Lindvik lifts Norway to “amazing” Mixed Team Large Hill title

Olympic champion Marius Lindvik helped Norway add another title to their astounding list of honors at the 2025 FIS Nodric World Ski Championships, in their homeland, with a commanding victory in the Mixed Team Large Hill event.

It was the host nation’s third win from four ski jumping events at Trondheim 2025 and 11^th gold, among 22 medals attained so far during this year’s tournament.

Lindvik, who also won the Men’s Individual Normal Hill title on Sunday, was joined by Anna Odine Stroem, Eirin Maria Kvandal and Johann Andre Forfang in the Mixed Team event.

The quartet went ahead in the first round and never surrendered that lead.

They would ultimately finish with a colossal overall points haul of 1020.4, which put them 61.1pts clear of Slovenia (959.3), with Austria (906.8) completing the podium places.

Germany (899.0), who had won the last five World Mixed Team titles, missed out on a top-three finish for the first time since the discipline was added to the programme in 2013.

Following the latest success for the host nation, Norway’s Odine Stroem now has three medals, with gold in the Mixed Team adding to her victory in the Women’s Normal Hill event, together with her third-place finish in the Women’s Individual Normal Hill final.

Lindvik will now seek a hat-trick of golds when he joins his team-mates in the Men’s Large Hill Team event on Thursday. 

“For sure it always feels better with the team,” said Lindvik. “When it’s not just me we all have to deliver and today we did it together which is amazing.”

Team-mate Forfang, who was finally able to celebrate the first World Championship gold medal of his career, was relieved to return to the podium after placing fifth in the Normal Hill contest earlier in the week.

“It (missing out on a medal) was as heavy as it gets in sports and of course it was rough so it’s awesome (to now win) and I’m enjoying this moment,” he told FIS.

“We know that the King (King Harald V) is really a sport enthusiast and especially ski jumping so it’s huge (to win it in front of him).”

While the destination of gold was relatively clear from the early stages, the battle for the ‘minor medals’ was closely contested throughout the eight rounds of jumps.

Germany and Austria exchanged second place, before Slovenia put themselves as the ‘best of the rest’, 32.5 points behind Norway at the end of the opening round.

The field which began with 15 nations, was then cut to eight, with Japan, USA, Poland and Finland joining the top-four, but unlikely to challenge for a higher placing.

Austria had surprised many by failing to name men’s World Cup leader Daniel Tschofenig (AUT) in their starting line-up, although they did have a more than competent replacement in the form of three-time World gold medalist Stefan Kraft (AUT).

Germany too had delivered unexpected team-news ahead of the Mixed Team event with the out-of-form Katharina Schmid (GER) joining their line-up in place of Agnes Reisch (GER).

Both nations were still incredibly strong, but lacked a little of the consistency they typically display on the World Cup circuit, while Slovenia went from strength-to-strength in the second round.

Their line-up included Women’s Normal Hill champion Nika Prevc, together with brother Domec, as well as Ema Klinec and Anze Lanisek.

Lanisek delivered the furthest jump of the day, with a stunning 141m leap in round two, which scored 90.6 points and assured his nation second in the overall standings.

“I wasn’t as confident as Nika, so I’m really happy I managed to do my best jumps in the competition,” Domen Prevc told FIS after he and Nika became the first brother-sister combination to win a ski jumping World Championship medal together.

“Honestly for me it was like all the competition, just focusing on myself and doing the best I could. I did really good jumps especially the last, so I’m really proud of that and the team performed the way they did.”

The battle for bronze would be played out between Normal Hill silver and bronze medalists Andrea Wellinger (GER) and Jan Hoerl (AUT).

Wellinger had endured something of a challenging season, with just one World Cup victory, until his individual success earlier in the competition, while Hoerl has been one of the most consistent performers in the men’s field and is currently second in the overall standings.

To add to the drama, both athletes would achieve 139m jumps, which scored 87 points, but Austria’s advantage heading into the final round of jumps would see them claim the final podium place.

"I’m very happy, the whole team was great, it was exciting competition and congrats to Norway and Slovenia,” said Hoerl, who was part of Austrian's line-up with Kraft, Jacqueline Seifreidsberger and Eva Pinkelnig.

“It was pressure for me (on the last jump), because I knew Andi (Wellinger) had a good jump and I hoped I could show a better jump, but we have the bronze medal and it is amazing!”

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships (NOR) - Program:

6 March
16.20 – Competition Start Men's Team LH
20.30 – Start Qualification Women's LH
7 March
12.15 – Start Qualification Men's LH
16.15 – Competition Start Women's LH
8 March
15.45 – Competition Start Men's LH

*all times are displayed in Central European Time (CET) and are subject to change.