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Lamy Chappuis/Braud defend Team Sprint title
After being Team Sprint champion in 2013, it’s the gold medal again for Jason Lamy Chappuis and new Team Sprint partner Francois Braud. The duo from France was the best team on the hill and track today and took the World Champion title ahead of the silver medallists Eric Frenzel and Johannes Rydzek from Germany who finished the last Nordic Combined cross-country race in Falun 2.7 seconds after the Frenchmen. The bronze medal went to Team Norway. Magnus Moan and Haavard Klemetsen finished 19.4 seconds after the winners.
The defending World Champions from France had a good jumping round and with two times 126 metres (227.1p.), Jason Lamy Chappuis and Francois Braud captured the pole position for the cross-country race, 11 seconds ahead of Team Japan. Akito Watabe showed 128.5 metres in the first round and brother Yoshito followed up with 124.5 metres, so that Japan held a point total of 221.4 points at the end of the jumping round. Team Germany lurked 21 seconds behind the leaders from France after a 118.5 and a 128-metre jump by Johannes Rydzek and Eric Frenzel.
Norwegian Magnus Moan delighted the crowd with great 127.5 metres in very good conditions in the first round and together with teammate Haavard Klemetsen’s 123 metres, Team Norway claimed the intermediate fourth position, in striking distance of 44 seconds behind the leaders from France. The team from Austria with newly minted World Champion Bernhard Gruber, who had impressed in the trial round with 134 metres, did not have good jumps in the competition round and ended up on the intermediate 7th rank with a time behind of 1:32.
Ski Jumping Results
The cross-country race took place in very difficult and deep conditions on the track. In the end, the French team managed to keep the lead for the whole race, even if Jason Lamy Chappuis fell during one of his laps. After the French team being in the lead for the whole race, the suspense level reached a boiling point again when Johannes Rydzek of the German team caught up with Lamy Chappuis before the final stretch. But even bone-deep tired, the Frenchman found some last power reserves and managed to keep Rydzek off his back and the gold medal around his neck.
Behind Germany and France, Japan and Norway had been duelling for the bronze medal for quite some time at the beginning of the race until Magnus Moan and Haavard Klemetsen finally managed to tear a gap open to the Watabe brothers. In the end, it was an undisputed bronze medal for Norway, finishing 19.4 seconds after the winners. Japan fell back to the sixth place while the young Finnish team consisting of Jim Härtull and Ilkka Herola surprisingly captured the fourth place in the end, one minute and four seconds behind France. Italy finished fifth.
The defending World Champions from France had a good jumping round and with two times 126 metres (227.1p.), Jason Lamy Chappuis and Francois Braud captured the pole position for the cross-country race, 11 seconds ahead of Team Japan. Akito Watabe showed 128.5 metres in the first round and brother Yoshito followed up with 124.5 metres, so that Japan held a point total of 221.4 points at the end of the jumping round. Team Germany lurked 21 seconds behind the leaders from France after a 118.5 and a 128-metre jump by Johannes Rydzek and Eric Frenzel.
Norwegian Magnus Moan delighted the crowd with great 127.5 metres in very good conditions in the first round and together with teammate Haavard Klemetsen’s 123 metres, Team Norway claimed the intermediate fourth position, in striking distance of 44 seconds behind the leaders from France. The team from Austria with newly minted World Champion Bernhard Gruber, who had impressed in the trial round with 134 metres, did not have good jumps in the competition round and ended up on the intermediate 7th rank with a time behind of 1:32.
Ski Jumping Results
The cross-country race took place in very difficult and deep conditions on the track. In the end, the French team managed to keep the lead for the whole race, even if Jason Lamy Chappuis fell during one of his laps. After the French team being in the lead for the whole race, the suspense level reached a boiling point again when Johannes Rydzek of the German team caught up with Lamy Chappuis before the final stretch. But even bone-deep tired, the Frenchman found some last power reserves and managed to keep Rydzek off his back and the gold medal around his neck.
Behind Germany and France, Japan and Norway had been duelling for the bronze medal for quite some time at the beginning of the race until Magnus Moan and Haavard Klemetsen finally managed to tear a gap open to the Watabe brothers. In the end, it was an undisputed bronze medal for Norway, finishing 19.4 seconds after the winners. Japan fell back to the sixth place while the young Finnish team consisting of Jim Härtull and Ilkka Herola surprisingly captured the fourth place in the end, one minute and four seconds behind France. Italy finished fifth.
Source: fis-ski.com
