title: Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's slalom
text: # Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's slalom
  
  The Men's slalom competition of the Nagano 1998 Olympics was held at Shiga Kogen.
  
  The defending world champion was Tom Stiansen of Norway, while Austria's Thomas Sykora was the defending World Cup slalom champion.
  
  ## Results
  
  | Rank | Name | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | Difference |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Hans Petter Buraas | Norway | 0:55.28 | 0:54.03 | 1:49.31 | - |
  | | Ole Kristian Furuseth | Norway | 0:55.53 | 0:55.11 | 1:50.64 | +1.33 |
  | | Thomas Sykora | Austria | 0:55.06 | 0:55.62 | 1:50.68 | +1.37 |
  | 4 | Tom Stiansen | Norway | 0:55.70 | 0:55.20 | 1:50.90 | +1.59 |
  | 5 | Christian Mayer | Austria | 0:56.37 | 0:54.72 | 1:51.09 | +1.78 |
  | 6 | Thomas Stangassinger | Austria | 0:55.63 | 0:55.62 | 1:51.25 | +1.94 |
  | 7 | Finn Christian Jagge | Norway | 0:56.06 | 0:55.33 | 1:51.39 | +2.08 |
  | 8 | Joël Chenal | France | 0:56.68 | 0:54.83 | 1:51.51 | +2.20 |
  | 9 | Kalle Palander | Finland | 0:56.37 | 0:55.44 | 1:51.81 | +2.50 |
  | 10 | Pierrick Bourgeat | France | 0:56.28 | 0:55.54 | 1:51.82 | +2.51 |
  | 11 | Matteo Nana | Italy | 0:56.59 | 0:55.37 | 1:51.96 | +2.65 |
  | 12 | Didier Plaschy | Switzerland | 0:56.67 | 0:55.36 | 1:52.03 | +2.72 |
  | 13 | Kiminobu Kimura | Japan | 0:56.53 | 0:55.62 | 1:52.15 | +2.84 |
  | 14 | Sébastien Amiez | France | 0:56.96 | 0:55.23 | 1:52.19 | +2.88 |
  | 15 | Matt Grosjean | United States | 0:56.58 | 0:55.98 | 1:52.56 | +3.25 |
  | 16 | Angelo Weiss | Italy | 0:56.87 | 0:55.93 | 1:52.80 | +3.49 |
  | 17 | Matjaž Vrhovnik | Slovenia | 0:57.36 | 0:57.29 | 1:54.65 | +5.34 |
  | 18 | Paul Accola | Switzerland | 0:57.56 | 0:57.35 | 1:54.91 | +5.60 |
  | 19 | Michael von Grünigen | Switzerland | 0:57.33 | 0:57.63 | 1:54.96 | +5.65 |
  | 20 | Gaku Hirasawa | Japan | 0:57.74 | 0:57.50 | 1:55.24 | +5.93 |
  | 21 | Takuya Ishioka | Japan | 0:58.85 | 0:56.84 | 1:55.69 | +6.38 |
  | 22 | Stefan Georgiev | Bulgaria | 0:57.95 | 0:58.17 | 1:56.12 | +6.81 |
  | 23 | Hur Seung-Wook | South Korea | 0:59.94 | 0:58.07 | 1:58.01 | +8.70 |
  | 24 | Gabriel Hottegindre | Uruguay | 1:01.98 | 1:01.29 | 2:03.27 | +13.96 |
  | 25 | Sveinn Brynjólfsson | Iceland | 1:03.58 | 1:02.66 | 2:06.24 | +16.93 |
  | 26 | Alex Heath | South Africa | 1:06.82 | 1:07.62 | 2:14.44 | +25.13 |
  | 27 | Arsen Harutyunyan | Armenia | 1:07.51 | 1:07.60 | 2:15.11 | +25.80 |
  | 28 | Komil Urunbayev | Uzbekistan | 1:09.55 | 1:09.30 | 2:18.85 | +29.54 |
  | 29 | Arif Alaftargil | Turkey | 1:12.36 | 1:12.73 | 2:25.09 | +35.78 |
  | 30 | Hassan Shemshaki | Iran | 1:13.59 | 1:13.40 | 2:26.99 | +37.68 |
  | 31 | William Schenker | Puerto Rico | 1:12.95 | 1:15.93 | 2:28.88 | +39.57 |
  | - | Alberto Tomba | Italy | 0:57.00 | DNS | - | - |
  | - | Drago Grubelnik | Slovenia | 0:57.06 | DQ | - | - |
  | - | Andrzej Bachleda-Curuś | Poland | 0:57.45 | DNF | - | - |
  | - | Bode Miller | United States | 0:57.52 | DNF | - | - |
  | - | Marcel Maxa | Czech Republic | 0:57.81 | DNF | - | - |
  | - | Thomas Lödler | Croatia | 0:57.91 | DNF | - | - |
  | - | Petar Dichev | Bulgaria | 0:59.62 | DNF | - | - |
  | - | Fabrizio Tescari | Italy | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | Andrej Miklavc | Slovenia | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | Jure Košir | Slovenia | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | Kristinn Björnsson | Iceland | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | Martin Hansson | Sweden | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | Mario Reiter | Austria | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | Markus Eberle | Germany | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | Thomas Grandi | Canada | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | François Simond | France | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | Marco Casanova | Switzerland | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | Mika Marila | Finland | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | Chip Knight | United States | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | Andy Leroy | United States | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | Kentaro Minagawa | Japan | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | Haukur Arnórsson | Iceland | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | Gerard Escoda | Andorra | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | Arnór Gunnarsson | Iceland | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | Lyubomir Popov | Bulgaria | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | Sami Uotila | Finland | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | Victor Gómez | Andorra | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | Byun Jong-Moon | South Korea | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | Angel Pumpalov | Bulgaria | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | Arne Hardenberg | Denmark | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | Vasilios Dimitriadis | Greece | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | Levan Abramishvili | Georgia | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | Andreas Vasili | Cyprus | DNF | - | - | - |
  | - | Alain Baxter | Great Britain | DQ | - | - | - |
  