The Men's giant slalom competition of the Sapporo 1972 Olympics was held at Teine on Wednesday, February 9, and Thursday, February 10.

The defending world champion was Karl Schranz of Austria, who was barred from competing in the Olympics. Italy's Gustav Thöni was the defending World Cup giant slalom co-champion (with France's Patrick Russel) and led the 1972 World Cup.

Results Both of the runs started at 13:30 JST (UTC+9) under clear skies. The air temperature was for the first run on Wednesday and for the second on Thursday. Rank Bib Name Country Run 1 Run 2 Total Difference 9 Gustav Thöni 1:32.19 1:37.43 3:09.62 — 14 Edmund Bruggmann 1:33.43 1:37.32 3:10.75 +1.13 11 Werner Mattle 1:33.44 1:37.55 3:10.99 +1.37 4 4 Alfred Hagn 1:31.78 1:39.38 3:11.16 +1.54 5 10 Jean-Noël Augert 1:33.61 1:38.23 3:11.84 +2.22 6 30 Max Rieger 1:33.86 1:38.08 3:11.94 +2.32 7 7 David Zwilling 1:32.34 1:39.98 3:12.32 +2.70 8 8 Reinhard Tritscher 1:32.51 1:39.88 3:12.39 +2.779 19 Alain Penz 1:33.36 1:39.06 3:12.42 +2.80 12 Andrzej Bachleda 1:34.40 1:38.02 11 18 Jim Hunter 1:33.83 1:39.15 3:12.98 +3.36 12 29 Josef Loidl 1:36.26 1:38.39 3:14.65 +5.03 13 3 Eberardo Schmalzl 1:34.22 1:40.50 3:14.72 +5.10 14 22 Walter Tresch 1:35.86 1:38.89 3:14.75 +5.13 15 41 Masami Ichimura 1:35.77 1:39.57 3:15.34 +5.72 16 28 Helmuth Schmalzl 1:35.72 1:39.63 3:15.35 +5.73 17 33 Bob Cochran 1:35.39 1:40.15 3:15.54 +5.92 18 2 Werner Bleiner 1:34.18 1:41.78 3:15.96 +6.34 19 39 Haruhisa Chiba 1:36.36 1:40.87 3:17.23 +7.61 20 17 Reto Barrington 1:35.22 1:42.02 3:17.24 +7.62 21 23 Hank Kashiwa 1:37.42 1:40.71 3:18.13 +8.51 22 31 Willi Frommelt 1:35.71 1:42.94 3:18.65 +9.03 23 36 Peik Christensen 1:38.27 1:40.42 3:18.69 +9.07 24 40 Herbert Marxer 1:38.13 1:41.57 3:19.70 +10.08 25 42 Aurelio García 1:37.28 1:42.45 3:19.73 +10.11 26 53 Dan Cristea 1:37.93 1:41.95 3:19.88 +10.26 27 27 Rolando Thoeni 1:35.83 1:44.90 3:20.73 +11.11 28 21 Sven Mikaelsson 1:37.88 1:43.77 3:21.65 +12.03 29 26 Malcolm Milne 1:37.94 1:44.26 3:22.20 +12.58 30 20 Rick Chaffee 1:39.23 1:45.09 3:24.32 +14.70 31 34 Marko Kavčič 1:39.01 1:46.08 3:25.09 +15.47 32 49 Chris Womersley 1:42.00 1:45.56 3:27.33 +17.71 33 54 Virgil Brenci 1:42.81 1:44.59 3:27.40 +17.78 34 51 Robert Blanchaer 1:43.59 1:45.79 3:29.38 +19.76 35 47 Ivan Penev 1:41.77 1:48.78 3:30.78 +21.16 36 32 Steven Clifford 1:44.75 1:49.50 3:34.25 +24.63 37 50 Resmi Resmiev 1:45.68 1:54.14 3:39.82 +30.20 38 63 Jorge-Emilio Lazzarini 1:48.72 1:54.96 3:43.68 +34.06 39 66 Spyros Theodorou 1:58.41 2:03.86 4:02.27 +52.65 40 58 Fayzollah Band Ali 1:55.72 2:08.42 4:04.14 +54.52 41 59 Panagiotis Alexandris 2:03.05 2:02.40 4:05.45 +55.83 42 69 Ben Nanasca 1:54.59 2:11.61 4:06.20 +56.58 43 73 Lotfollah Kia Shemshaki 2:07.26 1:58.95 4:06.21 +56.59 44 67 Ali Saveh 2:08.05 1:58.83 4:06.88 +57.26 45 60 Ghassan Keyrouz 2:05.10 2:11.20 4:16.30 +66.68 46 68 Georgios Tambouris 2:10.38 2:08.31 4:18.69 +69.07 47 72 Wang Cheng-che 2:15.80 2:19.83 4:35.63 +86.01 48 70 Hwang Wei-chung 2:11.29 2:29.58 4:40.87 +91.25 - 15 Erik Håker 1:31.70 DNF - - - 5 Christian Neureuther 1:33.24 DNF - - - 16 Adolf Rösti 1:33.27 DQ - - - 6 Roger Rossat-Mignod 1:33.28 DQ - - - 38 Masahiko Otsue 1:38.71 DQ - - - 65 Sergey Grishchenko 1:42.00 DNF - - - 57 Royston Varley 1:43.00 DNF - - - 52 Carlos Perner 1:44.00 DNF - - - 46 Iain Finlayson 1:45.88 DNF - - - 25 Otto Tschudi 1:57.42 DQ - - - 71 Juan Cipriano 1:58.00 DNF - - - 24 Francisco Fernández Ochoa DQ - - - - 45 Masayoshi Kashiwagi DQ - - - - 37 Derek Robbins DQ - - - - 35 Olle Rolén DNF - - - - 44 Manni Thofte DNF - - - - 1 Sepp Heckelmiller DNF - - - - 13 Henri Duvillard DNF - - - - 43 David Currier DNF - - - - 55 Konrad Bartelski DNF - - - - 48 Ross Ewington DQ - - - - 56 Alex Mapelli-Mozzi DQ - - - - 61 Chen Yun-ming DQ - - - - 62 Gorban Ali Kalhor DQ - - - - 64 Chia Kuo-liang DQ - - -

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