 | Gustavo Ezquerra | Argentina | 1:59.60 | 2:00.51 | 4:00.11 | +30.83 |
64 | Petar Angelov | Bulgaria | 1:59.87 | 2:01.96 | 4:01.83 | +32.55 |
65 | Jeremy Bujakowski | India | 2:01.45 | 2:00.48 | 4:01.93 | +32.65 |
66 | Félipe Briones | Chile | 2:01.83 | 2:01.97 | 4:03.80 | +34.52 |
67 | Reynir Brynjólfsson | Iceland | 2:04.73 | 2:00.58 | 4:05.31 | +36.03 |
68 | Ivar Sigmundsson | Iceland | 2:03.42 | 2:02.44 | 4:05.86 | +36.58 |
69 | Kristinn Benediktsson | Iceland | 2:05.84 | 2:03.03 | 4:08.87 | +39.59 |
70 | Fayzollah Band Ali | Iran | 2:05.44 | 2:04.64 | 4:10.08 | +40.80 |
71 | Lotfollah Kia Shemshaki | Iran | 2:05.10 | 2:07.45 | 4:12.55 | +43.27 |
72 | Björn Olsen | Iceland | 2:05.79 | 2:10.81 | 4:16.60 | +47.32 |
73 | Ovaness Meguerdonian | Iran | 2:08.10 | 2:08.58 | 4:16.68 | +47.40 |
74 | Michael Dennis | New Zealand | 2:08.69 | 2:09.43 | 4:18.12 | +48.84 |
75 | Thomas Huppert | New Zealand | 2:07.60 | 2:13.20 | 4:20.80 | +51.52 |
76 | Murray Gardner | New Zealand | 2:13.37 | 2:07.90 | 4:21.27 | +51.99 |
77 | Ali Saveh | Iran | 2:17.78 | 2:05.94 | 4:23.72 | +54.44 |
78 | Athanasios Tsimikalis | Greece | 2:14.10 | 2:10.98 | 4:25.08 | +55.80 |
79 | Dimitrios Pappos | Greece | 2:16.22 | 2:15.86 | 4:32.08 | +62.80 |
80 | Moussa Jaalouk | Lebanon | 2:15.54 | 2:17.89 | 4:33.43 | +64.15 |
81 | Nagib Barrak | Lebanon | 2:14.84 | 2:24.06 | 4:38.90 | +69.62 |
82 | Ahmet Kıbıl | Turkey | 2:19.69 | 2:20.54 | 4:40.23 | +70.95 |
83 | Said Housni | Morocco | 2:24.40 | 2:16.28 | 4:40.68 | +71.40 |
84 | Mehmet Yıldırım | Turkey | 2:23.15 | 2:23.71 | 4:46.86 | +77.58 |
85 | Ghassan Keyrouz | Lebanon | 2:22.43 | 2:24.76 | 4:47.19 | +77.91 |
86 | Hassan Lahmaoui | Morocco | 2:24.97 | 2:23.69 | 4:48.66 | +79.38 |
87 | Zeki Erylıdırım | Turkey | 2:37.07 | 2:29.72 | 5:06.79 | +97.51 |
88 | Eo Jae-sik | South Korea | 2:45.53 | 2:21.45 | 5:06.98 | +97.70 |
- | Werner Bleiner | Austria | 1:46.56 | DQ | - | - |
- | Rod Hebron | Canada | 1:47.07 | DNF | - | - |
- | Lars Olsson | Sweden | 1:48.69 | DQ | - | - |
- | Renato Valentini | Italy | 1:50.03 | DNS | - | - |
- | Bernard Orcel | France | DQ | - | - | - |
- | Gerhard Prinzing | West Germany | DQ | - | - | - |
- | Keith Shepherd | Canada | DQ | - | - | - |
- | Otto Tschudi | Norway | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Robert Palmer | New Zealand | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Mohamed Aomar | Morocco | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Mimoun Ouitot | Morocco | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Yoshinari Kida | Japan | DQ | - | - | - |
- | Özer Ateşçi | Turkey | DQ | - | - | - |
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