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Nordic combined at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Individual large hill/10 km

The men's individual large hill/10 km Nordic combined competition for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada was held at Whistler Olympic Park in Whistler, British Columbia on 25 February.[1]

Men's individual large hill/10 km
at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for Nordic combined
VenueWhistler Olympic Park
Dates25 February
Competitors46 from 14 nations
Winning time25:32.9
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Bill Demong  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Johnny Spillane  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Bernhard Gruber  Austria
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Austria's Felix Gottwald was the defending Olympic champion when the event was known as the 7.5 km Sprint.[2] Gottwald retired originally after the 2006-07 World Cup season, but came out of retirement in May 2009 to compete for the 2009-10 World Cup season including the 2010 Games.[3] Bill Demong of the United States was the defending world champion in this event.[4]

Two test events took place at the Olympic venue on 16–17 January 2009 with Demong winning on the 16th[5] and Norway's Magnus Moan, defending Olympic silver medalist in this event when it was the 7.5 km sprint,[2] winning on the 17th.[6] The last World Cup event prior to the 2010 Games in this format took place on 10 January 2010 in Val di Fiemme, Italy and was won by Demong.[7]

Results edit

Ski Jumping edit

The ski jumping took place with a trial round at 09:00 PST and the competition round at 10:00 PST.[1] One jump in competition was scored similar to that of ski jumping. With 28 skiers having competed their jumps, officials abandoned the competition to high winds. They were restarted at 11:00 PST (19:00 GMT).[8] Jumping resumed despite complaints from co-test event winner Moan, defending Olympic champion Gottwald, and Lamy-Chappuis, the current World Cup leader and winner of the 10 km individual normal hill gold medal on the 14th.[9] Moan described the jumps as a "joke" while a French coach called the FIS's decision as a "scandal".[9] Despite the complaints, Gottwald's teammate Gruber had the longest jump with 134.0 m.[10]

Rank Bib Name Country Distance (m) Points Time Difference
1 27 Bernhard Gruber   Austria 134.0 127.0 +0:00
2 39 Johnny Spillane   United States 129.0 118.5 +0:34
3 28 Janne Ryynänen   Finland 128.0 117.0 +0:40
4 30 Christoph Bieler   Austria 127.5 116.8 +0:41
5 18 Francois Braud   France 127.5 116.3 +0:43
6 37 Bill Demong   United States 127.0 115.5 +0:46
7 10 Lukas Runggaldier   Italy 126.5 114.2 +0:51
8 40 Pavel Churavy   Czech Republic 126.0 114.0 +0:52
9 31 Akito Watabe   Japan 125.0 112.5 +0:58
10 33 Petter L. Tande   Norway 123.5 109.8 +1:09
10 41 Mario Stecher   Austria 123.5 109.8 +1:09
12 38 Björn Kircheisen   Germany 123.5 108.8 +1:13
13 34 Todd Lodwick   United States 122.5 108.7 +1:13
13 36 Alessandro Pittin   Italy 122.5 108.7 +1:13
15 12 Tommy Schmid   Switzerland 125.0 108.5 +1:14
16 32 Hannu Manninen   Finland 122.5 107.7 +1:17
17 19 Georg Hettich   Germany 121.5 106.3 +1:23
18 17 Tomas Slavik   Czech Republic 120.5 104.7 +1:29
19 13 Espen Rian   Norway 120.5 104.2 +1:31
20 3 Ales Vodsedalek   Czech Republic 119.5 102.8 +1:37
21 9 Sergey Maslennikov   Russia 118.5 101.2 +1:43
21 20 Sebastien Lacroix   France 118.5 101.2 +1:43
23 2 Armin Bauer   Italy 117.5 99.8 +1:49
24 26 Ronny Heer   Switzerland 115.0 96.0 +2:04
25 21 Jaakko Tallus   Finland 115.5 95.8 +2:05
26 1 Niyaz Nabeev   Russia 115.5 95.3 +2:07
27 16 Giuseppe Michielli   Italy 114.0 94.0 +2:12
28 43 Magnus Moan   Norway 112.5 91.7 +2:21
29 46 Jason Lamy-Chappuis   France 113.0 91.5 +2:22
30 29 Norihito Kobayashi   Japan 112.0 90.5 +2:26
31 22 Taihei Kato   Japan 112.5 90.2 +2:27
32 6 Gašper Berlot   Slovenia 112.5 89.2 +2:31
33 11 Mitja Oranič   Slovenia 111.0 88.5 +2:34
34 15 Yūsuke Minato   Japan 110.0 87.0 +2:40
35 42 Tino Edelmann   Germany 109.5 86.3 +2:43
36 24 Miroslav Dvořák   Czech Republic 107.5 83.8 +2:53
37 14 Tim Hug   Switzerland 107.0 82.5 +2:58
38 23 Seppi Hurschler   Switzerland 107.5 82.3 +2:59
39 8 Maxime Laheurte   France 106.0 80.0 +3:08
40 45 Felix Gottwald   Austria 105.5 78.8 +3:13
41 44 Eric Frenzel   Germany 104.5 74.2 +3:31
42 5 Jason Myslicki   Canada 99.5 69.3 +3:51
43 4 Volodymyr Trachuk   Ukraine 99.5 68.8 +3:53
44 35 Anssi Koivuranta   Finland 97.5 66.3 +4:03
45 25 Mikko Kokslien   Norway 96.5 64.2 +4:11
46 7 Taylor Fletcher   United States 82.0 38.0 +5:56

Cross-Country edit

 
Bill Demong skating to victory

The start for the 10 kilometre race was staggered, with a one-point deficit in the ski jump portion resulting in a four-second deficit in starting the cross-country course. This stagger meant that the first athlete across the finish line would be the overall winner of the event. Cross-country skiing's part of the competition was scheduled to take place at 13:00 PST that same day,[1] but was moved to 14:00 PST in the wake of the high winds during the ski jumping part of the competition.

Finland's Koivuranta, who finished 44th in the ski jumping part of this event, did not start in the cross-county portion of this event. Defending Olympic champion Gottwald had the fastest cross-country skiing part of the event to move from 40th to 17th. Meanwhile, Spillane and defending World champion Demong caught ski jumping leader Gruber at the 4.0 km mark though all three skiers stayed together until 600 m was left in the event before Demong and Spillane pulled away to finish one-two in the event.[9][11][12] Spillane won his third Olympic silver medal in this Olympics while Demong's gold followed his silver earned in the team event two days earlier. In the post-race press conference, Demong stated that Spillane's silver in the 10 km individual normal hill event was "a dream come true" on 14 February, the silver in the team event was "icing on the cake", and that his gold was "something extra". Spillane stated that if there was one person who he wanted to beat him, "...it would have been Bill".[13] Bronze medalist Gruber commented that Demong and Spillane "...were just too strong".[14] It marked the first time an American won a gold medal in Nordic skiing (cross-country skiing, Nordic combined, ski jumping) in the Winter Olympics.

After the medal ceremony held later that evening, Demong proposed to his girlfriend, Katie Koczynski, in front of teammates and coaches at the team headquarters near Vancouver.[15] Koczynski said yes.[15] Also on that same day, Demong found out he was named the flagbearer for the American team at the closing ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics on 28 February.[15] It was Demong's teammate, Spillane, who gave Demong the courage to propose to his now fiancée.[15] Demong and his fiancée discussed how this happened on NBC's Today show the following morning.[16]

Rank Bib Name Country Start time Cross country
time		 Cross country
rank		 Finish time
  6 Bill Demong   United States +0:46 24:46.9 2 25:32.9
  2 Johnny Spillane   United States +0:34 25:02.9 7 +4.0
  1 Bernhard Gruber   Austria +0:00 25:43.7 19 +10.8
4 16 Hannu Manninen   Finland +1:17 24:49.0 4 +33.1
5 8 Pavel Churavy   Czech Republic +0:52 25:14.9 9 +34.0
6 11 Petter L. Tande   Norway +1:09 25:02.2 6 +38.3
7 13 Alessandro Pittin   Italy +1:13 25:00.6 5 +40.7
8 10 Mario Stecher   Austria +1:09 25:12.1 8 +48.2
9 9 Akito Watabe   Japan +0:58 25:23.7 11 +48.8
10 4 Christoph Bieler   Austria +0:41 25:40.7 18 +48.8
11 7 Lukas Runggaldier   Italy +0:51 25:40.6 17 +58.7
12 3 Janne Ryynänen   Finland +0:40 26:00.9 25 +1:08.0
13 14 Todd Lodwick   United States +1:13 25:30.2 14 +1:10.3
14 5 Francois Braud   France +0:43 26:16.6 31 +1:26.7
15 28 Magnus Moan   Norway +2:21 24:48.9 3 +1:37.0
16 15 Tommy Schmid   Switzerland +1:14 26:11.7 29 +1:52.8
17 40 Felix Gottwald   Austria +3:13 24:29.4 1 +2:09.5
18 29 Jason Lamy-Chappuis   France +2:22 25:22.6 10 +2:11.7
19 21 Sebastien Lacroix   France +1:43 26:02.2 26 +2:12.3
20 12 Björn Kircheisen   Germany +1:13 26:33.5 37 +2:13.6
21 23 Armin Bauer   Italy +1:49 26:00.1 23 +2:16.2
22 24 Ronny Heer   Switzerland +2:04 25:45.5 21 +2:16.6
23 27 Giuseppe Michielli   Italy +2:12 25:38.3 16 +2:17.4
24 17 Georg Hettich   Germany +1:23 26:32.5 36 +2:22.6
25 18 Tomas Slavik   Czech Republic +1:29 26:29.8 35 +2:25.9
26 34 Yūsuke Minato   Japan +2:40 25:30.0 13 +2:37.1
27 30 Norihito Kobayashi   Japan +2:26 26:00.1 23 +2:53.2
28 36 Miroslav Dvořák   Czech Republic +2:53 25:36.7 15 +2:56.8
29 35 Tino Edelmann   Germany +2:43 25:52.0 22 +3:02.1
30 31 Taihei Kato   Japan +2:27 26:11.0 28 +3:05.1
31 38 Seppi Hurschler   Switzerland +2:59 25:44.9 20 +3:11.0
32 25 Jaakko Tallus   Finland +2:05 26:51.1 38 +3:23.2
33 37 Tim Hug   Switzerland +2:58 26:02.3 27 +3:27.4
34 20 Ales Vodsedalek   Czech Republic +1:37 27:29.8 41 +3:33.9
35 19 Espen Rian   Norway +1:31 27:41.8 42 +3:39.9
36 22 Sergey Maslennikov   Russia +1:43 27:42.7 44 +3:52.8
37 32 Gašper Berlot   Slovenia +2:31 26:57.9 39 +3:56.0
38 39 Maxime Laheurte   France +3:08 26:24.2 33 +3:59.3
39 45 Mikko Kokslien   Norway +4:11 25:23.9 12 +4:02.0
40 41 Eric Frenzel   Germany +3:31 26:12.6 30 +4:10.7
41 33 Mitja Oranič   Slovenia +2:34 27:42.1 43 +4:43.2
42 43 Volodymyr Trachuk   Ukraine +3:53 26:25.2 34 +4:45.3
43 26 Niyaz Nabeev   Russia +2:07 28:35.6 45 +5:09.7
44 42 Jason Myslicki   Canada +3:51 27:02.4 40 +5:20.5
45 46 Taylor Fletcher   United States +5:56 26:17.5 32 +6:40.6
44 Anssi Koivuranta   Finland +4:03 DNS

References edit

  1. ^ a b c 2010 Winter Olympic nordic combined schedule. - accessed 4 November 2009.
  2. ^ a b 2006 Winter Olympics 7.5 km sprint results. - accessed 4 November 2009.
  3. ^ 17 May 2009 CTV Olympics.ca article on Gottwald's announcement of coming out retirement to compete for the 2010 Winter Olympics. - accessed 4 November 2009.
  4. ^ FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 Individual large hill/10 km results. - accessed 4 November 2009.
  5. ^ Whistler Olympic Park 16 January 2009 Individual large hill/10 km results. Archived 22 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 4 November 2009
  6. ^ Whistler Olympic Park 17 January 2009 Individual large hill/ 10 km results. Archived 1 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 4 November 2009.
  7. ^ FIS Nordic Combined world Cup 10 January 2010 HS 134/ 10 km results. - accessed 10 January 2010.
  8. ^ "Jumping to be restarted". - David Ljunggren 25 February 2010 Yahoo! Sports article accessed 26 February 2010.
  9. ^ a b c "Demong wins as rivals cry foul". - David Ljunggren 25 February 2010 Yahoo! Sports article accessed 26 February 2010.
  10. ^ 2010 Winter Olympics 25 February 2010 Nordic combined 10 km individual large hill ski jumping results. Archived 4 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 26 February 2010.
  11. ^ 2010 Winter Olympics 25 February 2010 Nordic combined 10 km individual large hill final results. Archived 4 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 26 February 2010.
  12. ^ Vancouver2010.com 2010 Winter Olympics 25 February 2010 Nordic combined 10 km individual large hill final results. - accessed 26 February 2010.
  13. ^ "Nordic Combined: Demong and Spillane go 1-2". - Yahoo! Sports 25 February 2010 online video accessed 26 February 2010.
  14. ^ "Americans win gold and silver in Nordic combined". - 25 February 2010 Arnie Stapleton (AP) Yahoo! Sports 25 February 2010 article accessed 26 February 2010.
  15. ^ a b c d "Hours after gold medal, U.S. skier proposes to girlfriend". - Chris Chase Yahoo! Sports 26 February 2010 article accessed 27 February 2010.
  16. ^ "Olympic rings to engagement ring for skier". - Mike Celizic msnbc.com Today 26 February 2010 article accessed 27 February 2010.

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