The battle for the overall goes into final round

With the FIS Nordic Ski World Championships in Lahti behind us, it is back to World Cup business and with only four Individual Gundersen events to go, things are heating up in the fight for the overall victory.

Teammates Eric Frenzel and Johannes Rydzek are facing off and for each of the two, big achievements are on the line: Rydzek can win the overall for the first time and crown a spectacular winter, if Frenzel wins, it will be his fifth consecutive overall World Cup victory, a feat which has never achieved in the discipline of Nordic Combined. So the stakes are high and with Oslo and Trondheim, two important venues are waiting for the athletes.

In Oslo, the traditional King’s Cup and a reception by King Harald of Norway are waiting to reward the winning athlete - as received by local hero Jarl Magnus Riiber who won last year - and as large parts of the Norwegian team hail from Trondheim, the home team will be trying their utmost to challenge the dominant German team in front of the home audience. The first non-German victory in full attendance of the German top athletes is also still up for grabs in this winter, so enough motivation for a hard fight should be given.

So who will make a decisive move: Frenzel, Rydzek, one of the Norwegians, Lahti 2017 silver and bronze medallists Akito Watabe or Francois Braud? Or can somebody else step up and make a surprise attack? Buckle up for the last period of the winter 2016/17!

The program (local time = CET)
OSLO
Friday, 10.03.

09:00 Official training HS 134
11:00 Provisional Competition Round/Qualification HS 134
12:30 - 15:00 Official training cross-country

Saturday, 11.03.

10:00 Trial Round HS 134
11:00 INDIVIDUAL GUNDERSEN Competition Round HS 134
15:40 INDIVIDUAL GUNDERSEN 10 km cross-country race

TRONDHEIM
Tuesday 14.03.

10:00 Official training cross-country
15:00 Official training HS 140
17:00 Provisional Competition Round/Qualification HS 140

Wednesday 15.03.

13:00 Trial Round HS 140
14:00 INDIVIDUAL GUNDERSEN Competition Round HS 140
16:00 INDIVIDUAL GUNDERSEN 10 km cross-country race
Timetable subject to change!

Program Youth Cup Trondheim

The FIS Youth Cup (boys and girls) will have their final events in Trondheim. For the first time ever, a Youth Cup overall winner will be awarded. The prize giving ceremony will take place together with the World Cup prize giving ceremony.

You can find the exact competition times here.

Quick Facts:
HILL

Holmenkollen
HS 134

Granaasen
HS140

TRACK

Holmenkollen blue course
2.5 km free-technique loop

Granaasen
2 km free-technique loop
Total climb: 390 metres
Maximum climb: 40 metres
Height Difference: 40 metres

2015/16 WORLD CUP PODIUM Oslo

Ind. Gundersen 1: 1. Jørgen Graabak (NOR), 2. Eric Frenzel (GER), 3. Jarl Magnus Riiber (NOR)
Ind. Gundersen 2: 1. Eric Frenzel (GER), 2. Akito Watabe (JPN), 3. Jørgen Graabak (NOR)

2015/16 WORLD CUP PODIUM Trondheim
Ind. Gundersen: 1. Jarl Magnus Riiber (NOR), 2. Akito Watabe (JPN), 3. Eric Frenzel (GER)