Alpine skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics – Men's slalom

The Men's slalom competition of the Sapporo 1972 Olympics was held at Teine.[1][2]

Men's slalom
at the XI Olympic Winter Games
VenueTeine
Sapporo, Japan
DateFebruary 12–13, 1972
Competitors58 from 25 nations
Winning time1:49.27
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Francisco Fernández Ochoa  Spain
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Gustavo Thoeni  Italy
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Rolando Thoeni  Italy
← 1968
1976 →
Men's Slalom
LocationTeine
Vertical228 m (748 ft)
Top elevation795 m (2,608 ft)  
Base elevation567 m (1,860 ft)
Alpine skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics – Men's slalom is located in Hokkaido
Sapporo
Sapporo
Teine
Teine
Mount Eniwa
Mount Eniwa

The defending world champion was Jean-Noel Augert of France, who was also the defending World Cup slalom champion and the leader of the 1972 World Cup.[3][4]

Results

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Final

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Sunday, February 13, 1972

Rank Name Country Run 1 Run 2 Total Difference
  Francisco Fernández Ochoa   Spain 0:55.36 0:53.91 1:49.27
  Gustavo Thoeni   Italy 0:56.69 0:53.59 1:50.28 +1.01
  Rolando Thoeni   Italy 0:56.14 0:54.16 1:50.30 +1.03
4 Henri Duvillard   France 0:55.92 0:54.53 1:50.45 +1.18
5 Jean-Noël Augert   France 0:55.77 0:54.74 1:50.51 +1.24
6 Eberardo Schmalzl   Italy 0:56.11 0:54.72 1:50.83 +1.56
7 David Zwilling   Austria 0:57.30 0:54.67 1:51.97 +2.70
8 Edy Bruggmann   Switzerland 0:57.49 0:54.54 1:52.03 +2.76
9 Tyler Palmer   United States 0:57.68 0:54.37 1:52.05 +2.78
10 Andrzej Bachleda-Curuś   Poland 0:57.04 0:55.22 1:52.26 +2.99
11 Christian Neureuther   West Germany 0:58.42 0:54.48 1:52.90 +3.63
12 Aurelio García   Spain 0:57.61 0:55.51 1:53.12 +3.85
13 Walter Tresch   Switzerland 0:57.90 0:55.61 1:53.51 +4.24
14 Alfred Matt   Austria 0:58.44 0:55.24 1:53.68 +4.41
15 Adolf Rösti   Switzerland 0:58.08 0:56.08 1:54.16 +4.89
16 Terry Palmer   United States 0:58.78 0:55.50 1:54.28 +5.01
17 Masami Ichimura   Japan 0:57.58 0:57.25 1:54.83 +5.56
18 Masayoshi Kashiwagi   Japan 1:00.19 0:56.42 1:56.61 +7.34
19 Jim Hunter   Canada 1:02.02 0:59.50 2:01.52 +12.25
20 Virgil Brenci   Romania 1:01.56 1:00.02 2:01.58 +12.31
21 Sven Mikaelsson   Sweden 1:01.00 1:00.72 2:01.72 +12.45
22 Sergey Grishchenko   Soviet Union 1:02.97 0:59.70 2:02.67 +13.40
23 Reto Barrington   Canada 1:04.02 0:59.23 2:03.25 +13.98
24 Malcolm Milne   Australia 1:03.73 1:01.99 2:05.72 +16.45
25 Robert Blanchaer   Belgium 1:05.78 1:01.58 2:07.36 +18.09
26 Royston Varley   Great Britain 1:06.31 1:01.54 2:07.85 +18.58
27 Ivan Penev   Bulgaria 1:06.84 1:02.84 2:09.68 +20.41
28 Iain Finlayson   Great Britain 1:06.86 1:03.69 2:10.55 +21.28
29 Resmi Resmiev   Bulgaria 1:05.82 1:05.28 2:11.10 +21.83
30 Carlos Perner   Argentina 1:08.72 1:07.80 2:16.52 +27.25
31 Jorge-Emilio Lazzarini   Argentina 1:10.45 1:08.49 2:18.94 +29.67
32 Fayzollah Band Ali   Iran 1:18.14 1:14.61 2:32.75 +43.48
33 Gorban Ali Kalhor   Iran 1:18.34 1:19.19 2:37.53 +48.26
34 Chen Yun-Ming   Republic of China 1:27.98 1:25.49 2:53.47 +64.20
- Hans-Jörg Schlager   West Germany 0:56.56 DNF - -
- Alfred Hagn   West Germany 0:56.64 DNF - -
- Alain Penz   France 0:56.72 DQ - -
- Josef Loidl   Austria 0:58.60 DNF - -
- Reinhard Tritscher   Austria 0:59.43 DQ - -
- Manni Thofte   Sweden 1:01.14 DNF - -
- Olle Rolén   Sweden 1:01.19 DNF - -
- Haruhisa Chiba   Japan 1:01.25 DNF - -
- Dan Cristea   Romania ? DNF - -
- Toshimasa Furukawa   Japan ? DQ - -
- Chris Womersley   New Zealand ? DNF - -
- Ben Nanasca   Philippines ? DNF - -
- Lotfollah Kia Shemshaki   Iran ? DNF - -
- Ali Saveh   Iran ? DQ - -
- Max Rieger   West Germany DNF - - -
- Andreas Sprecher   Switzerland DNF - - -
- Erik Håker   Norway DNF - - -
- Rick Chaffee   United States DNF - - -
- Steven Clifford   Australia DNF - - -
- Herbert Marxer   Liechtenstein DNF - - -
- Derek Robbins   Canada DNF - - -
- Alex Mapelli-Mozzi   Great Britain DNF - - -
- Ross Ewington   New Zealand DNF - - -
- Ghassan Keyrouz   Lebanon DNF - - -
- Georgios Tambouris   Greece DNF - - -
- Panagiotis Alexandris   Greece DNF - - -
- Spyros Theodorou   Greece DNF - - -
- Juan Cipriano   Philippines DNF - - -
- Konrad Bartelski   Great Britain DNF - - -
- Willi Frommelt   Liechtenstein DQ - - -
- Bob Cochran   United States DQ - - -
- Otto Tschudi   Norway DQ - - -
- Erwin Stricker   Italy DQ - - -
- Marko Kavčič   Yugoslavia DQ - - -
- Peik Christensen   Norway DQ - - -

Classification

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Saturday, February 12, 1972
The classification round determined the starting order in the final.[1]

Group 1

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Rank Name Country Time Difference
1 Haruhisa Chiba   Japan 1:43.17 -
2 Peik Christensen   Norway 1:45.36 +2.19
3 Olle Rolén   Sweden 1:47.88 +4.71
4 Chris Womersley   New Zealand 1:48.49 +5.32
5 Ivan Penev   Bulgaria 1:53.24 +10.07
6 Chen Yun-Ming   Republic of China 2:19.65 +36.48
- Spyros Theodorou   Greece DNF -
- Steven Clifford   Australia DQ -
- Erwin Stricker   Italy DQ -
- Alfred Matt   Austria DQ -
- Iain Finlayson   Great Britain DQ -

Group 2

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Rank Name Country Time Difference
1 Adolf Rösti   Switzerland 1:44.20 -
2 Josef Loidl   Austria 1:44.27 +0.07
3 Toshimasa Furukawa   Japan 1:46.33 +2.13
4 Jim Hunter   Canada 1:47.16 +2.96
5 Sven Mikaelsson   Sweden 1:48.03 +3.83
6 Fayzollah Band Ali   Iran 2:16.03 +31.83
- Malcolm Milne   Australia DQ -
- Resmi Resmiev   Bulgaria DQ -
- Chia Kuo-Liang   Republic of China DQ -
- Carlos Perner   Argentina DQ -
- Konrad Bartelski   Great Britain DQ -

Group 3

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Rank Name Country Time Difference
1 Hans-Jörg Schlager   West Germany 1:43.30 -
2 Andreas Sprecher   Switzerland 1:44.60 +1.30
3 Rick Chaffee   United States 1:47.81 +4.51
4 Gorban Ali Kalhor   Iran 2:18.86 +35.56
5 Georgios Tambouris   Greece 2:25.59 +42.29
- Juan Cipriano   Philippines DNF -
- Robert Blanchaer   Belgium DQ -
- Alex Mapelli-Mozzi   Great Britain DQ -
- Erik Håker   Norway DQ -
- Herbert Marxer   Liechtenstein DQ -
- Hwang Wei-Chung   Republic of China DQ -
- Reto Barrington   Canada DQ -

Group 4

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Rank Name Country Time Difference
1 Aurelio García   Spain 1:43.39 -
2 Willi Frommelt   Liechtenstein 1:43.39 +0.00
3 Marko Kavčič   Yugoslavia 1:44.53 +1.14
4 Virgil Brenci   Romania 1:46.46 +3.07
5 Sergey Grishchenko   Soviet Union 1:49.64 +6.25
6 Panagiotis Alexandris   Greece 1:59.79 +16.40
7 Ben Nanasca   Philippines 2:07.69 +24.30
- Derek Robbins   Canada DNF -
- Masayoshi Kashiwagi   Japan DNF -
- Bob Cochran   United States DQ -
- Otto Tschudi   Norway DQ -
- Lotfollah Kia Shemshaki   Iran DQ -

Group 5

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Rank Name Country Time Difference
1 Masami Ichimura   Japan 1:42.90 -
2 Walter Tresch   Switzerland 1:43.91 +1.01
3 Reinhard Tritscher   Austria 1:44.06 +1.16
4 Terry Palmer   United States 1:45.82 +2.92
5 Ross Ewington   New Zealand 1:54.16 +11.26
6 Ghassan Keyrouz   Lebanon 2:10.04 +27.14
7 Wang Cheng-Che   Republic of China 2:28.89 +45.99
8 Jorge-Emilio Lazzarini   Argentina 2:33.86 +50.96
- Ali Saveh   Iran DNF -
- Manni Thofte   Sweden DNF -
- Royston Varley   Great Britain DNF -
- Dan Cristea   Romania DQ -

References

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  1. ^ a b "The XI Olympic Winter Games Sapporo 1972" (PDF). Organizing Committee for the XIth Olympic Winter Games. LA84 Foundation. 1972. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
  2. ^ "Alpine Skiing at the 1972 Sapporo Winter Games: Men's Slalom". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
  3. ^ "1971 World Cup standings". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
  4. ^ "1970 World Championships results". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
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  • YouTube.com - 1972 Winter Olympics - Men's Slalom - Gold medalist's second run - from Japanese television