Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's giant slalom

Men's giant slalom at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for alpine skiing
Venue	Sestriere
Date	February 20
Competitors	82 from 46 nations
Winning time	2:35.00
Medalists
Benjamin Raich   Austria   Joël Chenal   France   Hermann Maier   Austria

Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Combined		men		women
Downhill		men		women
Giant slalom		men		women
Slalom		men		women
Super-G		men		women

The giant slalom is conducted in two runs, with emphasis on manoeuvering rather than speed as the gates are fairly close together – but not as close as in slalom. The giant slalom also promotes endurance, with the primary difference between it and the slalom competition being the length of the course - the difference in level in giant slalom is 300 to 450 metres, while in slalom it is between 180 and 220 metres. This also leads to the gates being further apart in giant slalom. The men's giant slalom took place on 20 February.

Stephan Eberharter won the 2002 giant slalom gold, but he had since retired . The 2005 World Champion, Hermann Maier had skied ahead of the Olympics, however, and was fourth in the Giant Slalom World Cup - which was headed by Maier's compatriot Benjamin Raich.^[1]

Results

Complete results from the men's giant slalom event at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Rank	Name	Country	Run 1	Run 2	Time	Difference
01 !	Benjamin Raich	Austria	1:16.95	1:18.05	2:35.00	+0.00
02 !	Joël Chenal	France	1:16.80	1:18.27	2:35.07	+0.07
03 !	Hermann Maier	Austria	1:16.83	1:18.33	2:35.16	+0.16
04 !4	François Bourque	Canada	1:16.61	1:19.31	2:35.92	+0.92
05 !5	Fredrik Nyberg	Sweden	1:16.83	1:19.22	2:36.05	+1.05
06 !6	Bode Miller	United States	1:17.58	1:18.48	2:36.06	+1.06
	Aksel Lund Svindal	Norway	1:17.10	1:18.96
08 !8	Rainer Schönfelder	Austria	1:17.49	1:19.15	2:36.64	+1.64
09 !9	Kalle Palander	Finland	1:18.22	1:18.60	2:36.82	+1.82
10	Thomas Grandi	Canada	1:17.23	1:19.65	2:36.88	+1.88
11	Massimiliano Blardone	Italy	1:17.21	1:19.74	2:36.95	+1.95
12	Mitja Valenčič	Slovenia	1:18.10	1:19.29	2:37.39	+2.39
13	Erik Schlopy	United States	1:18.34	1:19.22	2:37.56	+2.56
14	Didier Défago	Switzerland	1:18.03	1:19.57	2:37.60	+2.60
15	Alberto Schieppati	Italy	1:18.21	1:19.62	2:37.83	+2.83
16	Ondřej Bank	Czech Republic	1:18.45	1:19.40	2:37.85	+2.85
17	Marc Berthod	Switzerland	1:19.05	1:19.20	2:38.25	+3.25
18	Lasse Kjus	Norway	1:18.73	1:20.58	2:39.31	+4.31
19	Didier Cuche	Switzerland	1:19.08	1:20.25	2:39.33	+4.33
20	Bjarne Solbakken	Norway	1:19.15	1:20.46	2:39.61	+4.61
21	Raphaël Burtin	France	1:20.70	1:20.29	2:40.99	+5.99
22	Jukka Rajala	Finland	1:20.17	1:21.23	2:41.40	+6.40
23	Cristian Javier Simari Birkner	Argentina	1:22.37	1:20.19	2:42.56	+7.56
24	Daisuke Yoshioka	Japan	1:23.78	1:21.25	2:45.03	+10.03
25	Natko Zrnčić-Dim	Croatia	1:22.57	1:23.02	2:45.59	+10.59
26	Nikolay Skriabin	Ukraine	1:25.81	1:25.04	2:50.85	+15.85
27	Alexander Heath	South Africa	1:25.61	1:25.81	2:51.42	+16.42
28	Hyung Chul Kim	South Korea	1:26.09	1:26.37	2:52.46	+17.46
29	Iason Abramashvili	Georgia	1:27.59	1:27.27	2:54.86	+19.86
30	Nikolai Hentsch	Brazil	1:27.78	1:27.78	2:55.56	+20.56
31	Thomas Foley	Ireland	1:28.28	1:29.14	2:57.42	+22.42
32	Mikail Renzhin	Israel	1:28.97	1:31.44	3:00.41	+25.41
33	Victor Ryabchenko	Kazakhstan	1:29.52	1:31.14	3:00.66	+25.66
34	Theodoros Christodoulou	Cyprus	1:30.47	1:31.56	3:02.03	+27.03
35	Erjon Tola	Albania	1:30.87	1:32.02	3:02.89	+27.89
36	Alidad Saveh-Shemshaki	Iran	1:32.27	1:31.61	3:03.88	+28.88
37	Marco Schafferer	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:39.28	1:25.18	3:04.46	+29.46
38	Attila Marosi	Hungary	1:32.30	1:32.82	3:05.12	+30.12
39	Mathieu Razanakolona	Madagascar	1:39.10	1:27.33	3:06.43	+31.43
40	Guangxu Li	China	1:32.63	1:35.44	3:08.07	+33.07
41	Ivan Borisov	Kyrgyzstan	1:59.49	1:37.61	3:37.10	+62.10 !+1:02.10
99 !	Kjetil Jansrud	Norway	1:19.32	9:99.99 !DNS	9:99.99 !
99 !	Hamit Şare	Turkey	1:52.13	9:99.99 !DNS	9:99.99 !
99 !	Stephan Görgl	Austria	1:17.15	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !
99 !	Jean-Philippe Roy	Canada	1:17.36	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !
99 !	Martin Vráblík	Czech Republic	1:20.41	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !
99 !	Deyvid Oprja	Estonia	1:40.49	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !
99 !	Daron Rahlves	United States	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Davide Simoncelli	Italy	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Marco Büchel	Liechtenstein	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Ted Ligety	United States	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Manfred Mölgg	Italy	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Thomas Fanara	France	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Aleš Gorza	Slovenia	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Daniel Albrecht	Switzerland	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Gauthier de Tessières	France	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Ryan Semple	Canada	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Felix Neureuther	Germany	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Bernard Vajdič	Slovenia	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Bradley Wall	Australia	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Petr Záhrobský	Czech Republic	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Björgvin Björgvinsson	Iceland	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Claudio Sprecher	Liechtenstein	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Dmitrij Ulianov	Russia	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Pavel Chestakov	Russia	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Konstantin Sats	Russia	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Kryštof Krýzl	Czech Republic	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Min Heuk Kang	South Korea	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Akira Sasaki	Japan	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Facundo Aguirre	Argentina	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Duncan Grob	Chile	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Woo-Sung Kim	South Korea	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Vassilis Dimitriadis	Greece	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Ivan Ratkić	Croatia	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Kristján Uni Óskarsson	Iceland	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Olivier Jenot	Monaco	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Gjorgi Markovski	Macedonia	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Andrei Drygin	Tajikistan	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Leyti Seck	Senegal	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Hira Lal	India	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Marino Cardelli	San Marino	9:99.99 !DNF	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !
99 !	Vitalij Rumiancev	Lithuania	9:99.99 !DSQ	9:99.99 !	9:99.99 !

References

• Official Olympic Report