Men's giant slalom at the XIII Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Whiteface Mountain | ||||||||||||
Date | February 18–19, 1980 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 78 from 28 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 2:40.74 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics | ||
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Downhill | men | women |
Giant slalom | men | women |
Slalom | men | women |
The Men's giant slalom competition of the Lake Placid 1980 Olympics was held at Whiteface Mountain. [1] [2]
The defending world champion was Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden, who was also the defending World Cup giant slalom champion and led the 1980 World Cup. [3] [4]
Rank | Name | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | Difference |
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![]() | Ingemar Stenmark | ![]() | 1:20.49 | 1:20.25 | 2:40.74 | — |
![]() | Andreas Wenzel | ![]() | 1:20.17 | 1:21.32 | 2:41.49 | +0.75 |
![]() | Hans Enn | ![]() | 1:20.31 | 1:22.20 | 2:42.51 | +1.77 |
4 | Bojan Križaj | ![]() | 1:21.28 | 1:21.25 | 2:42.53 | +1.79 |
5 | Jacques Lüthy | ![]() | 1:21.55 | 1:21.20 | 2:42.75 | +2.01 |
6 | Bruno Noeckler | ![]() | 1:20.99 | 1:21.96 | 2:42.95 | +2.21 |
7 | Joël Gaspoz | ![]() | 1:21.10 | 1:21.95 | 2:43.05 | +2.31 |
8 | Boris Strel | ![]() | 1:21.45 | 1:21.79 | 2:43.24 | +2.50 |
9 | Aleksandr Shirov | ![]() | 1:21.53 | 1:22.54 | 2:44.07 | +3.33 |
10 | Phil Mahre | ![]() | 1:21.74 | 1:22.59 | 2:44.33 | +3.59 |
11 | Jarle Halsnes | ![]() | 1:21.64 | 1:22.85 | 2:44.49 | +3.75 |
12 | Jure Franko | ![]() | 1:21.50 | 1:23.13 | 2:44.63 | +3.89 |
13 | Christian Orlainsky | ![]() | 1:21.92 | 1:22.78 | 2:44.70 | +3.96 |
14 | Jorge Pérez | ![]() | 1:22.06 | 1:22.82 | 2:44.88 | +4.14 |
15 | Steve Mahre | ![]() | 1:21.86 | 1:23.08 | 2:44.94 | +4.20 |
Vladimir Andreyev | ![]() | 1:22.19 | 1:22.75 | |||
17 | Frank Wörndl | ![]() | 1:21.70 | 1:23.88 | 2:45.58 | +4.84 |
18 | Anton Steiner | ![]() | 1:21.93 | 1:23.83 | 2:45.76 | +5.02 |
19 | Bohumír Zeman | ![]() | 1:22.25 | 1:23.71 | 2:45.96 | +5.22 |
20 | Albert Burger | ![]() | 1:22.59 | 1:23.53 | 2:46.12 | +5.38 |
21 | Torsten Jakobsson | ![]() | 1:23.24 | 1:23.18 | 2:46.42 | +5.68 |
22 | Francisco Fernández Ochoa | ![]() | 1:23.11 | 1:23.47 | 2:46.58 | +5.84 |
23 | Jorge García | ![]() | 1:23.03 | 1:24.05 | 2:47.08 | +6.34 |
24 | Paul Arne Skajem | ![]() | 1:23.12 | 1:23.99 | 2:47.11 | +6.37 |
25 | Odd Sørli | ![]() | 1:22.87 | 1:24.43 | 2:47.30 | +6.56 |
26 | Leonhard Stock | ![]() | 1:22.97 | 1:24.43 | 2:47.40 | +6.66 |
27 | Petar Popangelov | ![]() | 1:23.80 | 1:24.32 | 2:48.12 | +7.38 |
28 | Stig Strand | ![]() | 1:23.37 | 1:25.25 | 2:48.62 | +7.88 |
29 | Toshihiro Kaiwa | ![]() | 1:24.29 | 1:24.49 | 2:48.78 | +8.04 |
30 | Lyudmil Tonchev | ![]() | 1:23.73 | 1:25.09 | 2:48.82 | +8.08 |
31 | Mitko Khadzhiev | ![]() | 1:25.27 | 1:25.15 | 2:50.42 | +9.68 |
32 | Khristo Angelov | ![]() | 1:25.97 | 1:26.81 | 2:52.78 | +12.04 |
33 | Alan Stewart | ![]() | 1:25.53 | 1:27.42 | 2:52.95 | +12.21 |
34 | Sepp Ferstl | ![]() | 1:25.86 | 1:27.17 | 2:53.03 | +12.29 |
35 | Sigurður Jónsson | ![]() | 1:27.33 | 1:26.46 | 2:53.79 | +13.05 |
36 | Atsushi Sawada | ![]() | 1:25.23 | 1:28.82 | 2:54.05 | +13.31 |
37 | Norberto Quiroga | ![]() | 1:27.16 | 1:28.49 | 2:55.65 | +14.91 |
38 | Rob McIntyre | ![]() | 1:28.09 | 1:29.30 | 2:57.39 | +16.65 |
39 | Konrad Bartelski | ![]() | 1:27.71 | 1:29.99 | 2:57.70 | +16.96 |
40 | Janez Flere | ![]() | 1:28.27 | 1:30.12 | 2:58.39 | +17.65 |
41 | Antony Guss | ![]() | 1:29.26 | 1:29.53 | 2:58.79 | +18.05 |
42 | Carlos Font | ![]() | 1:29.47 | 1:29.79 | 2:59.26 | +18.52 |
43 | Ross Blyth | ![]() | 1:29.21 | 1:30.89 | 3:00.10 | +19.36 |
44 | Guillermo Giumelli | ![]() | 1:30.62 | 1:31.64 | 3:02.26 | +21.52 |
45 | Patrick Toussaint | ![]() | 1:31.23 | 1:33.15 | 3:04.38 | +23.64 |
46 | Marcelo Martínez | ![]() | 1:31.17 | 1:34.41 | 3:05.58 | +24.84 |
47 | Didier Lamont | ![]() | 1:32.54 | 1:33.14 | 3:05.68 | +24.94 |
48 | Lazaros Arkhontopoulos | ![]() | 1:36.32 | 1:39.91 | 3:16.23 | +35.49 |
49 | Hong In-Gi | ![]() | 1:39.30 | 1:41.50 | 3:20.80 | +40.06 |
50 | Piao Dongyi | ![]() | 1:38.38 | 1:44.62 | 3:23.00 | +42.26 |
51 | Lazarakis Kekhagias | ![]() | 1:42.16 | 1:41.24 | 3:23.40 | +42.66 |
52 | Giannis Stamatiou | ![]() | 1:41.80 | 1:43.19 | 3:24.99 | +44.25 |
53 | Naji Heneine | ![]() | 1:35.59 | 2:01.88 | 3:37.47 | +56.73 |
54 | Philippos Xenophontos | ![]() | 1:49.52 | 1:48.57 | 3:38.09 | +57.35 |
- | Valeri Tsyganov | ![]() | 1:21.22 | DNF | - | - |
- | Alex Giorgi | ![]() | 1:22.02 | DNF | - | - |
- | Piero Gros | ![]() | 1:22.15 | DNF | - | - |
- | Cary Adgate | ![]() | 1:22.48 | DNF | - | - |
- | Jože Kuralt | ![]() | 1:22.68 | DNF | - | - |
- | Miguel Font | ![]() | 1:30.93 | DNF | - | - |
- | Stuart Blakely | ![]() | 1:32.99 | DNF | - | - |
- | Henri Mollin | ![]() | 1:33.02 | DNF | - | - |
- | Andreas Pilavakis | ![]() | 1:44.92 | DQ | - | |
- | Victor Hugo Ascarrunz Jr. | ![]() | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Billy Farwig | ![]() | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Arturo Kinch | ![]() | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Sami Rebez | ![]() | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Roddy Langmuir | ![]() | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Mark Vryenhoek | ![]() | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Scott Kendall | ![]() | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Scott Alan Sánchez | ![]() | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Björn Olgeirsson | ![]() | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Osamu Kodama | ![]() | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Pete Patterson | ![]() | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Mauro Bernardi | ![]() | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Peter Lüscher | ![]() | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Jean-Luc Fournier | ![]() | DNF | - | - | - |
- | Paul Frommelt | ![]() | DQ | - | - | - |
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