| | Event type
Slalom, Men
| Date | 5 February 1948 — 9:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Suvretta, St. Moritz | |
| Participants | 77 from 22 countries | |
| Format | Two runs, total time determined placement. | |
| Details | Gates: 47 Length: 500 m Start Altitude: ? Vertical Drop: 220 m | |
This was the first men’s slalom to be contested at the Olympic Games. The leader after the first run was Italy’s Silvio Alverà, with Edy Reinalter (SUI) third and Henri Oreiller (FRA) fourth. But Reinalter had the fastest of the second runs to win the gold medal by half-a-second over France’s James Couttet, who had been second after the first run. Oreiller won the bronze medal, and also won golds in the downhill and combined in St. Moritz. Couttet placed third in the combined event at St. Moritz, but was the leader in the slalom section of that event.
| Pos | Number | Competitor | NOC | Time | Run #1 | Run #2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | Edy Reinalter |  SUI | 2:10.3 | 1:07.7 (3) | 1:02.6 (1) | Gold | ||
| 2 | 6 | James Couttet |  FRA | 2:10.8 | 1:07.5 (2) | 1:03.3 (4) | Silver | ||
| 3 | 4 | Henri Oreiller | FRA | 2:12.8 | 1:08.0 (4) | 1:04.8 (6) | Bronze | ||
| 4 | 3 | Silvio Alverà |  ITA | 2:13.2 | 1:07.4 (1) | 1:05.8 (=9) | |||
| 5 | 5 | Olle Dalman |  SWE | 2:13.6 | 1:10.4 (7) | 1:03.2 (3) | |||
| 6 | 18 | Egon Schöpf |  AUT | 2:14.2 | 1:11.1 (=11) | 1:03.1 (2) | |||
| 7 | – | Jack Reddish |  USA | 2:15.5 | 1:11.0 (10) | 1:04.5 (5) | |||
| 8 | 7 | Karl Molitor | SUI | 2:16.2 | 1:10.2 (6) | 1:06.0 (11) | |||
| 9 | 19 | Luboš Brchel |  TCH | 2:16.6 | 1:10.8 (9) | 1:05.8 (=9) | |||
| 10 | – | Sixten Isberg | SWE | 2:17.2 | 1:10.7 (8) | 1:06.5 (=13) | |||
| =11 | 12 | Hans Hansson | SWE | 2:18.3 | 1:11.1 (=11) | 1:07.2 (16) | |||
| =11 | 1 | Edi Mall | AUT | 2:18.3 | 1:12.2 (15) | 1:06.1 (12) | |||
| 13 | 16 | Georges Schneider | SUI | 2:18.4 | 1:11.9 (14) | 1:06.5 (=13) | |||
| 14 | – | Zeno Colò | ITA | 2:19.0 | 1:13.3 (=17) | 1:05.7 (8) | |||
| 15 | 2 | Désiré Lacroix | FRA | 2:19.9 | 1:09.9 (5) | 1:10.0 (23) | |||
| 16 | – | Steve Knowlton | USA | 2:20.5 | 1:12.9 (16) | 1:07.6 (=17) | |||
| 17 | 8 | Engelbert Haider | AUT | 2:22.8 | 1:13.3 (=17) | 1:09.5 (22) | |||
| 18 | – | Saša Molnar |  YUG | 2:23.4 | 1:11.4 (13) | 1:12.0 (=28) | |||
| 19 | – | Harvey Clifford |  CAN | 2:23.7 | 1:13.5 (19) | 1:10.2 (24) | |||
| 20 | – | Colin Stewart | USA | 2:24.1 | 1:15.3 (23) | 1:08.8 (21) | |||
| 21 | – | Aimo Vartiainen |  FIN | 2:25.0 | 1:14.0 (20) | 1:11.0 (26) | |||
| 22 | 11 | Antonín Šponar | TCH | 2:26.7 | 1:20.2 (29) | 1:06.5 (=13) | |||
| 23 | – | Bjarne Arentz |  NOR | 2:27.7 | 1:16.2 (24) | 1:11.5 (27) | |||
| 24 | – | Barney McLean | USA | 2:28.1 | 1:20.5 (30) | 1:07.6 (=17) | |||
| 25 | – | Péter Szikla |  HUN | 2:29.2 | 1:15.1 (22) | 1:14.1 (32) | |||
| 26 | 14 | Jack Nielsen, Jr. | NOR | 2:29.8 | 1:22.0 (32) | 1:07.8 (19) | |||
| 27 | – | Matevž Lukanc | YUG | 2:30.9 | 1:17.2 (25) | 1:13.7 (30) | |||
| 28 | – | Hector Sutherland | CAN | 2:31.2 | 1:19.2 (=27) | 1:12.0 (=28) | |||
| 29 | 15 | Stein Eriksen | NOR | 2:32.4 | 1:24.4 (33) | 1:08.0 (20) | |||
| 30 | 13 | Vittorio Chierroni | ITA | 2:32.5 | 1:27.0 (36) | 1:05.5 (7) | |||
| 31 | – | Józef Marusarz |  POL | 2:33.2 | 1:19.2 (=27) | 1:14.0 (31) | |||
| 32 | – | Pentti Alonen | FIN | 2:35.8 | 1:18.1 (26) | 1:17.7 (=36) | |||
| 33 | – | Daniel Šlachta | TCH | 2:38.7 | 1:21.0 (31) | 1:17.7 (=36) | |||
| 34 | 17 | Claude Penz | FRA | 2:40.1 | 1:29.2 (38) | 1:10.9 (25) | |||
| 35 | – | Tamás Székely | HUN | 2:42.7 | 1:26.9 (35) | 1:15.8 (34) | |||
| 36 | – | Franci Čop | YUG | 2:43.7 | 1:24.8 (34) | 1:18.9 (39) | |||
| 37 | – | Bert Irwin | CAN | 2:46.0 | 1:29.4 (39) | 1:16.6 (35) | |||
| 38 | – | Dumitru Sulică |  ROU | 2:47.9 | 1:27.2 (37) | 1:20.7 (43) | |||
| 39 | – | Ion Coliban | ROU | 2:48.9 | 1:30.1 (41) | 1:18.8 (38) | |||
| 40 | – | Tine Mulej | YUG | 2:51.0 | 1:15.0 (21) | 1:36.0 (56) | |||
| 41 | – | Alf Opheim | NOR | 2:51.4 | 1:36.4 (46) | 1:15.0 (33) | |||
| 42 | – | Luis de Ridder |  ARG | 2:52.4 | 1:32.2 (44) | 1:20.2 (41) | |||
| 43 | – | Gino de Pellegrín | ARG | 2:53.3 | 1:29.8 (40) | 1:23.5 (47) | |||
| 44 | – | Dimitar Drazhev |  BUL | 2:54.0 | 1:33.1 (45) | 1:20.9 (44) | |||
| =45 | – | José Arias |  ESP | 2:55.9 | 1:31.4 (43) | 1:24.5 (49) | |||
| =45 | – | Juan Poll | ESP | 2:55.9 | 1:30.9 (42) | 1:25.0 (51) | |||
| 47 | – | David Madzhar | BUL | 2:58.3 | 1:38.7 (49) | 1:19.6 (40) | |||
| 48 | – | Lajos Máté | HUN | 3:00.6 | 1:40.1 (50) | 1:20.5 (42) | |||
| 49 | – | Donald Garrow |  GBR | 3:01.3 | 1:37.0 (=47) | 1:24.3 (48) | |||
| 50 | – | Bill Irwin | CAN | 3:01.6 | 1:40.4 (51) | 1:21.2 (45) | |||
| 51 | – | Thomas de Morawitz | ESP | 3:07.8 | 1:37.0 (=47) | 1:30.8 (53) | |||
| 52 | – | Hernán Oelckers |  CHI | 3:09.0 | 1:44.2 (52) | 1:24.8 (50) | |||
| 53 | – | Otto Jung | ARG | 3:15.7 | 1:54.1 (56) | 1:21.6 (46) | |||
| 54 | – | Arturo Hammersley | CHI | 3:16.1 | 1:49.2 (54) | 1:26.9 (52) | |||
| 55 | – | Ian Appleyard | GBR | 3:20.1 | 1:47.0 (53) | 1:33.1 (54) | |||
| 56 | – | Pablo Rosenkjer | ARG | 3:27.9 | 1:53.7 (55) | 1:34.2 (55) | |||
| 57 | – | Bela Imre | ROU | 3:37.7 | 1:57.4 (57) | 1:40.3 (58) | |||
| 58 | – | Raşit Tolun |  TUR | 3:42.0 | 2:04.8 (58) | 1:37.2 (57) | |||
| 59 | – | Guðmundur Guðmundsson |  ISL | 3:54.6 | 2:09.4 (60) | 1:45.2 (61) | |||
| 60 | – | Osman Yüce | TUR | 4:08.6 | 2:21.2 (63) | 1:47.4 (62) | |||
| 61 | – | Harry Taylor | GBR | 4:09.9 | 2:05.5 (59) | 2:04.4 (65) | |||
| 62 | – | Dursun Bozkurt | TUR | 4:11.2 | 2:18.2 (61) | 1:53.0 (63) | |||
| 63 | – | John Boyagis | GBR | 4:14.1 | 2:30.0 (65) | 1:44.1 (59) | |||
| 64 | – | Muzaffer Demirhan | TUR | 4:25.7 | 2:25.5 (64) | 2:00.2 (64) | |||
| 65 | – | Ramón Blanco | ESP | 4:27.5 | 2:18.5 (62) | 2:09.0 (66) | |||
| 66 | – | Ibrahim Geagea |  LBN | 4:34.1 | 2:49.3 (66) | 1:44.8 (60) | |||
| – | Zdeněk Parma | TCH | – | – | – | ||||
| – | Karl Gamma | SUI | – | – | – | ||||
| – | Roberto Lacedelli | ITA | – | – | – | ||||
| – | Åke Nilsson | SWE | – | – | – | ||||
| – | Jan Lipowski | POL | – | – | – | ||||
| – | Jan Gąsienica Ciaptak | POL | – | – | – | ||||
| – | Jaime Errázuriz | CHI | – | – | – | ||||
| – | Hans Hinterholzer | AUT | – | – ( | – | ||||
| – | Christian Pravda | AUT | – | – | – | ||||
| – | György Libik | HUN | – | – | – | ||||
| – | Radu Scîrneci | ROU | – | – | – | ||||
| – | Gonzalo Domínguez | CHI | – | – ( | – | ||||
| – | Magnús Brynjólfsson | ISL | – | – ( | – | ||||
| – | Þórir Jónsson | ISL | – | – ( | – |