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Alpine Skiing at the 1992 Albertville Winter Games:

Men's Combined

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Host City: Albertville, France
Venue(s): , Val d'Isère
Date Started: February 10, 1992
Date Finished: February 11, 1992
Format: One downhill run and two slalom runs, point tables determined placement.

Gold: ITA Josef Polig
Silver: ITA Gianfranco Martin
Bronze: SUI Steve Locher

Summary

A heavy snowfall the night before the downhill section of the race caused the start to be delayed for over two hours while workers prepared the course. One of the favorites, Marc Girardelli, was the first off in the downhill and crashed wildly early on, taking him out of the competition. The 1991-92 World Cup leader was Paul Accola, who skied cautiously to finish the downhill in fifth place. On the first run of the slalom, Accola missed a gate early, climbing back up the course, he managed to finish but was a full 8 seconds behind the slalom first run leader, 1988 combined gold medalist, Hubert Strolz of Austria. Strolz was leading going into the second run, and looked set to defend his gold medal. But near the finish of run two, he missed a gate and was disqualified. Amidst this carnage, the gold medal would go to the virtually unknown Italian Josef Polig, with the silver won by his even less-well-known teammate, Gianfranco Martin.

Final Standings

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC Medal PTS
1 Josef Polig 23 Italy ITA Gold 14.58
2 Gianfranco Martin 21 Italy ITA Silver 14.90
3 Steve Locher 24 Switzerland SUI Bronze 18.16
4 Jean-Luc Crétier 25 France FRA 18.97
5 Markus Wasmeier 28 Germany GER 32.77
6 Kristian Ghedina 22 Italy ITA 38.96
7 Ole Kristian Furuseth 25 Norway NOR 40.47
8 Xavier Gigandet 25 Switzerland SUI 41.21
9 Takuya Ishioka 20 Japan JPN 51.83
10 Lasse Arnesen 27 Norway NOR 51.93
11 Jan Einar Thorsen 25 Norway NOR 52.75
12 Rob Crossan 23 Canada CAN 57.27
13 Jure Košir 19 Slovenia SLO 59.78
14 Cary Mullen 22 Canada CAN 62.37
15 Kiminobu Kimura 21 Japan JPN 64.14
16 Kyle Rasmussen 23 United States USA 66.70
17 Jorge Pujol 24 Spain ESP 72.07
18 Tommy Moe 21 United States USA 82.15
19 Steven Lee 29 Australia AUS 85.05
20 Vitaly Andreyev 22 Unified Team EUN 85.07
21 Paul Accola 24 Switzerland SUI 90.96
22 Petar Dichev 22 Bulgaria BUL 101.59
23 Ricardo Campo 22 Spain ESP 104.61
24 Daniel Vogt 19 Liechtenstein LIE 112.92
25 Martin Bell 27 Great Britain GBR 121.83
26 Marcin Szafrański 20 Poland POL 133.04
27 Graham Bell 26 Great Britain GBR 134.03
28 Sean Langmuir 24 Great Britain GBR 142.32
29 Markus Foser 24 Liechtenstein LIE 146.89
30 Achim Vogt 21 Liechtenstein LIE 172.91
31 Franco Colturi 21 Italy ITA 176.69
32 Choi Yong-Hee 20 South Korea KOR 221.60
33 Pierre Kőszáli 21 Hungary HUN 226.57
34 Alexis Racloz 25 Chile CHI 235.31
35 Emilian Focşeneanu 26 Romania ROU 249.41
36 Hubertus von Fürstenberg-von Hohenlohe 33 Mexico MEX 259.10
37 Péter Kristály 24 Hungary HUN 265.18
AC Lyubomir Popov 24 Bulgaria BUL DNF
AC Lothar Christian Munder 29 Brazil BRA DNF
AC A J Kitt 23 United States USA DNF
AC William Besse 23 Switzerland SUI DNF
AC Stephan Eberharter 22 Austria AUT DNF
AC Rainer Salzgeber 24 Austria AUT DNF
AC Konstantin Chistyakov 21 Unified Team EUN DNF
AC Jeff Olson 26 United States USA DNF
AC Aleksey Maslov 26 Unified Team EUN DNF
AC Marián Bíreš 27 Czechoslovakia TCH DNF
AC Mauricio Rotella 21 Chile CHI DNF
AC Hur Seung-Wook 19 South Korea KOR DNF
AC Peter Jurko 24 Czechoslovakia TCH DNF
AC Igor Latinović 20 Yugoslavia YUG DNF
AC Edin Terzić 22 Yugoslavia YUG DNF
AC Alphonse Gomis 26 Senegal SEN DNF
AC Lamine Guèye 31 Senegal SEN DNF
AC Zoran Perušina 21 Yugoslavia YUG DNF
AC Marc Girardelli 28 Luxembourg LUX DNF
AC Günther Mader 27 Austria AUT DNF
AC Boris Duncan 29 Great Britain GBR DNF
AC Tom Stiansen 21 Norway NOR DNF
AC Abraham Fernández 24 Spain ESP DNF
AC Felix Belczyk 30 Canada CAN DNF
AC Hubert Strolz 29 Austria AUT DQ
AC Paulo Oppliger 20 Chile CHI DQ
AC Aurel Foiciuc 24 Romania ROU DQ
AC Denis Rey 25 France FRA DQ
AC Adrien Duvillard 23 France FRA DQ