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Slalom, Men

Date	12 – 13 February 1972
Status	Olympic
Location	Mount Teine, Mount Teine
Participants	72 from 27 countries

The two favorites were Frenchman Jean-Noël Augert, 1970 World Champion, and World Cup slalom leader in 1970-72, and Italian Gustavo Thoeni, slightly better in the giant slalom, but considered the best technical skier in the world. Augert was second after the first run with 55.77, while Thoeni struggled into eighth place with 56.69, but both trailed the surprising Spaniard, Francisco Fernández Ochoa. Fernández Ochoa had no significant international record, his best previous place in a World Cup being sixth. He was not expected to hold the lead thru two runs, with Augert closely behind him. But on the second run, Augert skied poorly, placing only 10th, and eventually dropping to fifth overall. Thoeni came back, posting the fastest time in run two, but it was only enough to get him the silver medal. In one of the great upsets of the Winter Olympics, Fernández Ochoa held on, trailing only Gustavo Thoeni in run two, and won a shocking gold medal. The bronze medal went to Thoeni’s cousin, Rolando Thoeni.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Classification Round	Final
1	–	Francisco Fernández Ochoa	ESP	–	1:49.27 (1)	Gold
2	–	Gustavo Thoeni	ITA	–	1:50.28 (2)	Silver
3	–	Rolando Thoeni	ITA	–	1:50.30 (3)	Bronze
4	–	Henri Duvillard	FRA	–	1:50.45 (4)
5	–	Jean-Noël Augert	FRA	–	1:50.51 (5)
6	–	Eberardo Schmalzl	ITA	–	1:50.83 (6)
7	–	David Zwilling	AUT	–	1:51.97 (7)
8	–	Edy Bruggmann	SUI	–	1:52.03 (8)
9	–	Tyler Palmer	USA	–	1:52.05 (9)
10	–	Andrzej Bachleda-Curuś	POL	–	1:52.26 (10)
11	–	Christian Neureuther	FRG	–	1:52.90 (11)
12	–	Aurelio García	ESP	1:43.39 (=1 h4)	1:53.12 (12)
13	–	Walter Tresch	SUI	1:43.91 (2 h5)	1:53.51 (13)
14	–	Alfred Matt	AUT	– (DQ h1)	1:53.68 (14)
15	–	Adolf Rösti	SUI	1:44.20 (1 h2)	1:54.16 (15)
16	–	Terry Palmer	USA	1:45.82 (4 h5)	1:54.28 (16)
17	–	Masami Ichimura	JPN	1:42.90 (1 h5)	1:54.83 (17)
18	–	Masayoshi Kashiwagi	JPN	– (DNF h4)	1:56.61 (18)
19	–	Jim Hunter	CAN	1:47.16 (4 h2)	2:01.52 (19)
20	–	Virgil Brenci	ROU	1:46.46 (4 h4)	2:01.58 (20)
21	–	Sven Mikaelsson	SWE	1:48.03 (5 h2)	2:01.72 (21)
22	–	Sergey Grishchenko	URS	1:49.64 (5 h4)	2:02.67 (22)
23	–	Reto Barrington	CAN	– (DQ h3)	2:03.25 (23)
24	–	Malcolm Milne	AUS	– (DQ h2)	2:05.72 (24)
25	–	Robert Blanchaer	BEL	– (DQ h3)	2:07.36 (25)
26	–	Royston Varley	GBR	– (DNF h5)	2:07.85 (26)
27	–	Ivan Penev	BUL	1:53.24 (5 h1)	2:09.68 (27)
28	–	Iain Finlayson	GBR	– (DQ h1)	2:10.55 (28)
29	–	Resmi Resmiev	BUL	– (DQ h2)	2:11.10 (29)
30	–	Carlos Perner	ARG	– (DQ h2)	2:16.52 (30)
31	–	Jorge-Emilio Lazzarini	ARG	2:33.86 (8 h5)	2:18.94 (31)
32	–	Fayzollah Band Ali	IRI	2:16.03 (6 h2)	2:32.75 (32)
33	–	Gorban Ali Kalhor	IRI	2:18.86 (4 h3)	2:37.53 (33)
34	–	Chen Yun-Ming	TPE	2:19.65 (6 h1)	2:53.47 (34)
35	–	Wang Cheng-Che	TPE	2:28.89 (7 h5)	3:00.98 (35)
36	–	Hwang Wei-Chung	TPE	– (DQ h3)	3:04.94 (36)
37	–	Chia Kuo-Liang	TPE	– (DQ h2)	3:07.73 (37)
DNF	–	Alfred Hagn	FRG	–	– (DNF)
DNF	–	Max Rieger	FRG	–	– (DNF)
DNF	–	Haruhisa Chiba	JPN	1:43.17 (1 h1)	– (DNF)
DNF	–	Hansjörg Schlager	FRG	1:43.30 (1 h3)	– (DNF)
DNF	–	Josef Loidl	AUT	1:44.27 (2 h2)	– (DNF)
DNF	–	Manni Thofte	SWE	– (DNF h5)	– (DNF)
DNF	–	Andreas Sprecher	SUI	1:44.60 (2 h3)	– (DNF)
DNF	–	Erik Håker	NOR	– (DQ h3)	– (DNF)
DNF	–	Olle Rolén	SWE	1:47.88 (3 h1)	– (DNF)
DNF	–	Rick Chaffee	USA	1:47.81 (3 h3)	– (DNF)
DNF	–	Chris Womersley	NZL	1:48.49 (4 h1)	– (DNF)
DNF	–	Steven Clifford	AUS	– (DQ h1)	– (DNF)
DNF	–	Dan Cristea	ROU	– (DQ h5)	– (DNF)
DNF	–	Herbert Marxer	LIE	– (DQ h3)	– (DNF)
DNF	–	Derek Robbins	CAN	– (DNF h4)	– (DNF)
DNF	–	Alex Mapelli-Mozzi	GBR	– (DQ h3)	– (DNF)
DNF	–	Ross Ewington	NZL	1:54.16 (5 h5)	– (DNF)
DNF	–	Ghassan Keyrouz	LBN	2:10.04 (6 h5)	– (DNF)
DNF	–	Georgios Tampouris	GRE	2:25.59 (5 h3)	– (DNF)
DNF	–	Panagiotis Alexandris	GRE	1:59.79 (6 h4)	– (DNF)
DNF	–	Spyros Theodorou	GRE	– (DNF h1)	– (DNF)
DNF	–	Lotfollah Kia Shemshaki	IRI	– (DQ h4)	– (DNF)
DNF	–	Ben Nanasca	PHI	2:07.69 (7 h4)	– (DNF)
DNF	–	Juan Cipriano	PHI	– (DNF h3)	– (DNF)
DNF	–	Konrad Bartelski	GBR	– (DQ h2)	– (DNF)
DQ	–	Alain Penz	FRA	–	– (DQ)
DQ	–	Willi Frommelt	LIE	1:43.39 (=1 h4)	– (DQ)
DQ	–	Bob Cochran	USA	– (DQ h4)	– (DQ)
DQ	–	Otto Tschudi	NOR	– (DQ h4)	– (DQ)
DQ	–	Erwin Stricker	ITA	– (DQ h1)	– (DQ)
DQ	–	Reinhard Tritscher	AUT	1:44.06 (3 h5)	– (DQ)
DQ	–	Marko Kavčič	YUG	1:44.53 (3 h4)	– (DQ)
DQ	–	Toshimasa Furukawa	JPN	1:46.33 (3 h2)	– (DQ)
DQ	–	Peik Christensen	NOR	1:45.36 (2 h1)	– (DQ)
DQ	–	Ali Saveh	IRI	– (DNF h5)	– (DQ)
DNS	–	Gérard Bonnevie	FRA	–	– (DNS)

Classification Round

Date	12 February 1972
Format	15 skiers pre-qualified for final; the classification round determined starting positions in the final for the other skiers.
Course Setter		UNK
Gates	?
Length	?
Start Altitude	?
Vertical Drop	?

Group A

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Time	Run #1	Run #2
1	4	Haruhisa Chiba	JPN	1:43.17	43.46 (1)	59.71 (1)
2	3	Peik Christensen	NOR	1:45.36	45.14 (2)	1:00.22 (2)
3	7	Olle Rolén	SWE	1:47.88	45.90 (3)	1:01.98 (3)
4	6	Chris Womersley	NZL	1:48.49	46.72 (5)	1:01.77 (4)
5	10	Ivan Penev	BUL	1:53.24	49.18 (7)	1:04.06 (5)
6	11	Chen Yun-Ming	TPE	2:19.65	58.37 (8)	1:21.28 (7)
DNF	11	Spyros Theodorou	GRE	–	– (DNF)	1:10.09 (6)
DQ	9	Steven Clifford	AUS	–	46.44 (4)	– (DQ)
DQ	2	Erwin Stricker	ITA	–	47.27 (6)	– (DQ)
DQ	1	Alfred Matt	AUT	–	– (DQ)	–
DQ	8	Iain Finlayson	GBR	–	– (DQ)	–

Group B

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Time	Run #1	Run #2
1	12	Adolf Rösti	SUI	1:44.20	45.28 (3)	58.92 (1)
2	13	Josef Loidl	AUT	1:44.27	45.16 (2)	59.11 (2)
3	17	Toshimasa Furukawa	JPN	1:46.33	45.14 (1)	1:01.19 (4)
4	16	Jim Hunter	CAN	1:47.16	46.23 (4)	1:00.93 (3)
5	14	Sven Mikaelsson	SWE	1:48.03	46.34 (5)	1:01.69 (5)
6	22	Fayzollah Band Ali	IRI	2:16.03	58.88 (6)	1:17.15 (8)
DQ	15	Malcolm Milne	AUS	–	– (DQ)	1:01.94 (6)
DQ	18	Resmi Resmiev	BUL	–	– (DQ)	1:05.08 (7)
DQ	21	Chia Kuo-Liang	TPE	–	– (DQ)	1:25.16 (9)
DQ	20	Carlos Perner	ARG	–	– (DQ)	–
DQ	19	Konrad Bartelski	GBR	–	– (DQ)	–

Group C

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Time	Run #1	Run #2
1	24	Hansjörg Schlager	FRG	1:43.30	44.83 (1)	58.47 (1)
2	25	Andreas Sprecher	SUI	1:44.60	45.06 (2)	59.54 (2)
3	23	Rick Chaffee	USA	1:47.81	46.09 (3)	1:01.72 (3)
4	34	Gorban Ali Kalhor	IRI	2:18.86	58.51 (6)	1:20.35 (6)
5	33	Georgios Tampouris	GRE	2:25.59	56.17 (5)	1:29.42 (8)
DNF	31	Juan Cipriano	PHI	–	– (DNF)	–
DQ	30	Robert Blanchaer	BEL	–	50.59 (4)	– (DQ)
DQ	29	Alex Mapelli-Mozzi	GBR	–	– (DQ)	1:04.60 (5)
DQ	26	Erik Håker	NOR	–	– (DQ)	–
DQ	27	Herbert Marxer	LIE	–	– (DQ)	–
DQ	32	Hwang Wei-Chung	TPE	–	– (DQ)	1:24.58 (7)
DQ	28	Reto Barrington	CAN	–	– (DQ)	1:03.95 (4)

Group D

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Time	Run #1	Run #2
=1	36	Aurelio García	ESP	1:43.39	56.11 (2)	47.28 (5)
=1	40	Willi Frommelt	LIE	1:43.39	57.94 (3)	45.45 (1)
3	39	Marko Kavčič	YUG	1:44.53	58.07 (4)	46.46 (3)
4	41	Virgil Brenci	ROU	1:46.46	59.38 (6)	47.08 (4)
5	44	Sergey Grishchenko	URS	1:49.64	1:01.80 (7)	47.84 (7)
6	46	Panagiotis Alexandris	GRE	1:59.79	1:07.08 (8)	52.71 (8)	1
7	43	Ben Nanasca	PHI	2:07.69	1:14.92 (10)	52.77 (9)
DNF	42	Derek Robbins	CAN	–	– (DNF)	47.59 (6)
DNF	38	Masayoshi Kashiwagi	JPN	–	– (DNF)	45.87 (2)
DQ	37	Bob Cochran	USA	–	55.50 (1)	–
DQ	35	Otto Tschudi	NOR	–	58.66 (5)	–
DQ	45	Lotfollah Kia Shemshaki	IRI	–	1:10.62 (9)	–

Group E

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Time	Run #1	Run #2
1	52	Masami Ichimura	JPN	1:42.90	57.40 (1)	45.50 (2)
2	48	Walter Tresch	SUI	1:43.91	59.15 (3)	44.76 (1)
3	47	Reinhard Tritscher	AUT	1:44.06	58.42 (2)	45.64 (3)
4	49	Terry Palmer	USA	1:45.82	59.85 (5)	45.97 (4)
5	54	Ross Ewington	NZL	1:54.16	1:05.14 (6)	49.02 (5)
6	55	Ghassan Keyrouz	LBN	2:10.04	1:13.46 (7)	56.58 (8)
7	57	Wang Cheng-Che	TPE	2:28.89	1:27.91 (8)	1:00.98 (9)
8	58	Jorge-Emilio Lazzarini	ARG	2:33.86	1:42.94 (9)	50.92 (6)
DNF	56	Ali Saveh	IRI	–	– (DNF)	52.08 (7)
DNF	50	Manni Thofte	SWE	–	– (DNF)	–
DNF	53	Royston Varley	GBR	–	– (DNF)	–
DQ	51	Dan Cristea	ROU	–	59.71 (4)	[46.57] (DQ)

Final Round

Date	13 February 1972
Format	Two runs, total time determined placement.
Gates	71
Length	530 m
Start Altitude	?
Vertical Drop	228 m

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Time	Run #1	Run #2
1	2	Francisco Fernández Ochoa	ESP	1:49.27	55.36 (1)	53.91 (2)
2	13	Gustavo Thoeni	ITA	1:50.28	56.69 (8)	53.59 (1)
3	3	Rolando Thoeni	ITA	1:50.30	56.14 (5)	54.16 (3)
4	5	Henri Duvillard	FRA	1:50.45	55.92 (3)	54.53 (6)
5	10	Jean-Noël Augert	FRA	1:50.51	55.77 (2)	54.74 (10)
6	14	Eberardo Schmalzl	ITA	1:50.83	56.11 (4)	54.72 (9)
7	1	David Zwilling	AUT	1:51.97	57.30 (11)	54.67 (8)
8	11	Edy Bruggmann	SUI	1:52.03	57.49 (12)	54.54 (7)
9	6	Tyler Palmer	USA	1:52.05	57.68 (15)	54.37 (4)
10	4	Andrzej Bachleda-Curuś	POL	1:52.26	57.04 (10)	55.22 (11)
11	8	Christian Neureuther	FRG	1:52.90	58.42 (18)	54.48 (5)
12	16	Aurelio García	ESP	1:53.12	57.61 (14)	55.51 (14)
13	22	Walter Tresch	SUI	1:53.51	57.90 (16)	55.61 (15)
14	31	Alfred Matt	AUT	1:53.68	58.44 (19)	55.24 (12)
15	19	Adolf Rösti	SUI	1:54.16	58.08 (17)	56.08 (16)
16	33	Terry Palmer	USA	1:54.28	58.78 (21)	55.50 (13)
17	21	Masami Ichimura	JPN	1:54.83	57.58 (13)	57.25 (18)
18	35	Masayoshi Kashiwagi	JPN	1:56.61	1:00.19 (24)	56.42 (17)
19	54	Jim Hunter	CAN	2:01.52	1:02.02 (31)	59.50 (20)
20	47	Virgil Brenci	ROU	2:01.58	1:01.56 (30)	1:00.02 (22)
21	23	Sven Mikaelsson	SWE	2:01.72	1:01.00 (26)	1:00.72 (23)
22	60	Sergey Grishchenko	URS	2:02.67	1:02.97 (32)	59.70 (21)
23	49	Reto Barrington	CAN	2:03.25	1:04.02 (34)	59.23 (19)
24	52	Malcolm Milne	AUS	2:05.72	1:03.73 (33)	1:01.99 (26)
25	51	Robert Blanchaer	BEL	2:07.36	1:05.78 (36)	1:01.58 (25)
26	46	Royston Varley	GBR	2:07.85	1:06.31 (38)	1:01.54 (24)
27	56	Ivan Penev	BUL	2:09.68	1:06.84 (39)	1:02.84 (27)
28	48	Iain Finlayson	GBR	2:10.55	1:06.86 (40)	1:03.69 (28)
29	45	Resmi Resmiev	BUL	2:11.10	1:05.82 (37)	1:05.28 (29)
30	65	Carlos Perner	ARG	2:16.52	1:08.72 (41)	1:07.80 (30)
31	71	Jorge-Emilio Lazzarini	ARG	2:18.94	1:10.45 (42)	1:08.49 (31)
32	61	Fayzollah Band Ali	IRI	2:32.75	1:18.14 (46)	1:14.61 (32)
33	37	Gorban Ali Kalhor	IRI	2:37.53	1:18.34 (47)	1:19.19 (33)
34	57	Chen Yun-Ming	TPE	2:53.47	1:27.98 (48)	1:25.49 (34)
35	68	Wang Cheng-Che	TPE	3:00.98	1:31.57 (49)	1:29.41 (35)
36	62	Hwang Wei-Chung	TPE	3:04.94	1:33.43 (50)	1:31.51 (36)
37	67	Chia Kuo-Liang	TPE	3:07.73	1:35.23 (51)	1:32.50 (37)
DNF	7	Alfred Hagn	FRG	–	56.64 (7)	– (DNF)
DNF	9	Max Rieger	FRG	–	– (DNF)	–
DNF	17	Haruhisa Chiba	JPN	–	1:01.25 (29)	– (DNF)
DNF	20	Hansjörg Schlager	FRG	–	56.56 (6)	– (DNF)
DNF	25	Josef Loidl	AUT	–	58.60 (20)	– (DNF)
DNF	26	Manni Thofte	SWE	–	1:01.14 (27)	– (DNF)
DNF	28	Andreas Sprecher	SUI	–	– (DNF)	–
DNF	29	Erik Håker	NOR	–	– (DNF)	–
DNF	30	Olle Rolén	SWE	–	1:01.19 (28)	– (DNF)
DNF	34	Rick Chaffee	USA	–	– (DNF)	–
DNF	41	Chris Womersley	NZL	–	– (35)	– (DNF)
DNF	42	Steven Clifford	AUS	–	– (DNF)	–
DNF	43	Dan Cristea	ROU	–	– (23)	– (DNF)
DNF	44	Herbert Marxer	LIE	–	– (DNF)	–
DNF	50	Derek Robbins	CAN	–	– (DNF)	–
DNF	53	Alex Mapelli-Mozzi	GBR	–	– (DNF)	–
DNF	55	Ross Ewington	NZL	–	– (DNF)	–
DNF	58	Ghassan Keyrouz	LBN	–	– (DNF)	–
DNF	59	Georgios Tampouris	GRE	–	– (DNF)	–
DNF	63	Panagiotis Alexandris	GRE	–	– (DNF)	–
DNF	64	Spyros Theodorou	GRE	–	– (DNF)	–
DNF	66	Lotfollah Kia Shemshaki	IRI	–	– (44)	– (DNF)
DNF	69	Ben Nanasca	PHI	–	– (43)	– (DNF)
DNF	72	Juan Cipriano	PHI	–	– (DNF)	–
DNF	73	Konrad Bartelski	GBR	–	– (DNF)	–
DQ	15	Alain Penz	FRA	–	56.72 (9)	– (DQ)
DQ	18	Willi Frommelt	LIE	–	– (DQ)	–
DQ	24	Bob Cochran	USA	–	– (DQ)	–
DQ	27	Otto Tschudi	NOR	–	[58.44] (DQ)	–
DQ	32	Erwin Stricker	ITA	–	– (DQ)	–
DQ	36	Reinhard Tritscher	AUT	–	59.43 (22)	– (DQ)
DQ	38	Marko Kavčič	YUG	–	– (DQ)	–
DQ	39	Toshimasa Furukawa	JPN	–	– (25)	– (DQ)
DQ	40	Peik Christensen	NOR	–	– (DQ)	–
DQ	70	Ali Saveh	IRI	–	– (45)	– (DQ)
DNS	12	Gérard Bonnevie	FRA	–	– (DNS)	–