Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's combined


The men's combined was held on Tuesday, 14 February, two days after the downhill. The combined competition, as the name suggests, is a combination where the times in the downhill racing and the slalom events are added. One run of downhill and two runs of slalom are used to determine overall ranking in the combined event. All three runs were held in a single day.
Norway's Kjetil André Aamodt was defending Olympic champion from Salt Lake City in 2002, while Benjamin Raich of Austria was the reigning world champion. Raich led the Combined standings on the World Cup entering the Olympics, followed by Michael Walchhofer and Bode Miller in a tie for second.
Miller, the leader after the downhill portion, was disqualified in the first slalom run for straddling a gate. This left Raich in the lead going into the final run of slalom, followed by Ivica Kostelić and young American Ted Ligety. Ligety scorched the final run for the gold medal, while Raich skied out. Aamodt did not start the event after a knee injury, and Filip Trejbal had to withdraw after a spectacular crash which delayed the event for a prolonged period.
These were the last Olympics to use the traditional combined format. Starting in 2010, the Olympics are scheduled to switch to the "super-combined" format for the combined event. First run on the World Cup circuit in 2005 at Wengen, the "super-combi" format was first used at the world championships in 2007.

Results

The results of the men's combined event in Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
RankNameCountryDownhillSlalom 1Slalom 2TimeDifference
Ted Ligety1:41.4244.0943.843:09.35+0.00
Ivica Kostelić1:40.4444.6144.833:09.88+0.53
Rainer Schönfelder1:40.0245.6744.983:10.67+1.32
Daniel Albrecht1:40.4745.3144.953:10.73+1.38
Giorgio Rocca1:41.3944.8844.473:10.74+1.39
Ondřej Bank1:40.5045.3445.163:11.00+1.65
Marc Berthod1:41.2445.2144.773:11.22+1.87
Pierrick Bourgeat1:41.3545.5644.383:11.29+1.94
Peter Fill1:39.2247.4645.533:12.21+2.86
10Kjetil Jansrud1:41.5546.0244.753:12.32+2.97
11Markus Larsson1:41.2246.3844.743:12.34+2.99
12Martin Vráblík1:40.5046.7345.183:12.41+3.06
13Jean-Baptiste Grange1:44.0544.6343.833:12.51+3.16
14Noel Baxter1:42.2645.6444.893:12.79+3.44
15Aleš Gorza1:41.3146.4445.163:12.91+3.56
16Scott Macartney1:40.0646.8246.173:13.05+3.70
17John Kucera1:41.0446.6745.553:13.26+3.91
18Johan Brolenius1:43.5645.2044.513:13.27+3.92
19Andrej Jerman1:40.6246.9146.273:13.80+4.45
20Kryštof Krýzl1:41.4746.6246.093:14.18+4.83
21François Bourque1:40.5047.5246.233:14.25+4.90
22Aleksandr Khoroshilov1:42.3546.9246.193:15.46+6.11
23Cristian Javier Simari Birkner1:43.9345.8946.723:16.54+7.19
24Pavel Chestakov1:40.4149.1147.323:16.84+7.49
25Ivan Heimshild1:43.1248.1347.163:18.41+9.06
26Tin Široki1:44.7547.4048.013:20.16+10.81
27Jaroslav Babušiak1:43.3248.8648.603:20.78+11.43
28Roger Vidosa1:46.0948.2347.053:21.37+12.02
29Steve Nyman1:40.1947.1455.353:22.68+13.33
30Andrej Šporn1:39.6746.2057.663:23.53+14.18
31Mihail Sediankov1:46.1049.1148.693:23.90+14.55
32Claudio Sprecher1:41.0151.7751.303:24.08+14.73
33Natko Zrnčić-Dim1:41.2356.5546.373:24.15+14.80
34Mario Matt1:41.0845.603:28.78+19.43
35Florentin-Daniel Nicolae1:45.8153.3952.693:31.89+22.54
Manuel Osborne-Paradis1:39.6950.11
Benjamin Raich1:40.4244.23
Anton Konovalov1:45.1256.15
Ivan Ratkić1:44.7148.48
Nikolay Skriabin1:46.6351.21
Renārs Doršs1:44.5452.55
Jorge Mandrú1:45.8152.92
Konstantin Sats1:41.02
Aksel Lund Svindal1:39.26
Silvan Zurbriggen1:41.08
Michael Walchhofer1:39.52
Ryan Semple1:41.65
Lasse Kjus1:39.63
Michał Kałwa1:42.72
Stefan Georgiev1:43.86
Didier Défago1:38.68
Alex Antor1:43.84
Sindri M. Pálsson1:46.04
Alexander Heath1:47.62
Patrick Staudacher1:40.52
Bode Miller1:38.36
Nikolai Hentsch1:45.42
Kjetil André Aamodt
Filip Trejbal
Jono Brauer