Alpine Skiing 2018/Men's giant slalom

Men's giant slalom
General information
Sport	Alpine Skiing 2018
Date	18 February 2018
Competitors	110 athletes
Venue	Yongpyong Alpine Centre
Previous medalists
Gold	Ted Ligety
Silver	Steve Missillier
Bronze	Alexis Pinturault
Conditions
Temperature	Day 1: -11°C / 12.2°F Day 2: -8°C / 17.6°F
Length	1326 metres
Height	440 metres
Forerunners
Forerunner	Park Je-yun South Korea
Forerunner	Hong Dong-kwan South Korea
Forerunner	Lee Han-hee South Korea
Forerunner	Kim Dong-cheul South Korea
Forerunner	Bae Jun-woo South Korea
Forerunner	Lee Jae-jun South Korea
Medalists
	Marcel Hirscher
	Henrik Kristoffersen
	Alexis Pinturault

The men's giant slalom of Alpine Skiing 2018 during the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 18 February 2018 in the Yongpyong Alpine Centre. With 110 athletes competing, the event was won by Marcel Hirscher from Austria, with Henrik Kristoffersen from Norway taking the silver medal and Alexis Pinturault from France taking bronze.

Format

The competition exists out of two races. The competitor with the fastest combined time without missing one of the gates is the winner.

Preview

One-hundred-and-ten athletes qualified for the event, with Ted Ligety being the defending Olympic champion, and Marcel Hirscher being the main favorite, with Henrik Kirstoffersen as the main challenger. Alexis Pinturault won bronze four years before, and was another medal contender, along with fellow Frenchman Mathieu Faivre. Some of the outsiders included Matts Olsson, Manuel Feller, Luca de Aliprandini and Justin Murisier. Shannon Abeda was the first athlete from Eritrea to participate, while Jeffrey Webb was the first Malay athlete to participate.

Summary

Run 1

Out of the seven seeded skiers, two were untimed after run 1, leaving them out of contention for a medal. Out of these seven skiers, Marcel Hirscher and Alexis Pinturault skied the fastest time, with Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen only 0.03 seconds behind Pinturault. Italian Riccardo Tonetti surprised with the fourth time of the first run, leaving Frenchmen Mathieu Faivre and Thomas Fanara behind him, while Matts Olsson, Victor Muffat-Jeandet and Zan Kranjec had to compensate for over a second difference with Hirscher. Henrik Kristoffersen completed the top 10, only 0.02 seconds in front of Andre Myhrer.

Run 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Name	Time
1		Marcel Hirscher	1:08.27
2		Alexis Pinturault	1:08.90
3		Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen	1:08.93
4		Riccardo Tonetti	1:09.02
5		Mathieu Faivre	1:09.06
6		Thomas Fanara	1:09.22
7		Matts Olsson	1:09.31
8		Victor Muffat-Jeandet	1:09.44
9		Zan Kranjec	1:09.52
10		Henrik Kristoffersen	1:09.58
11		Andre Myhrer	1:09.60
12		Loic Meillard	1:09.77
13		Gino Caviezel	1:09.99
14		Stefan Brennsteiner	1:10.02
15		Manfred Moelgg	1:10.03
16		Erik Read	1:10.18
17		Florian Eisath	1:10.46
18		Andreas Zampa	1:10.61
19		Fritz Dopfer	1:10.69
20		Ted Ligety	1:10.71
21		Ryan Cochran-Siegle	1:10.75
22		Samu Torsti	1:10.93
23		Filip Zubcic	1:10.95
24		Trevor Philp	1:11.13
25		Phil Brown	1:11.30
26		Adam Zampa	1:11.40
26		Luca Aerni	1:11.40
28		Tommy Ford	1:11.43
29		Stefan Hadalin	1:11.53
30		Linus Strasser	1:11.54
31		James Crawford	1:11.74
32		Kristoffer Jakobsen	1:12.02
33		Joan Verdu	1:12.06
34		Albert Popov	1:12.39
35		Tomoya Ishii	1:12.43
36		Filip Forejtek	1:12.91
37		Dominic Demschar	1:13.21
38		Sam Maes	1:13.29
39		Juan del Campo	1:13.39
40		Adam Barwood	1:13.41
41		Kristaps Zvejnieks	1:13.81
42		Willis Feasey	1:14.48
43		Kim Dong Woo	1:14.49
44		Emir Lokmic	1:14.55
45		Samuel Kolega	1:14.61
46		Marko Vukicevic	1:14.64
47		Kai Horwitz	1:14.88
48		Olivier Jenot	1:14.93
49		Matej Falat	1:14.99
50		Tormis Laine	1:15.70
51		Dalibor Samsal	1:16.09
52		Simon Breitfuss Kammerlander	1:16.27
53		Marton Kekesi	1:16.64
54		Erjon Tola	1:16.86
55		Rodolfo Roberto Dickson Sommers	1:17.02
56		Ioannis Antoniou	1:17.38
57		Marko Stevovic	1:17.42
58		Itamar Biran	1:17.52
59		Kamen Zlatkov	1:17.65
60		Komiljon Tukhtaev	1:17.72
61		Adam Lamhamedi	1:18.50
62		Igor Zakurdaev	1:18.78
63		Mohammad Kiyadarbandsari	1:19.11
64		Yuri Danilochkin	1:19.45
65		Albin Tahiri	1:19.49
66		Alexandru Barbu	1:19.74
67		Shannon Abeda	1:19.86
68		Andrej Drukarov	1:19.98
69		Casper Dyrbye Naested	1:20.33
70		Ivan Kovbasnyuk	1:20.41
71		Eldar Salihovic	1:20.51
72		Evgeniy Timofeev	1:20.90
73		Michael Poettoz	1:21.41
74		Matthieu Osch	1:21.45
75		Alessandro Mariotti	1:21.66
76		Arthur Hanse	1:22.43
77		Serdar Deniz	1:23.45
78		Jeffrey Webb	1:23.83
79		Zhang Yangming	1:25.73
80		Allen Behlok	1:26.70
81		Asa Miller	1:27.52
82		Muhammad Karim	1:27.53
83		Charles Flaherty	1:28.50
84		Kang Song Il	1:32.03
85		Choe Myong Gwang	1:38.67
-		Justin Murisier	DNF
-		Aleksander Aamodt Kilde	DNF
-		Alexander Schmid	DNF
-		Tim Jitloff	DNF
-		Kjetil Jansrud	DNF
-		Christian Hirschbuehl	DNF
-		Miha Hrobat	DQ
-		Ivan Kuznetsov	DNF
-		Sebastiano Gastaldi	DNF
-		Jung Dong-hyun	DNF
-		Ondrej Berndt	DNF
-		Adam Kotzmann	DNF
-		Martin Cater	DNF
-		Sturla Snaer Snorrason	DNF
-		Jan Zabystran	DNF
-		Michel Macedo	DNF
-		Iason Abramashvili	DNF
-		Antonio Ristevski	DNF
-		Nicola Zanon	DNF
-		Dinos Lefkaritis	DNF
-		Connor Wilson	DNF
-		Michal Jasiczek	DNS
-		Manuel Feller	DQ
-		Luca de Aliprandini	DQ
-		Harry Laidlaw	DQ

Run 2

Henrik Kristoffersen skied the fastest time of the second run, being 0.04 seconds faster than Olympic champion Marcel Hirscher. American Ryan Cochran-Siegle got the third-fastest time, just finishing out of the top 10, while 30th ranked and 29th ranked Linus Strasser and Stefan Hadalin got the fourth-fastest time, climbing to 22nd and 21st place, with only 0.01 seconds between them. With Hirscher and Kristoffersen claiming gold and silver, Alexis Pinturault claimed bronze, getting the 12th time of the second run, finishing 0.04 seconds behind Kristoffersen, while Zan Kranjec finished fourth, having two consistent runs, finishing ninth and eighth, and Thomas Fanara finishing fifth, only 0.02 seconds before countryman Victor Muffat-Jeandet, and 0.15 seconds in front of Mathieu Faivre. Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen came eighth, with the 25th time of the second run, with Swiss Loic Meillard and Matts Olsson completing the final top 10.

Run 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Name	Time
1		Henrik Kristoffersen	1:09.73
2		Marcel Hirscher	1:09.77
3		Ryan Cochran-Siegle	1:09.99
4		Stefan Hadalin	1:10.13
4		Linus Strasser	1:10.13
6		Tommy Ford	1:10.20
7		Luca Aerni	1:10.22
8		Zan Kranjec	1:10.25
9		Trevor Philp	1:10.38
10		Victor Muffat-Jeandet	1:10.41
11		Samu Torsti	1:10.44
12		Alexis Pinturault	1:10.45
13		Adam Zampa	1:10.46
14		Ted Ligety	1:10.54
15		Erik Read	1:10.56
16		Thomas Fanara	1:10.61
17		Loic Meillard	1:10.68
18		Florian Eisath	1:10.72
19		Filip Zubcic	1:10.89
20		Mathieu Faivre	1:10.93
21		Manfred Moelgg	1:11.01
22		Albert Popov	1:11.21
23		Phil Brown	1:11.25
24		Gino Caviezel	1:11.26
25		Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen	1:11.30
26		Fritz Dopfer	1:11.38
27		Matts Olsson	1:11.39
28		Andre Myhrer	1:12.09
29		Tomoya Ishii	1:12.35
30		James Crawford	1:12.38
31		Sam Maes	1:12.91
32		Filip Forejtek	1:13.16
33		Dominic Demschar	1:13.54
34		Willis Feasey	1:13.80
35		Adam Barwood	1:13.81
36		Samuel Kolega	1:14.13
37		Olivier Jenot	1:14.16
38		Kristaps Zvejnieks	1:14.46
39		Tormis Laine	1:15.18
40		Marton Kekesi	1:15.22
41		Kim Dong Woo	1:15.56
42		Marko Stevovic	1:15.79
43		Ioannis Antoniou	1:15.92
44		Simon Breitfuss Kammerlander	1:15.98
45		Itamar Biran	1:16.19
46		Igor Zakurdaev	1:16.29
47		Rodolfo Roberto Dickson Sommers	1:16.67
48		Marko Vukicevic	1:16.71
49		Erjon Tola	1:16.77
50		Dalibor Samsal	1:16.79
51		Ivan Kovbasnyuk	1:17.26
52		Alexandru Barbu	1:17.40
53		Yuri Danilochkin	1:17.44
54		Adam Lamhamedi	1:17.54
55		Albin Tahiri	1:17.98
56		Casper Dyrbye Naested	1:18.01
57		Andrej Drukarov	1:18.21
58		Komiljon Tukhtaev	1:18.27
59		Mohammad Kiyadarbandsari	1:18.61
60		Matthieu Osch	1:18.94
61		Matej Falat	1:19.79
62		Shannon Abeda	1:20.01
63		Evgeniy Timofeev	1:20.13
64		Eldar Salihovic	1:20.72
65		Serdar Deniz	1:20.78
66		Alessandro Mariotti	1:21.21
67		Arthur Hanse	1:21.52
68		Asa Miller	1:22.43
69		Zhang Yangming	1:22.95
70		Jeffrey Webb	1:23.84
71		Allen Behlok	1:25.43
72		Muhammad Karim	1:26.51
73		Charles Flaherty	1:27.55
74		Kang Song Il	1:29.99
75		Choe Myong Gwang	1:33.34
-		Riccardo Tonetti	DNF
-		Stefan Brennsteiner	DNF
-		Andreas Zampa	DNF
-		Joan Verdu	DNF
-		Juan del Campo	DNF
-		Emir Lokmic	DNF
-		Kai Horwitz	DNF
-		Kamen Zlatkov	DNF
-		Michael Poettoz	DNF
-		Kristoffer Jakobsen	DNS
-		Justin Murisier	DNS
-		Aleksander Aamodt Kilde	DNS
-		Alexander Schmid	DNS
-		Tim Jitloff	DNS
-		Kjetil Jansrud	DNS
-		Christian Hirschbuehl	DNS
-		Ivan Kuznetsov	DNS
-		Sebastiano Gastaldi	DNS
-		Jung Dong-hyun	DNS
-		Ondrej Berndt	DNS
-		Adam Kotzmann	DNS
-		Martin Cater	DNS
-		Sturla Snaer Snorrason	DNS
-		Jan Zabystran	DNS
-		Michel Macedo	DNS
-		Iason Abramashvili	DNS
-		Antonio Ristevski	DNS
-		Nicola Zanon	DNS
-		Dinos Lefkaritis	DNS
-		Connor Wilson	DNS
-		Michal Jasiczek	DNS
-		Manuel Feller	DNS
-		Luca de Aliprandini	DNS
-		Harry Laidlaw	DNS
-		Miha Hrobat	DNS

Results

Marcel Hischer won his second Olympic title, after winning the alpine combined event five days earlier. Henrik Kristoffersen, who won the silver medal with over a second behind Hirscher, won his second Olympic medal in four years, after winning the bronze medal at the slalom in 2014. The person who won the bronze medal at the giant slalom in 2014, Alexis Pinturault, won his second medal in Pyeongchang, after battling Hirscher for gold at the alpine combined. Zan Kranjec earned his first top-20 placement, while the rest of the French delegation Thomas Fanara, Victor Muffat-Jeandet, and Mathieu Faivre, finished right behind him.

Result	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Marcel Hirscher	Austria	2:18.04
	Henrik Kristoffersen	Norway	2:19.31
	Alexis Pinturault	France	2:19.35
4	Zan Kranjec	Slovenia	2:19.77
5	Thomas Fanara	France	2:19.83
6	Victor Muffat-Jeandet	France	2:19.85
7	Mathieu Faivre	France	2:19.99
8	Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen	Norway	2:20.23
9	Loic Meillard	Switzerland	2:20.45
10	Matts Olsson	Sweden	2:20.70
11	Ryan Cochran-Siegle	United States	2:20.74
11	Erik Read	Canada	2:20.74
13	Manfred Moelgg	Italy	2:21.04
14	Florian Eisath	Italy	2:21.18
15	Gino Caviezel	Switzerland	2:21.25
15	Ted Ligety	United States	2:21.25
17	Samu Torsti	Finland	2:21.37
18	Trevor Philp	Canada	2:21.51
19	Luca Aerni	Switzerland	2:21.62
20	Tommy Ford	United States	2:21.63
21	Stefan Hadalin	Slovenia	2:21.66
22	Linus Strasser	Germany	2:21.67
23	Andre Myhrer	Sweden	2:21.69
24	Filip Zubcic	Croatia	2:21.84
25	Adam Zampa	Slovakia	2:21.86
26	Fritz Dopfer	Germany	2:22.07
27	Phil Brown	Canada	2:22.55
28	Albert Popov	Bulgaria	2:23.60
29	James Crawford	Canada	2:24.12
30	Tomoya Ishii	Japan	2:24.78
31	Filip Forejtek	Czech Republic	2:26.07
32	Sam Maes	Belgium	2:26.20
33	Dominic Demschar	Australia	2:26.75
34	Adam Barwood	New Zealand	2:27.22
35	Kristaps Zvejnieks	Latvia	2:28.27
36	Willis Feasey	New Zealand	2:28.28
37	Samuel Kolega	Croatia	2:28.74
38	Olivier Jenot	Monaco	2:29.09
39	Kim Dong Woo	South Korea	2:30.05
40	Tormis Laine	Estonia	2:30.88
41	Marko Vukicevic	Serbia	2:31.35
42	Marton Kekesi	Hungary	2:31.86
43	Simon Breitfuss Kammerlander	Bolivia	2:32.25
44	Dalibor Samsal	Hungary	2:32.88
45	Marko Stevovic	Serbia	2:33.21
46	Ioannis Antoniou	Greece	2:33.30
47	Erjon Tola	Albania	2:33.63
48	Rodolfo Roberto Dickson Sommers	Mexico	2:33.69
49	Itamar Biran	Israel	2:33.71
50	Matej Falat	Slovakia	2:34.78
51	Igor Zakurdaev	Kazakhstan	2:35.07
52	Komiljon Tukhtaev	Uzbekistan	2:35.99
53	Adam Lamhamedi	Morocco	2:36.04
54	Yuri Danilochkin	Belarus	2:36.89
55	Alexandru Barbu	Romania	2:37.14
56	Albin Tahiri	Kosovo	2:37.47
57	Ivan Kovbasnyuk	Ukraine	2:37.67
58	Mohammad Kiyadarbandsari	Iran	2:37.72
59	Andrej Drukarov	Lithuania	2:38.19
60	Casper Dyrbye Naested	Denmark	2:38.34
61	Shannon Abeda	Eritrea	2:39.87
62	Matthieu Osch	Luxembourg	2:40.39
63	Evgeniy Timofeev	Kyrgyzstan	2:41.03
64	Eldar Salihovic	Montenegro	2:41.23
65	Alessandro Mariotti	San Marino	2:42.87
66	Arthur Hanse	Portugal	2:43.95
67	Serdar Deniz	Turkey	2:44.23
68	Jeffrey Webb	Malaysia	2:47.67
69	Zhang Yangming	China	2:48.68
70	Asa Miller	Philippines	2:49.95
71	Allen Behlok	Lebanon	2:52.13
72	Muhammad Karim	Pakistan	2:54.04
73	Charles Flaherty	Puerto Rico	2:56.05
74	Kang Song Il	North Korea	3:02.02
75	Choe Myong Gwang	North Korea	3:12.01
-	Riccardo Tonetti	Italy	DNF
-	Stefan Brennsteiner	Austria	DNF
-	Andreas Zampa	Slovakia	DNF
-	Joan Verdu	Andorra	DNF
-	Juan del Campo	Spain	DNF
-	Kai Horwitz	Chile	DNF
-	Kamen Zlatkov	Bulgaria	DNF
-	Emir Lokmic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	DNF
-	Michael Poettoz	Colombia	DNF
-	Kristoffer Jakobsen	Sweden	DNF
-	Justin Murisier	Switzerland	DNF
-	Aleksander Aamodt Kilde	Norway	DNF
-	Alexander Schmid	Germany	DNF
-	Tim Jitloff	United States	DNF
-	Kjetil Jansrud	Norway	DNF
-	Christian Hirschbuehl	Austria	DNF
-	Miha Hrobat	Slovenia	DNF
-	Ivan Kuznetsov	Olympic Athletes from Russia	DNF
-	Sebastiano Gastaldi	Argentina	DNF
-	Jung Dong-hyun	South Korea	DNF
-	Ondrej Berndt	Czech Republic	DNF
-	Adam Kotzmann	Czech Republic	DNF
-	Martin Cater	Slovenia	DNF
-	Sturla Snaer Snorrason	Iceland	DNF
-	Jan Zabystran	Czech Republic	DNF
-	Michel Macedo	Brazil	DNF
-	Iason Abramashvili	Georgia	DNF
-	Antonio Ristevski	Macedonia	DNF
-	Nicola Zanon	Thailand	DNF
-	Dinos Lefkaritis	Cyprus	DNF
-	Connor Wilson	South Africa	DNF
-	Manuel Feller	Austria	DQ
-	Luca de Aliprandini	Italy	DQ
-	Harry Laidlaw	Australia	DQ
-	Michal Jasiczek	Poland	DQ