Nordic Combined: Demong Returns to the Podium
Japan’s Akito Watabe captured the victory in the Individual Gundersen competition at the World Cup Nordic Combined today (Feb. 5) in Val di Fiemme with a time of 28:27.8 minutes. Today’s win moves Watabe into the third place position overall in the Nordic Combined World Cup standings. Norway’s Mikko Kokslien took second.
It was a successful day for the Americans as well; Bill Demong finished third, making this his first podium place since his victory in Val di Fiemme in 2010.
“Today I was a little more patient and made it happen. At the end of the race I had enough energy left to keep pushing.” Said Demong. “The courses are super hard here. They are revamped. I don’t know if I ever skied a harder cross country course than today.”
U.S. teammate Bryon Fletcher matched his career best World Cup finish in seventh place and Taylor Fletcher earned his highest World Cup result, finishing fourteenth.
“They did a really good job pacing and not doing too much at the front to help other people.” said U.S. head nordic combined coach Dave Jarrett, “They were in control the whole time. We’ve been putting a lot of energy into getting it going now and hopefully we can keep it rolling.”
The World Cup Nordic Combined will continue in Almaty, Kazakhstan next weekend (Feb. 11-12).
Rank | Bib | FIS Code | Name | Year | Nation | Result | |
1 | 1 | 1136 | WATABE Akito | 1988 | JPN | 28:27.8 | |
2 | 14 | 1149 | KOKSLIEN Mikko | 1985 | NOR | 28:30.8 | |
3 | 17 | 222 | DEMONG Bill | 1980 | USA | 28:31.7 | |
4 | 13 | 590 | RYDZEK Johannes | 1991 | GER | 28:35.7 | |
5 | 10 | 1050 | FRENZEL Eric | 1988 | GER | 28:41.3 | |
6 | 2 | 351 | EDELMANN Tino | 1985 | GER | 28:45.9 | |
7 | 9 | 1067 | FLETCHER Bryan | 1986 | USA | 28:46.4 | |
8 | 6 | 610 | LAMY CHAPPUIS Jason | 1986 | FRA | 28:55.9 | |
9 | 15 | 214 | DENIFL Wilhelm | 1980 | AUT | 28:57.5 | |
10 | 24 | 459 | LACROIX Sebastien | 1983 | FRA | 29:10.7 | |
11 | 19 | 1650 | SCHMID Jan | 1983 | NOR | 29:11.1 | |
12 | 28 | 100002 | GRAABAK Joergen | 1991 | NOR | 29:11.3 | |
13 | 3 | 252 | GRUBER Bernhard | 1982 | AUT | 29:11.8 | |
14 | 33 | 1439 | FLETCHER Taylor | 1990 | USA | 29:19.0 | |
15 | 30 | 8 | STECHER Mario | 1977 | AUT | 29:19.5 | |
16 | 39 | 257 | KIRCHEISEN Bjoern | 1983 | GER | 29:30.4 | |
17 | 20 | 1003 | DVORAK Miroslav | 1987 | CZE | 29:33.1 | |
18 | 34 | 759 | NAGAI Hideaki | 1983 | JPN | 29:33.3 | |
19 | 18 | 247 | SPILLANE Johnny | 1980 | USA | 29:36.8 | |
20 | 32 | 467 | RIESSLE Fabian | 1990 | GER | 29:39.5 | |
21 | 5 | 609 | LAHEURTE Maxime | 1985 | FRA | 29:41.2 | |
22 | 8 | 606 | BRAUD Francois | 1986 | FRA | 29:43.6 | |
23 | 22 | 727 | KATO Taihei | 1984 | JPN | 29:47.4 | |
24 | 4 | 111 | BIELER Christoph | 1977 | AUT | 29:51.6 | |
25 | 42 | 973 | MOAN Magnus-H. | 1983 | NOR | 29:55.3 | |
26 | 23 | 1669 | STORLIEN Gudmund | 1990 | NOR | 29:56.3 | |
27 | 37 | 349 | HURSCHLER Seppi | 1983 | SUI | 29:58.8 | |
28 | 35 | 1548 | HAERTULL Jim | 1990 | FIN | 30:11.8 | |
29 | 43 | 1192 | DRUML Tomaz | 1988 | AUT | 30:12.5 | |
30 | 21 | 1700 | WATABE Yoshito | 1991 | JPN | 30:15.1 | |
31 | 27 | 416 | SLAVIK Tomas | 1981 | CZE | 30:15.3 | |
32 | 25 | 1737 | MORWEISER Janis | 1991 | GER | 30:21.2 | |
33 | 26 | 623 | HUG Tim | 1987 | SUI | 30:32.0 | |
34 | 54 | 1464 | RUNGGALDIER Lukas | 1987 | ITA | 30:49.3 | |
35 | 7 | 1600 | FAISST Manuel | 1993 | GER | 30:50.8 | |
36 | 51 | 1796 | JOHANSEN Truls Soenstehagen | 1991 | NOR | 30:52.4 | |
37 | 53 | 1410 | BAUER Armin | 1990 | ITA | 31:01.4 | |
38 | 36 | 215 | CHURAVY Pavel | 1977 | CZE | 31:07.8 | |
39 | 48 | 643 | MICHIELLI Giuseppe | 1985 | ITA | 31:12.5 | |
40 | 50 | 1562 | COSTA Samuel | 1992 | ITA | 31:14.1 | |
41 | 38 | 715 | ORANIC Mitja | 1986 | SLO | 31:21.0 | |
42 | 47 | 591 | KAMMERLANDER Tobias | 1986 | AUT | 31:24.5 | |
43 | 16 | 1479 | PANIN Ivan | 1987 | RUS | 31:27.3 | |
44 | 41 | 1687 | LEINONEN Mikke | 1992 | FIN | 31:32.0 | |
45 | 12 | 1671 | SEIDL Mario | 1992 | AUT | 31:33.1 | |
46 | 49 | 1029 | PITTIN Alessandro | 1990 | ITA | 31:38.4 | |
47 | 31 | 768 | MINATO Yusuke | 1985 | JPN | 31:41.7 | |
48 | 52 | 1563 | RUNGGALDIER Mattia | 1992 | ITA | 31:48.4 | |
49 | 46 | 1760 | ORTER Philipp | 1994 | AUT | 31:59.2 | |
50 | 44 | 1138 | YAMAMOTO Shun | 1988 | JPN | 32:05.5 | |
51 | 40 | 1424 | HAVRANEK Lukas | 1990 | CZE | 32:15.7 | |
52 | 55 | 1204 | MARTIN Nicolas | 1989 | FRA | 33:08.7 | |
Disqualified | |||||||
45 | 960 | MASLENNIKOV Sergej | 1982 | RUS | |||
Did not finish | |||||||
29 | 1434 | JELENKO Marjan | 1991 | SLO | |||
11 | 1152 | RYYNAENEN Janne | 1988 | FIN |