And the winner is: Austria! In the second competition at the World Junior Championships in Erzurum, the team from Austria, with Franz Josef Rehrl, Alexander Brandner, David Pommer and Philipp Orter, won the Gold medal in an exciting competition. The second place went to Italy, followed by Germany.   After the jumping they were ten seconds bac...

The schedule for the World Cup in Liberec (CZE) had to be changed due to wind and rain. One training round could be held on the opening day. World Cup leader Jason Lamy Chappuis of France was the best with a jump on 95.5 m.   But the schedule for the Penalty Race and the Gundersen competiton was changed. The Gundersen event, that was planned ...

Bernhard Gruber is the tenth different winnter this season in the nordic combined World Cup. But the success of the 29-year-old was no surprise. He already attracted some attention at the competitions in Klingenthal and Almaty with three podium results. In Liberec Gruber was already in good position after the jumping and won ahead of Eric Frenzel of...

The podium in the second individual competition at the World Junior Championships in Erzurum was controlled by the northern Europeans: Two Norwegians and one Finn were ahead in the final nordic combined event at the Championships. Norwegian Oeystein Granbu Lien won the Gold medal with 10.9 seconds ahead of FInland's Ilkka Herola and his teammate Esp...

Due to the bad weather forecast there will be no Penalty Race on the second day of competition at the World Cup in Liberec. A Gundersen-competition will take place instead. The new schedule for Sunday:   07.45 am: Provisional competition round 09.00 am: Competition round 12.15 pm: Cross country race...

Jason Lamy Chappuis will take a lead of 183 points to the final two World Cup weekends in Lahti and at the Holmenkollen Oslo. Akito Watabe achieved his third win this season and demonstrated his strength in jumping and cross country, but Lamy Chappuis finished second and could defen a clear lead.   But it was not easy to achieve this second p...

If you want to characterize Bryan Fletcher with only a few words, ladies and gentlemen, you will soon notice that you can't avoid the word "fighter". Because currently Bryan Fletcher is fighting remarkably well: With a lot of courage and engagement the 25-year-old had a great race after a good jumping performance in the second competition in Liberec...

Back to the roots: the World Cup circuit is back in the North. Where the season 2011/12 started, it shall now also be decided who will be the "King of the Winter" this year. And favorite Jason Lamy Chappuis can win the title here already. He leads in the overall World Cup ranking with 138 points ahead Akito Watabe, who has to come in clearly ahead o...

The planned team sprint competition in Lahti had to be cancelled due to the difficult wind conditions. The jury decided to cancel the jumping round after 12 athletes. Before that there were alredy unusual results as a consequence of these wind conditions, like for example a really bad jump of Christoph Bieler. Now everyone is hoping for better condi...

Strong wind made it impossible to carry out the team sprint in Lahti on Friday. If the conditions will not improve, the provisional competition round can count for Saturday's Gundersen-competition....