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

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.

Results Final Sunday, February 13, 1972 Rank Name Country Run 1 Run 2 Total Difference Francisco Fernández Ochoa 0:55.36 0:53.91 1:49.27 — Gustavo Thoeni 0:56.69 0:53.59 1:50.28 +1.01 Rolando Thoeni 0:56.14 0:54.16 1:50.30 +1.03 4 Henri Duvillard 0:55.92 0:54.53 1:50.45 +1.18 5 Jean-Noël Augert 0:55.77 0:54.74 1:50.51 +1.24 6 Eberardo Schmalzl 0:56.11 0:54.72 1:50.83 +1.56 7 David Zwilling 0:57.30 0:54.67 1:51.97 +2.70 8 Edy Bruggmann 0:57.49 0:54.54 1:52.03 +2.76 9 Tyler Palmer 0:57.68 0:54.37 1:52.05 +2.78 10 Andrzej Bachleda-Curuś 0:57.04 0:55.22 1:52.26 +2.99 11 Christian Neureuther 0:58.42 0:54.48 1:52.90 +3.63 12 Aurelio García 0:57.61 0:55.51 1:53.12 +3.85 13 Walter Tresch 0:57.90 0:55.61 1:53.51 +4.24 14 Alfred Matt 0:58.44 0:55.24 1:53.68 +4.41 15 Adolf Rösti 0:58.08 0:56.08 1:54.16 +4.89 16 Terry Palmer 0:58.78 0:55.50 1:54.28 +5.01 17 Masami Ichimura 0:57.58 0:57.25 1:54.83 +5.56 18 Masayoshi Kashiwagi 1:00.19 0:56.42 1:56.61 +7.34 19 Jim Hunter 1:02.02 0:59.50 2:01.52 +12.25 20 Virgil Brenci 1:01.56 1:00.02 2:01.58 +12.31 21 Sven Mikaelsson 1:01.00 1:00.72 2:01.72 +12.45 22 Sergey Grishchenko 1:02.97 0:59.70 2:02.67 +13.40 23 Reto Barrington 1:04.02 0:59.23 2:03.25 +13.98 24 Malcolm Milne 1:03.73 1:01.99 2:05.72 +16.45 25 Robert Blanchaer 1:05.78 1:01.58 2:07.36 +18.09 26 Royston Varley 1:06.31 1:01.54 2:07.85 +18.58 27 Ivan Penev 1:06.84 1:02.84 2:09.68 +20.41 28 Iain Finlayson 1:06.86 1:03.69 2:10.55 +21.28 29 Resmi Resmiev 1:05.82 1:05.28 2:11.10 +21.83 30 Carlos Perner 1:08.72 1:07.80 2:16.52 +27.25 31 Jorge-Emilio Lazzarini 1:10.45 1:08.49 2:18.94 +29.67 32 Fayzollah Band Ali 1:18.14 1:14.61 2:32.75 +43.48 33 Gorban Ali Kalhor 1:18.34 1:19.19 2:37.53 +48.26 34 Chen Yun-Ming 1:27.98 1:25.49 2:53.47 +64.20 - Hans-Jörg Schlager 0:56.56 DNF - - - Alfred Hagn 0:56.64 DNF - - - Alain Penz 0:56.72 DQ - - - Josef Loidl 0:58.60 DNF - - - Reinhard Tritscher 0:59.43 DQ - - - Manni Thofte 1:01.14 DNF - - - Olle Rolén 1:01.19 DNF - - - Haruhisa Chiba 1:01.25 DNF - - - Dan Cristea ? DNF - - - Toshimasa Furukawa ? DQ - - - Chris Womersley ? DNF - - - Ben Nanasca ? DNF - - - Lotfollah Kia Shemshaki ? DNF - - - Ali Saveh ? DQ - - - Max Rieger DNF - - - - Andreas Sprecher DNF - - - - Erik Håker DNF - - - - Rick Chaffee DNF - - - - Steven Clifford DNF - - - - Herbert Marxer DNF - - - - Derek Robbins DNF - - - - Alex Mapelli-Mozzi DNF - - - - Ross Ewington DNF - - - - Ghassan Keyrouz DNF - - - - Georgios Tambouris DNF - - - - Panagiotis Alexandris DNF - - - - Spyros Theodorou DNF - - - - Juan Cipriano DNF - - - - Konrad Bartelski DNF - - - - Willi Frommelt DQ - - - - Bob Cochran DQ - - - - Otto Tschudi DQ - - - - Erwin Stricker DQ - - - - Marko Kavčič DQ - - - - Peik Christensen DQ - - -

Classification Saturday, February 12, 1972The classification round determined the starting order in the final.

Group 1 Rank Name Country Time Difference 1 Haruhisa Chiba 1:43.17 - 2 Peik Christensen 1:45.36 +2.19 3 Olle Rolén 1:47.88 +4.71 4 Chris Womersley 1:48.49 +5.32 5 Ivan Penev 1:53.24 +10.07 6 Chen Yun-Ming 2:19.65 +36.48 - Spyros Theodorou DNF - - Steven Clifford DQ - - Erwin Stricker DQ - - Alfred Matt DQ - - Iain Finlayson DQ -

Group 2 Rank Name Country Time Difference 1 Adolf Rösti 1:44.20 - 2 Josef Loidl 1:44.27 +0.07 3 Toshimasa Furukawa 1:46.33 +2.13 4 Jim Hunter 1:47.16 +2.96 5 Sven Mikaelsson 1:48.03 +3.83 6 Fayzollah Band Ali 2:16.03 +31.83 - Malcolm Milne DQ - - Resmi Resmiev DQ - - Chia Kuo-Liang DQ - - Carlos Perner DQ - - Konrad Bartelski DQ -

Group 3 Rank Name Country Time Difference 1 Hans-Jörg Schlager 1:43.30 - 2 Andreas Sprecher 1:44.60 +1.30 3 Rick Chaffee 1:47.81 +4.51 4 Gorban Ali Kalhor 2:18.86 +35.56 5 Georgios Tambouris 2:25.59 +42.29 - Juan Cipriano DNF - - Robert Blanchaer DQ - - Alex Mapelli-Mozzi DQ - - Erik Håker DQ - - Herbert Marxer DQ - - Hwang Wei-Chung DQ - - Reto Barrington DQ -

Group 4 Rank Name Country Time Difference 1 Aurelio García 1:43.39 - 2 Willi Frommelt 1:43.39 +0.00 3 Marko Kavčič 1:44.53 +1.14 4 Virgil Brenci 1:46.46 +3.07 5 Sergey Grishchenko 1:49.64 +6.25 6 Panagiotis Alexandris 1:59.79 +16.40 7 Ben Nanasca 2:07.69 +24.30 - Derek Robbins DNF - - Masayoshi Kashiwagi DNF - - Bob Cochran DQ - - Otto Tschudi DQ - - Lotfollah Kia Shemshaki DQ -

Group 5 Rank Name Country Time Difference 1 Masami Ichimura 1:42.90 - 2 Walter Tresch 1:43.91 +1.01 3 Reinhard Tritscher 1:44.06 +1.16 4 Terry Palmer 1:45.82 +2.92 5 Ross Ewington 1:54.16 +11.26 6 Ghassan Keyrouz 2:10.04 +27.14 7 Wang Cheng-Che 2:28.89 +45.99 8 Jorge-Emilio Lazzarini 2:33.86 +50.96 - Ali Saveh DNF - - Manni Thofte DNF - - Royston Varley DNF - - Dan Cristea DQ -

References

External links YouTube.com - 1972 Winter Olympics - Men's Slalom - Gold medalist's second run - from Japanese television