Olympic Winter Games 2006 / Nordic Combined

Nordic combined at the 2006 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Pragelato
Competition venue	Stadio del Trampolino / Pragelato map
Nations	15th
Athletes	59 (59 )
date	11-21 February 2006
decisions	3
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Nordic skiing 2006, further disciplines: cross-country skiing, ski jumping  

At the XX. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , two individual competitions and one team competition in Nordic combined took place. The venues were the Stadio del Trampolino and the Pragelato Plan . A total of 59 athletes were nominated, with the number of participants per nation limited to a maximum of four athletes in each competition.

Felix Gottwald from Austria won the gold medal in the sprint and with his team, and he also came second in the individual competition. This surprisingly won the German Georg Hettich , who was also able to book silver with the team and bronze in the sprint.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Austria	2	1	-	3
2	Germany	1	1	1	3
3	Norway	-	1	-	2
4th	Finland	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
sprint	Felix Gottwald	Magnus Moan	Georg Hettich
singles	Georg Hettich	Felix Gottwald	Magnus Moan
team	Christoph Bieler , Felix Gottwald , Michael Gruber , Mario Stecher	Ronny Ackermann , Jens Gaiser , Georg Hettich , Björn Kircheisen	Anssi Koivuranta , Antti Kuisma , Hannu Manninen , Jaakko Tallus

Results

Gundersen competition normal hill

space	country	athlete	Points in jumping	Time (noun)
1	GER	Georg Hettich	265.5 0(1.)	39: 44.6
2	AUT	Felix Gottwald	234.5 (11.)	39: 54.2
3	NOR	Magnus Moan	237.5 0(9.)	40: 00.8
4th	NOR	Petter Tande	262.0 0(2.)	40: 00.9
5	FIN	Jaakko Tallus	257.0 0(3.)	40: 01.9
6th	GER	Sebastian Haseney	212.5 (28.)	40: 35.7
7th	GER	Björn Kircheisen	224.0 (16.)	40: 55.1
8th	United States	Todd Lodwick	232.0 (13.)	40: 56.6
9	FIN	Hannu Manninen	238.0 0(8.)	41: 20.2
10	RUS	Sergei Maslennikov	251.0 0(5.)	41: 28.2
12	AUT	Michael Gruber	248.5 0(7.)	41: 47.9
13	AUT	Christoph Bieler	251.0 0(5.)	41: 49.3
18th	GER	Ronny Ackermann	213.5 (26.)	42: 58.9
19th	AUT	Mario Stecher	223.0 (17.)	42: 59.2
22nd	SUI	Seppi Hurschler	211.0 (30.)	43: 18.4
23	SUI	Andreas Hurschler	193.5 (39.)	43: 21.9
24	SUI	Ronny Heer	213.5 (26.)	43: 27.0
27	SUI	Ivan Rieder	230.0 (14.)	43: 58.6

Jumping: February 11, 2006, 10:00 a.m.
normal hill; K point: 95 m

Cross-country skiing 15 km: February 11, 2006, 3 p.m.
Elevation difference: 59 m; Maximum ascent: 54 m; Total ascent: 270 m
50 participants from 15 countries, 48 ​​of them in the rating.

After jumping, Hettich and Tande were the first to go out onto the track together. They worked well together and for a surprisingly long time defended their leading position in front of the strong runners. Shortly before the end of the race, when they were overtaken by a small field of pursuers, Gottwald took the lead and was able to shake off everyone except Hettich. In the final sprint, Hettich took the initiative again and surprisingly defeated Gottwald, who was tired from catching up. This made Hettich the second German Olympic champion at these games. Haseney showed the best mileage in the field and ran from 28th place after the jumping to 6th place. The bronze medal winner was only determined in the photo finish . The two Norwegians Moan and Tande were only a tenth of a second apart.

Sprint large hill

space	country	athlete	Points in jumping	Time (noun)
1	AUT	Felix Gottwald	112.1 (12.)	18: 29.0
2	NOR	Magnus Moan	111.8 (13.)	18: 34.4
3	GER	Georg Hettich	125.7 0(1.)	18: 38.6
4th	FRA	Jason Lamy Chappuis	124.4 0(2.)	18: 51.5
5	FIN	Jaakko Tallus	120.9 0(4.)	18: 58.1
6th	NOR	Petter Tande	118.2 0(5.)	18: 59.1
7th	GER	Björn Kircheisen	106.5 (21.)	19: 05.7
8th	GER	Ronny Ackermann	114.0 (10.)	19: 07.7
9	United States	Todd Lodwick	107.3 (19.)	19: 11.4
10	United States	Johnny Spillane	109.5 (14.)	19: 15.2
13	AUT	Michael Gruber	116.9 0(6.)	19: 23.3
14th	AUT	Mario Stecher	108.9 (15.)	19: 30.3
20th	SUI	Ronny Heer	105.6 (22.)	19: 37.7
21st	SUI	Andreas Hurschler	098.1 (33.)	19: 41.6
23	AUT	Christoph Bieler	115.8 0(8.)	19: 44.0
24	SUI	Seppi Hurschler	105.3 (24.)	19: 51.4
29	GER	Sebastian Haseney	090.7 (42.)	20: 09.1
36	SUI	Ivan Rieder	105.5 (23.)	20: 42.0

Jumping: February 21, 2006, 11:00 a.m.
large hill; K point : 125 m

Cross-country skiing 7.5 km: February 21, 2006, 3:00 p.m.
Elevation difference: 59 m; Maximum ascent: 54 m; Total ascent: 270 m
48 participants from 15 countries, all in the rating.

The jumping was stopped after 16 jumpers because of the strong head wind and restarted with a shortened run-up. This also made it necessary to postpone the final cross-country ski run by one hour from the originally planned start time (2:00 p.m.).

Team competition

space	country	athlete	Points in jumping	Time (noun)
1	AUT	Michael Gruber Christoph Bieler Felix Gottwald Mario Stecher	903.2 (2.)	49: 52.6
2	DEU	Björn Kircheisen Georg Hettich Ronny Ackermann Jens Gaiser	913.5 (1.)	50: 07.9
3	FIN	Antti Kuisma Anssi Koivuranta Jaakko Tallus Hannu Manninen	878.6 (4.)	50: 19.4
4th	SUI	Ronny Heer Jan Schmid Andreas Hurschler Ivan Rieder	839.6 (4.)	51: 14.9
5	FRA	François Braud Ludovic Roux Jason Lamy Chappuis Nicolas Bal	848.2 (6.)	51: 24.6
6th	JPN	Daito Takahashi Takashi Kitamura Norihito Kobayashi Yosuke Hatakeyama	864.2 (5.)	51: 36.0
7th	United States	Johnny Spillane Carl Van Loan Bill Demong Todd Lodwick	820.6 (8.)	51: 52.5
8th	CZE	Ladislav Rygl Pavel Churavý Aleš Vodseďálek Tomáš Slavík	805.1 (9.)	53: 58.5

Jumping: February 15, 2006, 09:30 am (1st run) / February 16, 2006, 9:00 am (2nd run)
normal hill; K point: 95 m

Cross-country skiing 4 × 5 km: February 16, 2006, 3:00 p.m.
Elevation difference: 59 m; Maximum ascent: 54 m; Total ascent: 270 m
10 teams at the start, 9 of them in the classification.

The jumping had to be canceled after the first round due to strong winds. This postponed the second round of jumping and the cross-country relay by one day. The Norwegian team decided not to start because three of the four athletes fell ill with the flu. After the postponement, Italy also had to forego further participation for health reasons.

Web links

• Results at the Olympic Winter Games 2006 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )