Frenzel and Rießle swoop to claim Nordic Combined World Cup team sprint gold Saturday, 16 January 2021
Eric Frenzel and Fabian Rießle claimed victory for Germany in the first team sprint event of the International Ski Federation (FIS) Nordic Combined World Cup season in Val di Fiemme.
There was a thrilling climax in the Italian resort with Rießle outsprinting Lukas Greiderer of Austria in the last few metres to snatch the win.
Rießle and Frenzel finished with a winning time of 35min 11.9sec to defeat Austrians Johannes Lamparter and Greiderer by 1.5.
The bronze medal went to the Finnish pairing of Ilkka Herola and Eero Hirvonen who finished 50.7 further back.
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Ski jumping: What is the Four Hills Tournament and why are there no women?
The highlight of the ski jumping season is taking place in Germany and Austria over the next couple of weeks. The Four Hills Tournament is a major, if complicated, festive tradition with women jumpers missing out.
Poland s Dawid Kubacki jumps to glory at the 2019-20 Four Hills Tournament in Bischofshofen
Every December and January, Germans are glued to their televisions watching men literally fly through the sky. But it s nothing to do with Santa Claus; instead they re enjoying the jewel in ski jumping s crown, the Four Hills Tournament – or
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No, not the blizzard last week that has all our areas open for business for the holidays.
(But that is a good one.)
Instead, it was tiny Mayfield, led by state champion Madison Relyea, winning the Section II girls’ cross country championship last February, beating a field of rivals from schools with much larger enrollments. Remember the film about the small school in Indiana beating all the bigs to win the state basketball championship?
Think of Mayfield as “Hoosiers” on snow.
Well, we now have snow again and Relyea is back for her senior year. She and her Panther teammates will be strong favorites in every meet. But while skiing is among the handful of high school sports in the state that have been cleared to compete this winter, as of right now, championship events in all sports have been canceled. The focus will be limited to Section II rivals only.
Geraghty-Moats wins inaugural FIS Women s Nordic Combined World Cup event Friday, 18 December 2020
Tara Geraghty-Moats of the United States was the winner of the inaugural International Ski Federation (FIS) Women s Nordic Combined World Cup event in Ramsau.
The historic contest had been scheduled to take place in Lillehammer in Norway at the start of December, but was postponed due to the continued uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ramsau stepped in as host, with the season-opener of the FIS Women s Ski Jumping World Cup running alongside competition at the Austrian resort.
Geraghty-Moats triumphed despite finishing sixth in the ski jump with 116.0 points.