title: Alpine skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics – Men's giant slalom
text: # Alpine skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics – Men's giant slalom
  
  The Men's giant slalom competition of the Sapporo 1972 Olympics was held at Teine on Wednesday, February 9, and Thursday, February 10.
  
  The defending world champion was Karl Schranz of Austria, who was barred from competing in the Olympics. Italy's Gustav Thöni was the defending World Cup giant slalom co-champion (with France's Patrick Russel) and led the 1972 World Cup.
  
  ## Results
  
  Both of the runs started at 13:30 JST (UTC+9) under clear skies. The air temperature was −11 °C (12 °F) for the first run on Wednesday and −9 °C (16 °F) for the second on Thursday.
  
  | Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | Difference |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 9 | Gustav Thöni | Italy | 1:32.19 | 1:37.43 | 3:09.62 | — |
  | | 14 | Edmund Bruggmann | Switzerland | 1:33.43 | 1:37.32 | 3:10.75 | +1.13 |
  | | 11 | Werner Mattle | Switzerland | 1:33.44 | 1:37.55 | 3:10.99 | +1.37 |
  | 4 | 4 | Alfred Hagn | West Germany | 1:31.78 | 1:39.38 | 3:11.16 | +1.54 |
  | 5 | 10 | Jean-Noël Augert | France | 1:33.61 | 1:38.23 | 3:11.84 | +2.22 |
  | 6 | 30 | Max Rieger | West Germany | 1:33.86 | 1:38.08 | 3:11.94 | +2.32 |
  | 7 | 7 | David Zwilling | Austria | 1:32.34 | 1:39.98 | 3:12.32 | +2.70 |
  | 8 | 8 | Reinhard Tritscher | Austria | 1:32.51 | 1:39.88 | 3:12.39 | +2.77 |
  | 9 | 19 | Alain Penz | France | 1:33.36 | 1:39.06 | 3:12.42 | +2.80 |
  | 9 | 12 | Andrzej Bachleda | Poland | 1:34.40 | 1:38.02 | 3:12.42 | +2.80 |
  | 11 | 18 | Jim Hunter | Canada | 1:33.83 | 1:39.15 | 3:12.98 | +3.36 |
  | 12 | 29 | Josef Loidl | Austria | 1:36.26 | 1:38.39 | 3:14.65 | +5.03 |
  | 13 | 3 | Eberardo Schmalzl | Italy | 1:34.22 | 1:40.50 | 3:14.72 | +5.10 |
  | 14 | 22 | Walter Tresch | Switzerland | 1:35.86 | 1:38.89 | 3:14.75 | +5.13 |
  | 15 | 41 | Masami Ichimura | Japan | 1:35.77 | 1:39.57 | 3:15.34 | +5.72 |
  | 16 | 28 | Helmuth Schmalzl | Italy | 1:35.72 | 1:39.63 | 3:15.35 | +5.73 |
  | 17 | 33 | Bob Cochran | United States | 1:35.39 | 1:40.15 | 3:15.54 | +5.92 |
  | 18 | 2 | Werner Bleiner | Austria | 1:34.18 | 1:41.78 | 3:15.96 | +6.34 |
  | 19 | 39 | Haruhisa Chiba | Japan | 1:36.36 | 1:40.87 | 3:17.23 | +7.61 |
  | 20 | 17 | Reto Barrington | Canada | 1:35.22 | 1:42.02 | 3:17.24 | +7.62 |
  | 21 | 23 | Hank Kashiwa | United States | 1:37.42 | 1:40.71 | 3:18.13 | +8.51 |
  | 22 | 31 | Willi Frommelt | Liechtenstein | 1:35.71 | 1:42.94 | 3:18.65 | +9.03 |
  | 23 | 36 | Peik Christensen | Norway | 1:38.27 | 1:40.42 | 3:18.69 | +9.07 |
  | 24 | 40 | Herbert Marxer | Liechtenstein | 1:38.13 | 1:41.57 | 3:19.70 | +10.08 |
  | 25 | 42 | Aurelio García | Spain | 1:37.28 | 1:42.45 | 3:19.73 | +10.11 |
  | 26 | 53 | Dan Cristea | Romania | 1:37.93 | 1:41.95 | 3:19.88 | +10.26 |
  | 27 | 27 | Rolando Thoeni | Italy | 1:35.83 | 1:44.90 | 3:20.73 | +11.11 |
  | 28 | 21 | Sven Mikaelsson | Sweden | 1:37.88 | 1:43.77 | 3:21.65 | +12.03 |
  | 29 | 26 | Malcolm Milne | Australia | 1:37.94 | 1:44.26 | 3:22.20 | +12.58 |
  | 30 | 20 | Rick Chaffee | United States | 1:39.23 | 1:45.09 | 3:24.32 | +14.70 |
  | 31 | 34 | Marko Kavčič | Yugoslavia | 1:39.01 | 1:46.08 | 3:25.09 | +15.47 |
  | 32 | 49 | Chris Womersley | New Zealand | 1:42.00 | 1:45.56 | 3:27.33 | +17.71 |
  | 33 | 54 | Virgil Brenci | Romania | 1:42.81 | 1:44.59 | 3:27.40 | +17.78 |
  | 34 | 51 | Robert Blanchaer | Belgium | 1:43.59 | 1:45.79 | 3:29.38 | +19.76 |
  | 35 | 47 | Ivan Penev | Bulgaria | 1:41.77 | 1:48.78 | 3:30.78 | +21.16 |
  | 36 | 32 | Steven Clifford | Australia | 1:44.75 | 1:49.50 | 3:34.25 | +24.63 |
  | 37 | 50 | Resmi Resmiev | Bulgaria | 1:45.68 | 1:54.14 | 3:39.82 | +30.20 |
  | 38 | 63 | Jorge-Emilio Lazzarini | Argentina | 1:48.72 | 1:54.96 | 3:43.68 | +34.06 |
  | 39 | 66 | Spyros Theodorou | Greece | 1:58.41 | 2:03.86 | 4:02.27 | +52.65 |
  | 40 | 58 | Fayzollah Band Ali | Iran | 1:55.72 | 2:08.42 | 4:04.14 | +54.52 |
  | 41 | 59 | Panagiotis Alexandris | Greece | 2:03.05 | 2:02.40 | 4:05.45 | +55.83 |
  | 42 | 69 | Ben Nanasca | Philippines | 1:54.59 | 2:11.61 | 4:06.20 | +56.58 |
  | 43 | 73 | Lotfollah Kia Shemshaki | Iran | 2:07.26 | 1:58.95 | 4:06.21 | +56.59 |
  | 44 | 67 | Ali Saveh | Iran | 2:08.05 | 1:58.83 | 4:06.88 | +57.26 |
  | 45 | 60 | Ghassan Keyrouz | Lebanon | 2:05.10 | 2:11.20 | 4:16.30 | +66.68 |
  | 46 | 68 | Georgios Tambouris | Greece | 2:10.38 | 2:08.31 | 4:18.69 | +69.07 |
  | 47 | 72 | Wang Cheng-che | Republic of China | 2:15.80 | 2:19.83 | 4:35.63 | +86.01 |
  | 48 | 70 | Hwang Wei-chung | Republic of China | 2:11.29 | 2:29.58 | 4:40.87 | +91.25 |
  | - | 15 | Erik Håker | Norway | 1:31.70 | DNF | - | - |
  | - | 5 | Christian Neureuther | West Germany | 1:33.24 | DNF | - | - |
  | - | 16 | Adolf Rösti | Switzerland | 1:33.27 | DQ | - | - |
  | - | 6 | Roger Rossat-Mignod | France | 1:33.28 | DQ | - | - |
  | - | 38 | Masahiko Otsue | Japan | 1:38.71 | DQ | - | - |
  | - | 65 | Sergey Grishchenko | Soviet Union | 1:42.00 | DNF | - | - |
  | - | 57 | Royston Varley | Great Britain | 1:43.00 | DNF | - | - |
  | - | 52 | Carlos Perner | Argentina | 1:44.00 | DNF | - | - |
  | - | 46 | Iain Finlayson | Great Britain | 1:45.88 | DNF | - | - |
  | - | 25 | Otto Tschudi | Norway | 1:57.42 | DQ | - | - |
  | - | 71 | Juan Cipriano | Philippines | 1:58.00 | DNF | - | - |
  | - | 24 | Francisco Fernández Ochoa | Spain | DQ | - | - | - |
  | - | 45 | Masayoshi Kashiwagi | Japan | DQ | - | - | - |
  | - | 37 | Derek Robbins | Canada | DQ | - | - | - |
  | - | 35 | Olle Rolén | Sweden | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | 44 | Manni Thofte | Sweden | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | 1 | Sepp Heckelmiller | West Germany | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | 13 | Henri Duvillard | France | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | 43 | David Currier | United States | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | 55 | Konrad Bartelski | Great Britain | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | 48 | Ross Ewington | New Zealand | DQ | - | - | - |
  | - | 56 | Alex Mapelli-Mozzi | Great Britain | DQ | - | - | - |
  | - | 61 | Chen Yun-ming | Republic of China | DQ | - | - | - |
  | - | 62 | Gorban Ali Kalhor | Iran | DQ | - | - | - |
  | - | 64 | Chia Kuo-liang | Republic of China | DQ | - | - | - |
  
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