Nordic SkiingNordic Combined - Sapporo
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After the stage pre-Olympic of Korea, goes away of the Asian World Cup Nordic Combined. In Sapporo happening the last competitions valid for the Crystal Ball before the Lahti World Championships.
Thursday 9 February 2017 4 minutes reading time
ATTUALITA''Verosimilmente, for the first time this season, we will see non-German victories. Germany, having won 17 wins in as many individual events, decided to give a turn off to his top men, returned to Europe with a week of 'advance.
So in Japan we will not see anyone between Johannes Rydzek, Eric Frenzel and Fabian Rießle. So the fight for the Crystal Ball is "frozen" and presents a wonderful opportunity for the rest of the world (Japan and Austria in particular) to win the first victory dell''inverno.
HISTORY Sapporo - the capital of Hokkaido (the northernmost of the main Japanese islands) -is the Japanese resort of reference for the organization of an international imprint events.
Yet, with regard to the Nordic combined, paradoxically, all the stronger Japanese athletes in history come from other prefectures (Gunma and Nagano, both in the heart in the southernmost island of Honshu).
Theatre of the Winter Olympic Games of 1972, the trampolines and tracks built near the metropolis have never been a fixture in the calendar of the World Cup. Maximum circuit made a stop here with some consistency between 1994 and 2006, but after the World Cup of 2007 Sapporo has returned in the schedule that counts only in 2015.
A here today have played 17 individual top-level competitions, of which 14 are valid for the Crystal Ball.
9 athletes have to boast at least one success. Among them stands out indisputably the name of Hannu Manninen, who here has imposed 6 times (two in 2004, two in 2005, one in 2006 as the gold world champion in 2007)!
In addition to Finland, the only nordic combined in activities to have excelled in these parts is Eric Frenzel, capable of winning both races go on stage in 2015.
On the subject of nations commands Finland with 6 hits. It follows the German movement with 5 (4 + 1 GER DDR). Norway is credited with 4 wins, while there was a single hurray for Japan and France.
As you can see Austria is still dry. The best result is a second place Mario Stecher, he arrived in 1998.
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