FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009 – Men's giant slalom

Last updated December 12, 2023

Men's giant slalom competition at the 2009 World Championships was run on February 13, the eighth race of the championships.

Results

Rank	Name	Country	1st run	2nd run	Total	Diff.
	Carlo Janka	Switzerland	1:08.25	1:10.57	2:18.82	--
	Benjamin Raich	Austria	1:08.73	1:10.80	2:19.53	+0.71
	Ted Ligety	United States	1:09.96	1:09.85	2:19.81	+0.99
4	Marcel Hirscher	Austria	1:09.40	1:10.48	2:19.88	+1.06
5	Massimiliano Blardone	Italy	1:09.21	1:11.28	2:20.49	+1.67
6	Didier Cuche	Switzerland	1:09.38	1:11.13	2:20.51	+1.69
7	Jean-Baptiste Grange	France	1:09.90	1:10.67	2:20.57	+1.75
8	Alexander Ploner	Italy	1:10.24	1:10.36	2:20.60	+1.78
9	Aksel Lund Svindal	Norway	1:10.46	1:10.15	2:20.61	+1.79
10	Marc Berthod	Switzerland	1:10.55	1:10.21	2:20.76	+1.94
11	Davide Simoncelli	Italy	1:10.59	1:10.27	2:20.86	+2.04
12	Manfred Mölgg	Italy	1:09.44	1:11.71	2:21.15	+2.33
13	Truls Ove Karlsen	Norway	1:10.20	1:11.05	2:21.25	+2.43
14	Philipp Schörghofer	Austria	1:09.84	1:11.46	2:21.30	+2.48
15	Gauthier de Tessieres	France	1:10.85	1:10.80	2:21.65	+2.83
16	Marcus Sandell	Finland	1:11.77	1:09.95	2:21.72	+2.90
17	Jukka Leino	Finland	1:11.76	1:10.51	2:22.27	+3.45
18	Bernard Vajdic	Slovenia	1:11.31	1:11.28	2:22.59	+3.77
19	Felix Neureuther	Germany	1:12.11	1:10.55	2:22.66	+3.84
20	Didier Défago	Switzerland	1:10.78	1:11.92	2:22.70	+3.88
21	Robbie Dixon	Canada	1:12.27	1:10.57	2:22.84	+4.02
22	Krystof Kryzl	Czech Republic	1:12.60	1:10.29	2:22.89	+4.07
23	Ales Gorza	Slovenia	1:11.35	1:11.67	2:23.02	+4.20
24	Niklas Rainer	Sweden	1:12.64	1:10.85	2:23.49	+4.67
25	Cristian Javier Simari Birkner	Argentina	1:12.48	1:11.82	2:24.30	+5.48
26	Tim Jitloff	United States	1:12.09	1:12.46	2:24.55	+5.73
27	Natko Zrncic-Dim	Croatia	1:13.53	1:11.21	2:24.74	+5.92
28	Sergei Maitakov	Russia	1:12.91	1:13.01	2:25.92	+7.10
29	Naoki Yuasa	Japan	1:13.36	1:13.43	2:26.79	+7.97
30	Hannes Reichelt	Austria	1:13.58	–	1:13.58	–
31	Jono Brauer	Australia	1:13.67	–	1:13.67	–
32	Michael Janyk	Canada	1:13.76	–	1:13.76	–
33	Ferran Terra	Spain	1:13.88	–	1:13.88	–
34	Stepan Zuev	Russia	1:14.08	–	1:14.08	–
35	Noel Baxter	United Kingdom	1:14.55	–	1:14.55	–
36	Christophe Roux	Moldova	1:14.83	–	1:14.83	–
37	Tin Siroki	Croatia	1:14.87	–	1:14.87	–
38	Jaroslav Babusiak	Slovakia	1:14.91	–	1:14.91	–
39	Kiril Manolov	Bulgaria	1:15.05	–	1:15.05	–
40	Dalibor Samsal	Croatia	1:15.19	–	1:15.19	–
41	David Ryding	United Kingdom	1:15.41	–	1:15.41	–
42	Nikola Chongarov	Bulgaria	1:15.60	–	1:15.60	–
43	Stefan Georgiev	Bulgaria	1:15.63	–	1:15.63	–
44	John Kucera	Canada	1:15.83	–	1:15.83	–
45	Bryce Stevens	Australia	1:15.96	–	1:15.96	–
46	Paul de la Cuesta	Spain	1:15.97	–	1:15.97	–
46	Tim Cafe	New Zealand	1:15.97	–	1:15.97	–
48	Guillem Capdevila	Spain	1:16.10	–	1:16.10	–
49	Andrew Noble	United Kingdom	1:18.09	–	1:18.09	–
50	Joery van Rooij	Netherlands	1:18.25	–	1:18.25	–
51	Hugh Stevens	Australia	1:19.07	–	1:19.07	–
52	Jorge Mandru	Chile	1:19.90	–	1:19.90	–
53	Danko Marinelli	Croatia	1:29.32	–	1:29.32	–
–	Adam Zampa	Slovakia	DNS	–	–	–
–	Bode Miller	United States	1:10.97	DNF	–	–
–	Stefan Jon Sigurgeirsson	Iceland	DNF	–	–	–
–	Jorge Martinic	Chile	DNF	–	–	–
–	Christian Geiger	Australia	DNF	–	–	–
–	Ioan-Gabriel Nan	Romania	DNF	–	–	–
–	Alwin de Quartel	Netherlands	DNF	–	–	–
–	Agustin Torres	Argentina	DNF	–	–	–
–	Iason Abramashvili	Georgia	DNF	–	–	–
–	Diego Jimenez	Spain	DNF	–	–	–
–	Jeroen van den Bogaert	Belgium	DNF	–	–	–
–	Aleksandr Khoroshilov	Russia	DNF	–	–	–
–	Olivier Jenot	Monaco	DNF	–	–	–
–	Jens Byggmark	Sweden	DNF	–	–	–
–	Akira Sasaki	Japan	DNF	–	–	–
–	Björgvin Björgvinsson	Iceland	DNF	–	–	–
–	Jake Zamansky	United States	DNF	–	–	–
–	Andre Myhrer	Sweden	DNF	–	–	–
–	Jean-Philippe Roy	Canada	DNF	–	–	–
–	Thomas Fanara	France	DNF	–	–	–
–	Cyprien Richard	France	DNF	–	–	–
–	Kjetil Jansrud	Norway	DNF	–	–	–

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Events at the 2009 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships

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