Nordic SkiingNordic Combined - Val di Fiemme
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Over the weekend the World Cup Nordic Combined will stop in Italy. In Val di Fiemme will stage the fifth round, the second winter in the Alps.
Thursday 12 January 2017 5 minutes reading time
NEWS 'Now this discipline could be renamed the Germanic combined (cit.). German athletes are dominating in fact far and wide, so as to have won all the races already this season (8 + 1 individual relay) and conquered 19 podiums, while the rest of the world combined has obtained 5!
Not surprisingly, the struggle for the Crystal Ball to appear already restricted to the Teutonic. A Lahti Eric Frenzel snatched the yellow bib to Johannes Rydzek and now leads the overall standings with 44 points margin. Fabian Rießle, trailing by 156 lengths, is the odd man out, while all the others trudging.
Home Italy you can smile for the excellent performance of Finnish Samuel Costa, fifth and sixth in the two races held in the North. For racing at home you can make use of the national quota, so we'll see engaged with 7 blue. Unfortunately, the context is not the most favorable, because you will jump on Large Hill.
HISTORY It was the World Cup in 1991 to mark the 'entrance to the Val di Fiemme between the host cities for top-level competitions.
Since that time the Trentino has been in and out continuously from maximum circuit schedule while remaining in the "tour" of the World Cup and also organizing two editions of the World Championship event (2003, 2013).
So far in Val di Fiemme you have played 28 individual competitions of the first level, of which 23 are valid for the Crystal Ball.
The most successful men of all are Ronny Ackermann and Hannu Manninen, capable of commanding 3 times. It should be noted, however, such as the Finnish successes have all arrived at the World Cup, while one of the three statements of German is an iridescent gold, won in 2003.
Including veteran sinivalkoinen, are eight Combiners in activities to have imposed the Trentino snows. Bernhard Gruber has excelled 2 times (2015, 2016). Single hurray instead for Björn Kircheisen (2009), Magnus Moan (2009), Akito Watabe (2012), Eric Frenzel (World Championship gold in 2013), Jørgen Graabak (2015) and Magnus Krog (2016).
In terms of nations, on the highest step of the podium seven different flags they waved, without one in a distinct domains. Command in fact Germany and Finland with 6 hits. Followed by Norway and Austria wheel (5), while more detached Japan, France and United States (2).
The Val di Fiemme was theater, January 14, 1997, the first - and up all''avvento Alessandro Pittin only - podium in the history of the Italian Nordic combined. Andrea Longo finished second behind the Finn Samppa Lajunen getting what today is the only top-three blue on home snow.
As a curiosity it should be remembered as January 10, 2010 has staged the only competition-climb in the history of Nordic combined. That day the cross segment was disputed on the Cermis and the race was won by the American Bill Demong ahead of compatriot Todd Lodwick and Frenzel.
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