Nordic World Ski Championships: The Nordic combined athletes barely missed a medal.
The ladies want to do better on Saturday.
We accompany the World Cup premiere in the live ticker.
Nordic World Ski Championships: Final result of the Nordic combined
1. Jarl Magnus Riiber (NOR) |
23: 01.2 |
2. Ilkka Herola (FIN) |
+0.4 |
3. Jens Luras Oftebro (NOR) |
+0.9 |
4. Eric Frenzel (GER) |
+5.9 |
5. Akito Watabe (JPN) |
+9.0 |
6. Fabian Rießle (GER) |
+16.8 |
>>> UPDATE <<<
Update from February 26th, 4.30 p.m.:
The old world champion is also the new one: Jarl Magnus Riiber is the king of Nordic combined.
The Norwegian took the lead shortly after the start and triumphed after ten kilometers in the finish sprint against the Finn Ilkka Herola and his compatriot Jens Luras Oftebro.
The DSV combiners had to pay tribute to the tough race to catch up in the end and were left behind on the last lap.
Eric Frenzel has to be content with fourth place, Fabian Rießle is sixth.
Tomorrow, Saturday, it will be the turn of the women and they want to do better than the men.
For the Nordic combined women it is the World Cup premiere of their discipline.
We accompany the jumping from 10 a.m. and the race from 3.30 p.m. in the live ticker.
“The combination is at the very beginning, there is still a long way to go.
But I think what has happened is good.
I do not hope that it stays that way, ”said Svenja Würth of the German Press Agency.
The former ski jumper switched to combination this season and is part of the four-man German squad on Saturday.
The German Jenny Nowak is one of the favorites and is considered the best athlete in the team of coach Klaus Edelmann.
"Jenny was number one all summer, she developed again while running," praised Würth.
Nordic World Ski Championships in the live ticker: DSV stars fail in the last round
Last lap:
Frenzel tries again, but the lead has hurried.
Riiber decides the sprint to the finish ahead of Herola and Oftebro.
For Frenzel only the ungrateful fourth place remains, Rießle is sixth.
Last lap:
The last mountain will decide.
Will the Germans get it again?
There are already five seconds in between.
Last round:
Riiber and Herola attack.
Frenzel and Rießle have to demolish, but nothing is lost yet.
Last lap:
Now it's a matter of securing the best position for the final sprint.
Frenzel and Rießle stay tuned.
That will be very tight in the end.
Round 3/4:
The Finn Ilkka Herola takes the lead and tries to escape, but the group stays with it.
Frenzel and Rießle are in fourth and fifth positions.
The final sprint is about to start.
Round 3/4:
There are now eight runners at the top.
Who has the most grains in the end?
Frenzel and Rießle challenge Riiber.
Lap 3/4:
The gap is almost closed, but the race to catch up has cost a lot of energy.
The last climbs will decide the medals.
That is incredibly exciting.
Two German medals are in the air here.
Lap 3/4:
Frenzel and Rießle have already reduced the gap to less than ten seconds.
The leadership trio around Lamparter, Riiber and Watabe is getting closer and closer.
The medals are in sight.
Round 2/4:
Much depends on the material.
It looks very good for Eric Frenzel and Fabian Rießle.
Half of the ten kilometers have been completed.
Round 1/4:
The four German runners have already made up a lot.
A large group followed the two Japanese, the Norwegian Riiber and the Austrian Lamparter at the top.
The gap is just under 20 seconds.
4:02 p.m.:
The DSV athletes Eric Frenzel and Fabian Rießle have promising chances for the medals.
A short time later, the local heroes Johannes Rydzek and Vinzenz Geiger also start.
The advantage: the two can support each other.
Start:
The hunt has begun.
The two Japanese Yamamoto and Watabe go into the race first.
Watabe is one of the favorites.
Riiber immediately takes up the chase.
Update from February 26th, 3:30 pm:
In half an hour, the combiners will be on the trail.
The German runners have created a decent starting position in jumping and are tackling the first medals.
Nordic World Ski Championships in the live ticker: German combiners go on the hunt for medals
Update from February 26th, 11:17 am:
The jumping is over.
At 4 p.m. the decision is made in the Nordic Combined, when it comes to the 10 kilometers of the cross-country ski run.
The two Japanese Yamamoto and Watabe lead, followed by the great dominator from Norway Jarl Magnus Riiber.
The German combiners Eric Frenzel and Fabian Rießle have the medals in their sights in eighth and ninth place, 40 and 41 seconds behind respectively.
Johannes Rydzek and Vinzenz Geiger, each 1:09 minutes behind, still have hopes.
56 - Jarl Magnus Riiber:
The Norwegian does not fly away from the competition!
At 103 meters, the big favorite is third on the trail.
55 - Vinzenz Geiger:
It's the turn of the local hero.
Jumping is not his favorite discipline, the Oberstdorf native is stronger on the cross-country ski run.
That is only 98 meters and unfortunately more than a minute behind.
54 - Akito Watabe:
The Japanese jumps 104 meters and is second.
53 - Fabian Rießle:
The next German makes a great jump, that's 102 meters.
When he sees the result, he is overjoyed - 7th place.
52 - Eric Frenzel:
The best German combined ski jumper only comes to 101 meters.
What a shame, there was more in it.
6th place - the starting position is good, but not ideal.
51 Ilkka Herola:
The Finn only reaches 99.5 meters.
50 - Johannes Lamparter:
The junior world champion jumps 102.5 meters - 2nd place.
48 - Lukas Greiderer:
The Austrian cannot fully confirm his trial jump and lands at 101 meters.
47 - Joergen Graabak:
The Norwegian is far away and also has a tailwind - only 97 meters.
With that one of the medal candidates is almost out.
46 - Johannes Rydzek:
The first German.
Rydzek has some upswing, but it's not enough for the front.
That is 99 meters - seventh place.
44 - Ryota Yamamoto:
What a sentence!
106 meters for the Japanese, that's the clear lead.
43 - Kristjan Ilves:
The Estonian also jumps 101.5 meters and takes the lead.
40 - Yoshito Watabe:
The Japanese is a strong jumper and reaches 101.5 meters.
Just under 1st place!
39 - Espen Andersen:
The first Norwegian only manages 96 meters - seventh place.
37 - Laurent Muhlethaler:
The Frenchman jumps exactly to 100 meters.
34 - Hideaki Nagai:
The 37-year-old Japanese just failed at the 100-meter mark.
With 99 meters he comes in third place.
28 - Ondřej Pažout:
The Czech cracks the 100 meters and takes the lead with 132.8 points.
25 - Szczepan Kupczak:
The Pole
goes one better
with 98.5 and takes the lead
24 - Vid Vrhovnik:
The Slovenian flies at 96.5 meters and benefits from the updraft.
That is the lead.
10:32 a.m.:
Many jumpers lack the speed, so that it is often only well under 90 meters.
Gael Blondeau has meanwhile been disqualified for his suit.
14 - Gasper Brecl:
The Slovenian takes the lead with 93.5 meters.
13 - Andrzej Szczechowicz:
The Pole comes close to the
record
with 88.5 meters.
10 - Gael Blondeau:
The first French.
Blondeau remains just below 90 meters at 88 meters.
9 - Ben Loomis:
The American takes the lead with 92.5 meters.
8 - Viacheslav Barkov:
The Russian jumps 81.5 meters and is second.
7 - Wille Karhumaa:
The top 50: The 20-year-old Finn Karhumaa comes to 81 meters and is in third place.
Update from February 26, 10.19 a.m.:
The German athletes are meanwhile warming themselves up with a soccer game in a circle.
Update from February 26th, 10.16 a.m.:
The first jumpers will not get very far here and are sometimes starting in the World Cup for the first time.
Eric Frenzel put in a long set in the test run and came in second.
If he can do that in competition, there is a lot in the race.
Update from February 26th, 10:10 am:
The DSV team has four hot irons in the fire with Eric Frenzel, Vinzenz Gieger, Fabian Rießle and Johannes Rydzek.
Who creates the best starting position for running from the hill?
Ski jumping is about to start.
Nordic World Ski Championships in the live ticker: Vinzenz Geiger puts pressure on Riiber
Update from February 26, 10:05 a.m.:
How can you beat Jarl Magnus Riiber?
This is the question that all athletes who are seriously aiming for the gold medal will be asking themselves before the Nordic Combined World Cup kick-off on Friday.
"I believe that you can only achieve this with a certain degree of consistency," said the Saxon veteran Eric Frenzel.
"If you are always close, then you put him under pressure, and that might help us that he makes one or two mistakes."
Close to the high flyer, who is once again leading the overall World Cup, was most recently Vinzenz Violinist.
In Ramsau, the 23-year-old even left the Norwegian behind twice shortly before Christmas.
"He is probably the first pursuer because he has the most opportunities when running," said national coach Hermann Weinbuch of the German press agency.
“He can do a long finish at high speed.
Nobody else can do that.
But he's also very, very fast on the home straight. ”The Oberstdorf local hero still has weaknesses on the ski jump.
Nordic World Ski Championships in the live ticker: combiners attack - ski jumping lays the foundation stone
Update from February 26th, 9.25 a.m.:
The Nordic Combined, the supreme discipline in winter sports, starts in the world championship in just under an hour.
We are already excited!
Can the German combiners beat the dominator Jarl Magnus Riiber?
In ski jumping, the foundation must first be created on the hill before the medals are on the trail.
Message from February 25th:
Oberstdorf - The Nordic combined athletes attack on Friday.
At the home game in Oberstdorf at the Nordic World Ski Championships, the successful DSV team around Eric Frenzel goes on a hunt for medals.
In the morning, at 10.15 a.m., the competition begins with jumping from the normal hill, before the decision is made in cross-country skiing in the afternoon at 4 p.m.
Nordic World Ski Championships in the live ticker: DSV stars chase Norwegians Riiber
When King Frenzel and Crown Prince Vinzenz Geiger opened the World Cup hunt for Jarl Magnus Riiber, the supposed victim shone with absence.
"He's playing his nerve tricks again," said national coach Hermann Weinbuch about the dominator of Nordic combined, who skipped the first jumps at the World Cup in Oberstdorf.
Training?
A Jarl Magnus Riiber doesn't need anything.
The Norwegian will be fully there by Friday at the latest.
In the fight for the first combined World Championship gold, Riiber is the defending champion and, thanks to his enormous flying skills, also the clear favorite for gold.
But Weinbuch's former "dominators" do not want to give up so quickly.
Nordic World Ski Championships in the live ticker: Local hero Geiger dreams of a home win
Because the record world champion and thus the king of the combination is still called Frenzel.
The Saxon has won seven titles in his career and the 32-year-old is back in good shape in time for his eighth World Cup.
But hitting riots is what local hero Geiger can do best.
Riiber was “only” second three times this season, twice the winner was Geiger.
So is it enough to win your first World Cup gold on your own doorstep?
“My personal goal is to be able to implement everything I've worked out for the World Cup,” says the 23-year-old rather cautiously.
Weinbuch is already clearer: “Vincent has the greatest opportunity to strike a blow.
He is currently our strongest. "
Nordic World Ski Championships in the live ticker: King Frenzel is far from having enough
So actually the time would be ripe for a changing of the guard, at least within the German team.
But Frenzel is still playing the main role, attracting everyone's attention.
“When you've won everything for a decade and you're decorated like that, you just have a name.
The Vinz still has to work that out, "says Weinbuch in an interview with SID:" He doesn't really dare to take on the executive role yet.
Maybe he doesn't want to either. "
So it's quite possible that Frenzel will have to fix it again in the end.
Although the veteran has not won the World Cup since March 2018, he still won gold from the large hill at the 2019 World Cup.
“I'm going to the World Cup in good shape.
If I perform as best as possible, I can achieve good results, ”said the father of three, who has never missed out on his last six World Cups.
(ck / sid)