At Lahti, where returns Hannu Manninen, will continue the "combined Germanic"? [Presentation]

Over the weekend the Nordic combined is going to face a very singular event. For the first time in history will be held competitions for the World Cup in the same locality appointed to host the World Cup later in the season.

Thursday 5 January 2017 5 minutes reading time

In the past the peculiar situation has sometimes occurred in alpine skiing or special jump, but never in this discipline. Therefore what will be staged in Lahti, where from February 22 to March 5 event will be held the World Championship, it will be an absolute novelty. NEWS 'The first part of the winter has seen an absolute domination of Germany, who won 7 races out of seven (the six relay individual) and pick up something like 15 podium finishes out of a possible 19 theoretical! Not surprisingly Johannes Rydzek and Eric Frenzel - so far equitably spartitisi successes - are neck and neck in the overall standings of the World Cup (respectively 470 and 454 share) with Fabian RieÃŸle (342) to play the role of third wheel. The pretenders to the non-German Crystal Ball are already much more detached (Akito Watabe and JÃ¸rgen Graabak is 247 to 236). Therefore, this absolute monologue Teutonic will continue after the New Year, or the music will change? This will be one of the reasons interest of Lahti stage where, however, will return to action in the international arena after a break of five years and 10 months no less than Hannu Manninen, that is, the combined athlete most successful of all time. Last summer the thirty-eight-announced surprise his return to activities in preparation for World Cup 2017. Many people have judged a mere marketing move to try to revive the interest of the Finnish public around the Nordic combined. Yet the veteran of Rovaniemi is back for real and will be curious to see what could be his level. Â HISTORY A day in the resort of PÃ¤ijÃ¤t-HÃ¤me were held as many as 45 top-level competitions. 38 of them have had value for the Crystal Ball, while 7 were part of the program of six different editions of the World Championships (1926, 1938, 1958, 1978, 1989, 2001). Are 27 athletes to boast at least one success representing, however, of only 6 different nations. The Combiners more absolute victorious are the Finnish Hannu Manninen (1997, 2000, 2005, 2010) and the German Bjoern Kircheisen (2005, 2006, 2007, 2011), both capable of commanding 4 times. Including the two mentioned above, are nine Combiners in activities to have excelled on this slope. Magnus Moan boasts three statements (2006, 2009, 2010). Johannes Rydzek (2011, 2014) and Eric Frenzel (2013, 2016) were celebrated twice. Single success instead of Jan Schmid (2012), Akito Watabe (2015) and Fabian RieÃŸle. In terms of countries controls the German movement, credited with 15 victories (11 post-reunification, as DDR 1 and 3 as West Germany) that just last year surpassed Norway, Finland stops at 14. The lady of the house is at stake 8. They are then Japan (4), Austria and the United States (2).

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