The men's giant slalom competition of the Beijing 2022 Olympics was held on 13 February, on "Ice River" course at the Yanqing National Alpine Ski Centre in Yanqing District. Marco Odermatt of Switzerland won the event. Žan Kranjec of Slovenia won the silver medal, and Mathieu Faivre of France bronze. For all of them, they got their first Olympic medals.
Marcel Hirscher, the 2018 champion, retired from competitions. The silver medalist, Henrik Kristoffersen, and the bronze medalist, Alexis Pinturault, qualified for the Olympics. At the 2021–22 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, six giant slalom events were held before the Olympics. Marco Odermatt was leading the ranking, followed by Manuel Feller and Kristoffersen. Mathieu Faivre was the 2021 world champion, with Luca De Aliprandini and Marco Schwarz being the silver and bronze medalists, respectively.
Kranjec, the eighth in the first run, had a good second run and was leading the competition, while skiers with better first run either did not finish or had a worse total. Faivre, with the third time in the first run, was the best of these. Odermatt, who won the first run, was skiing last in the second run and remained on top.
Qualification
Results Results are as follows: Rank Bib Name Nation Run 1 Rank Run 2 Rank Total Behind 4 Marco Odermatt 1:02.93 1 1:06.42 2 2:09.35 13 Žan Kranjec 1:03.71 8 1:05.83 1 2:09.54 +0.19 5 Mathieu Faivre 1:03.01 3 1:07.68 13 2:10.69 +1.34 4 16 River Radamus 1:03.79 9 1:07.16 5 2:10.95 +1.60 5 17 Thibaut Favrot 1:03.12 5 1:07.92 14 2:11.04 +1.69 5 6 Alexis Pinturault 1:03.99 11 1:07.05 4 2:11.04 +1.69 7 8 Gino Caviezel 1:03.90 10 1:07.30 6 2:11.20 +1.85 8 1 Henrik Kristoffersen 1:03.05 4 1:08.20 18 2:11.25 +1.90 9 32 Joan Verdú 1:04.48 13 1:06.80 3 2:11.28 +1.93 10 3 Filip Zubčić 1:04.69 15 1:07.40 9 2:12.09 +2.74 11 25 Raphael Haaser 1:04.99 17 1:07.40 9 2:12.39 +3.04 12 20 Tommy Ford 1:05.07 19 1:07.34 7 2:12.41 +3.06 13 18 Erik Read 1:04.77 16 1:07.67 12 2:12.44 +3.09 14 10 Marco Schwarz 1:05.04 18 1:07.43 11 2:12.47 +3.12 15 22 Adam Žampa 1:05.86 21 1:08.05 16 2:13.91 +4.56 16 35 Andreas Žampa 1:06.15 23 1:08.16 17 2:14.31 +4.96 17 53 Albert Popov 1:07.60 27 1:07.34 7 2:14.94 +5.59 18 33 Maarten Meiners 1:06.03 22 1:09.45 20 2:15.48 +6.13 19 38 Kryštof Krýzl 1:07.29 26 1:08.27 19 2:15.56 +6.21 20 29 Julian Rauchfuß 1:08.23 30 1:07.99 15 2:16.22 +6.87 21 49 Samuel Kolega 1:06.53 24 1:10.75 23 2:17.28 +7.93 22 52 Barnabás Szőllős 1:07.89 28 1:10.04 21 2:17.93 +8.58 23 43 Louis Muhlen-Schulte 1:08.44 32 1:10.04 21 2:18.48 +9.13 24 23 Trevor Philp 1:07.14 25 1:11.94 24 2:19.08 +9.73 25 51 Jack Gower 1:08.30 31 1:12.26 25 2:20.56 +11.21 26 57 Miks Zvejnieks 1:09.59 33 1:13.04 26 2:22.63 +13.28 27 12 Stefan Brennsteiner 1:02.97 2 1:22:01 40 2:24.98 +15.63 28 58 Matthieu Osch 1:10.60 34 1:15.94 28 2:26.54 +17.19 29 60 Komiljon Tukhtaev 1:12.77 35 1:14.72 27 2:27.49 +18.14 30 73 Albin Tahiri 1:13.42 37 1:16.43 29 2:29.85 +20.50 31 72 Michael Poettoz 1:12.83 36 1:17.19 30 2:30.02 +20.67 32 71 Alexandru Ștefănescu 1:14.20 38 1:19.01 33 2:33.21 +23.86 33 78 Xu Mingfu 1:15.96 41 1:17.26 31 2:33.22 +23.87 34 61 Márton Kékesi 1:14.47 39 1:19.07 34 2:33.54 +24.19 35 77 Rodolfo Dickson 1:17.32 43 1:17.27 32 2:34.59 +25.24 36 87 Zhang Yangming 1:15.66 40 1:19.51 35 2:35.17 +25.82 37 67 Ricardo Brancal 1:16.83 42 1:20.57 36 2:37.40 +28.05 38 74 Nicola Zanon 1:17.53 44 1:20.83 37 2:38.36 +29.01 39 88 Shannon-Ogbnai Abeda 1:17.95 46 1:22.50 41 2:40.45 +31.10 40 89 William Flaherty 1:20.16 48 1:21.26 38 2:41.42 +32.07 41 69 Eldar Salihović 1:18.84 47 1:22.70 42 2:41.54 +32.19 42 66 Yianno Kouyoumdjian 1:20.66 50 1:21.85 39 2:42.51 +33.16 43 75 Berkin Usta 1:17.91 45 1:24.81 43 2:42.72 +33.37 44 81 Fayik Abdi 1:21.44 51 1:25.41 45 2:46.85 +37.50 45 85 Arif Khan 1:22.35 53 1:24.89 44 2:47.24 +37.89 46 83 Benjamin Alexander 1:37.94 54 1:40.58 46 3:18.52 +1:09.17 2 Luca De Aliprandini 1:03.42 6 rowspan=8 colspan=3 7 Manuel Feller 1:03.67 714 Lucas Braathen 1:04.20 1226 Mattias Rönngren 1:04.48 1337 Andrej Drukarov 1:05.78 2055 Emir Lokmić 1:08.00 2979 Yohan Goutt Gonçalves 1:21.52 5282 Matteo Gatti 1:20.40 49 9 Alexander Schmid rowspan=35 colspan=5 11 Justin Murisier 15 Loïc Meillard 19 Rasmus Windingstad 21 Atle Lie McGrath 24 Cyprien Sarrazin 27 Ryan Cochran-Siegle 28 Aleksandr Andrienko 30 Ivan Kuznetsov 31 Sam Maes 34 Samu Torsti 36 Jung Dong-hyun 39 Tommaso Sala 40 Jan Zabystřan 41 Dries Van den Broecke 42 Luke Winters 44 Alex Vinatzer 45 Michał Jasiczek 47 Tormis Laine 48 Linus Straßer 50 Tomás Birkner de Miguel 54 Paweł Pyjas 56 Soso Japharidze 59 Denni Xhepa 62 Adrian Yung 63 Asa Miller 64 Ioannis Antoniou 65 Zakhar Kuchin 68 Richardson Viano 70 Cesar Arnouk 76 Carlos Maeder 80 Yassine Aouich 86 Mathieu Neumuller 46 Michel Macedo 84 Harutyun Harutyunyan
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