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This weekend gets underway in Kuusamo the 31st Men's World Cup Nordic Combined.'' The location of Northern Ostrobothnia has now become a classic early-season as organizing competitions of the maximum circuit for the twelfth year a row.
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Kuusamo hosts the season opener for the eleventh time'' and Finland for the eighteenth.
Basically, with the exception of 2012, when he departed from Lillehammer, since 1996 the World Cup has always begun in the "land of a thousand lakes". Between the late'' 90 and the beginning of the twenty-first century Vuokatti, Rovaniemi and Kuopio have played the role of the initial stage before handing the baton permanently since 2002.
So far in Kuusamo were played 19 individual competitions won by 9 athletes representing 5 different countries.
The vast majority of the evidence, however, was won by only three Combiners. High Scores of plurivittoriosi there is the German Ronny Ackermann, impostosi 5 times, followed at 4 statements from Finnish Hannu Manninen and French Jason Lamy-Chappuis.
Have a successful Mario Stecher, Björn Kircheisen, Anssi Koivuranta, Felix Gottwald, Magnus Krog and Tino Edelmann.
The rank by country is then controlled by Germany with 7 wins. Are then Finland (5) France (4), Austria (2) and Norway (1).
Under podiums instead Hannu Manninen is to have no rivals. The Finn is credited with as many as 10 placings in the top-three with Ackermann at 7 and Lamy-Chappuis to 5.
Among the countries stands instead a domain to two with Germany at 18 followed by Finland to 17. France third with 6, followed by Norway (5), Austria (4), United States (4), Japan (3).
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