Todd Lodwick retired from ski competition in 2006. He announced he was back this past summer. Today he showed the competition he meant it.

The U.S. pushed two men into the top five of the Nordic combined event at Oberhof, Germany as Lodwick came three-tenths of a second from the win in a sprint with Magnus Hovdal Moan. Bill Demong finished fifth. The jump winner and World Cup standings leader Finn Anssi Koivurant, was third and Jason Lamy Chappuis of France was fourth.

Moan, seventh after the jumping leg, won the cross-country portion of the race for the win. Lodwick was third in the run leg while Demong finished second.Todd Lodwick retired from ski competition in 2006. He announced he was back this past summer. Today he showed the competition he meant it.

The U.S. pushed two men into the top five of the Nordic combined event at Oberhof, Germany as Lodwick came three-tenths of a second from the win in a sprint with Magnus Hovdal Moan. Bill Demong finished fifth. The jump winner and World Cup standings leader Finn Anssi Koivuranta, was third and Jason Lamy Chappuis of France was fourth.

In a testament to the closenes of the race, race officials first had Lodwick third, moving him to the second place result only after examination of the photo-finish.

Moan, seventh after the jumping leg, won the cross-country portion of the race for the win. Lodwick was third in the run leg while Demong finished second.

The result for Demong, the team's biggest gun after Lodwick left, moves him to fourth in the World Cup standings having won and placed second in two events at Ramsau just before Christmas. The result for Lodwick was his first of the season, having been skiing on the Continental Cup in order to qualify for World Cup competition.

It was the second win of the season for Moan and he is ranked second on the World Cup behind Koivuranta 443-351.

While the two battled it out on the track, Lodwick stayed right with them. The three skied together for the last 1.5k of the 10k course and finished in a virtual dead-heat. Moan won by .3 with Koivuranta in third .4 from the win.

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Rank	Bib	FIS Code	Name	Year	Nation	Result
1	7	973	MOAN Magnus-H.	1983	NOR	25:22.8
2	5	27	LODWICK Todd	1976	USA	25:23.1
3	1	1156	KOIVURANTA Anssi	1988	FIN	25:23.2
4	2	610	LAMY CHAPPUIS Jason	1986	FRA	25:59.8
5	22	222	DEMONG Bill	1980	USA	26:03.8
6	15	257	KIRCHEISEN Bjoern	1983	GER	26:04.7
7	24	1003	DVORAK Miroslav	1987	CZE	26:32.4
8	18	1050	FRENZEL Eric	1988	GER	26:37.2
9	12	351	EDELMANN Tino	1985	GER	26:37.8
10	19	252	GRUBER Bernhard	1982	AUT	26:39.7
11	13	606	BRAUD Francois	1986	FRA	26:41.3
12	20	592	KLAPFER Lukas	1985	AUT	26:44.0
13	4	727	KATO Taihei	1984	JPN	26:47.6
14	36	1149	KOKSLIEN Mikko	1985	NOR	27:01.2
15	10	214	DENIFL Wilhelm	1980	AUT	27:06.9
16	29	205	KOBAYASHI Norihito	1982	JPN	27:08.4
17	3	960	MASLENNIKOV Sergej	1982	RUS	27:10.1
18	23	1650	SCHMID Jan	1983	NOR	27:15.4
19	21	215	CHURAVY Pavel	1977	CZE	27:22.3
20	14	1444	SCHMID Tommy	1988	SUI	27:26.5
21	25	590	RYDZEK Johannes	1991	GER	27:28.1
22	9	591	KAMMERLANDER Tobias	1986	AUT	27:31.0
23	11	680	TANDE Petter L.	1985	NOR	27:38.4
24	40	200	HASENEY Sebastian	1978	GER	27:38.7
25	44	459	LACROIX Sebastien	1983	FRA	27:42.7
26	30	416	SLAVIK Tomas	1981	CZE	27:43.5
27	37	217	HETTICH Georg	1978	GER	27:44.7
28	16	621	HOLLENSTEIN Michael	1984	SUI	27:49.2
29	27	623	HUG Tim	1987	SUI	27:53.8
30	28	1029	PITTIN Alessandro	1990	ITA	27:56.9
31	34	294	GUENTER Andreas	1988	GER	27:59.7
32	38	203	HEER Ronny	1981	SUI	28:05.4
33	6	604	ZAUNER David	1985	AUT	28:06.8
34	17	694	VODSEDALEK Ales	1985	CZE	28:07.9
35	39	455	MARKENGBAKKEN Iver	1982	NOR	28:09.0
36	32	1152	RYYNAENEN Janne	1988	FIN	28:20.7
37	31	198	TALLUS Jaakko	1981	FIN	28:24.7
38	35	1410	BAUER Armin	1990	ITA	28:25.2
39	33	981	CAMEROTA Eric	1985	USA	28:27.1
40	8	1473	ASIKAINEN Lauri	1989	FIN	29:02.3
41	51	1164	FELISAZ Jonathan	1985	FRA	29:08.7
42	47	768	MINATO Yusuke	1985	JPN	29:10.0
43	41	609	LAHEURTE Maxime	1985	FRA	29:12.1
44	48	715	ORANIC Mitja	1986	SLO	29:14.2
45	42	254	MENZ Matthias	1981	GER	29:33.8
46	46	1136	WATABE Akito	1988	JPN	29:40.4
47	54	8	STECHER Mario	1977	AUT	29:45.7
48	55	349	HURSCHLER Seppi	1983	SUI	29:50.1
49	43	1469	MAKA Marcin	1985	POL	29:57.6
50	56	670	SCHLOTT Mark	1985	GER	30:07.6
51	57	1192	DRUML Tomaz	1988	AUT	30:09.7
52	53	1388	CIESLAR Wojciech	1985	POL	31:56.8

Did not start: KAMENEV Anton (RUS), KLEMETSEN Haavard (NOR), ENGLERT Toni (GER), KAEHKOENEN Ville (FIN), BEETZ Tom (GER)

Did not finish: TAKAHASHI Daito (JPN)

Disqualified: SPILLANE Johnny (USA)