| | Event type
Slalom, Men
| Date | 14 February 1976 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Axamer Lizum, Axams | |
| Participants | 94 from 31 countries | |
| Format | Two runs, total time determined placement. | |
| Details | Gates: 62 Length: 520 m Start Altitude: 1830 m Vertical Drop: 220 m | |
As in the giant slalom, Gustavo Thoeni and Ingemar Stenmark were favored. Stenmark was World Cup champion in 1975 (and would win in 1976), succeeding Thoeni, who had led the World Cup slalom in 1973 and 1974. The leader on the first run was Willy Frommelt of Liechtenstein, with Thoeni second. Stenmark struggled on the first run, as he had in the giant slalom, placing ninth. But things were worse on the second run, when he missed a gate and did not finish. Thoeni was consistent, again placing second on run two, which was won by his teammate, Piero Gros. Gros’s time was fast enough to move him ahead of Thoeni and win the gold medal in an upset. Gros was quite well-known, having won the giant slalom and overall World Cup in 1974, but he had been surpassed by Stenmark and Thoeni in the run-up to the Innsbruck Games, and had not won a World Cup event since January 1975.
| Pos | Number | Competitor | NOC | Time | Run #1 | Run #2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 | Piero Gros |  ITA | 2:03.29 | 1:01.23 (5) | 1:02.06 (1) | Gold | ||
| 2 | 8 | Gustavo Thoeni | ITA | 2:03.73 | 1:00.55 (2) | 1:03.18 (2) | Silver | ||
| 3 | 7 | Willi Frommelt |  LIE | 2:04.28 | 59.98 (1) | 1:04.30 (4) | Bronze | ||
| 4 | 1 | Walter Tresch |  SUI | 2:05.26 | 1:01.34 (6) | 1:03.92 (3) | |||
| 5 | 2 | Christian Neureuther |  FRG | 2:06.56 | 1:01.70 (8) | 1:04.86 (5) | |||
| 6 | 3 | Wolfgang Junginger | FRG | 2:07.08 | 1:00.95 (3) | 1:06.13 (11) | |||
| 7 | 6 | Alois Morgenstern |  AUT | 2:07.18 | 1:01.61 (7) | 1:05.57 (8) | |||
| 8 | 17 | Peter Lüscher | SUI | 2:08.10 | 1:02.76 (13) | 1:05.34 (7) | |||
| 9 | 14 | Francisco Fernández Ochoa |  ESP | 2:08.35 | 1:02.35 (=10) | 1:06.00 (10) | |||
| 10 | 9 | Andi Wenzel | LIE | 2:08.73 | 1:02.51 (12) | 1:06.22 (12) | |||
| 11 | 27 | Jan Bachleda-Curuś |  POL | 2:08.81 | 1:03.76 (20) | 1:05.05 (6) | |||
| 12 | 26 | Stig Strand |  SWE | 2:09.08 | 1:03.27 (16) | 1:05.81 (9) | |||
| 13 | 22 | Cary Adgate |  USA | 2:09.53 | 1:03.06 (14) | 1:06.47 (13) | |||
| 14 | 16 | Miloslav Sochor |  TCH | 2:09.61 | 1:03.11 (15) | 1:06.50 (14) | |||
| =15 | 36 | Albert Burger | FRG | 2:10.31 | 1:03.38 (17) | 1:06.93 (16) | |||
| =15 | 19 | Roland Roche |  FRA | 2:10.31 | 1:03.53 (19) | 1:06.78 (15) | |||
| 17 | 48 | Torsten Jakobsson | SWE | 2:11.24 | 1:04.21 (21) | 1:07.03 (18) | |||
| 18 | 21 | Phil Mahre | USA | 2:11.77 | 1:04.80 (22) | 1:06.97 (17) | |||
| 19 | 35 | Greg Jones | USA | 2:12.71 | 1:05.05 (24) | 1:07.66 (19) | |||
| 20 | 45 | Sepp Ferstl | FRG | 2:14.34 | 1:06.32 (29) | 1:08.02 (20) | |||
| 21 | 29 | Roman Dereziński | POL | 2:14.73 | 1:04.93 (23) | 1:09.80 (22) | |||
| 22 | 39 | Anton Steiner | AUT | 2:14.90 | 1:06.02 (27) | 1:08.88 (21) | |||
| 23 | 32 | Jim Hunter |  CAN | 2:17.06 | 1:06.26 (28) | 1:10.80 (27) | |||
| 24 | 75 | Sigurður Jónsson |  ISL | 2:17.34 | 1:07.28 (32) | 1:10.06 (23) | |||
| 25 | 49 | Vladimir Andreyev |  URS | 2:17.56 | 1:07.01 (31) | 1:10.55 (26) | |||
| 26 | 40 | Erik Håker |  NOR | 2:17.86 | 1:06.77 (30) | 1:11.09 (29) | |||
| 27 | 64 | Robert Safrata | CAN | 2:17.98 | 1:07.63 (33) | 1:10.35 (25) | |||
| 28 | 67 | Ivan Penev |  BUL | 2:18.19 | 1:07.94 (35) | 1:10.25 (24) | |||
| 29 | 59 | Sumihiro Tomii |  JPN | 2:18.67 | 1:07.69 (34) | 1:10.98 (28) | |||
| 30 | 53 | Ion Cavași |  ROU | 2:21.32 | 1:08.59 (36) | 1:12.73 (30) | |||
| 31 | 62 | Andrej Koželj |  YUG | 2:23.66 | 1:09.50 (37) | 1:14.16 (32) | |||
| 32 | 69 | Haukur Jóhannsson | ISL | 2:24.05 | 1:10.89 (40) | 1:13.16 (31) | |||
| 33 | 57 | José Luis Koifman |  CHI | 2:25.97 | 1:10.65 (38) | 1:15.32 (33) | |||
| 34 | 58 | Dan Cristea | ROU | 2:27.57 | 1:10.70 (39) | 1:16.87 (35) | |||
| 35 | 79 | Stuart Blakely |  NZL | 2:28.77 | 1:13.17 (41) | 1:15.60 (34) | |||
| 36 | 95 | Brett Kendall | NZL | 2:38.38 | 1:18.12 (42) | 1:20.26 (36) | |||
| 37 | 94 | Ersin Ayrıksa |  TUR | 2:51.78 | 1:22.60 (43) | 1:29.18 (37) | |||
| 38 | 80 | Carlos Font |  AND | 2:56.52 | 1:24.98 (44) | 1:31.54 (38) | |||
| 4 | Franco Bieler | ITA | – | 1:01.04 (4) | – ( | ||||
| 5 | Ingemar Stenmark | SWE | – | 1:02.34 (9) | – ( | ||||
| 18 | Masami Ichimura | JPN | – | 1:02.35 (=10) | – ( | ||||
| 30 | Gérard Bonnevie | FRA | – | 1:03.51 (18) | – ( | ||||
| 43 | Gudmund Söderin | SWE | – | 1:05.60 (25) | – ( | ||||
| 46 | Juan Ángel Olivieri |  ARG | – | 1:05.90 (26) | – ( | ||||
| 61 | Carlos Alberto Martínez | ARG | – | – ( | – ( | ||||
| 56 | Stuart Fitzsimmons |  GBR | – | – ( | – ( | ||||
| 47 | Sasho Dikov | BUL | – | – ( | – ( | ||||
| 84 | Mohammad Kalhor |  IRI | – | – ( | – ( | ||||
| 97 | Spyros Theodorou |  GRE | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 96 | Murat Tosun | TUR | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 92 | David Griff |  AUS | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 91 | Maurizio Battistini |  SMR | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 90 | Ahmet Kıbıl | TUR | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 89 | Chen Yun-Ming |  TPE | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 88 | Robin Armstrong | NZL | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 86 | Thomas Karadimas | GRE | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 85 | Kim Clifford | AUS | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 83 | Gorban Ali Kalhor | IRI | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 82 | Xavier Areny | AND | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 81 | Tómas Leifsson | ISL | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 78 | Walter Dei Vecchi | ARG | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 76 | Rafael Cañas | CHI | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 74 | Adjin Pašović | YUG | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 73 | Didier Xhaet |  BEL | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 72 | Federico García | CHI | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 71 | Robert Blanchaer | BEL | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 70 | Antoine Crespo | AND | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 68 | Konrad Bartelski | GBR | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 65 | Jaime Ros | ESP | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 60 | Ken Read | CAN | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 55 | Georgi Kochov | BUL | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 54 | Mikio Katagiri | JPN | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 52 | Peter Fuchs | GBR | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 51 | Antoni Naudi | AND | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 50 | Roberto Koifman | CHI | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 44 | Miran Gašperšič | YUG | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 42 | Juan Manuel Fernández Ochoa | ESP | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 41 | Dave Murray | CAN | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 38 | Jorge García | ESP | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 37 | Luis Rosenkjer | ARG | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 34 | Haruhisa Chiba | JPN | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 33 | Bojan Križaj | YUG | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 28 | Bohumír Zeman | TCH | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 25 | Odd Sørli | NOR | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 24 | Heini Hemmi | SUI | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 23 | Ernst Good | SUI | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 20 | Philippe Hardy | FRA | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 15 | Claude Perrot | FRA | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 13 | Hansi Hinterseer | AUT | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 12 | Fausto Radici | ITA | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 10 | Geoff Bruce | USA | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 63 | Alan Stewart | GBR | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 93 | Akbar Kalili | IRI | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 87 | Mohammad Hadj Kia Shemshaki | IRI | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 77 | Árni Óðinsson | ISL | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 66 | Rob McIntyre | AUS | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 31 | Petar Popangelov | BUL | – | – ( | – |