1979 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's giant slalom

None Men's giant slalom World Cup Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's giant slalom 1979 Men's giant slalom World Cup 1978/1979 1979 Alpine Skiing World Cup Final point standings In men's giant slalom World Cup 1978/79 the best 5 results count. Nine racers had a point deduction, which are given in brackets. Ingemar Stenmark won the cup with maximum points by winning all 10 events. He won his fifth Giant slalom World Cup in a row. Place Name Country Total points Deduction 1AUT 8YUG 10FRA 15SUI 19AUT 24TCH 27SWE 30USA 31USA 33JPN 1 Ingemar Stenmark 125 (125) 25 25 25 25 25 (25) (25) (25) (25) (25) 2 Peter Lüscher 104 (41) 20 20 20 - (20) - (2) 23 21 (19) 3 Bojan Križaj 96 (21) - 15 15 (6) - 20 - 22 24 (15) 4 Heini Hemmi 86 (40) (2) 11 (8) (11) (11) 15 (8) 21 15 24 5 Jacques Lüthy 75 (2) (1) - - 15 (1) 8 15 - 16 21 6 Andreas Wenzel 74 - - - 20 15 - - 19 20 - Piero Gros 74 (5) 8 8 - (4) - (1) - 16 22 20 8 Jean-Luc Fournier 73 (10) 11 (2) 11 (8) - - - 18 10 23 9 Hans Enn 70 - - - - 3 - 4 24 23 16 10 Leonhard Stock 69 (5) - - (3) - 8 (2) 11 20 13 17 11 Boris Strel 54 - - - - - 4 - 9 19 22 12 Alex Giorgi 40 - - - 3 - - - 13 14 10 13 Jože Kuralt 35 - - - - - - - 17 - 18 14 Anton Steiner 33 - - - 1 - - - 15 17 - 15 Leonardo David 29 15 - - 2 2 6 4 - - - Bohumír Zeman 29 3 1 - - - - - 3 11 11 17 Torsten Jakobsson 28 - - - - - - - 12 12 4 18 Phil Mahre 27 - - 1 - 6 - 20 - - - Wolfram Ortner 27 4 - 6 - - 11 - - 6 - 20 Gustav Thöni 26 - 4 - - - - - 9 - 13 21 Steve Mahre 25 - - - - - - - 9 4 12 Klaus Heidegger 25 (1) - - 4 - 4 3 (1) - 5 9 Werner Rhyner 25 - - - - - - 6 10 7 2 24 Hannes Spiss 22 - - - - - - - 14 - 8 25 Franz Gruber 19 - - - - - - - 11 8 - 26 Ingvar Bergstedt 18 - - - - - - - - 18 - Pete Patterson 18 - - - - - - - 4 - 14 28 Mauro Bernardi 9 6 3 - - - - - - - - Eric Wilson 9 - - - - - - - - 9 - 30 Albert Burger 8 - - 2 - - - - 6 - - Valeri Tsyganov 8 - - - - - - - - 2 6 32 Willi Frommelt 7 - - - - - - - - - 7 33 Christian Orlainsky 6 - 6 - - - - - - - - 34 Petar Popangelov Bulgaria 1971 5 - - - - - - - 5 - - Peter Mally 5 - - - - - - - - - 5 36 Germaine Barrette 3 - - - - - - - - 3 - Atsushi Sawada 3 - - - - - - - - - 3 38 Cary Adgate 2 - - - - - - - 2 - - Peter Müller 2 - - - - - - - 1 - 1 40 Scott Hoffman 1 - - - - - - - - 1 - Alpine Skiing World Cup MenOverall | Downhill | Giant slalom | Slalom | Combined 1979 References fis-ski.com World Cup Category:FIS Alpine Ski World Cup men's giant slalom discipline titles