# 1979 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's giant slalom

Men's giant slalom World Cup 1978/1979

## 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 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 15 | 19 | 24 | 27 | 30 | 31 | 33 |
| 1 | Ingemar Stenmark | Sweden | 125 | (125) | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | (25) | (25) | (25) | (25) | (25) |
| 2 | Peter Lüscher | Switzerland | 104 | (41) | 20 | 20 | 20 | - | (20) | - | (2) | 23 | 21 | (19) |
| 3 | Bojan Križaj | Yugoslavia | 96 | (21) | - | 15 | 15 | (6) | - | 20 | - | 22 | 24 | (15) |
| 4 | Heini Hemmi | Switzerland | 86 | (40) | (2) | 11 | (8) | (11) | (11) | 15 | (8) | 21 | 15 | 24 |
| 5 | Jacques Lüthy | Switzerland | 75 | (2) | (1) | - | - | 15 | (1) | 8 | 15 | - | 16 | 21 |
| 6 | Andreas Wenzel | Liechtenstein | 74 | | - | - | - | 20 | 15 | - | - | 19 | 20 | - |
| | Piero Gros | Italy | 74 | (5) | 8 | 8 | - | (4) | - | (1) | - | 16 | 22 | 20 |
| 8 | Jean-Luc Fournier | Switzerland | 73 | (10) | 11 | (2) | 11 | (8) | - | - | - | 18 | 10 | 23 |
| 9 | Hans Enn | Austria | 70 | | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 4 | 24 | 23 | 16 |
| 10 | Leonhard Stock | Austria | 69 | (5) | - | - | (3) | - | 8 | (2) | 11 | 20 | 13 | 17 |
| 11 | Boris Strel | Yugoslavia | 54 | | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | 9 | 19 | 22 |
| 12 | Alex Giorgi | Italy | 40 | | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | 13 | 14 | 10 |
| 13 | Jože Kuralt | Yugoslavia | 35 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 17 | - | 18 |
| 14 | Anton Steiner | Austria | 33 | | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 15 | 17 | - |
| 15 | Leonardo David | Italy | 29 | | 15 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | - | - | - |
| | Bohumír Zeman | Czechoslovakia | 29 | | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 11 | 11 |
| 17 | Torsten Jakobsson | Sweden | 28 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | 12 | 4 |
| 18 | Phil Mahre | United States | 27 | | - | - | 1 | - | 6 | - | 20 | - | - | - |
| | Wolfram Ortner | Austria | 27 | | 4 | - | 6 | - | - | 11 | - | - | 6 | - |
| 20 | Gustav Thöni | Italy | 26 | | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | - | 13 |
| 21 | Steve Mahre | United States | 25 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | 4 | 12 |
| | Klaus Heidegger | Austria | 25 | (1) | - | - | 4 | - | 4 | 3 | (1) | - | 5 | 9 |
| | Werner Rhyner | Switzerland | 25 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 10 | 7 | 2 |
| 24 | Hannes Spiss | Austria | 22 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14 | - | 8 |
| 25 | Franz Gruber | Austria | 19 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | 8 | - |
| 26 | Ingvar Bergstedt | Sweden | 18 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18 | - |
| | Pete Patterson | United States | 18 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | 14 |
| 28 | Mauro Bernardi | Italy | 9 | | 6 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Eric Wilson | United States | 9 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | - |
| 30 | Albert Burger | West Germany | 8 | | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 6 | - | - |
| | Valeri Tsyganov | Soviet Union | 8 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 6 |
| 32 | Willi Frommelt | Liechtenstein | 7 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 |
| 33 | Christian Orlainsky | Austria | 6 | | - | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 34 | Petar Popangelov | Bulgaria | 5 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | - | - |
| | Peter Mally | Italy | 5 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 |
| 36 | Germaine Barrette | Canada | 3 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - |
| | Atsushi Sawada | Japan | 3 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| 38 | Cary Adgate | Canada | 2 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - |
| | Peter Müller | Switzerland | 2 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| 40 | Scott Hoffman | United States | 1 | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |