Gundersen method
The Gundersen method is a starting mode in the final Nordic Combined cross-country competition , through which the first to reach the goal is also the winner in the combined competition.
Originally, in Nordic Combined, points and the placements of all participants were only calculated after the end of the competitions using keys for jumping and cross-country skiing, and the winners of the combination were only determined after a certain time lag.
The Norwegian Gunder Gundersen developed the start mode named after him in the 1980s, in which athletes start cross-country skiing at certain calculated time intervals. These start delays are calculated from the jump results in such a way that the order of arrival at the finish line in cross-country skiing reflects the overall ranking. The transparency of the finish makes it spectator-friendly.
From a certain size of the backlog, the participants are started together in waves, but keep their arithmetical backlog, so that the exact placements of this group (s) of participants only result from the calculation.
On the large hill (from 100 m) up to 1.2 points and on the normal hill two points are counted per meter jump distance. A difference of 2 points corresponds to a gap of 8 seconds between the starters or 15 points to one minute.