Germany sfater the tab after the fall of the Berlin wall? [Presentation Schonach]

'' The last few races of the 2013 calendar year of the World Cup Nordic Combined will be held over the weekend in Schonach, in all respects one of the great classics of the discipline.

Friday 20 December 2013 4 minutes reading time

The German town,'' located in the extreme south west of Germany, about 50 km away from the French border is that the Swiss, is preparing to host events of the maximum circuit for the twenty-fifth season. The first competition was held nearly thirty years ago, on January 7, 1984, and was the first of 25 individual races held to date. Actually placing the pre-Christmas is a novelty because it is generally always raced in the month of January. There are 15 athletes to have at least one success in representing 8 different countries. The most successful of all is nordic combined BÃ¸rre Fred Lundberg, able to impose itself 4 times (1991, 1993, 1995, 1996). The Norwegian scored in Schonach one-third of the successes won in his career. In this December 2013 Jason Lamy-Chappuis (2008, 2010, 2013)'' has the opportunity to reach (and possibly exceed) the Scandinavian. In fact, the French has 3 statements, including that of January of the current calendar year. In addition to the transalpine between Combiners still in business the only U.S. veteran Todd Lodwick has excelled in Schonach. This success is even now far'' arrived in 1998, which was followed by a more acute in 2004. In terms of controls the nations Norway with 7 wins at 4, followed by Germany, France and Finland. 2 are Austria and Switzerland while the U.S. and Japan have 1 statement. You notice so as to house the athletes have never managed to win after the fall of the Berlin Wall. '' In fact, the last victory of a German is dated January 3, 1987 and bears the signature of Hubert Schwarz. Since reunification, Germany has collected a maximum of one second with Ronny Ackermann in 2004. Podiums to voice commands always BÃ¸rre Fred Lundberg. The Norwegian is credited with 5 placings in the top-three with the Japanese Kenji Ogiwara, the'' Austrian Mario Stecher and the Finns Samppa Lajunen and Hannu Manninen at 4. Always stands out among the countries Norway at 15 followed by Finland to 11. The Germans put themselves together with 11 podiums, 5 and 6 as West Germany as a unified Germany. They are then Austria (8) and Japan (8), France (5) and the U.S. (5) Switzerland (4), Czech Republic (2) and Soviet Union (2), Italy (1). The blue podium is dated January 23, 2010 and bears the signature of Alexander Pittin reach, third behind Lamy-Chappuis and Pavel Churavy.

Francesco Paone

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