Full competition action coming up in Trondheim

The last two weeks of the Nordic Combined season 2017/18 are jam-packed with competition action. After the traditional stop at the Holmenkollen on Saturday, the World Cup now moved to Trondheim to re-unite with the Nordic Combined juniors. Two joint competition days of World Cup and Youth Cup are awaiting the athletes at the last stop on Norwegian soil for this winter.

Nice snowy and, especially important, calm winter conditions are forecasted for when the Youth Cup concludes their season with four total events for boys and girls and 200 World Cup points on the line for the big stars of the discipline. A big highlight will be the joint prize giving ceremony for World and Youth Cup on Wednesday.

Who will present the prizes to the young athletes is still an open question. Akito Watabe made another step in the direction of the overall World Cup victory with the win at his favourite venue in Oslo on Saturday. The pressure is now on Jan Schmid to do well if he wants to stay on the Japanese’s heels but competing at one’s home town and cheered on by the home crowd does wonders for the performance sometimes.

While the German team around Johannes Rydzek and Fabian Rießle and also local hero Jørgen Graabak are facing a tough uphill battle for the top two spots in the World Cup standings, the third place is fought over fiercely with the three athletes holding 632, 631 and 603 points. It remains to be seen which athlete’s batteries are still charged the most with a tough program of four individual events in six days coming up.

The programme (local times = CET)

Timetable subject to change! Please check out the FIS website for updated times.

Monday, 12.03.

13:00 SJ HS 140 Official Training

15:00 Official cross-country training

Tuesday 13.03.

12:00 Provisional Competition Round/Qualification HS 140

13:30 INDIVIDUAL GUNDERSEN Competition Round HS 140

16:00 INDIVIDUAL GUNDERSEN 10 km cross-country race

Wednesday 14.03.

12:00 Qualification HS 140

13:00 INDIVIDUAL GUNDERSEN Competition Round HS 140

16:15 INDIVIDUAL GUNDERSEN 10 km cross-country race

Quick Facts:

Granåsen

HS 140

TRACK

Granåsen

2 km free-technique loop

Total climb: 390 metres

Maximum climb: 40 metres

Height Difference: 40 metres

LAST YEAR’S PODIUM

IG: 1. Eric Frenzel (GER), 2. Johannes Rydzek (GER), 3. Fabian Rießle (GER)

Program Youth Cup Trondheim

Tuesday 13.03.

08.30 Official training round K60 girls

09.00 IND. GUNDERSEN SJ K60 competition round girls

09.30 Official training round K60 boys

10.30 IND. GUNDERSEN SJ K60 competition round boys

12.00 IND. GUNDERSEN Cross-country girls, 3 km

12.30 IND. GUNDERSEN Cross-country boys, 4.5km

Wednesday 14.03.

08.30 Official training round NC ski jumping K60 girls

09.00 IND. GUNDERSEN SJ K60 competition round girls

09.30 Official training round NC ski jumping K60 boys

10.30 IND. GUNDERSEN SJ K60 competition round boys

14.30 IND. GUNDERSEN Cross-country 3km girls

15.00 IND. GUNDERSEN Cross-country 4.5 km boys

On Wednesday, a joint prize giving ceremony will take place after the World Cup race.