15.02.1962. Chamonix Giant Slalom, men course length: 2200 m vertical drop: 470 m number of gates: 49 course setter: Louis Ravanel FRA started: 65 finished: 51 forerunner: Chuck Ferries USA weather: sunny 1. Egon Zimmermann II AUT 1.38.97 ( 6) 0.00 pts. 2. Karl Schranz AUT 1.39.12 ( 3) 0.70 3. Martin Burger AUT 1.39.42 ( 1) 2.80 4. Adrien Duvillard FRA 1.39.69 ( 2) 4.90 5. Bud Werner USA 1.40.13 (11) 8.40 6. Carlo Senoner ITA 1.40.25 (14) 9.10 7. Leo Lacroix FRA 1.40.66 ( 5) 11.90 8. Gerhard Nenning AUT 1.41.24 ( ) 15.58 9. Felice de Nicolo ITA 1.42.25 22.05 10. Ludwig Leitner FRG 1.42.53 ( ) 24.00 11. Willy Forrer SUI 1.42.85 ( 4) 25.95 12. James Heuga USA 1.42.97 26.50 13. Roger Gruenenfelder SUI 1.43.11 (15) 27.14 14. Paride Milianti ITA 1.43.18 27.78 15. Billy Kidd USA 1.43.40 29.06 16. Wolfgang Bartels FRG 1.44.01 32.80 17. Georg Gruenenfelder SUI 1.44.11 (16) 33.43 18. Martino Fill ITA 1.44.55 36.58 19. Bill Marolt USA 1.45.19 40.24 20. Verne Anderson CND 1.46.87 50.40 21. Yoshihiro Fukuhara JAP 1.47.01 50.80 22. Olle Rolen SWE 1.47.34 53.12 23. Peter Duncan CND 1.48.14 57.52 24. Tore Grahn SWE 1.48.17 57.52 25. Harald Arnessen NOR 1.48.37 58.64 26. Majine Tomii JAP 1.48.62 59.76 27. Per Sunde NOR 1.48.65 60.32 28. Masayoshi Mitani JAP 1.48.76 60.88 29. Arild Holm NOR 1.49.06 62.56 30. John Platt CND 1.49.70 65.92 31. Kristinn Benediktsson ISL 1.52.72 81.64 32. Willy Bogner FRG 1.52.98 83.20 33. Toshinobu Ito JAP 1.53.39 85.28 34. Luis Viu SPA 1.53.51 85.80 35. Jerry Bujakowski IND 1.57.44 105.90 36. Karim Aga-Khan GBR 1.58.30 109.90 37. Alex Motngomerie GBR 1.58.84 112.90 38. Nazif Geagea LEB 1.59.84 117.52 39. Vicente Vera CHI 2.00.54 120.88 40. Javier Macana SPA 2.01.42 124.72 41. Tor-Rolf Skogström FIN 2.03.80 135.88 42. Feizoulah Bandalli IRN 2.04.14 137.72 43. Ulf Ekstam FIN 2.07.36 152.16 44. Ovaness Mergerdoumean IRN 2.08.46 157.00 45. Martin Martinez SPA 2.13.27 177.26 46. Jean-Guy Brunet CND 2.13.64 178.94 47. Diego Schweizer ARG 2.16.03 188.40 48. Vassiliss Makridis GRE 2.23.23 215.94 49. Naif Amine LEB 2.26.41 227.72 50. Bahjat Bouhassan LEB 2.28.44 235.70 51. Raimo Manninen FIN 2.29.74 240.64 DNF: Michel Arpin FRA, Fritz Wagnerberger FRG (1st split-time: 5 – 40.6), etc. DQ: Guy Perillat FRA (1st split-time: 11 – 41.7), Paul Schmidt SUI, etc. 1st split-time (gate 24) 1. Egon Zimmermann II AUT 39.3 ( 6) 2. Martin Burger AUT 39.5 ( 1) 3. Karl Schranz AUT 39.8 ( 3) 4. Bud Werner USA 40.3 (11) 5. Fritz Wagnerberger FRG 40.6 6. Gerhard Nenning AUT and Leo Lacroix FRA 41.2 ( 5) and Carlo Senoner ITA (14) 8. Adrien Duvillard FRA 41.3 ( 2) 9. Felice de Nicolo ITA 41.4 10. Willy Forrer SUI 41.6 ( 4) 11. Guy Perillat FRA 41.7 12. Jimmy Heuga USA and Ludwig Leitner FRG 42.0 * Reuters have a 2:44 minutes silent report from this event available at British Pathe historical collection www.britishpathe.com/video/VLVAX93ED4ZQA1PYOV63JKPVINZG-FRANCE- INTERNATIONAL-SKI-FEDERATION-WORLD-GAMES-MENS-GIANT + British Pathe have also a 3 minutes unedited silent report from this event available at British Pathe historical collection www.britishpathe.com/video/mens-giant-slalom .