Olympic Winter Games 1948 / Alpine Skiing - Slalom (Men)

sport	Alpine skiing
discipline	slalom
gender	Men
Attendees	77 athletes from 22 countries
Competition location	Corviglia
Competition phase	February 5, 1948
Winning time	2: 10.3 min
Medalist  Edy Reinalter ( SUI )  James Couttet ( FRA )  Henri Oreiller ( FRA )
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Alpine skiing competitions at the 1948 Winter Olympics
Departure	Women	Men
slalom	Women	Men
Alpine combination	Women	Men

For the first time in history, a men's slalom competition in alpine skiing was held at the 1948 Winter Olympics in the Corviglia ski area on February 5 . The race consisted of two runs, from which both times were added.

The Swiss Edy Reinalter became Olympic champion . Silver and bronze went to the French James Couttet and Henri Oreiller . The Austrian Hans Hinterholzer fell during the race, overturning and flying into the audience.

Results

rank	athlete	nation	1st run (min)	2nd run (min)	Total (min)	Deficit (min)
1	Edy Reinalter	Switzerland	1: 07.7	1: 02.6	2: 10.3
2	James Couttet	France	1: 07.5	1: 03.3	2: 10.8	+0: ​​00.5
3	Henri Oreiller	France	1: 08.0	1: 04.8	2: 12.8	+0: ​​02.5
4th	Silvio Alverà	Italy	1: 07.4	1: 05.8	2: 13.2	+0: ​​02.9
5	Olle Dalman	Sweden	1: 10.4	1: 03.2	2: 13.6	+0: ​​03.3
6th	Egon Schöpf	Austria	1: 11.1	1: 03.1	2: 14.2	+0: ​​03.9
7th	Jack Reddish	United States	1: 11.0	1: 04.5	2: 15.5	+0: ​​05.2
8th	Karl Molitor	Switzerland	1: 10.2	1: 06.0	2: 16.2	+0: ​​05.9
9	Luboš Brchel	Czechoslovakia	1: 10.8	1: 05.8	2: 16.6	+0: ​​06.3
10	Sixten Isberg	Sweden	1: 10.7	1: 06.5	2: 17.2	+0: ​​06.9
11	Hans Hansson	Sweden	1: 11.1	1: 07.2	2: 18.3	+0: ​​08.0
12	Edi Mall	Austria	1: 12.2	1: 06.1	2: 18.3	+0: ​​08.0
13	Georges Schneider	Switzerland	1: 11.9	1: 06.5	2: 18.4	+0: ​​08.1
14th	Zeno Colò	Italy	1: 13.3	1: 05.7	2: 19.0	+0: ​​08.7
15th	Desirè Lacroix	France	1: 09.9	1: 10.0	2: 19.9	+0: ​​09.6
16	Steve Knowlton	United States	1: 12.9	1: 07.6	2: 20.5	+0: ​​10.2
17th	Engelbert Haider	Austria	1: 13.3	1: 09.5	2: 22.8	+0: ​​12.5
18th	Saša Molnar	Yugoslavia	1: 11.4	1: 12.0	2: 23.4	+0: ​​13.1
19th	Harvey Clifford	Canada	1: 13.5	1: 10.2	2: 23.7	+0: ​​13.4
20th	Colin Stewart	United States	1: 15.3	1: 08.8	2: 24.1	+0: ​​13.8
21st	Aimo Vartiainen	Finland	1: 14.0	1: 11.0	2: 25.0	+0: ​​14.7
22nd	Antonín Šponar	Czechoslovakia	1: 15.2 *	1: 06.5	2: 26.7	+0: ​​16.4
23	Bjarne Arentz	Norway	1: 16.2	1: 11.5	2: 27.7	+0: ​​17.4
24	Barney McLean	United States	1: 20.5	1: 07.6	2: 28.1	+0: ​​17.8
25th	Peter Szikla	Hungary	1: 15.1	1: 14.1	2: 29.2	+0: ​​18.9
26th	Jack Nielsen	Norway	1: 22.0	1: 07.8	2: 29.8	+0: ​​19.5
27	Matevž Lukanc	Yugoslavia	1: 17.2	1: 13.7	2: 30.9	+0: ​​20.6
28	Hector Sutherland	Canada	1: 19.2	1: 12.0	2: 31.2	+0: ​​20.9
29	Stone Eriksen	Norway	1: 24.4	1: 08.0	2: 32.4	+0: ​​22.1
30th	Vittorio Chierroni	Italy	1: 27.0	1: 05.5	2: 32.5	+0: ​​22.2
31	Józef Marusarz	Poland	1: 19.2	1: 14.0	2: 33.2	+0: ​​22.9
32	Pentti Alonen	Finland	1: 18.1	1: 12.7 *	2: 35.8	+0: ​​25.5
33	Daniel Šlachta	Czechoslovakia	1: 21.0	1: 17.7	2: 38.7	+0: ​​28.4
34	Claude Penz	France	1: 24.2 *	1: 10.9	2: 40.1	+0: ​​29.8
35	Tamás Székely	Hungary	1: 21.9 *	1: 15.8	2: 42.7	+0: ​​33.3
35	Franci Čop	Yugoslavia	1: 24.8	1: 18.9	2: 43.6	+0: ​​33.3
37	Albert Irwin	Canada	1: 29.4	1: 16.6	2: 46.0	+0: ​​35.7
38	Dumitru Sulica	Romania	1: 27.2	1: 20.7	2: 47.9	+0: ​​37.6
39	Ion Coliban	Romania	1: 30.1	1: 18.8	2: 48.9	+0: ​​38.6
40	Valentin-Ture Mulej	Yugoslavia	1: 15.0	1: 36.0	2: 51.0	+0: ​​40.7
41	Alf Opheim	Norway	1: 36.4	1: 15.0	2: 51.4	+0: ​​41.1
42	Luis de Ridder	Argentina	1: 32.2	1: 20.2	2: 52.4	+0: ​​42.1
43	Gino de Pellegrín	Argentina	1: 29.8	1: 23.5	2: 53.3	+0: ​​43.0
44	Dimitar Drazhev	Bulgaria	1: 33.1	1: 20.9	2: 54.0	+0: ​​43.7
45	José Arias	Spain	1: 31.4	1: 24.5	2: 55.9	+0: ​​45.6
	Juan Poll	Spain	1: 30.9	1: 25.0	2: 55.9	+0: ​​45.6
47	David Madzhar	Bulgaria	1: 29.7	1: 19.6	2: 58.3	+0: ​​48.0
48	Lajos Mate	Hungary	1: 40.1	1: 20.5	3: 00.6	+0: ​​50.3
49	Donald Garrow	Great Britain	1: 37.0	1: 24.3	3: 01.3	+0: ​​51.0
50	Wilbur Irwin	Canada	1: 40.4	1: 21.2	3: 01.6	+0: ​​51.3
51	Thomas Morawitz	Spain	1: 37.0	1: 30.8	3: 07.8	+0: ​​57.5
52	Hernán Oelkers	Chile	1: 44.2	1: 24.8	3: 09.0	+0: ​​58.7
53	Otto Jung	Argentina	1: 54.1	1: 21.6	3: 15.7	+1: 05.4
54	Arturo Hammersley	Chile	1: 49.2	1: 26.9	3: 16.1	+1: 05.8
55	Ian Appleyard	Great Britain	1: 47.0	1: 33.1	3: 20.1	+1: 09.8
56	Pablo Rosenkjer	Spain	1: 48.7 *	1: 34.2	3: 27.9	+1: 17.6
57	Béla Imre	Romania	1: 57.4	1: 40.3	3: 37.7	+1: 27.4
58	Raşit Tolun	Turkey	2: 04.8	1: 37.2	3: 42.0	+1: 31.7
59	Guðmundur Guðmundsson	Iceland	2: 04.4 *	1: 45.2	3: 54.6	+1: 44.3
60	Osman Yuce	Turkey	2: 16.2 *	1: 47.4	4: 08.6	+1: 58.3
61	Harry Taylor	Great Britain	2: 05.5	1: 59.4 *	4: 09.9	+1: 59.6
62	Dursun Bozkurt	Turkey	2: 08.2 **	1: 53.0	4: 11.2	+2: 00.9
63	John Boyagis	Great Britain	2: 30.0	1: 39.1 *	4: 14.1	+2: 03.8
64	Muzaffer Demirhan	Turkey	2: 25.5	2: 00.2	4: 25.7	+2: 15.4
65	Ramon Blanco	Spain	2: 18.5	2: 09.0	4: 27.5	+2: 17.2
66	Ibrahim Geagea	Lebanon	1: 44.3 *	1: 44.8	4: 34.1	+2: 23.8
	Zdeněk Parma	Czechoslovakia	DNF
	Åke Nilsson	Sweden	DNF
	Karl Gamma	Switzerland	DNF
	Roberto Lacedelli	Italy	DNF
	Jan Lipowski	Poland	DNF
	Jan Gąsienica Ciaptak	Poland	DNF
	Jaime Errázuriz	Chile	DNF
	Hans Hinterholzer	Austria	DNF
	Christian Pravda	Austria	DSQ
	György Libik	Hungary	DSQ
	Radu Scîrneci	Romania	DSQ

* 5 penalty seconds ** 10 penalty seconds

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