| | Event type
Giant Slalom, Men
| Date | 18 – 19 February 1980 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Whiteface Mountain Ski Area, Lake Placid | |
| Participants | 78 from 28 countries | |
| Format | Two runs, total time determined placement. | |
| Details | Gates: 56 Length: 1354 m Start Altitude: ? Vertical Drop: 395 m | |
Ingemar Stenmark was heavily favored. He had won the World Cup title every year since 1975 in GS, and was the 1978 World Champion in both slalom and giant slalom. One of the few Lapps, or Samis, to become a world-class athlete, Stenmark was considered the best technical skier in the world. On the first run, Stenmark appeared tentative and was placed only third, trailing the leader, Liechtenstein’s Andreas Wenzel, and the silver medalist at the 1978 Worlds. But his second run was dominant, besting Switzerland’s Jacques Lüthy by almost a full second, and it brought Stenmark the expected gold medal. Wenzel hung on for the silver, with the bronze going to Austria’s Hans Enn.
| Pos | Number | Competitor | NOC | Time | Run #1 | Run #2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | Ingemar Stenmark |  SWE | 2:40.74 | 1:20.49 (3) | 1:20.25 (1) | Gold | ||
| 2 | 11 | Andi Wenzel |  LIE | 2:41.49 | 1:20.17 (1) | 1:21.32 (4) | Silver | ||
| 3 | 4 | Hans Enn |  AUT | 2:42.51 | 1:20.31 (2) | 1:22.20 (8) | Bronze | ||
| 4 | 13 | Bojan Križaj |  YUG | 2:42.53 | 1:21.28 (7) | 1:21.25 (3) | |||
| 5 | 12 | Jacques Lüthy |  SUI | 2:42.75 | 1:21.55 (11) | 1:21.20 (2) | |||
| 6 | 6 | Bruno Nöckler |  ITA | 2:42.95 | 1:20.99 (4) | 1:21.96 (7) | |||
| 7 | 8 | Joël Gaspoz | SUI | 2:43.05 | 1:21.10 (5) | 1:21.95 (6) | |||
| 8 | 1 | Boris Strel | YUG | 2:43.24 | 1:21.45 (8) | 1:21.79 (5) | |||
| 9 | 24 | Aleksandr Zhirov |  URS | 2:44.07 | 1:21.53 (10) | 1:22.54 (9) | |||
| 10 | 10 | Phil Mahre |  USA | 2:44.33 | 1:21.74 (14) | 1:22.59 (10) | |||
| 11 | 15 | Jarle Halsnes |  NOR | 2:44.49 | 1:21.64 (12) | 1:22.85 (14) | |||
| 12 | 30 | Jure Franko | YUG | 2:44.63 | 1:21.50 (9) | 1:23.13 (16) | |||
| 13 | 23 | Christian Orlainsky | AUT | 2:44.70 | 1:21.92 (16) | 1:22.78 (12) | |||
| 14 | 36 | Jorge Pérez |  ESP | 2:44.88 | 1:22.06 (19) | 1:22.82 (13) | |||
| =15 | 31 | Vladimir Andreyev | URS | 2:44.94 | 1:22.19 (21) | 1:22.75 (11) | |||
| =15 | 25 | Steve Mahre | USA | 2:44.94 | 1:21.86 (15) | 1:23.08 (15) | |||
| 17 | 27 | Frank Wörndl |  FRG | 2:45.58 | 1:21.70 (13) | 1:23.88 (22) | |||
| 18 | 22 | Anton Steiner | AUT | 2:45.76 | 1:21.93 (17) | 1:23.83 (21) | |||
| 19 | 16 | Bohumír Zeman |  TCH | 2:45.96 | 1:22.25 (22) | 1:23.71 (20) | |||
| 20 | 18 | Albert Burger | FRG | 2:46.12 | 1:22.59 (24) | 1:23.53 (19) | |||
| 21 | 17 | Torsten Jakobsson | SWE | 2:46.42 | 1:23.24 (31) | 1:23.18 (17) | |||
| 22 | 26 | Francisco Fernández Ochoa | ESP | 2:46.58 | 1:23.11 (29) | 1:23.47 (18) | |||
| 23 | 33 | Jorge García | ESP | 2:47.08 | 1:23.03 (28) | 1:24.05 (24) | |||
| 24 | 29 | Paul Arne Skajem | NOR | 2:47.11 | 1:23.12 (30) | 1:23.99 (23) | |||
| 25 | 3 | Odd Sørli | NOR | 2:47.30 | 1:22.87 (26) | 1:24.43 (=26) | |||
| 26 | 14 | Leonhard Stock | AUT | 2:47.40 | 1:22.97 (27) | 1:24.43 (=26) | |||
| 27 | 35 | Petar Popangelov |  BUL | 2:48.12 | 1:23.80 (34) | 1:24.32 (25) | |||
| 28 | 40 | Stig Strand | SWE | 2:48.62 | 1:23.37 (32) | 1:25.25 (31) | |||
| 29 | 38 | Toshihiro Kaiwa |  JPN | 2:48.78 | 1:24.29 (35) | 1:24.49 (28) | |||
| 30 | 44 | Lyudmil Tonchev | BUL | 2:48.82 | 1:23.73 (33) | 1:25.09 (29) | |||
| 31 | 45 | Mitko Hadzhiev | BUL | 2:50.42 | 1:25.27 (37) | 1:25.15 (30) | |||
| 32 | 42 | Hristo Angelov | BUL | 2:52.78 | 1:25.97 (40) | 1:26.81 (33) | |||
| 33 | 47 | Alan Stewart |  GBR | 2:52.95 | 1:25.53 (38) | 1:27.42 (35) | |||
| 34 | 49 | Sepp Ferstl | FRG | 2:53.03 | 1:25.86 (39) | 1:27.17 (34) | |||
| 35 | 46 | Sigurður Jónsson |  ISL | 2:53.79 | 1:27.33 (42) | 1:26.46 (32) | |||
| 36 | 39 | Atsushi Sawada | JPN | 2:54.05 | 1:25.23 (36) | 1:28.82 (37) | |||
| 37 | 59 | Norberto Quiroga |  ARG | 2:55.65 | 1:27.16 (41) | 1:28.49 (36) | |||
| 38 | 43 | Rob McIntyre |  AUS | 2:57.39 | 1:28.09 (44) | 1:29.30 (38) | |||
| 39 | 68 | Konrad Bartelski | GBR | 2:57.70 | 1:27.71 (43) | 1:29.99 (41) | |||
| 40 | 62 | Janez Flere | ARG | 2:58.39 | 1:28.27 (45) | 1:30.12 (42) | |||
| 41 | 57 | Antony Guss | AUS | 2:58.79 | 1:29.26 (47) | 1:29.53 (39) | |||
| 42 | 51 | Carlos Font |  AND | 2:59.26 | 1:29.47 (48) | 1:29.79 (40) | |||
| 43 | 56 | Ross Blyth | GBR | 3:00.10 | 1:29.21 (46) | 1:30.89 (43) | |||
| 44 | 75 | Guillermo Giumelli | ARG | 3:02.26 | 1:30.62 (49) | 1:31.64 (44) | |||
| 45 | 61 | Patrick Toussaint | AND | 3:04.38 | 1:31.23 (52) | 1:33.15 (46) | |||
| 46 | 64 | Marcelo Martínez | ARG | 3:05.58 | 1:31.17 (51) | 1:34.41 (47) | |||
| 47 | 55 | Didier Lamont |  BEL | 3:05.68 | 1:32.54 (53) | 1:33.14 (45) | |||
| 48 | 76 | Lazaros Archontopoulos |  GRE | 3:16.23 | 1:36.32 (57) | 1:39.91 (48) | |||
| 49 | 66 | Hong In-Gi |  KOR | 3:20.80 | 1:39.30 (59) | 1:41.50 (50) | |||
| 50 | 71 | Piao Dongyi |  CHN | 3:23.00 | 1:38.38 (58) | 1:44.62 (52) | |||
| 51 | 81 | Lazaros Kechagias | GRE | 3:23.40 | 1:42.16 (61) | 1:41.24 (49) | |||
| 52 | 78 | Giannis Stamatiou | GRE | 3:24.99 | 1:41.80 (60) | 1:43.19 (51) | |||
| 53 | 70 | Naji Heneine |  LBN | 3:37.47 | 1:35.59 (56) | 2:01.88 (54) | |||
| 54 | 79 | Philippos Xenophontos |  CYP | 3:38.09 | 1:49.52 (63) | 1:48.57 (53) | |||
| 72 | Valery Tsyganov | URS | – | 1:21.22 (6) | – ( | ||||
| 5 | Piero Gros | ITA | – | 1:22.15 (20) | – ( | ||||
| 20 | Alex Giorgi | ITA | – | 1:22.02 (18) | – ( | ||||
| 21 | Cary Adgate | USA | – | 1:22.48 (23) | – ( | ||||
| 19 | Jože Kuralt | YUG | – | 1:22.68 (25) | – ( | ||||
| 60 | Miguel Font | AND | – | 1:30.93 (50) | – ( | ||||
| 58 | Stuart Blakely |  NZL | – | 1:32.99 (54) | – ( | ||||
| 63 | Henri Mollin | BEL | – | 1:33.02 (55) | – ( | ||||
| 74 | Víctor Hugo Ascarrunz |  BOL | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 80 | Billy Farwig | BOL | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 77 | Arturo Kinch |  CRC | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 67 | Sami Rebez | LBN | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 54 | Roddy Langmuir | GBR | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 53 | Mark Vryenhoek | NZL | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 52 | Scott Kendall | NZL | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 50 | Scott Alan Sánchez | BOL | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 48 | Björn Olgeirsson | ISL | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 41 | Osamu Kodama | JPN | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 34 | Pete Patterson | USA | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 28 | Mauro Bernardi | ITA | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 7 | Peter Lüscher | SUI | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 2 | Jean-Luc Fournier | SUI | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 32 | Paul Frommelt | LIE | – | [1:28.12] ( | – | ||||
| 73 | Joseph Keyrouz | LBN | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 69 | Andreas Pilavakis | CYP | – | 1:44.92 (62) | [1:51.89] ( | ||||
| 65 | Habib Khoury | LBN | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 37 | Harri Roschier |  FIN | – | – ( | – |