Johannes Rydzek makes history in the World Championships in Lahti in 2017: he won them in the team sprint assisted by Eric Fren

You finished the last race of the Nordic Combined World Cup in Lahti in 2017 with an outcome to say the least historical: in today's team sprint, Germany has won the gold medal, then Johannes Rydzek completed the feat of winning four titles in as many races at his disposal in a single edition of the World Championship. In addition, the athlete falls from Oberstdorf world podium by 4 years, the last time it happened in the edition of the Val di Fiemme in 2013 when she became a heavy metal dry.

Friday 3 March 2017 9 minutes reading time

As expected, back to jumping segment, the evidence on the narrow skis proved to be a real battle for the conquest of the scope title: in the first ten laps were paths they came to form a leading quartet comprising France (winner of the jump), Germany, Japan and Norway. At this juncture Austria failed to approach, remaining in solitude to the partial fifth. This scenario is kept fixed until the beginning of the 4 ^ back when the lead group has looked a bit 'too much, Bernhard Gruber managed to get in and to bring his team in the fight for medals. Right at the end of this tour there was a fall of Akito Watabe, neutralized by the excellent brother Yoshito. At this point of the race has begun a race to elastic: in 'weak' villages, or those odd, Eric Frenzel and Magnus Moan began to raise its voice, to detach Wilhelm Denifl, to put the 'hook' Maxime Laheurte and youngest of consanguineous Japanese. Everything came constantly frustrated in the next round, where the head no one took the initiative and Gruber was reported in the group easily. Only in the 9th fraction it has begun to go all the way: Moan found himself with a handful of meters ahead of the competition after the transition area and Frenzel took almost the whole lap to move back in the wake of the Norwegian. Now for the most prestigious medal two teams remained and the other three to play for the bronze. In the decisive round Rydzek was constantly behind Magnus Krog and did not attempt any attack on the few hard strokes available and has staked everything on its fast cue: adding pepper to a final slap was the Russian Samir Mastiev, voiced on 'last curve before the finish straight, and just as the Teutonic was surpassing the Scandinavian. On the Bavarian final straight was able to resist the return of the athlete Hoeydalsmo and to win their sixth gold world champion of all time, no one like him in the Nordic combined. Frenzel has also achieved a historic milestone today: gold has won the 12th world medal in his career, equaling the team mate Bjoern Kircheisen; Moan also has emulated the two Germans with the 'silver today. The fight for the third step of the podium was checked by Akito Watabe, thanks to a final round set the pace to bend before Braud and later Gruber. The contribution made to the cause by Yoshito was not indifferent, thus it was deserved his first medal in his career. It was also the first podium of Japan in this race format since they have been given the light. Wooden medal for the Austrians evidently the choice of deploying Denifl has not paid dividends, thickened the Tyrolean addition to not have made a difference in the jump, has struggled much on the narrow skis and forced overtime Gruber. The Salzburg, meanwhile, was one of the best ever, and who knows what could be combined with a Orter / Pommer alongside ... In his small even France wrote a page of history: in fact Les Bleus were presented by unbeaten in team sprint world championship and this leadership today is finished, but the evidence shows it was still a good level considering the results obtained by the duo Laheurte-Braud until two weeks ago. Behind the fight for the medals was expecting a solid Finland (Ilkka and Eero Hirvonen Herola), however, the test had mixed results in jumping is also continued in the fund and the hosts have done batting triggered by Samuel Costa and Alessandro Pittin. So the Blues have confirmed the sixth place in the team trials in four villages and concluded a World Cup with several interesting ideas for the future. For the record the fastest time on skis was made by the brothers Bryan and Taylor Fletcher that led the States to the 9th final position, preceded by the Czech Republic (Tomas Portyk and Miroslav Dvorak). Closed the top 10 Poland (Adam and Pawel Cieslar Slowiok), by virtue of an excellent second half of the race and ahead of Slovenia (Vid Vrhovnik and Marjan Jelenko), the latter plunged after the seventh score in jumping. Estonia (Kristjan Ilves and Han-Hendrik Piho) - twelfth - was the last team to the finish line is not dubbed, worst fate had the aforementioned Russia (Samir Mastiev and Viacheslav Barkov) and Ukraine (Viktor Pasichnyk and Dmytro Mazurchuk), the latter departing with the wave because it would otherwise have been dubbed the first of its way. The medal on the Nordic combined one was won, needless to say, by Germany (4-1-1), followed by Norway (0-2-0), Japan (0-1-1), from France and from 'Austria (both 0-0-1). Now the circuit of the Nordic combined you travel to Norway, namely Oslo, where there will be an individual competition. It will begin Friday, March 10 with the PCR in the race the next day. WORLD LAHTI - SPRINT TEAM HS 130 / 10x1.5 KM 1. GERMANY (Frenzel, Rydzek) 28'45''8 2. NORWAY (Moan, Krog) in 1''0 3. JAPAN (Watabe Y., A. Watabe) to 10''2 4. AUSTRIA (Denifl, Gruber) to 10''7 5. FRANCE (Laheurte, Braud) to 11''5 6. ITALY (Coast, Pittin) to 1'10''6 7. FINLAND (Hirvonen, Herola) to 1'10''7 8. CZECH REPUBLIC (Portyk, Dvorak) to 1'26''4 9. UNITED STATES (B. Fletcher, Fletcher T.) to 1'48''1 10. POLAND (Cieslar, Slowiok) at 1'48 '' 7 11. SLOVENIA (Vrhovnik, Jelenko) to 1'49''5 12. ESTONIA (Ilves, Piho) to 1'51''1 13. RUSSIA (Mastiev, Barkov) dubbed 14. UKRAINE (Pasichnyk, Mazurchuk) dubbed

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