Nordic Combined: Watabe closes in on Lamy Chappuis

Japan's Akito Watabe took his fourth career victory today (Mar. 9) in the men’s World Cup Nordic Combined at the Holmenkollen in Oslo, Norway, the first event of the season finale. Watabe won in front of Norway’s Mikko Kokslien and Austria’s Bernhard Gruber.

The World Cup leader Frenchman Jason Lamy Chappuis came in twenty-third and lost ninety-two points against Watabe. With just one competition to go, his overall advantage has diminished to seventy-two points.

"It was a great day for me and I am pleaseed to win on such a traditional venue like Oslo." Said Watabe."Tomorrow, I will try to achieve something what seemed unreasonable weeks ago."

If Watabe wins tomorrow and Lamy Chappuis places third or less, Watabe will take the overall title.

American Bryan Fletcher continued to lead the U.S. team finishing in fourteenth.. Billy Demong came from well back in the jump to finish 19th. To honor the 120th anniversary of the nordic combined at Holmenkollen, tomorrow’s race will consist of a traditional format with two jumps and a 15k.

“It's kind of cool to do traditional format. We haven't done it in a long time. Tomorrow is the last day of the season and we always like competing in Oslo.” siad U.S. Head Coach Dave Jarrett.

Image by GEPA.

Rank	Bib	FIS Code	Name	Year	Nation	Result
1	1	1136	WATABE Akito	1988	JPN	26:21.4
2	10	1149	KOKSLIEN Mikko	1985	NOR	26:29.3
3	3	252	GRUBER Bernhard	1982	AUT	26:31.0
4	12	100002	GRAABAK Joergen	1991	NOR	26:54.1
5	13	257	KIRCHEISEN Bjoern	1983	GER	27:03.9
6	8	1050	FRENZEL Eric	1988	GER	27:08.8
7	2	351	EDELMANN Tino	1985	GER	27:14.5
8	4	1669	STORLIEN Gudmund	1990	NOR	27:17.8
9	5	111	BIELER Christoph	1977	AUT	27:20.7
10	24	1003	DVORAK Miroslav	1987	CZE	27:21.7
11	27	973	MOAN Magnus-H.	1983	NOR	27:23.7
12	28	8	STECHER Mario	1977	AUT	27:27.3
13	6	419	KLEMETSEN Haavard	1979	NOR	27:34.9
14	18	1067	FLETCHER Bryan	1986	USA	27:45.5
15	9	1413	KROG Magnus	1987	NOR	27:54.3
16	7	1167	KJELBOTN Thomas	1986	NOR	27:57.3
17	17	214	DENIFL Wilhelm	1980	AUT	28:01.6
18	15	768	MINATO Yusuke	1985	JPN	28:04.3
19	35	222	DEMONG Bill	1980	USA	28:07.6
20	11	606	BRAUD Francois	1986	FRA	28:09.3
21	16	459	LACROIX Sebastien	1983	FRA	28:11.2
22	20	590	RYDZEK Johannes	1991	GER	28:13.9
23	31	610	LAMY CHAPPUIS Jason	1986	FRA	28:31.2
24	22	467	RIESSLE Fabian	1990	GER	28:35.0
25	21	759	NAGAI Hideaki	1983	JPN	28:37.3
26	26	1600	FAISST Manuel	1993	GER	28:39.3
27	19	416	SLAVIK Tomas	1981	CZE	28:42.6
28	47	1192	DRUML Tomaz	1988	AUT	28:52.7
29	34	1650	SCHMID Jan	1983	NOR	29:10.7
30	43	1464	RUNGGALDIER Lukas	1987	ITA	29:11.7
31	36	592	KLAPFER Lukas	1985	AUT	29:23.3
32	39	1796	JOHANSEN Truls Soenstehagen	1991	NOR	29:27.5
33	44	1015	PICHLMAYER Marco	1987	AUT	29:30.3
34	14	609	LAHEURTE Maxime	1985	FRA	29:33.2
35	42	643	MICHIELLI Giuseppe	1985	ITA	29:33.8
36	32	247	SPILLANE Johnny	1980	USA	29:35.5
37	30	349	HURSCHLER Seppi	1983	SUI	29:44.8
38	40	1486	PIHO Kail	1991	EST	29:45.6
39	37	347	BEETZ Christian	1984	GER	29:54.3
40	49	100186	OLSEN Andre Nyeng	1989	NOR	30:07.9
41	46	1439	FLETCHER Taylor	1990	USA	30:22.2
42	50	1621	STORLIEN Ole Martin	1988	NOR	30:28.7
43	41	1706	REHRL Franz-Josef	1993	AUT	30:32.9
44	25	715	ORANIC Mitja	1986	SLO	30:48.1
45	48	100046	PIHO Han-Hendrik	1993	EST	30:51.6
46	45	100301	LIEN Oeystein Granbu	1992	NOR	30:54.2
47	29	1479	PANIN Ivan	1987	RUS	31:02.9
48	38	100020	SEMENOV Sergei	1989	RUS	31:11.5
49	33	1462	CIESLAR Adam	1992	POL	31:30.5
50	51	215	CHURAVY Pavel	1977	CZE	32:19.4
Did not finish
	23	727	KATO Taihei	1984	JPN

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Nordic Combined: Watabe closes in on Lamy Chappuis