| 1979 Men's giant slalom World Cup | |
| Previous: 1978 | Next: 1980 |
Men's giant slalom World Cup 1978/1979
Final point standings edit
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 | - |
| Alpine Skiing World Cup | |
| Men | |
| 1979 |