Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Men's slalom explained

Event:	Men's slalom
Games:	1968 Winter
Venue:	Chamrousse
Date:	February 16–17
Competitors:	100
Nations:	33
Win Value:	3:09.62
Gold:	Jean-Claude Killy
Goldnoc:	FRA
Silver:	Herbert Huber
Silvernoc:	AUT
Bronze:	Alfred Matt
Bronzenoc:	AUT
Prev:	1964
Next:	1972

The Men's slalom competition of the Grenoble 1968 Olympics was held at Chamrousse.^[1] ^[2]

The defending world champion was Carlo Senoner of Italy, while France's Jean-Claude Killy was the defending World Cup slalom champion and Switzerland's Dumeng Giovanoli was the leader of the 1968 World Cup.^[3] ^[4]

Final

Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Total	Difference
	0:49.37	0:50.36	1:39.73	-
	0:50.06	0:49.76	1:39.82	+0.09
	0:49.68	0:50.41	1:40.09	+0.36
4	0:49.89	0:50.33	1:40.22	+0.49
5	0:49.75	0:50.74	1:40.49	+0.76
6	0:49.88	0:50.73	1:40.61	+0.88
7	0:49.96	0:51.01	1:40.97	+1.24
8	0:49.89	0:51.25	1:41.14	+1.41
9	0:49.95	0:51.24	1:41.19	+1.46
10	0:50.04	0:51.94	1:41.98	+2.25
11	0:51.19	0:50.80	1:41.99	+2.26
12	0:50.89	0:52.61	1:43.50	+3.77
13	0:52.00	0:52.07	1:44.07	+4.34
14	0:51.84	0:52.31	1:44.15	+4.42
14	0:52.32	0:51.83	1:44.15	+4.42
16	0:52.95	0:51.70	1:44.65	+4.92
17	0:51.51	0:53.37	1:44.88	+5.15
18	0:52.66	0:52.26	1:44.92	+5.19
19	0:52.22	0:53.03	1:45.25	+5.52
20	0:53.81	0:51.57	1:45.38	+5.65
21	0:53.69	0:53.11	1:46.80	+7.07
22	0:51.69	0:55.69	1:47.38	+7.65
23	0:53.52	0:54.61	1:48.13	+8.40
24	0:56.36	0:56.06	1:52.42	+12.69
25	0:56.10	0:57.23	1:53.33	+13.60
26	0:54.94	0:59.48	1:54.42	+14.69
27	0:59.54	0:57.67	1:57.21	+17.48
28	0:54.26	1:03.22	1:57.48	+17.75
29	1:00.72	0:58.07	1:58.79	+19.06
30	0:54.19	1:06.93	2:01.12	+21.39
31	1:08.96	0:58.90	2:07.86	+28.13
-	0:49.69	DQ	-	-
-	0:49.74	DQ	-	-
-	0:49.89	DQ	-	-
-	0:49.91	DQ	-	-
-	0:51.28	DQ	-	-
-	0:51.32	DQ	-	-
-	0:51.62	DQ	-	-
-	0:51.63	DNF	-	-
-	0:51.77	DQ	-	-
-	0:51.91	DQ	-	-
-	0:52.46	DQ	-	-
-	0:53.67	DQ	-	-
-	0:53.75	DQ	-	-
-	0:56.26	DQ	-	-
-	1:02.29	DQ	-	-
-	DNF	-	-	-
-	DNF	-	-	-
-	DQ	-	-	-
-	DNF	-	-	-
-	DNF	-	-	-

Classification

Round One

The top two in each heat advanced directly to the final, with the other racers moving to the second round.

Heat A

Rank	Time	Difference
1	49.89	-
2	53.50	+3.61
3	54.79	+4.90
4	57.53	+7.64
5	67.13	+17.24
6	67.66	+17.77

Heat B

Rank	Time	Difference
1	51.14	-
2	54.83	+3.69
3	55.34	+4.20
4	57.30	+6.16
5	65.31	+14.17
-	DQ	-

Heat C

Rank	Time	Difference
1	50.99	-
2	53.33	+2.34
3	53.43	+2.44
4	54.35	+3.36
5	57.18	+6.19
-	DQ	-

Heat D

Rank	Time	Difference
1	52.36	-
2	53.20	+0.84
3	54.20	+1.84
4	58.90	+6.54
5	66.02	+13.66
6	73.61	+21.25

Heat E

Rank	Time	Difference
1	51.76	-
2	51.93	+0.17
3	52.11	+0.35
4	57.93	+6.17
5	59.46	+7.70
-	DNF	-

Heat F

Rank	Time	Difference
1	53.65	-
2	57.46	+3.81
3	57.71	+4.06
-	DNF	-
-	DNF	-
-	DNF	-

Heat G

Rank	Time	Difference
1	52.34	-
2	52.82	+0.48
3	54.04	+1.70
4	55.98	+3.64

Heat H

Rank	Time	Difference
1	53.04	-
2	53.85	+0.81
3	54.47	+1.43
4	54.60	+1.56
5	57.72	+4.68
-	DQ	-

Heat I

Rank	Time	Difference
1	51.44	-
2	52.07	+0.63
3	52.10	+0.66
4	56.02	+4.58
5	59.85	+8.41
-	DQ	-

Heat J

Rank	Time	Difference
1	54.18	-
2	54.63	+0.45
3	55.55	+1.37
4	59.76	+5.58
5	70.88	+16.70
-	DQ	-

Heat K

Rank	Time	Difference
1	52.56	-
2	53.52	+0.96
3	54.35	+1.79
4	70.58	+18.02
-	DQ	-
-	DNF	-

Heat L

Rank	Time	Difference
1	54.15	-
2	55.66	+1.51
3	57.17	+3.02
4	58.05	+3.90
5	72.75	+18.60
-	DQ	-

Heat M

Rank	Time	Difference
1	53.37	-
2	53.75	+0.38
3	54.57	+1.20
-	DQ	-
-	DQ	-
-	DQ	-

Heat N

Rank	Time	Difference
1	54.28	-
2	54.32	+0.04
3	54.78	+0.50
4	64.77	+10.49
5	73.69	+19.41
-	DQ	-

Heat O

Rank	Time	Difference
1	54.28	-
2	62.82	+8.54
-	DQ	-
-	DQ	-
-	DQ	-
-	DNF	-

Heat P

Rank	Time	Difference
1	53.48	-
2	56.04	+2.56
3	56.07	+2.59
4	56.12	+2.64
5	79.93	+26.45
-	DNF	-

Heat Q

Rank	Time	Difference
1	53.62	-
2	54.18	+0.56
3	57.09	+3.47
4	58.16	+4.54
5	83.26	+29.64
6	89.54	+35.92

Round Two

The winner of each heat advanced to the final.