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Giant Slalom, Men

Date18 February 2018 — 10:15
StatusOlympic
LocationYongpyong Alpine Centre, Mountain Cluster, Daegwallyeong (Rainbow 1)
Participants109 from 68 countries
FormatTwo runs, total time determined placement.
DetailsGates: 53
Length: ?
Start Altitude: 1,405 m
Vertical Drop: 440 m

As scheduled the giant slalom was the fourth men’s Alpine skiing event at this Games. The heavy favorite was Austrian Marcel Hirscher, who led the seasonal giant slalom World Cup, having won four out of six races this winter in Beaver Creek, Alta Badia, Adelboden and also the last event held before the Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. He had also won the last three giant slalom World Cup Globes and was the 2017 World Champion.

Other medal contenders were Henrik Kristoffersen from Norway, who was in second place in the seasonal World Cup, and Alexis Pinturault from France, third in the giant slalom World Cup, winner of the race in Val d’Isère on home soil and the bronze medalist from Sochi. Again racing in PyeongChang, and competing in his fourth Olympics, was the gold medalist from Sochi, Ted Ligety. He was also the last to beat Hirscher for the giant slalom Crystal Globe in the 2013/14 season and had also won the 2015 World Championships, but he had struggled with injuries in the last two seasons. Not competing was the Sochi silver medalist, Steve Missillier, who was out for the season with back pain.

In the first run Pinturault, bib #1, made use of the perfect conditions and set the pace with 1:08.90. Only Hirscher, bib #5, was able to surpass the Frenchman with a big margin of 0.63 seconds. After the first run, a similar margin separated the next eight racers as Žan Kranjec in ninth position, was 0.62 seconds behind Pinturault, followed by Kristoffersen in 10th.

In the second run Ryan Cochran-Siegle, placed 21st after the first run, clocked the third best time to finish 11th overall and, with the best time of the second run, Kristoffersen won silver, just 4/100ths of a second ahead of Pinturault. Hirscher was untouchable, with the second-best time in the second run to become the first and only double Olympic champion in Alpine skiing at these Games. He dominated the event as Kristoffersen was 1.27 seconds in arrears. The three favorites shared the medals and were in the same order as in the seasonal giant slalom World Cup. Hirscher raced Atomic, Kristoffersen used Rossignol, and Pinturault won bronze with Head skis.

PosNumberCompetitorNOCTimeRun #1Run #2
15Marcel HirscherAUT2:18.041:08.27 (1)1:09.77 (2)Gold
27Henrik KristoffersenNOR2:19.311:09.58 (10)1:09.73 (1)Silver
31Alexis PinturaultFRA2:19.351:08.90 (2)1:10.45 (12)Bronze
412Žan KranjecSLO2:19.771:09.52 (9)1:10.25 (8)
511Thomas FanaraFRA2:19.831:09.22 (6)1:10.61 (16)
610Victor Muffat-JeandetFRA2:19.851:09.44 (8)1:10.41 (10)
73Mathieu FaivreFRA2:19.991:09.06 (5)1:10.93 (20)
813Leif Kristian Nestvold-HaugenNOR2:20.231:08.93 (3)1:11.30 (25)
917Loïc MeillardSUI2:20.451:09.77 (12)1:10.68 (17)
102Matts OlssonSWE2:20.701:09.31 (7)1:11.39 (27)
=1136Ryan Cochran-SiegleUSA2:20.741:10.75 (21)1:09.99 (3)
=1127Erik ReadCAN2:20.741:10.18 (16)1:10.56 (15)
1314Manfred MölggITA2:21.041:10.03 (15)1:11.01 (21)
1415Florian EisathITA2:21.181:10.46 (17)1:10.72 (18)
=1519Gino CaviezelSUI2:21.251:09.99 (13)1:11.26 (24)
=159Ted LigetyUSA2:21.251:10.71 (20)1:10.54 (14)
1732Samu TorstiFIN2:21.371:10.93 (22)1:10.44 (11)
1828Trevor PhilpCAN2:21.511:11.13 (24)1:10.38 (9)
1954Luca AerniSUI2:21.621:11.40 (=26)1:10.22 (7)
2022Tommy FordUSA2:21.631:11.43 (28)1:10.20 (6)
2142Štefan HadalinSLO2:21.661:11.53 (29)1:10.13 (=4)
2230Linus StraßerGER2:21.671:11.54 (30)1:10.13 (=4)
2321André MyhrerSWE2:21.691:09.60 (11)1:12.09 (28)
2420Filip ZubčićCRO2:21.841:10.95 (23)1:10.89 (19)
2533Adam ŽampaSVK2:21.861:11.40 (=26)1:10.46 (13)
2624Fritz DopferGER2:22.071:10.69 (19)1:11.38 (26)
2735Phil BrownCAN2:22.551:11.30 (25)1:11.25 (23)
2843Albert PopovBUL2:23.601:12.39 (34)1:11.21 (22)
2941Jack CrawfordCAN2:24.121:11.74 (31)1:12.38 (30)
3047Tomoya IshiiJPN2:24.781:12.43 (35)1:12.35 (29)
3163Filip ForejtekCZE2:26.071:12.91 (36)1:13.16 (32)
3249Sam MaesBEL2:26.201:13.29 (38)1:12.91 (31)
3340Dominic DemscharAUS2:26.751:13.21 (37)1:13.54 (33)
3438Adam BarwoodNZL2:27.221:13.41 (40)1:13.81 (35)
3555Kristaps ZvejnieksLAT2:28.271:13.81 (41)1:14.46 (38)
3634Willis FeaseyNZL2:28.281:14.48 (42)1:13.80 (34)
3757Samuel KolegaCRO2:28.741:14.61 (45)1:14.13 (36)
3868Olivier JenotMON2:29.091:14.93 (48)1:14.16 (37)
3973Kim Dong-WuKOR2:30.051:14.49 (43)1:15.56 (41)
4079Tormis LaineEST2:30.881:15.70 (50)1:15.18 (39)
4171Marko VukićevićSRB2:31.351:14.64 (46)1:16.71 (48)
4280Márton KékesiHUN2:31.861:16.64 (53)1:15.22 (40)
4370Simón Breitfuss KammerlanderBOL2:32.251:16.27 (52)1:15.98 (44)
4462Dalibor ŠamšalHUN2:32.881:16.09 (51)1:16.79 (50)
4577Marko StevovićSRB2:33.211:17.42 (57)1:15.79 (42)
4678Ioannis AntoniouGRE2:33.301:17.38 (56)1:15.92 (43)
4790Erjon TolaALB2:33.631:16.86 (54)1:16.77 (49)
4881Rodolfo DicksonMEX2:33.691:17.02 (55)1:16.67 (47)
4984Itamar BiranISR2:33.711:17.52 (58)1:16.19 (45)
5065Matej FalatSVK2:34.781:14.99 (49)1:19.79 (61)
5175Igor ZakurdayevKAZ2:35.071:18.78 (62)1:16.29 (46)
5291Komiljon TukhtaevUZB2:35.991:17.72 (60)1:18.27 (58)
5360Adam LamhamediMAR2:36.041:18.50 (61)1:17.54 (54)
5488Yury DanilachkinBLR2:36.891:19.45 (64)1:17.44 (53)
5582Alexandru BarbuROU2:37.141:19.74 (66)1:17.40 (52)
5696Albin TahiriKOS2:37.471:19.49 (65)1:17.98 (55)
5798Ivan KovbasniukUKR2:37.671:20.41 (70)1:17.26 (51)
5889Mohammad KiyadarbandsariIRI2:37.721:19.11 (63)1:18.61 (59)
5986Andrej DrukarovLTU2:38.191:19.98 (68)1:18.21 (57)
6076Casper DyrbyeDEN2:38.341:20.33 (69)1:18.01 (56)
6197Shannon-Ogbani AbedaERI2:39.871:19.86 (67)1:20.01 (62)
6295Matthieu OschLUX2:40.391:21.45 (74)1:18.94 (60)
6392Yevgeny TimofeyevKGZ2:41.031:20.90 (72)1:20.13 (63)
6483Eldar SalihovićMNE2:41.231:20.51 (71)1:20.72 (64)
65101Alessandro MariottiSMR2:42.871:21.66 (75)1:21.21 (66)
6699Arthur HansePOR2:43.951:22.43 (76)1:21.52 (67)
6793Serdar DenizTUR2:44.231:23.45 (77)1:20.78 (65)
68108Jeffrey WebbMAS2:47.671:23.83 (78)1:23.84 (70)
69102Zhang YangmingCHN2:48.681:25.73 (79)1:22.95 (69)
70104Asa MillerPHI2:49.951:27.52 (81)1:22.43 (68)
71103Allen BehlokLBN2:52.131:26.70 (80)1:25.43 (71)
72106Muhammad KarimPAK2:54.041:27.53 (82)1:26.51 (72)
73105Charles FlahertyPUR2:56.051:28.50 (83)1:27.55 (73)
74110Kang Song-IlPRK3:02.021:32.03 (84)1:29.99 (74)
75109Choe Myong-GwangPRK3:12.011:38.67 (85)1:33.34 (75)
DNF18Riccardo TonettiITA1:09.02 (4)– (DNF)
DNF25Stefan BrennsteinerAUT1:10.02 (14)– (DNF)
DNF29Andreas ŽampaSVK1:10.61 (18)– (DNF)
DNF46Joan VerdúAND1:12.06 (33)– (DNF)
DNF51Juan Del CampoESP1:13.39 (39)– (DNF)
DNF58Kai HorwitzCHI1:14.88 (47)– (DNF)
DNF66Kamen ZlatkovBUL1:17.65 (59)– (DNF)
DNF69Emir LokmićBIH1:14.55 (44)– (DNF)
DNF74Michael PoettozCOL1:21.41 (73)– (DNF)
DNF39Kristoffer JakobsenSWE1:12.02 (32)– (DNS)
DNF6Justin MurisierSUI– (DNF)
DNF16Aleksander Aamodt KildeNOR– (DNF)
DNF23Alex SchmidGER– (DNF)
DNF26Tim JitloffUSA– (DNF)
DNF31Kjetil JansrudNOR– (DNF)
DNF37Christian HirschbühlAUT– (DNF)
DNF45Miha HrobatSLO– (DNF)
DNF48Ivan KuznetsovROC– (DNF)
DNF50Sebastiano GastaldiARG– (DNF)
DNF52Jeong Dong-HyeonKOR– (DNF)
DNF53Ondřej BerndtCZE– (DNF)
DNF56Adam KotzmannCZE– (DNF)
DNF59Martin ČaterSLO– (DNF)
DNF61Sturla Snær SnorrasonISL– (DNF)
DNF64Jan ZabystřanCZE– (DNF)
DNF67Michel MacedoBRA– (DNF)
DNF72Iason AbramashviliGEO– (DNF)
DNF87Antonio RistevskiMKD– (DNF)
DNF94Nicola ZanonTHA– (DNF)
DNF100Dinos LefkaritisCYP– (DNF)
DNF107Connor WilsonRSA– (DNF)
DQ4Manuel FellerAUT[1:09.55] (DQ)1
DQ8Luca De AliprandiniITA[1:10.64] (DQ)2
DQ44Harry LaidlawAUS– (DQ)3
DNS85Michał JasiczekPOL– (DNS)