The Men's giant slalom competition of the Lake Placid 1980 Olympics was held at Whiteface Mountain.

The defending world champion was Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden, who was also the defending World Cup giant slalom champion and led the 1980 World Cup.

Results Rank Name Country Run 1 Run 2 Total Difference Ingemar Stenmark 1:20.49 1:20.25 2:40.74 — Andreas Wenzel 1:20.17 1:21.32 2:41.49 +0.75 Hans Enn 1:20.31 1:22.20 2:42.51 +1.77 4 Bojan Križaj 1:21.28 1:21.25 2:42.53 +1.79 5 Jacques Lüthy 1:21.55 1:21.20 2:42.75 +2.01 6 Bruno Noeckler 1:20.99 1:21.96 2:42.95 +2.21 7 Joël Gaspoz 1:21.10 1:21.95 2:43.05 +2.31 8 Boris Strel 1:21.45 1:21.79 2:43.24 +2.50 9 Aleksandr Shirov 1:21.53 1:22.54 2:44.07 +3.33 10 Phil Mahre 1:21.74 1:22.59 2:44.33 +3.59 11 Jarle Halsnes 1:21.64 1:22.85 2:44.49 +3.75 12 Jure Franko 1:21.50 1:23.13 2:44.63 +3.89 13 Christian Orlainsky 1:21.92 1:22.78 2:44.70 +3.96 14 Jorge Pérez 1:22.06 1:22.82 2:44.88 +4.1415 Steve Mahre 1:21.86 1:23.08 2:44.94 +4.20 Vladimir Andreyev 1:22.19 1:22.75 17 Frank Wörndl 1:21.70 1:23.88 2:45.58 +4.84 18 Anton Steiner 1:21.93 1:23.83 2:45.76 +5.02 19 Bohumír Zeman 1:22.25 1:23.71 2:45.96 +5.22 20 Albert Burger 1:22.59 1:23.53 2:46.12 +5.38 21 Torsten Jakobsson 1:23.24 1:23.18 2:46.42 +5.68 22 Francisco Fernández Ochoa 1:23.11 1:23.47 2:46.58 +5.84 23 Jorge García 1:23.03 1:24.05 2:47.08 +6.34 24 Paul Arne Skajem 1:23.12 1:23.99 2:47.11 +6.37 25 Odd Sørli 1:22.87 1:24.43 2:47.30 +6.56 26 Leonhard Stock 1:22.97 1:24.43 2:47.40 +6.66 27 Petar Popangelov 1:23.80 1:24.32 2:48.12 +7.38 28 Stig Strand 1:23.37 1:25.25 2:48.62 +7.88 29 Toshihiro Kaiwa 1:24.29 1:24.49 2:48.78 +8.04 30 Lyudmil Tonchev 1:23.73 1:25.09 2:48.82 +8.08 31 Mitko Khadzhiev 1:25.27 1:25.15 2:50.42 +9.68 32 Khristo Angelov 1:25.97 1:26.81 2:52.78 +12.04 33 Alan Stewart 1:25.53 1:27.42 2:52.95 +12.21 34 Sepp Ferstl 1:25.86 1:27.17 2:53.03 +12.29 35 Sigurður Jónsson 1:27.33 1:26.46 2:53.79 +13.05 36 Atsushi Sawada 1:25.23 1:28.82 2:54.05 +13.31 37 Norberto Quiroga 1:27.16 1:28.49 2:55.65 +14.91 38 Rob McIntyre 1:28.09 1:29.30 2:57.39 +16.65 39 Konrad Bartelski 1:27.71 1:29.99 2:57.70 +16.96 40 Janez Flere 1:28.27 1:30.12 2:58.39 +17.65 41 Antony Guss 1:29.26 1:29.53 2:58.79 +18.05 42 Carlos Font 1:29.47 1:29.79 2:59.26 +18.52 43 Ross Blyth 1:29.21 1:30.89 3:00.10 +19.36 44 Guillermo Giumelli 1:30.62 1:31.64 3:02.26 +21.52 45 Patrick Toussaint 1:31.23 1:33.15 3:04.38 +23.64 46 Marcelo Martínez 1:31.17 1:34.41 3:05.58 +24.84 47 Didier Lamont 1:32.54 1:33.14 3:05.68 +24.94 48 Lazaros Arkhontopoulos 1:36.32 1:39.91 3:16.23 +35.49 49 Hong In-Gi 1:39.30 1:41.50 3:20.80 +40.06 50 Piao Dongyi 1:38.38 1:44.62 3:23.00 +42.26 51 Lazarakis Kekhagias 1:42.16 1:41.24 3:23.40 +42.66 52 Giannis Stamatiou 1:41.80 1:43.19 3:24.99 +44.25 53 Naji Heneine 1:35.59 2:01.88 3:37.47 +56.73 54 Philippos Xenophontos 1:49.52 1:48.57 3:38.09 +57.35 - Valeri Tsyganov 1:21.22 DNF - - - Alex Giorgi 1:22.02 DNF - - - Piero Gros 1:22.15 DNF - - - Cary Adgate 1:22.48 DNF - - - Jože Kuralt 1:22.68 DNF - - - Miguel Font 1:30.93 DNF - - - Stuart Blakely 1:32.99 DNF - - - Henri Mollin 1:33.02 DNF - - - Andreas Pilavakis 1:44.92 DQ - - Victor Hugo Ascarrunz Jr. DNF - - - - Billy Farwig DNF - - - - Arturo Kinch DNF - - - - Sami Rebez DNF - - - - Roddy Langmuir DNF - - - - Mark Vryenhoek DNF - - - - Scott Kendall DNF - - - - Scott Alan Sánchez DNF - - - - Björn Olgeirsson DNF - - - - Osamu Kodama DNF - - - - Pete Patterson DNF - - - - Mauro Bernardi DNF - - - - Peter Lüscher DNF - - - - Jean-Luc Fournier DNF - - - - Paul Frommelt DQ - - -

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