Photo finish decides Nordic Combined lg hill team gold
It took a photo finish to decide, but Austria won the large hill event over Germany to win both Nordic Combined gold medals at the Nordic World Championships today (March 4).
Mario Stecher edged Tino Edelmann at the line for the narrow margin of victory. Norway added a medal to their haul winning bronze.
France, which led after the ski jump, finished fourth, 51.9 seconds off the pace.
The result mirrored the small hill team competition: Austria-Germany-Norway, right down to Stecher out-sprinting Edelmann in the final leg.
The U.S. team of Bill Demong, Bryan Fletcher, Johnny Spillane and Todd Lodwick finished sixth.
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Rank | Bib | Name | Nation | Result | |
1 | Austria | AUT | 47:12.3 | ||
GRUBER Bernhard | |||||
KREINER David | |||||
GOTTWALD Felix | |||||
STECHER Mario | |||||
2 | Germany | GER | +47:12.4 | ||
RYDZEK Johannes | |||||
KIRCHEISEN Bjoern | |||||
FRENZEL Eric | |||||
EDELMANN Tino | |||||
3 | Norway | NOR | +47:52.9 | ||
KOKSLIEN Mikko | |||||
KLEMETSEN Haavard | |||||
SCHMID Jan | |||||
MOAN Magnus-H. | |||||
4 | France | FRA | +48:04.2 | ||
LACROIX Sebastien | |||||
LAHEURTE Maxime | |||||
BRAUD Francois | |||||
LAMY CHAPPUIS Jason | |||||
5 | Japan | JPN | +48:43.7 | ||
WATABE Akito | |||||
KATO Taihei | |||||
MINATO Yusuke | |||||
KOBAYASHI Norihito | |||||
6 | United States | USA | +48:56.3 | ||
DEMONG Bill | |||||
FLETCHER Bryan | |||||
SPILLANE Johnny | |||||
LODWICK Todd | |||||
7 | Italy | ITA | +49:57.9 | ||
MICHIELLI Giuseppe | |||||
BAUER Armin | |||||
RUNGGALDIER Lukas | |||||
PITTIN Alessandro | |||||
8 | Switzerland | SUI | +50:17.1 | ||
HEER Ronny | |||||
HURSCHLER Seppi | |||||
HUG Tim | |||||
SCHMID Tommy | |||||
9 | Czech Republic | CZE | +50:17.5 | ||
DVORAK Miroslav | |||||
SLAVIK Tomas | |||||
VODSEDALEK Ales | |||||
CHURAVY Pavel | |||||
10 | Slovenia | SLO | +51:14.1 | ||
ORANIC Mitja | |||||
JELENKO Marjan | |||||
KAMENIK Joze | |||||
BERLOT Gasper | |||||
11 | Russian Federation | RUS | +53:52.2 | ||
PANIN Ivan | |||||
MATVEEV Dimitry | |||||
NABEEV Niyaz | |||||
MASLENNIKOV Sergej |