This weekend, the Russian national championships in Nordic Combined took place in Chaikovskiy and women’s COC champion Stefaniya Nadymova and Ernest Yahin took the titles.

Nadymova jumped into the lead with a distance of 78 metres on Chaikovskiy’s normal hill and was rewarded with a 58-second head start onf Svetlana Gladikova (72 m). Aleksandra Glasinova held the intermediate third position of 16 starters and began her race one minute and four seconds after Nadymova.

The fifth-fastest time was enough for Nadymova to continue her stranglehold on the women’s events this year. She finally crossed the finish line 35.2 seconds earlier than Anastasia Goncharova, who had stormed to the podium from position four.  Sventlana Gladikova kept her third rank, finishing 45.9 seconds after Nadymova.

Double victory for Yahin

Ernest Yahin was successful on the normal and large hill. In both jumping events, the  26-year-old captured the pole positions. On the normal hill, his advantage on runner-up Aleksander Milanin was 23 seconds. Third-placed Niyaz Nabeev had to make up 30 seconds.

While Yahin managed to reach the finish with a seven/eight-second advantage on Viacheslav Barkov and Samir Mastiev, who stormed to the podium from the seventh and ninth place respectively.

On the large hill, Yahin advantage had increased to one minute and 49 seconds on Milanin and two minutes and 26 seconds on Nabeev after a great unparalleled jump of 140 metres. In the race, Yahin could take it easy. He still cruised into the finish two minutes and twelve seconds faster than Viacheslav Barkov and Samir Mastiev. While a big gap existed between the winner and the runners-up. Barkov and Mastiev duelled fiercely for the positions again and again, Barkov had the better end and finished 0.9 seconds ahead of Mastiev.

In the team event, the team from St. Petersburg won with two minutes and 58 seconds ahead of Sverdlosvk. The team from Moscow finished their event on rank three, +3:17.3 behind Konoplev, Pronin, Pashaev and Ivanov.

Find all result lists here (in Russian)

Source: fis-ski.com