| Men's giant slalom at the XIX Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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 Pictogram for alpine skiing | |||||||||||||
| Venue | Park City | ||||||||||||
| Date | February 21 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 78 from 39 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 2:23.28 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics | ||
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| Combined | men | women |
| Downhill | men | women |
| Giant slalom | men | women |
| Slalom | men | women |
| Super-G | men | women |
The event was held on February 21 at Park City. Stephan Eberharter, age 32.9, became the oldest man to win an alpine event at the Olympics. [1]
Complete results from the men's giant slalom event at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
| Rank | Name | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Time | Difference |
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 | Stephan Eberharter |  Austria | 1:11.98 | 1:11.30 | 2:23.28 | |
 | Bode Miller |  United States | 1:12.89 | 1:11.27 | 2:24.16 | +0.88 |
 | Lasse Kjus |  Norway | 1:12.79 | 1:11.53 | 2:24.32 | +1.04 |
| 4 | Benjamin Raich | Austria | 1:12.83 | 1:11.57 | 2:24.40 | +1.12 |
| 5 | Christoph Gruber | Austria | 1:12.82 | 1:11.59 | 2:24.41 | +1.13 |
| 6 | Bjarne Solbakken | Norway | 1:13.15 | 1:11.35 | 2:24.40 | +1.22 |
| 7 | Kjetil André Aamodt | Norway | 1:13.14 | 1:11.48 | 2:24.62 | +1.34 |
| 8 | Massimiliano Blardone |  Italy | 1:12.72 | 1:12.15 | 2:24.87 | +1.59 |
| 9 | Ivica Kostelić |  Croatia | 1:13.05 | 1:11.87 | 2:24.92 | +1.64 |
| 10 | Didier Cuche |  Switzerland | 1:13.25 | 1:11.75 | 2:25.00 | +1.72 |
| 11 | Michael von Grünigen | Switzerland | 1:13.27 | 1:11.80 | 2:25.07 | +1.79 |
| 12 | Thomas Grandi |  Canada | 1:13.74 | 1:11.50 | 2:25.24 | +1.96 |
| 13 | Fredrik Nyberg |  Sweden | 1:13.41 | 1:11.88 | 2:25.29 | +2.01 |
| 14 | Didier Défago | Switzerland | 1:13.74 | 1:11.80 | 2:25.54 | +2.26 |
| 15 | Frederic Covili |  France | 1:13.70 | 1:11.95 | 2:25.65 | +2.37 |
| 16 | Dane Spencer | United States | 1:14.03 | 1:11.65 | 2:25.68 | +2.40 |
| 17 | Marco Büchel |  Liechtenstein | 1:13.67 | 1:12.22 | 2:25.89 | +2.61 |
| 18 | Jernej Koblar |  Slovenia | 1:13.15 | 1:13.21 | 2:26.36 | +3.08 |
| 19 | Thomas Vonn | United States | 1:14.59 | 1:11.87 | 2:26.46 | +3.18 |
| 20 | Kenneth Sivertsen | Norway | 1:14.16 | 1:12.35 | 2:26.51 | +3.23 |
| 21 | Joël Chenal | France | 1:13.76 | 1:13.32 | 2:27.08 | +3.08 |
| 22 | Alessandro Roberto | Italy | 1:14.65 | 1:12.88 | 2:27.53 | +4.25 |
| 23 | Achim Vogt | Liechtenstein | 1:14.84 | 1:12.74 | 2:27.58 | +4.30 |
| 24 | Patrik Järbyn | Sweden | 1:14.95 | 1:12.71 | 2:27.66 | +4.38 |
| 25 | Stanley Hayer |  Czech Republic | 1:14.69 | 1:13.14 | 2:27.83 | +4.55 |
| 26 | Giorgio Rocca | Italy | 1:14.91 | 1:12.94 | 2:27.85 | +4.57 |
| 27 | Markus Ganahl | Liechtenstein | 1:14.70 | 1:13.22 | 2:27.92 | +4.64 |
| 28 | Mitja Kunc | Slovenia | 1:14.95 | 1:13.22 | 2:28.17 | +4.89 |
| 29 | Ross Green |  Great Britain | 1:15.90 | 1:13.41 | 2:29.31 | +6.03 |
| 30 | Cristian Javier Simari Birkner |  Argentina | 1:16.00 | 1:13.79 | 2:29.79 | +6.51 |
| 31 | Petr Záhrobský | Czech Republic | 1:15.82 | 1:14.14 | 2:29.96 | +6.68 |
| 32 | Pavel Chestakov |  Russia | 1:15.80 | 1:14.17 | 2:29.97 | +6.69 |
| 33 | Bradley Wall |  Australia | 1:15.69 | 1:14.59 | 2:30.28 | +7.00 |
| 34 | Akira Sasaki |  Japan | 1:16.11 | 1:14.47 | 2:30.58 | +7.30 |
| 35 | Michael Riegler | Liechtenstein | 1:16.16 | 1:14.58 | 2:30.74 | +7.46 |
| 36 | Alex Antor |  Andorra | 1:16.66 | 1:14.73 | 2:31.39 | +8.11 |
| 37 | Kiminobu Kimura | Japan | 1:17.19 | 1:14.67 | 2:31.86 | +8.58 |
| 38 | Stefan Georgiev |  Bulgaria | 1:18.01 | 1:15.00 | 2:33.01 | +9.73 |
| 39 | Victor Gomez | Andorra | 1:17.83 | 1:15.50 | 2:33.33 | +10.05 |
| 40 | Sergey Komarov | Russia | 1:17.78 | 1:25.78 | 2:33.56 | +10.28 |
| 41 | Marko Đorđević |  FR Yugoslavia | 1:17.25 | 1:16.40 | 2:33.65 | +10.37 |
| 42 | Kristinn Magnússon |  Iceland | 1:17.50 | 1:16.29 | 2:33.79 | +10.51 |
| 43 | Vasilios Dimitriadis |  Greece | 1:19.30 | 1:16.85 | 2:36.15 | +12.87 |
| 44 | Tahir Bisić |  Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1:18.96 | 1:17.21 | 2:36.17 | +12.89 |
| 45 | Nikolay Skriabin |  Ukraine | 1:18.57 | 1:17.70 | 2:36.27 | +12.99 |
| 46 | Gang Min-hyeok |  South Korea | 1:19.11 | 1:17.99 | 2:37.10 | +13.82 |
| 47 | Byun Jong-moon | South Korea | 1:19.49 | 1:17.11 | 2:37.20 | +13.92 |
| 48 | Alexander Heath |  South Africa | 1:19.32 | 1:17.95 | 2:37.27 | +13.99 |
| 49 | Maui Gayme |  Chile | 1:19.76 | 1:17.58 | 2:37.34 | +14.06 |
| 50 | Jesse Teat |  New Zealand | 1:20.31 | 1:17.76 | 2:38.07 | +14.79 |
| 51 | Todd Haywood | New Zealand | 1:19.99 | 1:18.11 | 2:38.10 | +14.82 |
| 52 | Dejan Panovski |  Macedonia | 1:20.48 | 1:18.30 | 2:38.78 | +15.50 |
| 53 | Danil Anisimov |  Kazakhstan | 1:21.40 | 1:19.21 | 2:40.61 | +17.33 |
| 54 | Theodoros Christodoulou |  Cyprus | 1:21.67 | 1:19.92 | 2:41.59 | +18.31 |
| 55 | Laurence Thoms |  Fiji | 1:22.01 | 1:19.97 | 2:41.98 | +18.70 |
| 56 | Peter Vincze |  Hungary | 1:23.99 | 1:22.74 | 2:46.73 | +23.45 |
| 57 | Gian Matteo Giordani |  San Marino | 1:25.02 | 1:23.29 | 2:48.31 | +25.03 |
| Alexander Ploner | Italy | 1:12.86 | DNF | |||
| Uros Pavlovcic | Slovenia | 1:14.01 | DNF | |||
| Jure Kosir | Slovenia | 1:14.10 | DNF | |||
| Vincent Millet | France | 1:14.03 | DNF | |||
| Tobias Grünenfelder | Switzerland | 1:14.15 | DNF | |||
| Jean-Philippe Roy | Canada | 1:14.34 | DNF | |||
| Kalle Palander |  Finland | 1:14.57 | DNF | |||
| Borek Zakouril | Czech Republic | 1:15.56 | DNF | |||
| Andrey Filichkin | Russia | 1:15.74 | DNF | |||
| Björgvin Björgvinsson | Iceland | 1:15.86 | DNF | |||
| Enis Becirbegovic | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1:17.56 | DNF | |||
| Jóhann Haraldsson | Iceland | 1:19.10 | DNF | |||
| Hur Seung-wook | South Korea | 1:19.32 | DNF | |||
| Andrei Drygin |  Tajikistan | 1:22.01 | DNF | |||
| Erik Schlopy | United States | 1:24.06 | DNS | |||
| Hans Knauß | Austria | DNF | ||||
| Sami Uotila | Finland | DNF | ||||
| Ondřej Bank | Czech Republic | DNF | ||||
| Ivan Heimschild |  Slovakia | DNF | ||||
| Ivars Ciaguns |  Latvia | DNF | ||||
| Nikolai Hentsch |  Brazil | DSQ |
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