Alpine skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics – Men's slalom explained

The Men's slalom competition of the Sapporo 1972 Olympics was held at Teine.^[1] ^[2]

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.^[3] ^[4]

Results

Sunday, February 13, 1972

Rank	Name	Run 1	Run 2	Total	Difference
		0:55.36	0:53.91	1:49.27	—
		0:56.69	0:53.59	1:50.28	+1.01
		0:56.14	0:54.16	1:50.30	+1.03
4		0:55.92	0:54.53	1:50.45	+1.18
5		0:55.77	0:54.74	1:50.51	+1.24
6		0:56.11	0:54.72	1:50.83	+1.56
7		0:57.30	0:54.67	1:51.97	+2.70
8		0:57.49	0:54.54	1:52.03	+2.76
9		0:57.68	0:54.37	1:52.05	+2.78
10		0:57.04	0:55.22	1:52.26	+2.99
11		0:58.42	0:54.48	1:52.90	+3.63
12		0:57.61	0:55.51	1:53.12	+3.85
13		0:57.90	0:55.61	1:53.51	+4.24
14		0:58.44	0:55.24	1:53.68	+4.41
15		0:58.08	0:56.08	1:54.16	+4.89
16		0:58.78	0:55.50	1:54.28	+5.01
17		0:57.58	0:57.25	1:54.83	+5.56
18		1:00.19	0:56.42	1:56.61	+7.34
19		1:02.02	0:59.50	2:01.52	+12.25
20		1:01.56	1:00.02	2:01.58	+12.31
21		1:01.00	1:00.72	2:01.72	+12.45
22		1:02.97	0:59.70	2:02.67	+13.40
23		1:04.02	0:59.23	2:03.25	+13.98
24		1:03.73	1:01.99	2:05.72	+16.45
25		1:05.78	1:01.58	2:07.36	+18.09
26		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		1:06.86	1:03.69	2:10.55	+21.28
29		1:05.82	1:05.28	2:11.10	+21.83
30		1:08.72	1:07.80	2:16.52	+27.25
31		1:10.45	1:08.49	2:18.94	+29.67
32		1:18.14	1:14.61	2:32.75	+43.48
33		1:18.34	1:19.19	2:37.53	+48.26
34		1:27.98	1:25.49	2:53.47	+64.20
-		0:56.56	DNF	-	-
-		0:56.64	DNF	-	-
-		0:56.72	DQ	-	-
-		0:58.60	DNF	-	-
-		0:59.43	DQ	-	-
-		1:01.14	DNF	-	-
-		1:01.19	DNF	-	-
-		1:01.25	DNF	-	-
-		?	DNF	-	-
-		?	DQ	-	-
-		?	DNF	-	-
-		?	DNF	-	-
-		?	DNF	-	-
-		?	DQ	-	-
-		DNF	-	-	-
-		DNF	-	-	-
-		DNF	-	-	-
-		DNF	-	-	-
-		DNF	-	-	-
-		DNF	-	-	-
-		DNF	-	-	-
-		DNF	-	-	-
-		DNF	-	-	-
-		DNF	-	-	-
-		DNF	-	-	-
-		DNF	-	-	-
-		DNF	-	-	-
-		DNF	-	-	-
-		DNF	-	-	-
-		DQ	-	-	-
-		DQ	-	-	-
-		DQ	-	-	-
-		DQ	-	-	-
-		DQ	-	-	-
-		DQ	-	-	-

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

Rank	Name	Time	Difference
1		1:43.17	-
2		1:45.36	+2.19
3		1:47.88	+4.71
4		1:48.49	+5.32
5	Ivan Penev	1:53.24	+10.07
6		2:19.65	+36.48
-		DNF	-
-		DQ	-
-		DQ	-
-		DQ	-
-		DQ	-

Rank	Time	Difference
1	1:44.20	-
2	1:44.27	+0.07
3	1:46.33	+2.13
4	1:47.16	+2.96
5	1:48.03	+3.83
6	2:16.03	+31.83
-	DQ	-
-	DQ	-
-	DQ	-
-	DQ	-
-	DQ	-

Rank	Time	Difference
1	1:43.30	-
2	1:44.60	+1.30
3	1:47.81	+4.51
4	2:18.86	+35.56
5	2:25.59	+42.29
-	DNF	-
-	DQ	-
-	DQ	-
-	DQ	-
-	DQ	-
-	DQ	-
-	DQ	-

Rank	Time	Difference
1	1:43.39	-
2	1:43.39	+0.00
3	1:44.53	+1.14
4	1:46.46	+3.07
5	1:49.64	+6.25
6	1:59.79	+16.40
7	2:07.69	+24.30
-	DNF	-
-	DNF	-
-	DQ	-
-	DQ	-
-	DQ	-

Rank	Time	Difference
1	1:42.90	-
2	1:43.91	+1.01
3	1:44.06	+1.16
4	1:45.82	+2.92
5	1:54.16	+11.26
6	2:10.04	+27.14
7	2:28.89	+45.99
8	2:33.86	+50.96
-	DNF	-
-	DNF	-
-	DNF	-
-	DQ	-

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

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