Summer Grand Prix 2019 kicks off in Oberwiesenthal and Klingenthal

The first two stops of the extended Nordic Combined Summer Grand Prix 2019 are approaching fast: Oberwiesenthal (GER) and Klingenthal (GER) will host the first three events of the summer competition period and showcase a lot of the variety of the Nordic Combined sport.

While the first-ever Mixed Team event is on schedule on the first competition day, Saturday 24th, the following Sunday will feature an Individual Gundersen event for men and women. In Klingenthal, the men will compete in the first summer Mass Start since 2007, while a second Individual Gundersen event is on schedule for the women.

Favourites are notoriously hard to predict for the first events of the summer but the entry list features 27 women and 57 men from nine nations and provisionally includes some of the discipline’s biggest stars. Eric Frenzel and Fabian Rießle (GER) will delight the home crowds, last winter’s Seefeld 2019 breakout star Franz-Josef Rehrl (AUT) and veterans Magnus Krog (NOR) and Alessandro Pittin (ITA) all battle for summer success.

On the women’s side, last winter’s serial winner Tara Geraghty-Moats (USA) will face off against strong competitors like Russia’s Stefaniya Nadymova, Norwegian Gyda Westvold Hansen, this summer’s Alpencup winners Daniela Dejori and Annika Sieff (ITA), Lisa Hirner (AUT) and local heroes Jenny Nowak and Maria Gerboth (both GER).

Only athletes who start in all individual events of the Summer Grand Prix tour are eligible to fight for the overall victories: after five events, the women will crown their summer champion in Oberhof (GER) on Sunday, September 1st, while the men fight through eight events in total and battle out their King of the Summer in Planica (SLO) on September 8th. Detailed information about the other Summer Grand Prix stops will follow next week.

The men’s and women’s events in Oberwiesenthal and Klingenthal will be available as livestreams on the MDR (Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk) website.

You can access the streams here: https://www.mdr.de/mediathek/livestreams/mdr-plus/index.html

The Programme

(subject to change)

OBERWIESENTHAL

Friday 23.08.
16:45 Official training HS 105 W
17:30 Provisional Competition Round HS 105 W
18:00 Official training HS 105 M
20:00 Provisional Competition Round HS 105 M

Saturday 24.08.
14:00 Trial Round HS 106 
15:00 MIXED TEAM EVENT Competition Round HS 105 
19:00 MIXED TEAM EVENT 2x 5 km (M) & 2x 2.5 km (W) cross-country race

Sunday 25.08.
10:30 Trial Round HS 105 W
11:00 INDIVIDUAL GUNDERSEN W Competition Round HS 105 
11:30 Trial Round HS 105 M
12:30 INDIVIDUAL GUNDERSEN M Competition Round HS 105 
15:30 INDIVIDUAL GUNDERSEN W 5 km cross-country race
16:15 INDIVIDUAL GUNDERSEN M 10 km cross-country race

KLINGENTHAL
Tuesday 27.08.
10:00 Official training HS 85 W (Vogtlandschanze)
12:00 Provisional Competition Round HS 85 W
16:00 Official training HS 140 M (Vogtlandarena)
18:00 Provisional Competition Round HS 140 M

Wednesday 28.08.
12:00 Trial Round HS 85 W (Vogtlandschanze)
13:00 INDIVIDUAL GUNDERSEN W Competition Round HS 85
16:30 INDIVIDUAL GUNDERSEN W 5 km cross-country race
17:00 MASS START M 10 km cross-country race
18:30 Trial Round HS 140 M (Vogtlandarena)
19:00 MASS START M Competition Round HS 140

Quick Facts:

HILLS
Fichtelbergschanze, Oberwiesenthal
HS 105
Vogtlandschanze, Klingenthal 
HS 85 (W)
Vogtlandarena, Klingenthal 
HS140 (M)

TRACKS
Oberwiesenthal
4x 2x 2x 4x  1.225 km roller-ski city loop Mixed Team Event
6x 1.775 km roller-ski city loop Individual Gundersen M
4x 1.225 km roller-ski city loop Individual Gundersen W

Klingenthal
3x 1.7 km roller-ski city loop Individual Gundersen W
1.25 km + 5x 1.9 km + 0.3 km Mass Start M