Nordic combined at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Team

The men's team Nordic combined competition for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer was held at Lysgårdsbakken and Birkebeineren Ski Stadium on 23 and 24 February.[1]

Team
at the XVII Olympic Winter Games
VenueLysgårdsbakken (ski jumping)
Birkebeineren Ski Stadium (cross-country skiing)
Dates23–24 February
Competitors36 from 12 nations
Winning timeTeam jump: 733.5
Ski time: 1:22:51.8
Final time: 1:22:51.8
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Masashi Abe
Takanori Kono
Kenji Ogiwara
 Japan
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Bjarte Engen Vik
Knut Tore Apeland
Fred Børre Lundberg
 Norway
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Jean-Yves Cuendet
Andreas Schaad
Hippolyt Kempf
 Switzerland
← 1992
1998 →

Japan's margin of victory, preceded by their four-minute margin of victory at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun the previous year, would lead the FIS to change the Nordic combined team event from a 3 x 10 km relay to a 4 x 5 km relay later in 1994 that would become effective at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1995 in Thunder Bay and at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.

Results edit

Ski jumping edit

Each of the three team members performed a single jump that was judged in the same format as the Olympic ski jumping competition. The scores for all the jumps each team were combined and used to calculate their deficit in the cross-country skiing portion of the event. Each point difference between teams in the ski jumping portion in this event resulted in a five second difference in the cross country part of the event.[1]

Rank Team Points Time difference
1   Japan
Masashi Abe
Takanori Kono
Kenji Ogiwara
733.5
233.0
255.0
245.5
+0:00
2   Norway
Bjarte Engen Vik
Knut Tore Apeland
Fred Børre Lundberg
672.0
249.5
215.0
207.5
+5:07
3   Switzerland
Jean-Yves Cuendet
Andreas Schaad
Hippolyt Kempf
643.5
240.5
210.0
193.0
+7:30
4   Estonia
Magnar Freimuth
Allar Levandi
Ago Markvardt
619.0
193.5
220.0
205.5
+9:32
5   Austria
Felix Gottwald
Georg Riedlsperger
Mario Stecher
609.0
193.5
218.5
197.0
+10:22
6   Czech Republic
Milan Kučera
Zbyněk Pánek
František Máka
603.5
206.5
210.5
186.5
+10:50
7   United States
Dave Jarrett
Ryan Heckman
Todd Lodwick
602.0
193.5
187.5
221.0
+10:57
8   Germany
Roland Braun
Thomas Abratis
Thomas Dufter
595.0
223.0
178.5
193.5
+11:32
9   Finland
Tapio Nurmela
Topi Sarparanta
Jari Mantila
592.0
200.5
189.5
202.0
+11:47
10   France
Stéphane Michon
Fabrice Guy
Sylvain Guillaume
557.5
191.5
173.0
193.0
+14:39
11   Italy
Simone Pinzani
Andrea Longo
Andrea Cecon
544.5
173.0
179.5
192.0
+15:44
12   Russia
Valery Kobelev
Stanislav Dubrovsky
Valery Stolyarov
503.0
179.5
158.5
165.0
+19:12

Cross-country edit

Each member of the team completed a ten kilometre cross-country skiing leg.[1]

Rank Team Start time Cross-country Finish time
Time Place
    Japan
Takanori Kono
Masashi Abe
Kenji Ogiwara
+0:00 1:22:51.8
27:55.2
27:49.1
27:07.5
5 1:22:51.8
    Norway
Knut Tore Apeland
Bjarte Engen Vik
Fred Børre Lundberg
+5:07 1:22:33.9
26:51.5
28:28.8
27:13.6
3 1:27:40.9
    Switzerland
Hippolyt Kempf
Jean-Yves Cuendet
Andreas Schaad
+7:30 1:23:09.9
27:35.6
28:02.0
27:32.3
4 1:30:39.9
4   Estonia
Magnar Freimuth
Allar Levandi
Ago Markvardt
+9:32 1:23:35.4
28:09.5
27:05.4
28:20.5
2 1:33:07.4
5   Czech Republic
Zbyněk Pánek
Milan Kučera
František Máka
+10:50 1:24:05.9
27:23.4
28:45.0
27:57.5
6 1:34:55.9
6   France
Sylvain Guillaume
Stéphane Michon
Fabrice Guy
+14:39 1:20:53.0
26:45.8
27:09.8
26:57.4
1 1:35:32.0
7   United States
Dave Jarrett
Todd Lodwick
Ryan Heckman
+10:57 1:25:10.4
27:49.8
29:03.2
28:17.4
8 1:36:07.4
8   Finland
Topi Sarparanta
Jari Mantila
Tapio Nurmela
+11:47 1:24:32.4
28:05.5
28:44.7
27:42.2
7 1:36:19.4
9   Austria
Georg Riedlsperger
Mario Stecher
Felix Gottwald
+10:22 1:27:47.5
29:41.0
29:17.4
28:49.1
11 1:38:09.5
10   Germany
Thomas Dufter
Roland Braun
Thomas Abratis
+11:32 1:26:53.4
28:40.7
30:06.4
28:06.3
10 1:38:25.4
11   Italy
Simone Pinzani
Andrea Longo
Andrea Cecon
+15:44 1:29:27.1
31:29.6
29:02.3
28:55.2
12 1:45:11.1
12   Russia
Stanislav Dubrovsky
Valery Stolyarov
Valery Kobelev
+19:12 1:30:43.0
29:11.2
29:25.8
32:06.0
9 1:49:55.0

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "Lillehammer 1994 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Lillehammer Olympic Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1994. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 2, 2010. Retrieved January 21, 2014.

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