Nordic Combined: France’s Lamy Chappuis takes the win in Seefeld

With the World Cup’s current leader, Austrian Mario Stecher sidelined due to injury, Olympic Champion and defending overall World Cup title holder Jason Lamy Chappuis of France won a DKB FIS Nordic Combined World Cup competition in Seefeld, Austria today (Jan. 15) to take back the overall lead. He was joined on the podium by Norwegian teammates Magnus Moan and Mikko Kokslien in second and third, respectively.

"Today's competition jump was maybe my best ever,” said Lamy Chappuis. “It was just outstanding and the basis for my victory."

Lamy Chappuis took the lead early in jumping portion, setting a new hill record of 113.0 m (139.5 points); runner up on the jump hill was his compatriot Maxime Laheurte (105.5 m/123.4 points) followed by Japan’s Yoshito Watabe (103.5 m/122.4).

With a one minute, four-second advantage going into the afternoon 10k cross country race, Lamy Chappuis held on to win by 29.3 seconds to reclaim the overall lead with a 93-point lead on Stecher. "One of my goals was to get back the yellow jersey of the World Cup leader because I want to show it to my fans on my home event in one weeks time,” said Lamy Chappuis.

Behind the Lamy Chappuis, there was battle for second and third place. Kokslien had an initial disadvantage of 1:26 minutes, Moan was 1:53 minutes behind. At half-time, Kokslien and Moan were 52 and 57 seconds behind the leader, after the third of the four 2.5 km laps the disadvantage of the two Scandinavians was around 40 seconds. Moan notched the day’s fastest cross country leg with a time of 24:09.5.

"I did not think that I could catch Jason Lamy Chappuis,” said Moan. “Before the race and from my point of view, the places one and two were already awarded to Chappuis and Kokslien. But I am in good shape and had great ski. I made a perfect race!"

Austria’s David Kreiner just missed the podium in fourth place after jumping into eighth and taking the 11th-fastest cross country time.

Italy’s Lukas Runggaldier cracked the top 10 for the fist time ever in sixth place. Austrian Felix Gottwald skied from 46th after the jumping portion to 8th overall.

American Olympic silver medalist Todd Lodwick returned to the World Cup today to lead his team in 23rd. Bryan Fletcher led the way again in jumping, standing 14th with a 101.5 meter jump. Fletcher finished 28th overall. It was the fourth time in the points this season for Fletcher, who has also cracked the top 10 earlier in the year. Taylor Fletcher had another good cross country outing - 24th fastest - to finish 34th, just out of the points. Johnny Spillane was 45th in his return to action after six months out with a knee injury.

Action will resume in Seefeld Sunday with another individual event before the circuit heads to France. Olympic champion Billy Demong, a proud new father of son Liam, will join the action action for a pair of World Cups in Chaux-Neuve.

World Cup Standings: 1. Jason Lamy Chappuis (FRA) 559, 2. Mario Stecher (AUT) 466, 3. Mikko Kokslien (NOR) 447, 4. Felix Gottwald (AUT) 392, 5. Eric Frenzel (GER) 322, 6. Bjoern Kircheisen 284.

Rank	Bib	FIS Code	Name	Year	Nation	Result
1	1	610	LAMY CHAPPUIS Jason	1986	FRA	25:33.2
2	25	973	MOAN Magnus-H.	1983	NOR	26:02.5
3	8	1149	KOKSLIEN Mikko	1985	NOR	26:06.1
4	7	137	KREINER David	1981	AUT	26:35.7
5	17	1650	SCHMID Jan	1983	NOR	26:41.6
6	15	1464	RUNGGALDIER Lukas	1987	ITA	26:51.5
7	6	606	BRAUD Francois	1986	FRA	26:51.8
8	46	35	GOTTWALD Felix	1976	AUT	26:56.7
9	35	257	KIRCHEISEN Bjoern	1983	GER	26:59.2
10	20	347	BEETZ Christian	1984	GER	26:59.8
11	19	459	LACROIX Sebastien	1983	FRA	27:00.0
12	27	1410	BAUER Armin	1990	ITA	27:00.0
13	21	590	RYDZEK Johannes	1991	GER	27:00.6
14	33	351	EDELMANN Tino	1985	GER	27:07.7
15	2	609	LAHEURTE Maxime	1985	FRA	27:12.4
16	45	1029	PITTIN Alessandro	1990	ITA	27:18.4
17	9	416	SLAVIK Tomas	1981	CZE	27:20.5
18	37	1050	FRENZEL Eric	1988	GER	27:21.5
19	11	683	RIAN Espen	1981	NOR	27:22.4
20	24	252	GRUBER Bernhard	1982	AUT	27:23.2
21	29	1136	WATABE Akito	1988	JPN	27:26.9
22	16	1669	STORLIEN Gudmund	1990	NOR	27:27.9
23	18	27	LODWICK Todd	1976	USA	27:30.4
24	5	111	BIELER Christoph	1977	AUT	27:34.2
25	31	1003	DVORAK Miroslav	1987	CZE	27:39.7
26	4	419	KLEMETSEN Haavard	1979	NOR	27:46.3
27	22	623	HUG Tim	1987	SUI	27:50.4
28	14	1067	FLETCHER Bryan	1986	USA	27:51.6
29	13	1296	BOESL Wolfgang	1989	GER	27:56.1
30	38	768	MINATO Yusuke	1985	JPN	27:56.1
31	36	591	KAMMERLANDER Tobias	1986	AUT	27:56.9
32	53	1192	DRUML Tomaz	1988	AUT	28:02.8
33	40	715	ORANIC Mitja	1986	SLO	28:07.7
34	47	1439	FLETCHER Taylor	1990	USA	28:10.2
35	51	592	KLAPFER Lukas	1985	AUT	28:20.0
36	28	1418	BERLOT Gasper	1990	SLO	28:20.4
37	42	205	KOBAYASHI Norihito	1982	JPN	28:22.9
38	23	727	KATO Taihei	1984	JPN	28:23.5
39	52	594	KREINER Benjamin	1985	AUT	28:25.6
40	44	203	HEER Ronny	1981	SUI	28:31.7
41	49	100002	GRAABAK Joergen	1991	NOR	28:55.4
42	48	349	HURSCHLER Seppi	1983	SUI	28:57.2
43	3	1700	WATABE Yoshito	1991	JPN	29:00.7
44	30	215	CHURAVY Pavel	1977	CZE	29:02.7
45	54	247	SPILLANE Johnny	1980	USA	29:04.0
46	26	1059	REUSCHEL Sebastian	1988	GER	29:11.7
47	56	643	MICHIELLI Giuseppe	1985	ITA	29:37.0
47	39	294	GUENTER Andreas	1988	GER	29:37.0
49	43	1444	SCHMID Tommy	1988	SUI	30:08.5
50	57	1528	LAFARGE Geoffrey	1989	FRA	32:24.0
Did not start
	58	8	STECHER Mario	1977	AUT
	41	19	MANNINEN Hannu	1978	FIN
	34	1689	NABEEV Niyaz	1989	RUS
	32	960	MASLENNIKOV Sergej	1982	RUS
	12	1152	RYYNAENEN Janne	1988	FIN
Did not finish
	55	1015	PICHLMAYER Marco	1987	AUT
	50	1168	KARJALAINEN Joni	1987	FIN
	10	214	DENIFL Wilhelm	1980	AUT

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Nordic Combined: France’s Lamy Chappuis takes the win in Seefeld