The slalom competition is shorter than the giant slalom, but is otherwise similar in emphasizing maneuverability. Slalom has been a part of all the Winter Olympics since 1936, although it was a part of the alpine combination that year. Only the downhill event has a longer history at the Winter Olympics. The men's slalom took place on 25 February and was the last of the Olympic alpine skiing competitions.
Jean-Pierre Vidal of France was the defending Olympic champion, but he hadn't won a World Cup slalom event since the 2001–02 season. Nevertheless, Vidal was fourth in the slalom World Cup, one place ahead of defending World Champion Benjamin Raich. The Italian Giorgio Rocca led the World Cup after winning all five races thus far in the season, 215 points ahead of the second-placed American Ted Ligety.
Results Complete results from the men's slalom event at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
Rank Name Country Run 1 Run 2 Time Difference Benjamin Raich 53.37 49.77 1:43.14 +0.00 Reinfried Herbst 53.55 50.42 1:43.97 +0.83 Rainer Schönfelder 54.03 50.12 1:44.15 +1.01 Kentaro Minagawa 53.44 50.74 1:44.18 +1.04 Andre Myhrer 53.95 50.23 Ivica Kostelić 54.43 50.02 1:44.45 +1.31 Naoki Yuasa 54.76 49.81 1:44.57 +1.43 Johan Brolenius 54.37 50.44 1:44.81 +1.67 Thomas Grandi 53.64 51.20 1:44.84 +1.70 10 Martin Hansson 54.50 50.74 1:45.24 +2.10 11 Pierrick Bourgeat 54.45 51.03 1:45.48 +2.34 12 Jimmy Cochran 54.49 51.19 1:45.68 +2.54 13 Drago Grubelnik 54.87 50.82 1:45.69 +2.55 14 Marc Berthod 56.22 49.78 1:46.00 +2.86 15 Silvan Zurbriggen 55.17 50.93 1:46.10 +2.96 16 Alain Baxter 54.93 51.22 1:46.15 +3.01 17 Michael Janyk 55.32 50.87 1:46.19 +3.05 18 Chip Knight 54.71 51.55 1:46.26 +3.12 19 Bernard Vajdič 55.16 51.27 1:46.43 +3.29 20 Noel Baxter 56.07 51.15 1:47.22 +4.08 21 Martin Vráblík 56.01 51.39 1:47.40 +4.26 22 Björgvin Björgvinsson 57.07 54.16 1:51.23 +8.09 23 Vassilis Dimitriadis 57.38 54.00 1:51.38 +8.24 24 Jaroslav Babušiak 58.51 53.55 1:52.06 +8.92 25 Stefan Georgiev 58.30 54.25 1:52.55 +9.41 26 Ivan Heimschild 59.67 54.31 1:53.98 +10.84 27 Roger Vidosa 59.87 54.16 1:54.03 +10.89 28 Kristján Uni Óskarsson 58.92 55.78 1:54.70 +11.56 29 Anton Konovalov 59.53 55.18 1:54.71 +11.57 30 Marco Schafferer 1:01.11 56.06 1:57.17 +14.03 31 Mickey Ross 1:03.30 54.50 1:57.80 +14.66 32 Iason Abramashvili 1:01.84 56.83 1:58.67 +15.53 33 Natko Zrnčić-Dim 57.69 1:01.34 1:59.03 +15.89 34 Olivier Jenot 1:03.85 55.28 1:59.13 +15.99 35 Kristinn Ingi Valsson 1:03.27 56.53 1:59.80 +16.66 36 Nikolay Skriabin 1:01.98 57.98 1:59.96 +16.82 37 Mikail Renzhin 1:01.83 58.90 2:00.73 +17.59 38 Theodoros Christodoulou 1:05.58 1:00.97 2:06.55 +23.41 39 Hannes Paul Schmid 55.26 1:13.37 2:08.63 +25.49 40 Hamit Şare 1:07.57 1:01.56 2:09.13 +25.99 41 Alidad Saveh-Shemshaki 1:07.57 1:01.99 2:09.56 +26.42 42 Attila Marosi 1:07.67 1:02.61 2:10.28 +27.14 43 George Salameh 1:07.62 1:03.99 2:11.61 +28.47 44 Vitalij Rumiancev 1:09.19 1:04.27 2:13.46 +30.32 45 Abraham Sarkakhyan 1:10.69 1:05.52 2:16.21 +33.07 46 Kayrat Ermetov 1:13.19 1:07.69 2:20.88 +37.74 47 Yasuhiro Ikuta 1:15.19 1:08.09 2:23.28 +40.14 Akira Sasaki 54.37 Aksel Lund Svindal 54.97 Daniel Albrecht 55.33 Felix Neureuther 55.16 Patrick Biggs 54.38 Jean-Baptiste Grange 54.84 Filip Trejbal 54.75 Michał Kałwa 59.82 Deyan Todorov 1:00.69 Gjorgi Markovski 1:04.03 Li Guangxu 1:08.84 Kalle Palander 53.38 Kang Min Heuk 58.53 Želimir Vuković 1:00.51 Ivan Borisov 1:09.54 Jean-Pierre Vidal Ondřej Bank Pavel Chestakov Deyvid Oprja Giorgio Rocca Markus Larsson Alois Vogl Stéphane Tissot Bode Miller Mario Matt Manfred Mölgg Patrick Thaler Hans-Petter Buraas Jean-Philippe Roy Lars Elton Myhre Jono Brauer Mitja Valenčič James Leuzinger Cristian Javier Simari Birkner Aleš Gorza Jukka Rajala Dmitrij Ulianov Dalibor Šamšal Kryštof Krýzl Mikhail Sedyankov Aleksandr Khoroshilov Alex Antor Danko Marinelli Sindri M. Pálsson Alexander Heath Victor Ryabchenko Leyti Seck Mathieu Razanakolona Erjon Tola Ted Ligety
References
External links Official Olympic Report