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

Men's slalom
at the X Olympic Winter Games
Men's slalom; at the X Olympic Winter Games
	Alpine skiing
Venue	Chamrousse
Date	February 16–17
Competitors	100 from 33 nations
Winning time	3:09.62
Medalists
	← 1964 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	Name	Country	Run 1	Run 2	Total	Difference
	Jean-Claude Killy	France	0:49.37	0:50.36	1:39.73	-
	Herbert Huber	Austria	0:50.06	0:49.76	1:39.82	+0.09
	Alfred Matt	Austria	0:49.68	0:50.41	1:40.09	+0.36
4	Dumeng Giovanoli	Switzerland	0:49.89	0:50.33	1:40.22	+0.49
5	Spider Sabich	United States	0:49.75	0:50.74	1:40.49	+0.76
6	Andrzej Bachleda-Curuś	Poland	0:49.88	0:50.73	1:40.61	+0.88
7	Jimmy Heuga	United States	0:49.96	0:51.01	1:40.97	+1.24
8	Alain Penz	France	0:49.89	0:51.25	1:41.14	+1.41
9	Rick Chaffee	United States	0:49.95	0:51.24	1:41.19	+1.46
10	Peter Frei	Switzerland	0:50.04	0:51.94	1:41.98	+2.25
11	Rune Lindström	Sweden	0:51.19	0:50.80	1:41.99	+2.26
12	Luggi Leitner	West Germany	0:50.89	0:52.61	1:43.50	+3.77
13	Eberhard Riedel	East Germany	0:52.00	0:52.07	1:44.07	+4.34
14	Lasse Hamre	Norway	0:51.84	0:52.31	1:44.15	+4.42
14	Heini Messner	Austria	0:52.32	0:51.83	1:44.15	+4.42
16	Alfred Hagn	West Germany	0:52.95	0:51.70	1:44.65	+4.92
17	Jon Terje Øverland	Norway	0:51.51	0:53.37	1:44.88	+5.15
18	Ulf Ekstam	Finland	0:52.66	0:52.26	1:44.92	+5.19
19	Ivo Mahlknecht	Italy	0:52.22	0:53.03	1:45.25	+5.52
20	Max Rieger	West Germany	0:53.81	0:51.57	1:45.38	+5.65
21	Ryszard Ćwikła	Poland	0:53.69	0:53.11	1:46.80	+7.07
22	Bjarne Strand	Norway	0:51.69	0:55.69	1:47.38	+7.65
23	Francisco Fernández Ochoa	Spain	0:53.52	0:54.61	1:48.13	+8.40
24	Malcolm Milne	Australia	0:56.36	0:56.06	1:52.42	+12.69
25	Dan Cristea	Romania	0:56.10	0:57.23	1:53.33	+13.60
26	Vasily Melnikov	Soviet Union	0:54.94	0:59.48	1:54.42	+14.69
27	Carlos Adsera	Spain	0:59.54	0:57.67	1:57.21	+17.48
28	Blaž Jakopič	Yugoslavia	0:54.26	1:03.22	1:57.48	+17.75
29	Petar Angelov	Bulgaria	1:00.72	0:58.07	1:58.79	+19.06
30	Jeremy Palmer-Tomkinson	Great Britain	0:54.19	1:06.93	2:01.12	+21.39
31	Andrey Belokrinkin	Soviet Union	1:08.96	0:58.90	2:07.86	+28.13
-	Karl Schranz	Austria	0:49.69	DQ	-	-
-	Bengt-Erik Grahn	Sweden	0:49.74	DQ	-	-
-	Guy Périllat	France	0:49.89	DQ	-	-
-	Håkon Mjøen	Norway	0:49.91	DQ	-	-
-	Willi Lesch	West Germany	0:51.28	DQ	-	-
-	Jean-Pierre Augert	France	0:51.32	DQ	-	-
-	Jaroslav Janda	Czechoslovakia	0:51.62	DQ	-	-
-	Carlo Senoner	Italy	0:51.63	DNF	-	-
-	Olle Rolén	Sweden	0:51.77	DQ	-	-
-	Andreas Sprecher	Switzerland	0:51.91	DQ	-	-
-	Per-Olov Richardsson	Sweden	0:52.46	DQ	-	-
-	Wolfgang Ender	Liechtenstein	0:53.67	DQ	-	-
-	Robert Swan	Canada	0:53.75	DQ	-	-
-	Richard Leatherbee	Chile	0:56.26	DQ	-	-
-	Milan Pažout	Czechoslovakia	1:02.29	DQ	-	-
-	Aurelio García	Spain	DNF	-	-	-
-	Billy Kidd	United States	DNF	-	-	-
-	Willy Favre	Switzerland	DQ	-	-	-
-	Athanasios Tsimikalis	Greece	DNF	-	-	-
-	Rod Hebron	Canada	DNF	-	-	-

Classification

Round One

The top two in each heat advanced directly to the final, with the other racers moving to the second round.^[1]

Heat A

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Difference
1	Jean-Claude Killy	France	49.89	-
2	Robert Swan	Canada	53.50	+3.61
3	Ulf Ekstam	Finland	54.79	+4.90
4	Ian Todd	Great Britain	57.53	+7.64
5	Nagib Barrak	Lebanon	67.13	+17.24
6	Kristinn Benediktsson	Iceland	67.66	+17.77

Heat B

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Difference
1	Dumeng Giovanoli	Switzerland	51.14	-
2	Per-Olov Richardsson	Sweden	54.83	+3.69
3	Luggi Leitner	West Germany	55.34	+4.20
4	Jorge Rodríguez	Spain	57.30	+6.16
5	Mehmet Yıldırım	Turkey	65.31	+14.17
-	Robert Palmer	New Zealand	DQ	-

Heat C

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Difference
1	Alfred Matt	Austria	50.99	-
2	Lasse Hamre	Norway	53.33	+2.34
3	Francisco Fernández Ochoa	Spain	53.43	+2.44
4	Luke O'Reilly	Great Britain	54.35	+3.36
5	Lotfollah Kia Shemshaki	Iran	57.18	+6.19
-	Murray Gardner	New Zealand	DQ	-

Heat D

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Difference
1	Håkon Mjøen	Norway	52.36	-
2	Jaroslav Janda	Czechoslovakia	53.20	+0.84
3	Max Rieger	West Germany	54.20	+1.84
4	Fayzollah Band Ali	Iran	58.90	+6.54
5	Mario Vera	Chile	66.02	+13.66
6	Mehdi Mouidi	Morocco	73.61	+21.25

Heat E

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Difference
1	Heini Messner	Austria	51.76	-
2	Jon Terje Øverland	Norway	51.93	+0.17
3	Bruno Piazzalunga	Italy	52.11	+0.35
4	Ali Saveh	Iran	57.93	+6.17
5	Ivar Sigmundsson	Iceland	59.46	+7.70
-	Petar Angelov	Bulgaria	DNF	-

Heat F

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Difference
1	Willy Favre	Switzerland	53.65	-
2	Andrey Belokrinkin	Soviet Union	57.46	+3.81
3	Guy Périllat	France	57.71	+4.06
-	Burhan Alankuş	Turkey	DNF	-
-	Jeremy Bujakowski	India	DNF	-
-	Raimo Manninen	Finland	DNF	-

Heat G

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Difference
1	Jimmy Heuga	United States	52.34	-
2	Ivo Mahlknecht	Italy	52.82	+0.48
3	Alfred Hagn	West Germany	54.04	+1.70
4	Tomio Sasaki	Japan	55.98	+3.64

Heat H

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Difference
1	Herbert Huber	Austria	53.04	-
2	Rune Lindström	Sweden	53.85	+0.81
3	Richard Leatherbee	Chile	54.47	+1.43
4	Gerhard Mussner	Italy	54.60	+1.56
5	Dorin Munteanu	Romania	57.72	+4.68
-	Hassan Lahmaoui	Morocco	DQ	-

Heat I

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Difference
1	Aurelio García	Spain	51.44	-
2	Willi Lesch	West Germany	52.07	+0.63
3	Jean-Pierre Augert	France	52.10	+0.66
4	Julian Vasey	Great Britain	56.02	+4.58
5	Reynir Brynjólfsson	Iceland	59.85	+8.41
-	Ghassan Keyrouz	Lebanon	DQ	-

Heat J

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Difference
1	Bjarne Strand	Norway	54.18	-
2	Alain Penz	France	54.63	+0.45
3	Wolfgang Ender	Liechtenstein	55.55	+1.37
4	Félipe Briones	Chile	59.76	+5.58
5	Dimitrios Pappos	Greece	70.88	+16.70
-	Yoshinari Kida	Japan	DQ	-

Heat K

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Difference
1	Karl Schranz	Austria	52.56	-
2	Spider Sabich	United States	53.52	+0.96
3	Jeremy Palmer-Tomkinson	Great Britain	54.35	+1.79
4	Özer Ateşçi	Turkey	70.58	+18.02
-	Jože Gazvoda	Yugoslavia	DQ	-
-	Josef Gassner	Liechtenstein	DNF	-

Heat L

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Difference
1	Olle Rolén	Sweden	54.15	-
2	Peter Frei	Switzerland	55.66	+1.51
3	Blaž Jakopič	Yugoslavia	57.17	+3.02
4	Viktor Belyakov	Soviet Union	58.05	+3.90
5	Michael Dennis	New Zealand	72.75	+18.60
-	Ahmet Kıbıl	Turkey	DQ	-

Heat M

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Difference
1	Billy Kidd	United States	53.37	-
2	Dan Cristea	Romania	53.75	+0.38
3	Peter Duncan	Canada	54.57	+1.20
-	Björn Olsen	Iceland	DQ	-
-	Ryszard Ćwikła	Poland	DQ	-
-	Eo Jae-Sik	South Korea	DQ	-

Heat N

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Difference
1	Rick Chaffee	United States	54.28	-
2	Vasily Melnikov	Soviet Union	54.32	+0.04
3	Andreas Sprecher	Switzerland	54.78	+0.50
4	Thomas Huppert	New Zealand	64.77	+10.49
5	Moussa Jaalouk	Lebanon	73.69	+19.41
-	Yoshiharu Fukuhara	Japan	DQ	-

Heat O

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Difference
1	Bengt-Erik Grahn	Sweden	54.28	-
2	Athanasios Tsimikalis	Greece	62.82	+8.54
-	Milan Pažout	Czechoslovakia	DQ	-
-	Roberto Thostrup	Argentina	DQ	-
-	Scott Henderson	Canada	DQ	-
-	Tsuneo Noto	Japan	DNF	-

Heat P

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Difference
1	Andrzej Bachleda	Poland	53.48	-
2	Carlos Adsera	Spain	56.04	+2.56
3	Hans-Walter Schädler	Liechtenstein	56.07	+2.59
4	Rod Hebron	Canada	56.12	+2.64
5	Said Housni	Morocco	79.93	+26.45
-	Ovaness Meguerdonian	Iran	DNF	-

Heat Q

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Difference
1	Eberhard Riedel	East Germany	53.62	-
2	Carlo Senoner	Italy	54.18	+0.56
3	Gustavo Ezquerra	Argentina	57.09	+3.47
4	Andrej Klinar	Yugoslavia	58.16	+4.54
5	Malcolm Milne	Australia	83.26	+29.64
6	Mohamed Aomar	Morocco	89.54	+35.92

Round Two

The winner of each heat advanced to the final.^[1]