Nordic-combined.com - The up-to-date magazine about skijumping and skiflying. News, results, statistics, profiles, stories, background info, all stars. http://nordic-combined.com/en/front/news/rss Christoph Eugen will be the new head coach of the Austrian nordic combined team and follows Norwegian Bard Joergen Elden, who resigned from the job at the end of last season due to private reasons.   "After many years in the World Cup and two seasons in the Continental Cup I learned a lot and I'm looking to using this knowledge now with the n... Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:52:23 +0200 http://nc.berkutschi.com/en/front/news/show/1116-christoph-eugen-new-head-coach-in-austria A number of issues stood on the agenda of the meetings of the International Ski Federation in Zurich, one of the main topics was the calendar planning for the Summer Grand Prix and the upcoming winter season.   The summer competition series of nordic combined will already start in July this year, when the athletes get to test the future Olymp... Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:35:41 +0200 http://nc.berkutschi.com/en/front/news/show/1115-provisional-calendar-with-innovations While the planning for the upcoming season is already running at full swing, COC coordinator Toni Guggemoos looks back on last winter again and draws a positive balance: "We had a great season. I want to thank the national associations and especially the organizers. They did their best to carry out fair and successful competitions."   Apart f... Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:59:15 +0200 http://nc.berkutschi.com/en/front/news/show/1114-season-review-with-toni-guggemoos "I gained experience this season." That's how reigning World Champion Eric Frenzel sums up the ups and downs of the past few months in the World Cup. With his victory at the premiere of the penalty race he had his personal highlight of the season early December in Lillehammer. In the latest DKB-interview Frenzel talks about the past winter, expresse... Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:05:44 +0200 http://nc.berkutschi.com/en/front/news/show/1113-the-latest-dkb-interview After the victory ceremony for the final competition of the 2011/12 season, he had his big moment at the traditional Holmenkollen: Jason Lamy Chappuis stands on top of the podium that honors this winter's best athlete. A familiar feeling for the French - but this time it was a bit different because "Mr. Consistency" made the first for the overall Wo... Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:49:04 +0100 http://nc.berkutschi.com/en/front/news/show/1112-athlete-of-the-season-jason-lamy-chappuis The German team celebrated a double victory in the final Continental Cup competition of the 2011/12 season. Janis Morweiser won the last event of the "second division" in Kuopio (FIN) ahead of Wolfgang Boesl. The third place went to French Samuel Guy.   Slovene Marjan Jelenko won the overall title with 634 points ahead of Geoffrey Lafarge of ... Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:45:28 +0100 http://nc.berkutschi.com/en/front/news/show/1111-coc-german-double-victory-at-the-final It ended like it started: After the opening of the winter season 2011/12 was surprisingly won by Norwegian Magnus Krog, it was a surprise that US American Bryan Fletcher could win the final event this season. Fletcher already attracted some attention with his fourth place in Liberec a few weeks ago, but not many would have expected that the 25-year-... Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:08:33 +0100 http://nc.berkutschi.com/en/front/news/show/1110-a-debutant-and-a-veteran-set-the-final-highlights The nordic combined World Cup will be decided on the final stretch. After his victory in the first competition in Oslo, Japanese Akito Watabe is now 72 points behind World Cup leader Jason Lamy Chappuis. With his fourth win this season Watabe scored 100 points. Jason Lamy Chappuis was only 23rd and scored only eight points. The French now has a tota... Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:42:41 +0100 http://nc.berkutschi.com/en/front/news/show/1108-watabe-gets-closer-again The opening event of the Continental Cup season's final in Kuopio (FIN) had to be cancelled due to strong wind. The second competition is planned for Saturday.... Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:17:47 +0100 http://nc.berkutschi.com/en/front/news/show/1107-coc-first-competition-in-kuopio-cancelled This season's final at the Holmenkollen in Oslo, the cradle of nordic sports, is getting closer and closer. It will be the end of a season with many weekends of competitions, plenty of surprises and premieres and that showed a positive development for nordic combined.   Two questions will have to be answered this weekend in Norway: Will the s... Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:55:27 +0100 http://nc.berkutschi.com/en/front/news/show/1103-great-final-in-oslo Even if the wind was the first winner of the weekend in Finland and made a team sprint impossible, a young athlete was able to attract some attention in the PCR and the following Gundersen-competition and earned the title "Athlete of the Week", Lahti and Johannes Rydzek, Ladies and Gentlemen, that seems to fit. After the young athlete from Oberstdor... Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:52:01 +0100 http://nc.berkutschi.com/en/front/news/show/1102-athlete-of-the-week-johannes-rydzek Geoffrey Lafarge was unbeatable at the Continental Cup in Predazzo (ITA). After his victory on Saturday, the French also won the second competition on Sunday. The other two spots on the podium went to local heroes Mattia Runggaldier and Armin Bauer.   "I was confident that I can win here. But I'm also happy that two Italians followed as secon... Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:52:22 +0100 http://nc.berkutschi.com/en/front/news/show/1101-coc-lafarge-dominates-in-predazzo Geoffrey Lafarge won the first Continental Cup competition in Predazzo (ITA). The French came in ahead of Norwegian Ole Martin Storlien and Tobias Kammerlander of Austria.   "I love this snow and had really good skis. So I thought I might be able to be in the Top 10. But then I came to the top with Storlien and gave it all in the final sprint... Sun, 04 Mar 2012 10:19:44 +0100 http://nc.berkutschi.com/en/front/news/show/1100-coc-lafarge-wins-in-predazzo Jason Lamy Chappuis might have gotten a bad feeling when looking at the wind in Lahti, that was still strong on the day of the Gundersen-competition, like the day beforen when the conditions made it impossible to carry out the team sprint. This meant that the result of the provisional competition round counted for today's competition. And in that ro... Sat, 03 Mar 2012 12:13:19 +0100 http://nc.berkutschi.com/en/front/news/show/1099-jan-schmid-captures-win-on-final-meters The difficult weather conditions, that already lead to the cancellation of the team sprint in Lahti on Saturday, now also made the jumping for the Gundersen-competition impossible. This means that now the results of the provisional competition round will count for the competition. Norwegian Haavard Klementsen will have a lead of 3 seconds ahead of G... Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:37:06 +0100 http://nc.berkutschi.com/en/front/news/show/1098-wind-in-lahti-pcr-counts Strong wind made it impossible to carry out the team sprint in Lahti on Friday. If the conditions will not improve, the provisional competition round can count for Saturday's Gundersen-competition.... Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:50:25 +0100 http://nc.berkutschi.com/en/front/news/show/1097-wind-in-lahti-team-sprint-cancelled The planned team sprint competition in Lahti had to be cancelled due to the difficult wind conditions. The jury decided to cancel the jumping round after 12 athletes. Before that there were alredy unusual results as a consequence of these wind conditions, like for example a really bad jump of Christoph Bieler. Now everyone is hoping for better condi... Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:43:49 +0100 http://nc.berkutschi.com/en/front/news/show/1096-team-sprint-in-lahti-cancelled Back to the roots: the World Cup circuit is back in the North. Where the season 2011/12 started, it shall now also be decided who will be the "King of the Winter" this year. And favorite Jason Lamy Chappuis can win the title here already. He leads in the overall World Cup ranking with 138 points ahead Akito Watabe, who has to come in clearly ahead o... Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:06:29 +0100 http://nc.berkutschi.com/en/front/news/show/1094-world-cup-decided-in-lahti If you want to characterize Bryan Fletcher with only a few words, ladies and gentlemen, you will soon notice that you can't avoid the word "fighter". Because currently Bryan Fletcher is fighting remarkably well: With a lot of courage and engagement the 25-year-old had a great race after a good jumping performance in the second competition in Liberec... Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:16:50 +0100 http://nc.berkutschi.com/en/front/news/show/1092-athlete-of-the-week-bryan-fletcher Jason Lamy Chappuis will take a lead of 183 points to the final two World Cup weekends in Lahti and at the Holmenkollen Oslo. Akito Watabe achieved his third win this season and demonstrated his strength in jumping and cross country, but Lamy Chappuis finished second and could defen a clear lead.   But it was not easy to achieve this second p... Sun, 26 Feb 2012 12:47:29 +0100 http://nc.berkutschi.com/en/front/news/show/1091-watabe-wins---lamy-chappuis-defends-lead Due to the bad weather forecast there will be no Penalty Race on the second day of competition at the World Cup in Liberec. A Gundersen-competition will take place instead. The new schedule for Sunday:   07.45 am: Provisional competition round 09.00 am: Competition round 12.15 pm: Cross country race... Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:33:48 +0100 http://nc.berkutschi.com/en/front/news/show/1089-liberec-gundersen-replaces-penalty-race The podium in the second individual competition at the World Junior Championships in Erzurum was controlled by the northern Europeans: Two Norwegians and one Finn were ahead in the final nordic combined event at the Championships. Norwegian Oeystein Granbu Lien won the Gold medal with 10.9 seconds ahead of FInland's Ilkka Herola and his teammate Esp... Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:33:23 +0100 http://nc.berkutschi.com/en/front/news/show/1088-oeystein-granbu-lien-wins-at-junior-worlds Bernhard Gruber is the tenth different winnter this season in the nordic combined World Cup. But the success of the 29-year-old was no surprise. He already attracted some attention at the competitions in Klingenthal and Almaty with three podium results. In Liberec Gruber was already in good position after the jumping and won ahead of Eric Frenzel of... Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:03:24 +0100 http://nc.berkutschi.com/en/front/news/show/1087-bernhard-gruber-is-the-tenth The schedule for the World Cup in Liberec (CZE) had to be changed due to wind and rain. One training round could be held on the opening day. World Cup leader Jason Lamy Chappuis of France was the best with a jump on 95.5 m.   But the schedule for the Penalty Race and the Gundersen competiton was changed. The Gundersen event, that was planned ... Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:54:39 +0100 http://nc.berkutschi.com/en/front/news/show/1085-liberec-schedule-changed-due-to-rain-and-wind And the winner is: Austria! In the second competition at the World Junior Championships in Erzurum, the team from Austria, with Franz Josef Rehrl, Alexander Brandner, David Pommer and Philipp Orter, won the Gold medal in an exciting competition. The second place went to Italy, followed by Germany.   After the jumping they were ten seconds bac... Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:51:13 +0100 http://nc.berkutschi.com/en/front/news/show/1084-austria-won-gold-at-junior-worlds