Men's alpine combined at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1976 | ||||||||||
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Location | Innsbruck, Austria | |||||||||
Dates | 14 February | |||||||||
Competitors | 26 from 19 nations | |||||||||
Winning time | 24.62 pts | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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The Men's alpine combined competition at the 1976 World Championships was held on 14 February 1976, but it was a paper race. [1]
Alpine Combined event was valid for the World Championships only. No Olympic medals were awarded for this event. Results from all three events of the 1976 Winter Olympics (downhill, slalom, and giant slalom) were translated into FIS points, and then added together to decide the outcome. [1]
# | Skier | Country | Points | Downhill | Giant slalom | Slalom | |||
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FIS pts. | Time | FIS pts. | Time | FIS pts. | Time | ||||
1 | Gustavo Thoni | Italy | 24.62 | 20.61* | 1:49.25 | 2.12 | 3:27.67 | 1.89 | 2:03.73 |
2 | Willy Frommelt | Liechtenstein | 48.97 | 18.71* | 1:48.92 | 26.03 | 3:35.71 | 4.23 | 2:04.28 |
3 | Greg Jones | United States | 65.84 | 12.43 | 1:47.84 | 14.43 | 3:31.77 | 38.98 | 2:12.71 |
4 | Wolfgang Junginger | West Germany | 70.63 | 27.66* | 1:50.48 | 26.94 | 3:36.02 | 16.03 | 2:07.08 |
5 | Andreas Wenzel | Liechtenstein | 75.85 | 25.38* | 1:50.08 | 27.61 | 3:36.25 | 22.86 | 2:08.73 |
6 | Francisco Fernadez-Ochoa | Spain | 90.09 | 35.76* | 1:51.91 | 33.03 | 3:38.12 | 21.30 | 2:08.35 |
7 | Miloslav Sochor | Czechoslovakia | 86.61 | 40.5- | 1:53.48 | 19.64 | 3:33.53 | 26.47 | 2:09.61 |
8 | Jim Hunter | Canada | 97.44 | 10.56 | 1:47.52 | 30.83 | 3:37.36 | 56.05 | 2:17.06 |
9 | Josef Ferstl | West Germany | 112.96 | 15.75 | 1:48.41 | 42.77 | 3:41.52 | 54.44 | 2:14.34 |
10 | Sumihiro Tomii | Japan | 144.56 | 18.48 | 1:48.88 | 65.68 | 3:49.73 | 60.40 | 2:18.67 |
11 | Ivan Penev | Bulgaria | 166.42 | 55.96 | 1:55.56 | 50.06 | 3:44.10 | 60.40 | 2:18.19 |
12 | Roman Derezinski | Poland | 183.61 | 60.14 | 1:56.33 | 76.49 | 3:53.71 | 46.98 | 2:14.73 |
13 | Jose Luis Koifman | Chile | 246.12 | 59.98 | 1:56.30 | 96.74 | 4:01.35 | 89.40 | 2:25.97 |
14 | Dan Cristea | Romania | 258.44 | 56.34 | 1:55.63 | 106.93 | 4:05.29 | 95.17 | 2:27.57 |
15 | Brett Kendall | New Zealand | 319.02 | 82.68 | 2:00.57 | 103.74 | 4:04.05 | 132.60 | 2:38.38 |
16 | Carlos Font Puig | Andorra | 435.95 | 88.81 | 2:01.75 | 157.13 | 4:25.65 | 190.01 | 2:56.52 |
- | Juan-Manuel Fernadez-Ochoa | Spain | 51.79? | 28.5- | 1:52.40 | 23.29 | 3:34.77 | DNF R1 | |
- | Bohumir Zeman | Czechoslovakia | 63.56 | 32.15 | 1:51.27 | 31.41 | 3:37.56 | DNF R1 | |
- | Alan Stewart | United Kingdom | 93.55 | 28.12 | 1:50.56 | 65.43 | 3:49.64 | DSQ R1 | |
- | Mikio Katagiri | Japan | 98.93 | 25.09 | 1:50.03 | 73.84 | 3:52.73 | DNF R1 | |
- | Jaime Ros | Spain | 115.90? | 44.6- | 1:53.50 | 71.30 | 3:51.79 | DNF R1 | |
- | Robert Blanchaer | Belgium | 136.73 | 49.06 | 1:54.30 | 87.67 | 3:57.90 | DNF R1 | |
- | Luis Rosenkjer | Argentina | 160.29? | 29.8- | 1:50.87 | 61.36 | 3:48.16 | DNF R1 | |
- | Kalhor Ghorban Ali | Iran | 191.48 | 75.22 | 1:59.15 | 116.26 | 4:08.95 | DNF R1 | |
- | Spiros Theodorou | Greece | 328.68 | 163.47 | 2:17.08 | 165.21 | 4:29.08 | DNF R1 | |
- | Thomas Karadimos | Greece | 372.56 | 152.39 | 2:14.69 | 220.17 | 4:53.63 | DNF R1 |
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