| | Event type
Giant Slalom, Men
| Date | 9 – 10 February 1976 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Axamer Lizum, Axams | |
| Participants | 97 from 31 countries | |
| Format | Two runs, total time determined placement. | |
| Details | Gates: 63 Length: 1525 m Start Altitude: 1990 m Vertical Drop: 450 m | |
Sweden’s Ingemar Stenmark was considered the best technical skier in the world in 1976. He had won the World Cup in 1975 in both slalom and giant slalom, and would win each of those titles thru 1981. His biggest challenger was expected to be the 1972 gold medalist, Gustavo Thoeni, who was overall World Cup champion in 1975 and would win again in 1975-76. And Thoeni took the lead on the first run, with Stenmark struggling in eighth place. Following Thoeni on the first run were longshots Ernst Good and Heini Hemmi, both of Switzerland. Stenmark skied brilliantly on the second run, winning it easily, but this would move him up only to the bronze medal. It was now Thoeni’s turn to struggle and his eighth place finish on run two dropped him back to fourth overall. Hemmi and Good again finished 2-3 on the second run, this time Hemmi besting Good by enough time to secure the gold medal, with Good taking silver. In the 1976-77 World Cup season, Hemmi would win four races, and tied Stenmark for the season title in GS.
| Pos | Number | Competitor | NOC | Time | Run #1 | Run #2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | Heini Hemmi |  SUI | 3:26.97 | 1:45.41 (3) | 1:41.56 (2) | Gold | ||
| 2 | 1 | Ernst Good | SUI | 3:27.17 | 1:44.60 (2) | 1:42.57 (3) | Silver | ||
| 3 | 6 | Ingemar Stenmark |  SWE | 3:27.41 | 1:46.51 (8) | 1:40.90 (1) | Bronze | ||
| 4 | 4 | Gustavo Thoeni |  ITA | 3:27.67 | 1:44.19 (1) | 1:43.48 (8) | |||
| 5 | 7 | Phil Mahre |  USA | 3:28.20 | 1:45.58 (4) | 1:42.62 (5) | |||
| 6 | 15 | Engelhard Pargätzi | SUI | 3:28.76 | 1:46.16 (6) | 1:42.60 (4) | |||
| 7 | 21 | Fausto Radici | ITA | 3:30.09 | 1:46.87 (9) | 1:43.22 (6) | |||
| 8 | 2 | Franco Bieler | ITA | 3:30.24 | 1:47.00 (10) | 1:43.24 (7) | |||
| 9 | 14 | Greg Jones | USA | 3:31.77 | 1:48.09 (16) | 1:43.68 (9) | |||
| 10 | 20 | Albert Burger |  FRG | 3:32.68 | 1:47.32 (12) | 1:45.36 (11) | |||
| 11 | 3 | Miloslav Sochor |  TCH | 3:33.53 | 1:47.46 (13) | 1:46.07 (13) | |||
| 12 | 35 | Stig Strand | SWE | 3:33.66 | 1:48.63 (22) | 1:45.03 (10) | |||
| 13 | 27 | Steve Mahre | USA | 3:33.76 | 1:47.80 (14) | 1:45.96 (12) | |||
| 14 | 8 | Hansi Hinterseer |  AUT | 3:33.80 | 1:46.46 (7) | 1:47.34 (19) | |||
| 15 | 18 | Alain Navillod |  FRA | 3:34.33 | 1:47.15 (11) | 1:47.18 (17) | |||
| 16 | 19 | Juan Manuel Fernández Ochoa |  ESP | 3:34.77 | 1:48.06 (15) | 1:46.71 (15) | |||
| 17 | 16 | Willi Frommelt |  LIE | 3:35.71 | 1:48.44 (19) | 1:47.27 (18) | |||
| 18 | 41 | Bojan Križaj |  YUG | 3:35.90 | 1:49.08 (25) | 1:46.82 (16) | |||
| 19 | 9 | Wolfgang Junginger | FRG | 3:36.02 | 1:49.79 (29) | 1:46.23 (14) | |||
| 20 | 23 | Andi Wenzel | LIE | 3:36.25 | 1:48.53 (20) | 1:47.72 (20) | |||
| 21 | 25 | Cary Adgate | USA | 3:36.41 | 1:48.64 (23) | 1:47.77 (21) | |||
| 22 | 22 | Jim Hunter |  CAN | 3:37.36 | 1:48.56 (21) | 1:48.80 (25) | |||
| 23 | 26 | Bohumír Zeman | TCH | 3:37.56 | 1:49.10 (26) | 1:48.46 (24) | |||
| 24 | 30 | Francisco Fernández Ochoa | ESP | 3:38.12 | 1:48.65 (24) | 1:49.47 (27) | |||
| 25 | 28 | Philippe Barroso | FRA | 3:38.49 | 1:50.23 (31) | 1:48.26 (22) | |||
| 26 | 34 | Petar Popangelov |  BUL | 3:39.04 | 1:50.68 (32) | 1:48.36 (23) | |||
| 27 | 38 | Philippe Hardy | FRA | 3:40.43 | 1:51.20 (34) | 1:49.23 (26) | |||
| 28 | 39 | Sepp Ferstl | FRG | 3:41.52 | 1:49.98 (30) | 1:51.54 (28) | |||
| 29 | 17 | Claude Perrot | FRA | 3:42.84 | 1:49.48 (28) | 1:53.36 (31) | |||
| 30 | 40 | Christian Neureuther | FRG | 3:44.02 | 1:52.29 (37) | 1:51.73 (29) | |||
| 31 | 37 | Ivan Penev | BUL | 3:44.10 | 1:51.59 (35) | 1:52.51 (30) | |||
| 32 | 49 | Luis Rosenkjer |  ARG | 3:48.16 | 1:53.98 (41) | 1:54.18 (32) | |||
| 33 | 52 | Alan Stewart |  GBR | 3:49.64 | 1:54.49 (44) | 1:55.15 (33) | |||
| 34 | 47 | Sumihiro Tomii |  JPN | 3:49.73 | 1:53.92 (40) | 1:55.81 (34) | |||
| 35 | 54 | Andrej Koželj | YUG | 3:50.48 | 1:54.43 (=42) | 1:56.05 (35) | |||
| 36 | 51 | Jaime Ros | ESP | 3:51.79 | 1:55.25 (48) | 1:56.54 (36) | |||
| 37 | 57 | Mikio Katagiri | JPN | 3:52.73 | 1:54.68 (45) | 1:58.05 (38) | |||
| 38 | 56 | Roman Dereziński |  POL | 3:53.71 | 1:55.44 (49) | 1:58.27 (39) | |||
| 39 | 78 | Sigurður Jónsson |  ISL | 3:56.22 | 1:58.46 (57) | 1:57.76 (37) | |||
| 40 | 73 | Robert Blanchaer |  BEL | 3:57.90 | 1:57.37 (55) | 2:00.53 (41) | |||
| 41 | 68 | Roberto Koifman |  CHI | 3:59.49 | 1:58.15 (56) | 2:01.34 (42) | |||
| 42 | 65 | Adrián Roncallo | ARG | 4:00.62 | 2:00.16 (62) | 2:00.46 (40) | |||
| 43 | 74 | José Luis Koifman | CHI | 4:01.35 | 1:58.93 (58) | 2:02.42 (44) | |||
| 44 | 83 | Brett Kendall |  NZL | 4:04.05 | 2:01.82 (66) | 2:02.23 (43) | |||
| 45 | 70 | Dan Cristea |  ROU | 4:05.29 | 2:01.78 (65) | 2:03.51 (45) | |||
| 46 | 94 | Tómas Leifsson | ISL | 4:05.37 | 2:01.83 (67) | 2:03.54 (46) | |||
| 47 | 76 | Gorban Ali Kalhor |  IRI | 4:08.95 | 2:02.30 (69) | 2:06.65 (47) | |||
| 48 | 98 | Carlos Font |  AND | 4:25.65 | 2:11.03 (76) | 2:14.62 (48) | |||
| 49 | 99 | Spyros Theodorou |  GRE | 4:29.08 | 2:12.79 (77) | 2:16.29 (49) | |||
| 50 | 95 | Thomas Karadimas | GRE | 4:53.63 | 2:19.06 (80) | 2:34.57 (50) | |||
| 51 | 84 | Giorgio Cecchetti |  SMR | 5:18.17 | 2:37.15 (82) | 2:41.02 (51) | |||
| 52 | 89 | Chen Yun-Ming |  TPE | 5:23.28 | 2:39.82 (83) | 2:43.46 (52) | |||
| 11 | Piero Gros | ITA | – | 1:45.69 (5) | – ( | ||||
| 24 | Torsten Jakobsson | SWE | – | 1:48.26 (17) | – ( | ||||
| 33 | Alois Morgenstern | AUT | – | 1:48.33 (18) | – ( | ||||
| 32 | Walter Tresch | SUI | – | 1:49.26 (27) | – ( | ||||
| 31 | Gudmund Söderin | SWE | – | 1:50.94 (33) | – ( | ||||
| 44 | Robert Safrata | CAN | – | 1:51.70 (36) | – ( | ||||
| 58 | Paul Frommelt | LIE | – | 1:52.69 (38) | – ( | ||||
| 46 | Ken Read | CAN | – | 1:52.81 (39) | – ( | ||||
| 42 | Dave Murray | CAN | – | 1:54.43 (=42) | – ( | ||||
| 61 | Adjin Pašović | YUG | – | 1:54.82 (46) | – ( | ||||
| 59 | Georgi Kochov | BUL | – | 1:54.86 (47) | – ( | ||||
| 69 | Vladimir Drazhev | BUL | – | 1:55.73 (50) | – ( | ||||
| 53 | Stuart Fitzsimmons | GBR | – | 1:55.77 (51) | – ( | ||||
| 63 | Carlos Alberto Martínez | ARG | – | 1:56.03 (52) | – ( | ||||
| 50 | Peter Fuchs | GBR | – | 1:56.94 (54) | – ( | ||||
| 62 | Antoine Crespo | AND | – | 1:59.59 (59) | – ( | ||||
| 77 | Mohammad Kalhor | IRI | – | 1:59.95 (61) | – ( | ||||
| 64 | Juan Ángel Olivieri | ARG | – | 2:01.08 (63) | – ( | ||||
| 75 | Haukur Jóhannsson | ISL | – | 2:01.76 (64) | – ( | ||||
| 81 | Stuart Blakely | NZL | – | 2:02.12 (68) | – ( | ||||
| 80 | Rafael Cañas | CHI | – | 2:03.65 (71) | – ( | ||||
| 85 | Esteve Tomas | AND | – | 2:04.63 (72) | – ( | ||||
| 90 | Árni Óðinsson | ISL | – | 2:05.28 (73) | – ( | ||||
| 79 | Xavier Areny | AND | – | 2:05.86 (74) | – ( | ||||
| 82 | Federico García | CHI | – | 2:06.99 (75) | – ( | ||||
| 88 | Mümtaz Demirhan |  TUR | – | 2:17.58 (78) | – ( | ||||
| 92 | Murat Tosun | TUR | – | 2:17.99 (79) | – ( | ||||
| 93 | Maurizio Battistini | SMR | – | 2:33.33 (81) | – ( | ||||
| 97 | Robin Armstrong | NZL | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 91 | Ersin Ayrıksa | TUR | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 87 | Ahmet Kıbıl | TUR | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 86 | Mohammad Hadj Kia Shemshaki | IRI | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 72 | Didier Xhaet | BEL | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 60 | Konrad Bartelski | GBR | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 55 | Vladimir Andreyev |  URS | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 48 | Miran Gašperšič | YUG | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 36 | Masami Ichimura | JPN | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 29 | Odd Sørli |  NOR | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 13 | Franz Klammer | AUT | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 12 | Erik Håker | NOR | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 10 | Thomas Hauser | AUT | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 67 | Ion Cavași | ROU | – | 1:59.90 (60) | – ( | ||||
| 71 | Kim Clifford |  AUS | – | 1:56.66 (53) | [2:00.17] ( | ||||
| 96 | Akbar Kalili | IRI | – | 2:02.98 (70) | – ( | ||||
| 43 | Haruhisa Chiba | JPN | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 100 | David Griff | AUS | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 66 | Rob McIntyre | AUS | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 45 | Jorge García | ESP | – | – ( | – |