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U.S. combined skiers put three in Ramsau World Cup top 10

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spillaneU.S. Skiers pushed three into the top ten in a World Cup Gundersen 10k Nordic Combined event at Ramsau, Austria today (Dec. 19).

In a race won by Frenchman Jason Lamp Chappius, Americans Johnny Spillane,, Todd Lodwick and Bill Demong registered placings of fourth, sixth and ninth respectively. The podium spots went to German Tino Edelmann in second and Alessandro Pittin of Italy in third.

Spillane made up time of the leaders with the eighth best cross country leg against his 16th rank in the jump. Lodwick utilized nearly the opposite approach with an eighth in the jump and 15th in the cross country leg. Demong was 23rd in the jumping and tenth on the track. All three were within 17.7 seconds of the winner with Spillane 4.2seconds out and a half second off the podium.

"I think Johnny thought there was still another group in front of him and he just kept skiing hard - in the red zone - and just didn't have it at the end," said U.S. nordic combined coach Chris Gilbertson. "We've been working with the guys on negative splits - going out slow and making each lap progressively faster. It will come around, it will just take some time."

Lamy Chappius got his second straight win by passing Felix Gottwald in the final kilometer. Gottwald tumbled to fifth.

"I really do not know what's going on, at the moment, everything works very fine for me," said Chappuis. "I do not have any problems on the hill, which give me a lot of self confidence. And in cross country, I did a great race again. It is just great being the first guy who wins two races on the same weekend. Let's hope for tomorrow."

There will be a third and final World Cup nordic combined competition tomorrow in Ramsau.

Spillane photo by GEPA

Rank Bib FIS Code Name Year Nation Result
 1  3  610 LAMY CHAPPUIS Jason  1986  FRA   25:45.6
 2  1  351 EDELMANN Tino  1985  GER   25:47.7
 3  5  1029 PITTIN Alessandro  1990  ITA   25:49.3
 4  16  247 SPILLANE Johnny  1980  USA   25:49.8
 5  19  35 GOTTWALD Felix  1976  AUT   25:53.9
 6  8  27 LODWICK Todd  1976  USA   25:59.8
 7  32  8 STECHER Mario  1977  AUT   26:01.4
 8  11  215 CHURAVY Pavel  1977  CZE   26:01.6
 9  23  222 DEMONG Bill  1980  USA   26:03.3
 10  26  592 KLAPFER Lukas  1985  AUT   26:04.6
 11  48  1149 KOKSLIEN Mikko  1985  NOR   26:07.3
 12  15  137 KREINER David  1981  AUT   26:07.7
 13  49  1796 JOHANSEN Truls Soenstehagen  1991  NOR   26:09.3
 14  46  1003 DVORAK Miroslav  1987  CZE   26:10.6
 15  56  973 MOAN Magnus-H.  1983  NOR   26:10.9
 16  28  205 KOBAYASHI Norihito  1982  JPN   26:11.9
 17  25  1136 WATABE Akito  1988  JPN   26:12.5
 18  9  989 CAMEROTA Brett  1985  USA   26:16.4
 19  2  727 KATO Taihei  1984  JPN   26:16.5
 20  7  111 BIELER Christoph  1977  AUT   26:19.9
 21  45  1015 PICHLMAYER Marco  1987  AUT   26:22.2
 22  20  680 TANDE Petter L.  1985  NOR   26:27.2
 23  13  252 GRUBER Bernhard  1982  AUT   26:27.9
 24  10  1650 SCHMID Jan  1983  NOR   26:28.5
 25  6  214 DENIFL Wilhelm  1980  AUT   26:31.8
 26  30  459 LACROIX Sebastien  1983  FRA   26:43.4
 27  24  74 ACKERMANN Ronny  1977  GER   26:46.4
 28  14  1152 RYYNAENEN Janne  1988  FIN   26:57.5
 29  44  623 HUG Tim  1987  SUI   27:13.4
 30  27  1164 FELISAZ Jonathan  1985  FRA   27:16.7
 31  21  960 MASLENNIKOV Sergej  1982  RUS   27:18.1
 32  12  216 TAKAHASHI Daito  1980  JPN   27:23.8
 33  47  1660 WENDEL Ole-Christian  1992  NOR   27:29.1
 34  17  1147 POCHWALA Tomasz  1983  POL   27:31.2
 35  35  1485 NURMSALU Kaarel  1991  EST   27:38.0
 36  50  203 HEER Ronny  1981  SUI   27:43.9
 37  55  768 MINATO Yusuke  1985  JPN   27:54.5
 38  51  349 HURSCHLER Seppi  1983  SUI   27:55.7
 39  38  1418 BERLOT Gasper  1990  SLO   28:02.6
 40  59  643 MICHIELLI Giuseppe  1985  ITA   28:05.7
 41  58  715 ORANIC Mitja  1986  SLO   28:09.2
 42  43  1479 PANIN Ivan  1987  RUS   28:12.0
 43  31  621 HOLLENSTEIN Michael  1984  SUI   28:16.6
 44  52  249 MYSLICKI Jason  1977  CAN   28:17.6
 45  22  683 RIAN Espen  1981  NOR   28:17.8
 46  33  694 VODSEDALEK Ales  1985  CZE   28:26.4
 47  60  647 MUNARI Daniele  1983  ITA   28:32.1
 48  57  347 BEETZ Christian  1984  GER   29:17.8
 49  54  164 SAVILL Wesley  1989  CAN   29:18.5
 50  61  1486 PIHO Kail  1991  EST   29:27.2
 51  40  1473 ASIKAINEN Lauri  1989  FIN   29:54.7
 52  62  1265 ZARYCKI Andrzej  1989  POL   30:12.4
 53  65  1641 KHOMIN Oleksiy  1990  UKR   30:56.9
Did not start
   64  722 TRACHUK Volodymyr  1985  UKR   
   63  200 HASENEY Sebastian  1978  GER   
   53  416 SLAVIK Tomas  1981  CZE   
   42  257 KIRCHEISEN Bjoern  1983  GER   
   37  590 RYDZEK Johannes  1991  GER   
   29  1050 FRENZEL Eric  1988  GER   
Did not finish
   41  606 BRAUD Francois  1986  FRA   
   39  1156 KOIVURANTA Anssi  1988  FIN   
   36  609 LAHEURTE Maxime  1985  FRA   
   34  357 SOBOLEV Ivan  1983  BLR   
   18  217 HETTICH Georg  1978  GER   
   4  198 TALLUS Jaakko  1981  FIN   
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