The men's slalom competition of the 2026 Winter Olympics was held on Monday, 16 February, at Stelvio Ski Centre in Bormio. Loïc Meillard of Switzerland won the event, and this became his first Olympic gold. Fabio Gstrein of Austria won the silver medal, his first Olympic medal, and Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway won bronze.

Background The defending champion, Clément Noël, qualified for the event. The silver medalist, Johannes Strolz, did not qualify. The bronze medalist, Sebastian Foss-Solevåg, retired from competitions. Prior to the Olympics on the World Cup circuit, Atle Lie McGrath led in the slalom standings, closely followed by Lucas Pinheiro Braathen. Loïc Meillard was the reigning world champion

Summary Atle Lie McGrath was the fastest in the first run, 0.6 seconds ahead of Loïc Meillard and almost a second faster than Gstrein and Timon Haugan. Kristoffersen, sixth in the first run, posted a leading time in the second run and led with three racers (from the leading group) remaining. The next two, Gstrein and Meillard, posted best identical times in the second run. With a better first run, Meillard was in the gold medal position with one racer remaining. Starting last in the leading group of thirty, McGrath straddled an early gate and did not finish.

The opening run was conducted under snowfall; more than half the field failed to finish the first run.

Qualification

Results The race was started at 10:00 (first run) and 13:30 (second run) local time (UTC+1), both under soft snow conditions. The first run was held in light snow; the air temperature was at the starting gate and at the finish area. The second run was under mostly cloudy skies; the air temperature was at the starting gate and at the finish area. Rank Bib Name Nation Run 1 Rank Run 2 Rank Total Behind 2 56.73 2 56.88 1 1:53.61 12 57.08 3 56.88 1 1:53.96 +0.35 5 57.73 6 57.01 3 1:54.74 +1.13 4 7 57.10 4 57.93 16 1:55.03 +1.42 5 8 57.34 5 58.27 18 1:55.61 +2.00 6 15 58.46 11 57.17 5 1:55.63 +2.02 7 22 58.71 14 57.03 4 1:55.74 +2.13 8 17 58.34 9 57.41 9 1:55.75 +2.14 9 13 58.49 12 57.29 7 1:55.78 +2.17 10 16 58.10 7 57.69 14 1:55.79 +2.18 11 26 58.96 16 57.27 6 1:56.23 +2.62 12 37 58.37 10 57.97 17 1:56.34 +2.73 13 25 58.93 15 57.43 11 1:56.36 +2.75 14 29 59.19 17 57.39 8 1:56.58 +2.97 15 19 59.42 18 57.48 12 1:56.90 +3.29 16 28 58.66 13 58.59 19 1:57.25 +3.64 17 20 59.88 19 57.60 13 1:57.48 +3.87 18 10 20 57.41 9 1:57.59 +3.98 19 33 21 57.86 15 1:58.18 +4.57 20 38 22 58.75 20 1:59.58 +5.97 21 44 24 58.95 21 2:01.96 +8.35 22 61 23 24 2:02.44 +8.83 23 49 25 59.91 23 2:02.96 +9.35 24 60 27 59.89 22 2:03.83 +10.22 25 47 30 25 2:05.63 +12.02 26 52 26 27 2:05.68 +12.07 27 57 31 26 2:06.87 +13.26 28 54 28 29 2:07.46 +13.85 29 62 29 30 2:07.80 +14.19 30 70 32 31 2:09.10 +15.49 31 58 35 28 2:10.24 +16.63 32 65 33 32 2:11.91 +18.30 33 67 36 33 2:16.77 +23.16 34 80 39 34 2:19.46 +25.85 35 87 40 35 2:20.45 +26.84 36 90 41 36 2:22.85 +29.24 37 85 42 38 2:29.17 +35.56 38 88 43 37 2:30.02 +36.41 39 93 44 39 2:41.60 +47.99 1 56.14 1 4 58.10 7 64 34 91 38 89 37 3 6 9 11 14 18 21 23 24 27 30 31 32 35 Jung Dong-hyun 36 39 40 41 42 43 45 46 48 50 51 53 55 56 63 66 68 69 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 Liu Xiaochen 82 83 84 86 92 94 95 96 34 81 59

References

External links FIS-Ski.com – 2026 Winter Olympics – Men's Slalom