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Alpine Skiing at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Games:

Men's Giant Slalom

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Host City: Lake Placid, United States
Venue(s): Whiteface Mountain Ski Area, Lake Placid
Date Started: February 18, 1980
Date Finished: February 19, 1980
Format: Two runs, total time determined placement.

Gold: SWE Ingemar Stenmark
Silver: LIE Andi Wenzel
Bronze: AUT Hans Enn

Summary

Ingemar Stenmark was heavily favored. He had won the World Cup title every year since 1975 in GS, and was the 1978 World Champion in both slalom and giant slalom. One of the few Lapps, or Samis, to become a world-class athlete, Stenmark was considered the best technical skier in the world. On the first run, Stenmark appeared tentative and was placed only third, trailing the leader, Liechtenstein’s Andreas Wenzel, and the silver medalist at the 1978 Worlds. But his second run was dominant, besting Switzerland’s Jacques Lüthy by almost a full second, and it brought Stenmark the expected gold medal. Wenzel hung on for the silver, with the bronze going to Austria’s Hans Enn.

Final Standings

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC Medal T
1 Ingemar Stenmark 23 Sweden SWE Gold 2:40.74
2 Andi Wenzel 21 Liechtenstein LIE Silver 2:41.49
3 Hans Enn 21 Austria AUT Bronze 2:42.51
4 Bojan Križaj 23 Yugoslavia YUG 2:42.53
5 Jacques Lüthy 20 Switzerland SUI 2:42.75
6 Bruno Nöckler 23 Italy ITA 2:42.95
7 Joël Gaspoz 23 Switzerland SUI 2:43.05
8 Boris Strel 20 Yugoslavia YUG 2:43.24
9 Aleksandr Zhirov 21 Soviet Union URS 2:44.07
10 Phil Mahre 22 United States USA 2:44.33
11 Jarle Halsnes 22 Norway NOR 2:44.49
12 Jure Franko 17 Yugoslavia YUG 2:44.63
13 Christian Orlainsky 17 Austria AUT 2:44.70
14 Jorge Pérez 18 Spain ESP 2:44.88
15T Vladimir Andreyev 22 Soviet Union URS 2:44.94
15T Steve Mahre 22 United States USA 2:44.94
17 Frank Wörndl 20 West Germany FRG 2:45.58
18 Anton Steiner 21 Austria AUT 2:45.76
19 Bohumír Zeman 22 Czechoslovakia TCH 2:45.96
20 Albert Burger 24 West Germany FRG 2:46.12
21 Torsten Jakobsson 22 Sweden SWE 2:46.42
22 Francisco Fernández Ochoa 29 Spain ESP 2:46.58
23 Jorge García 23 Spain ESP 2:47.08
24 Paul Arne Skajem 21 Norway NOR 2:47.11
25 Odd Sørli 25 Norway NOR 2:47.30
26 Leonhard Stock 21 Austria AUT 2:47.40
27 Petar Popangelov 21 Bulgaria BUL 2:48.12
28 Stig Strand 23 Sweden SWE 2:48.62
29 Toshihiro Kaiwa 24 Japan JPN 2:48.78
30 Lyudmil Tonchev 21 Bulgaria BUL 2:48.82
31 Mitko Khadzhiev 18 Bulgaria BUL 2:50.42
32 Khristo Angelov 18 Bulgaria BUL 2:52.78
33 Alan Stewart 24 Great Britain GBR 2:52.95
34 Sepp Ferstl 25 West Germany FRG 2:53.03
35 Sigurður Jónsson 20 Iceland ISL 2:53.79
36 Atsushi Sawada 21 Japan JPN 2:54.05
37 Norberto Quiroga 20 Argentina ARG 2:55.65
38 Rob McIntyre 23 Australia AUS 2:57.39
39 Konrad Bartelski 25 Great Britain GBR 2:57.70
40 Janez Flere 20 Argentina ARG 2:58.39
41 Antony Guss 21 Australia AUS 2:58.79
42 Carlos Font 20 Andorra AND 2:59.26
43 Ross Blyth 18 Great Britain GBR 3:00.10
44 Guillermo Giumelli 17 Argentina ARG 3:02.26
45 Patrick Toussaint 20 Andorra AND 3:04.38
46 Marcelo Martínez 19 Argentina ARG 3:05.58
47 Didier Lamont 23 Belgium BEL 3:05.68
48 Lazaros Arkhontopoulos 21 Greece GRE 3:16.23
49 Hong In-Gi 18 South Korea KOR 3:20.80
50 Piao Dongyi 32 China CHN 3:23.00
51 Lazarakis Kekhagias 18 Greece GRE 3:23.40
52 Giannis Stamatiou 17 Greece GRE 3:24.99
53 Naji Heneine 18 Lebanon LIB 3:37.47
54 Philippos Xenophontos 26 Cyprus CYP 3:38.09
AC Valery Tsyganov 23 Soviet Union URS DNF
AC Piero Gros 25 Italy ITA DNF
AC Alex Giorgi 22 Italy ITA DNF
AC Cary Adgate 26 United States USA DNF
AC Jože Kuralt 22 Yugoslavia YUG DNF
AC Miguel Font 16 Andorra AND DNF
AC Stuart Blakely 23 New Zealand NZL DNF
AC Henri Mollin 21 Belgium BEL DNF
AC Victor Hugo Ascarrunz, Jr. 19 Bolivia BOL DNF
AC Billy Farwig 22 Bolivia BOL DNF
AC Arturo Kinch 23 Costa Rica CRC DNF
AC Sami Rebez 19 Lebanon LIB DNF
AC Roddy Langmuir 19 Great Britain GBR DNF
AC Mark Vryenhoek 20 New Zealand NZL DNF
AC Scott Kendall 21 New Zealand NZL DNF
AC Scott Alan Sánchez 21 Bolivia BOL DNF
AC Björn Olgeirsson 17 Iceland ISL DNF
AC Osamu Kodama 23 Japan JPN DNF
AC Pete Patterson 23 United States USA DNF
AC Mauro Bernardi 22 Italy ITA DNF
AC Peter Lüscher 23 Switzerland SUI DNF
AC Jean-Luc Fournier 23 Switzerland SUI DNF
AC Paul Frommelt 22 Liechtenstein LIE DQ
AC Andreas Pilavakis 20 Cyprus CYP DQ