Men's giant slalom at the XII Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Axamer Lizum | ||||||||||||
Date | 9–10 February 1976 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 97 from 31 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 3:26.97 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Alpine skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics | ||
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Downhill | men | women |
Giant slalom | men | women |
Slalom | men | women |
Men's Giant Slalom | |
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Location | Axamer Lizum |
Vertical | 450 m (1,476 ft) 425 m (1,394 ft) |
Top elevation | 1,990 m (6,529 ft) 2,035 m (6,677 ft) |
Base elevation | 1,540 m (5,052 ft) 1,610 m (5,282 ft) |
The Men's giant slalom competition of the Innsbruck 1976 Olympics was held at Axamer Lizum. [1] [2]
The defending world champion was Gustavo Thoeni of Italy and led the 1976 World Cup, while Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark was the defending World Cup giant slalom champion. [3] [4]
Rank | Name | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | Difference |
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Heini Hemmi | Switzerland | 1:45.41 | 1:41.56 | 3:26.97 | — | |
Ernst Good | Switzerland | 1:44.60 | 1:42.57 | 3:27.17 | +0.20 | |
Ingemar Stenmark | Sweden | 1:46.51 | 1:40.90 | 3:27.41 | +0.44 | |
4 | Gustavo Thoeni | Italy | 1:44.19 | 1:43.48 | 3:27.67 | +0.70 |
5 | Phil Mahre | United States | 1:45.58 | 1:42.62 | 3:28.20 | +1.23 |
6 | Engelhard Pargätzi | Switzerland | 1:46.16 | 1:42.60 | 3:28.76 | +1.79 |
7 | Fausto Radici | Italy | 1:46.87 | 1:43.22 | 3:30.09 | +3.12 |
8 | Franco Bieler | Italy | 1:47.00 | 1:43.24 | 3:30.24 | +3.27 |
9 | Greg Jones | United States | 1:48.09 | 1:43.68 | 3:31.77 | +4.80 |
10 | Albert Burger | West Germany | 1:47.32 | 1:45.36 | 3:32.68 | +5.71 |
11 | Miloslav Sochor | Czechoslovakia | 1:47.46 | 1:46.07 | 3:33.53 | +6.56 |
12 | Stig Strand | Sweden | 1:48.63 | 1:45.03 | 3:33.66 | +6.69 |
13 | Steve Mahre | United States | 1:47.80 | 1:45.96 | 3:33.76 | +6.79 |
14 | Hansi Hinterseer | Austria | 1:46.46 | 1:47.34 | 3:33.80 | +6.83 |
15 | Alain Navillod | France | 1:47.15 | 1:47.18 | 3:34.33 | +7.36 |
16 | Juan Manuel Fernández Ochoa | Spain | 1:48.06 | 1:46.71 | 3:34.77 | +7.80 |
17 | Willi Frommelt | Liechtenstein | 1:48.44 | 1:47.27 | 3:35.71 | +8.74 |
18 | Bojan Križaj | Yugoslavia | 1:49.08 | 1:46.82 | 3:35.90 | +8.93 |
19 | Wolfgang Junginger | West Germany | 1:49.79 | 1:46.23 | 3:36.02 | +9.05 |
20 | Andreas Wenzel | Liechtenstein | 1:48.53 | 1:47.72 | 3:36.25 | +9.28 |
21 | Cary Adgate | United States | 1:48.64 | 1:47.77 | 3:36.41 | +9.44 |
22 | Jim Hunter | Canada | 1:48.56 | 1:48.80 | 3:37.36 | +10.39 |
23 | Bohumír Zeman | Czechoslovakia | 1:49.10 | 1:48.46 | 3:37.56 | +10.59 |
24 | Francisco Fernández Ochoa | Spain | 1:48.65 | 1:49.47 | 3:38.12 | +11.15 |
25 | Philippe Barroso | France | 1:50.23 | 1:48.26 | 3:38.49 | +11.52 |
26 | Petar Popangelov | Bulgaria | 1:50.68 | 1:48.36 | 3:39.04 | +12.07 |
27 | Philippe Hardy | France | 1:51.20 | 1:49.23 | 3:40.43 | +13.46 |
28 | Sepp Ferstl | West Germany | 1:49.98 | 1:51.54 | 3:41.52 | +14.55 |
29 | Claude Perrot | France | 1:49.48 | 1:53.36 | 3:42.84 | +15.87 |
30 | Christian Neureuther | West Germany | 1:52.29 | 1:51.73 | 3:44.02 | +17.05 |
31 | Ivan Penev | Bulgaria | 1:51.59 | 1:52.51 | 3:44.10 | +17.13 |
32 | Luis Rosenkjer | Argentina | 1:53.98 | 1:54.18 | 3:48.16 | +21.19 |
33 | Alan Stewart | Great Britain | 1:54.49 | 1:55.15 | 3:49.64 | +22.67 |
34 | Sumihiro Tomii | Japan | 1:53.92 | 1:55.81 | 3:49.73 | +22.76 |
35 | Andrej Koželj | Yugoslavia | 1:54.43 | 1:56.05 | 3:50.48 | +23.51 |
36 | Jaime Ros | Spain | 1:55.25 | 1:56.54 | 3:51.79 | +24.82 |
37 | Mikio Katagiri | Japan | 1:54.68 | 1:58.05 | 3:52.73 | +25.76 |
38 | Roman Dereziński | Poland | 1:55.44 | 1:58.27 | 3:53.71 | +26.74 |
39 | Sigurður Jónsson | Iceland | 1:58.46 | 1:57.76 | 3:56.22 | +29.25 |
40 | Robert Blanchaer | Belgium | 1:57.37 | 2:00.53 | 3:57.90 | +30.93 |
41 | Roberto Koifman | Chile | 1:58.15 | 2:01.34 | 3:59.49 | +32.52 |
42 | Adrián Roncallo | Argentina | 2:00.16 | 2:00.46 | 4:00.62 | +33.65 |
43 | José Luis Koifman | Chile | 1:58.93 | 2:02.42 | 4:01.35 | +34.38 |
44 | Brett Kendall | New Zealand | 2:01.82 | 2:02.23 | 4:04.05 | +37.08 |
45 | Dan Cristea | Romania | 2:01.78 | 2:03.51 | 4:05.29 | +38.32 |
46 | Tómas Leifsson | Iceland | 2:01.83 | 2:03.54 | 4:05.37 | +38.40 |
47 | Gorban Ali Kalhor | Iran | 2:02.30 | 2:06.65 | 4:08.95 | +41.98 |
48 | Carlos Font | Andorra | 2:11.03 | 2:14.62 | 4:25.65 | +58.68 |
49 | Spyros Theodorou | Greece | 2:12.79 | 2:16.29 | 4:29.08 | +62.11 |
50 | Thomas Karadimas | Greece | 2:19.06 | 2:34.57 | 4:53.63 | +86.66 |
51 | Giorgio Cecchetti | San Marino | 2:37.15 | 2:41.02 | 5:18.17 | +111.20 |
52 | Chen Yun-Ming | Republic of China | 2:39.82 | 2:43.26 | 5:23.08 | +116.11 |
- | Piero Gros | Italy | 1:45.69 | DNF | - | - |
- | Torsten Jakobsson | Sweden | 1:48.26 | DNF | - | - |
- | Alois Morgenstern | Austria | 1:48.33 | DNF | - | - |
- | Walter Tresch | Switzerland | 1:49.26 | DNF | - | - |
- | Gudmund Söderin | Sweden | 1:50.94 | DNF | - | - |
- | Robert Safrata | Canada | 1:51.70 | DNF | - | - |
- | Paul Frommelt | Liechtenstein | 1:52.69 | DNF | - | - |
- | Ken Read | Canada | 1:52.81 | DNF | - | - |
- | Dave Murray | Canada | 1:54.43 | DNF | - | - |
- | Ajdin Pašović | Yugoslavia | 1:54.82 | DNF | - | - |
- | Georgi Kochov | Bulgaria | 1:54.86 | DNF | - | - |
- | Vladimir Drazhev | Bulgaria | 1:55.73 | DNF | - | - |
- | Stuart Fitzsimmons | Great Britain | 1:55.77 | DNF | - | - |
- | Carlos Alberto Martínez | Argentina | 1:56.03 | DNF | - | - |
- | Kim Clifford | Australia | 1:56.66 | DQ | - | - |
- | Peter Fuchs | Great Britain | 1:56.94 | DNF | - | - |
- | Antoine Crespo | Andorra | 1:59.59 | DNF | - | - |
- | Ion Cavaşi | Romania | 1:59.90 | DNS | - | - |
- | Mohammad Kalhor | Iran | 1:59.95 | DNF | - | - |
- | Juan Angel Olivieri | Argentina | 2:01.08 | DNF | - | - |
- | Haukur Jóhannsson | Iceland | 2:01.76 | DNF | - | - |
- | Stuart Blakely | New Zealand | 2:02.12 | DNF | - | - |
- | Akbar Kalili | Iran | 2:02.98 | DQ | - | - |
- | Rafael Cañas | Chile | 2:03.65 | DNF | - | - |
- | Esteve Tomas | Andorra | 2:04.63 | DNF | - | - |
- | Árni Óðinsson | Iceland | 2:05.28 | DNF | - | - |
- | Xavier Areny | Andorra | 2:05.86 | DNF | - | - |
- | Federico García | Chile | 2:06.99 | DNF | - | - |
- | Mümtaz Demirhan | Turkey | 2:17.58 | DNF | - | - |
- | Murat Tosun | Turkey | 2:17.99 | DNF | - | - |
- | Maurizio Battistini | San Marino | 2:33.33 | DNF | - | - |
- | Robin Armstrong | New Zealand | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Ersin Ayrłksa | Turkey | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Ahmet Kıbıl | Turkey | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Mohammad Hadj Kia Shemshaki | Iran | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Didier Xhaet | Belgium | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Konrad Bartelski | Great Britain | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Vladimir Andreyev | Soviet Union | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Miran Gašperšič | Yugoslavia | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Masami Ichimura | Japan | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Odd Sørli | Norway | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Franz Klammer | Austria | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Erik Håker | Norway | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Thomas Hauser | Austria | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Haruhisa Chiba | Japan | DQ | - | - | - |
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