Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Men's giant slalom explained

Event:	Men's giant slalom
Games:	1980 Winter
Venue:	Whiteface Mountain
Date:	February 18–19
Competitors:	78
Nations:	28
Win Value:	2:40.74
Gold:	Ingemar Stenmark
Goldnoc:	SWE
Silver:	Andreas Wenzel
Silvernoc:	LIE
Bronze:	Hans Enn
Bronzenoc:	AUT
Prev:	1976
Next:	1984

The Men's giant slalom competition of the Lake Placid 1980 Olympics was held at Whiteface Mountain.^{[1] [2]}

The defending world champion was Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden, who was also the defending World Cup giant slalom champion and led the 1980 World Cup.^{[3] [4]}

Results

Rank	Name	Country	Run 1	Run 2	Total	Difference
			1:20.49	1:20.25	2:40.74	—
			1:20.17	1:21.32	2:41.49	+0.75
			1:20.31	1:22.20	2:42.51	+1.77
4			1:21.28	1:21.25	2:42.53	+1.79
5			1:21.55	1:21.20	2:42.75	+2.01
6			1:20.99	1:21.96	2:42.95	+2.21
7			1:21.10	1:21.95	2:43.05	+2.31
8			1:21.45	1:21.79	2:43.24	+2.50
9			1:21.53	1:22.54	2:44.07	+3.33
10			1:21.74	1:22.59	2:44.33	+3.59
11			1:21.64	1:22.85	2:44.49	+3.75
12			1:21.50	1:23.13	2:44.63	+3.89
13			1:21.92	1:22.78	2:44.70	+3.96
14			1:22.06	1:22.82	2:44.88	+4.14
15			1:21.86	1:23.08	2:44.94	+4.20
			1:22.19	1:22.75
17			1:21.70	1:23.88	2:45.58	+4.84
18			1:21.93	1:23.83	2:45.76	+5.02
19			1:22.25	1:23.71	2:45.96	+5.22
20			1:22.59	1:23.53	2:46.12	+5.38
21			1:23.24	1:23.18	2:46.42	+5.68
22			1:23.11	1:23.47	2:46.58	+5.84
23			1:23.03	1:24.05	2:47.08	+6.34
24			1:23.12	1:23.99	2:47.11	+6.37
25			1:22.87	1:24.43	2:47.30	+6.56
26			1:22.97	1:24.43	2:47.40	+6.66
27			1:23.80	1:24.32	2:48.12	+7.38
28			1:23.37	1:25.25	2:48.62	+7.88
29			1:24.29	1:24.49	2:48.78	+8.04
30			1:23.73	1:25.09	2:48.82	+8.08
31			1:25.27	1:25.15	2:50.42	+9.68
32			1:25.97	1:26.81	2:52.78	+12.04
33			1:25.53	1:27.42	2:52.95	+12.21
34			1:25.86	1:27.17	2:53.03	+12.29
35			1:27.33	1:26.46	2:53.79	+13.05
36			1:25.23	1:28.82	2:54.05	+13.31
37			1:27.16	1:28.49	2:55.65	+14.91
38			1:28.09	1:29.30	2:57.39	+16.65
39			1:27.71	1:29.99	2:57.70	+16.96
40			1:28.27	1:30.12	2:58.39	+17.65
41			1:29.26	1:29.53	2:58.79	+18.05
42			1:29.47	1:29.79	2:59.26	+18.52
43			1:29.21	1:30.89	3:00.10	+19.36
44			1:30.62	1:31.64	3:02.26	+21.52
45			1:31.23	1:33.15	3:04.38	+23.64
46			1:31.17	1:34.41	3:05.58	+24.84
47			1:32.54	1:33.14	3:05.68	+24.94
48			1:36.32	1:39.91	3:16.23	+35.49
49			1:39.30	1:41.50	3:20.80	+40.06
50			1:38.38	1:44.62	3:23.00	+42.26
51			1:42.16	1:41.24	3:23.40	+42.66
52			1:41.80	1:43.19	3:24.99	+44.25
53			1:35.59	2:01.88	3:37.47	+56.73
54			1:49.52	1:48.57	3:38.09	+57.35
-			1:21.22	DNF	-	-
-			1:22.02	DNF	-	-
-			1:22.15	DNF	-	-
-			1:22.48	DNF	-	-
-			1:22.68	DNF	-	-
-			1:30.93	DNF	-	-
-			1:32.99	DNF	-	-
-			1:33.02	DNF	-	-
-			1:44.92	DQ	-	-
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-			DNF	-	-	-
-			DNF	-	-	-
-			DNF	-	-	-
-			DNF	-	-	-
-			DQ	-	-	-

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Official Report of the XIIIth Olympic Winter Games Lake Placid 1980 - Official Results. LA84 Foundation. Lake Placid Organizing Committee. 1980. January 3, 2014.
2. Web site: Alpine Skiing at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Games: Men's Giant Slalom . 20 March 2018 . Sports Reference . 17 April 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417204359/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1980/ASK/mens-giant-slalom.html . dead .
3. Web site: 1979 World Cup standings. FIS. January 3, 2014.
4. Web site: 1978 World Championships results. FIS. January 3, 2014.