Nordic SkiingNordic Combined - Ruka
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World Cup Nordic Combined will begin & agrave; Ruka, Finland. The program includes two gundersen scheduled for Saturday 28 and Sunday 29.
Wednesday 25 November 2015 5 minutes reading time
The "Land of a Thousand Lakes" is home to the 'overture for the eighteenth time in the last nineteen years. In fact, with the exception of 2012, when part & Igrave; Lillehammer, 1996 to present the World Cup & egrave; always started in Finland.
The 'honor to baptize the new winter racing & egrave; touched in Rovaniemi (1996-1998), then in Vuokatti (1999 and 2000), then in Kuopio (2001) and finally in Ruka (since 2002 with the gi & agrave; that exception of 2012).
LOCATIONA Ruka is jumping on the trampoline pi & ugrave; imposing ever included in the calendar of Nordic combined.
No coincidence that the Rukatunturi (K120 / HS142), built in 1964 and renovated in 1996, has held for nearly four decades the primacy of Large Hill pi & ugrave; largest in the world, then ceded it in 2003 to M & uuml; hlenkopfschanze Willingen.
In addition to size, gi & agrave; for the S & eacute; impressive, the context of race & egrave; viepi & ugrave; complicated by an unstable wind of difficult reading.
Historically in the resort & agrave; of & nbsp; the province of Oulu the jump & egrave; preponderant as the gaps dealt this segment are difficult to recover in the fund despite the hardness of the track.
Proof & egrave; It represented by the fact that athletes like Janne Ryyn & auml; nen and Evgeny Klimov have obtained the best results of their careers in this context.
So far in Kuusamo you have played 21 individual competitions of the first level, won by 11 different athletes representing only 5 nations. Moreover, the majority of the races has excelled only three Combiners.
In particular stands out the name of Ronny Ackermann, able to impose itself 5 times (two in 2003, then in 2004, 2007 and 2008). Follow at 4 claims the Finn Hannu Manninen (2002, 2004, 2005, 2009) and Frenchman Jason Lamy-Chappuis (2006, 2009, 2010, 2012).
No athlete in business & agrave; boasts more & ugrave; a success. They excelled in a single occasion Bj & ouml; rn Kircheisen (2007), Magnus Krog (2011), Tino Edelmann (2011), Eric Frenzel (2013) and Johannes Rydzek (2014).
The ranking by nation & egrave; controlled by Germany with 9 wins, followed by Finland (5), France (4), Austria (2) and Norway (1).
Athletes & agrave activities; to boast at least a podium without a climb on the step pi & ugrave; high Janne Ryyn & auml; nen, Tino Edelmann, Mikko Kokslien, Akito Watabe, J ø rgen Graabak, Bernhard Gruber and Miroslav Dvorak.
Never an Italian & egrave; He entered the top-three and l & rsquo; & agrave event will not occur; even quest & rsquo; year, given the & rsquo; absence of all the blue team from the opening stage.
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CONVOCAZIONINota: the piece will come & agrave; constantly updated as the various national federations communicate their chosen.
LAST UPDATE: November 21, 20:00
ITALIALa blue team will participate & agrave not; all''evento but Unwind & agrave; a training camp on snow in Lillehammer.
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