Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's giant slalom

The Men's giant slalom competition of the Nagano 1998 Olympics was held at Shiga Kogen.^[1][2]

Men's giant slalom at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Alpine skiing
Venue	Shiga Kogen
Date	February 19, 1998
Competitors	62 from 28 nations
Winning time	2:38.51
Medalists
Hermann Maier  Austria Stephan Eberharter  Austria Michael von Grünigen  Switzerland
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The defending world champion was Michael von Grünigen of Switzerland, who was also the defending World Cup giant slalom champion. ^[3][4]

Results

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Rank	Name	Country	Run 1	Run 2	Total	Difference
	Hermann Maier	Austria	1:20.36	1:18.15	2:38.51	-
	Stephan Eberharter	Austria	1:20.94	1:18.42	2:39.36	+0.85
	Michael von Grünigen	Switzerland	1:20.98	1:18.71	2:39.69	+1.18
4	Hans Knauss	Austria	1:21.16	1:18.55	2:39.71	+1.20
5	Jure Košir	Slovenia	1:20.97	1:19.01	2:39.98	+1.47
6	Steve Locher	Switzerland	1:21.98	1:18.32	2:40.30	+1.79
7	Paul Accola	Switzerland	1:21.31	1:19.26	2:40.57	+2.06
8	Lasse Kjus	Norway	1:21.92	1:18.73	2:40.65	+2.14
9	Christian Mayer	Austria	1:20.84	1:19.83	2:40.67	+2.16
10	Fredrik Nyberg	Sweden	1:22.32	1:18.63	2:40.95	+2.44
11	Ian Piccard	France	1:22.08	1:19.02	2:41.10	+2.59
12	Urs Kälin	Switzerland	1:22.00	1:19.17	2:41.17	+2.66
13	Christophe Saioni	France	1:21.84	1:19.40	2:41.24	+2.73
14	Marco Büchel	Liechtenstein	1:22.52	1:19.47	2:41.99	+3.48
15	Matteo Nana	Italy	1:22.43	1:19.94	2:42.37	+3.86
16	Sergio Bergamelli	Italy	1:22.38	1:20.40	2:42.78	+4.27
17	Tom Stiansen	Norway	1:21.40	1:21.48	2:42.88	+4.37
18	Mitja Kunc	Slovenia	1:22.66	1:20.43	2:43.09	+4.58
19	Sami Uotila	Finland	1:23.43	1:20.02	2:43.45	+4.94
20	Daron Rahlves	United States	1:22.81	1:20.78	2:43.59	+5.08
21	Patrik Järbyn	Sweden	1:23.19	1:20.63	2:43.82	+5.31
22	Jernej Koblar	Slovenia	1:23.49	1:20.47	2:43.96	+5.45
23	Thomas Lödler	Croatia	1:23.26	1:20.95	2:44.21	+5.70
24	Andrzej Bachleda-Curuś	Poland	1:24.17	1:22.07	2:46.24	+7.73
25	Kiminobu Kimura	Japan	1:25.02	1:21.33	2:46.35	+7.84
26	Sacha Gros	United States	1:24.57	1:22.32	2:46.89	+8.38
27	Tejs Broberg	Denmark	1:25.14	1:22.00	2:47.14	+8.63
28	Vedran Pavlek	Croatia	1:25.61	1:21.93	2:47.54	+9.03
29	Marcel Maxa	Czech Republic	1:25.88	1:23.63	2:49.51	+11.00
	Takuya Ishioka	Japan	1:26.16	1:23.35
31	Alain Baxter	Great Britain	1:26.29	1:23.53	2:49.82	+11.31
32	Stefan Georgiev	Bulgaria	1:27.76	1:23.13	2:50.89	+12.38
33	Hur Seung-Wook	South Korea	1:27.87	1:24.40	2:52.27	+13.76
34	Ivars Ciaguns	Latvia	1:28.52	1:25.07	2:53.59	+15.08
35	Marko Đorđević	FR Yugoslavia	1:30.34	1:28.13	2:58.47	+19.96
36	Aleksandar Stojanovski	Macedonia	1:31.83	1:29.34	3:01.17	+22.66
-	Joël Chenal	France	1:22.05	DQ	-	-
-	Patrick Holzer	Italy	1:22.39	DNF	-	-
-	Markus Eberle	Germany	1:24.01	DNF	-	-
-	Kalle Palander	Finland	1:24.02	DNF	-	-
-	Victor Gómez	Andorra	1:25.07	DNF	-	-
-	Gerard Escoda	Andorra	1:25.23	DNF	-	-
-	Kristinn Björnsson	Iceland	1:25.47	DNS	-	-
-	Enis Bećirbegović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:26.15	DNF	-	-
-	Dmitry Kvach	Kazakhstan	1:29.95	DNF	-	-
-	Bode Miller	United States	1:56.98	DNF	-	-
-	Kjetil André Aamodt	Norway	DNF	-	-	-
-	Alberto Tomba	Italy	DNF	-	-	-
-	Harald Christian Strand Nilsen	Norway	DNF	-	-	-
-	Bernhard Knauss	Slovenia	DNF	-	-	-
-	Achim Vogt	Liechtenstein	DNF	-	-	-
-	Casey Puckett	United States	DNF	-	-	-
-	Martin Hansson	Sweden	DNF	-	-	-
-	Andrey Filichkin	Russia	DNF	-	-	-
-	Kentaro Minagawa	Japan	DNF	-	-	-
-	Mika Marila	Finland	DNF	-	-	-
-	Vasily Bezsmelnitsyn	Russia	DNF	-	-	-
-	Renato Gašpar	Croatia	DNF	-	-	-
-	Haukur Arnórsson	Iceland	DNF	-	-	-
-	Byun Jong-moon	South Korea	DNF	-	-	-
-	Lyubomir Popov	Bulgaria	DNF	-	-	-
-	Thomas Grandi	Canada	DQ	-	-	-