Rising academic interest in Nordic Combined

With the upcoming introduction of the Women’s Nordic Combined World Cup and the  women’s debut at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf, also the academic interest in Nordic Combined has risen over the last few years.

Not only does the academic interest prove the rising attraction and topicality of Nordic Combined and specifically the development of women within it, but the insights that each work delivers are useful tools for the respective strategical work that the FIS staff and the Nordic Combined Committee undertakes.

For the projects listed below, FIS and the Nordic Combined staff was actively involved in providing information, answering questions and encouraging the young scholars to cast their look to Nordic Combined as a field of study.

If other scholars are interested in adding their Nordic Combined-themed works to this bibliography, or if any bachelor or master students are considering Nordic Combined as a topic for their final theses, feel free to contact Nordic Combined Media Coordinator Silke Tegethof at tegethof(at)fisski.com. If scholars are interested in obtaining the below mentioned works, FIS is happy to facilitate a direct contact with the respective authors.

Master theses

• Josephine Aschhoff: “Business strategy to introduce a Women’s Nordic Combined World Cup in Nordic Combined”, University of Bayreuth (2020)

• Silke Tegethof: “The Olympic Agenda 2020 as a catalyst for the development of Women’s Nordic Combined”, German Sports University Cologne (2019)

Bachelor theses

• Benita Hansmann: “Status quo and development potentials in the mediatisation of the discipline “Nordic Combined” ahead of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf 2021”, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (2020) (in German)

• Marie Knoblauch: German sports broadcasting in public and private TV with view to Nordic Combined”, Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal (2020) (in German)

• Petr Kutal: “Women’s Nordic Combined as a stable Olympic discipline”, University of Economics, Prague (2018) (in Czech)