Nordic Combined World Cup 1997/98

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Nordic combination World Cup 1997/98 Fédération Internationale de Ski Logo.svg
winner
Overall World Cup NorwayNorway Bjarte Engen Vik
Nations ranking NorwayNorway Norway
Competitions
Venues 10
Individual competitions 14th
1996/97 1998/99

The 1997/98 Nordic Combined World Cup season began on November 28, 1997 in Rovaniemi, Finland and ended on March 14, 1998 at Holmenkollen near Oslo . During the season were from 07 to 22 February 1998 Olympic Winter Games of Nagano discharged. The number of sprint races has been increased significantly from two to six.

With his five World Cup victories, the Norwegian Bjarte Engen Vik won the overall World Cup just ahead of the Austrian Mario Stecher . Third in the overall standings was Felix Gottwald , who was able to take his first two podium places. For last year's winner Samppa Lajunen from Finland there was only one World Cup victory this season.

In contrast, the American Todd Lodwick was able to convince with his victories in Schonach and Oslo . The season was also successful for Kenneth Braaten, who celebrated his first, but only World Cup victory. The first World Cup for the Czech Republic was Milan Kučera with his victory in the French Chaux-Neuve win. Marco Zarucchi and Urs Kunz were able to secure three podium places for Switzerland .

Results and ratings

World Cup overview

date venue discipline winner Second Third
11/28/1997 FinlandFinland Rovaniemi Sprint K90 / 7.5 km FinlandFinland Samppa Lajunen FinlandFinland Hannu Manninen AustriaAustria Mario Stecher
11/29/1997 Single K90 / 15 km NorwayNorway Bjarte Engen Vik AustriaAustria Mario Stecher FinlandFinland Hannu Manninen
12/11/1997 United StatesUnited States Steamboat Springs Sprint K88 / 7.5 km FinlandFinland Hannu Manninen NorwayNorway Bjarte Engen Vik AustriaAustria Mario Stecher
12/13/1997 Single K88 / 15 km AustriaAustria Mario Stecher NorwayNorway Bjarte Engen Vik United StatesUnited States Todd Lodwick
12/29/1997 GermanyGermany Oberwiesenthal Sprint K90 / 7.5 km FinlandFinland Hannu Manninen NorwayNorway Bjarte Engen Vik SwitzerlandSwitzerland Urs Kunz
03/01/1998 GermanyGermany Schonach Single K90 / 15 km United StatesUnited States Todd Lodwick FranceFrance Sylvain Guillaume Czech RepublicCzech Republic Milan Kučera
01/09/1998 AustriaAustria Ramsau Single K90 / 15 km NorwayNorway Bjarte Engen Vik AustriaAustria Mario Stecher AustriaAustria Felix Gottwald
01/13/1998 Sprint K90 / 7.5 km NorwayNorway Kenneth Braaten SwitzerlandSwitzerland Marco Zarucchi SwitzerlandSwitzerland Urs Kunz
01/18/1998 FranceFrance Chaux-Neuve Single K90 / 15 km Czech RepublicCzech Republic Milan Kučera AustriaAustria Felix Gottwald FranceFrance Ludovic Roux
7th to 22nd February 1998 Olympic Winter Games 1998 in NaganoJapanJapan 
02/28/1998 JapanJapan Sapporo Single K90 / 15 km NorwayNorway Bjarte Engen Vik AustriaAustria Mario Stecher NorwayNorway Fred Børre Lundberg
03/07/1998 FinlandFinland Lahti Single K90 / 15 km NorwayNorway Bjarte Engen Vik AustriaAustria Mario Stecher NorwayNorway Fred Børre Lundberg
03/10/1998 SwedenSweden Falun Sprint K90 / 7.5 km AustriaAustria Mario Stecher NorwayNorway Bjarte Engen Vik NorwayNorway Fred Børre Lundberg
03/13/1998 NorwayNorway Oslo Sprint K112 / 7.5 km United StatesUnited States Todd Lodwick FranceFrance Sylvain Guillaume AustriaAustria Mario Stecher
03/14/1998 Single K112 / 15 km NorwayNorway Bjarte Engen Vik AustriaAustria Mario Stecher NorwayNorway Kristian Hammer

Rating

Overall World Cup
Final result after 14 competitions
rank Surname Points
01. NorwayNorway Bjarte Engen Vik 1468
02. AustriaAustria Mario Stecher 1440
03. AustriaAustria Felix Gottwald 0854
04th United StatesUnited States Todd Lodwick 0848
05. FinlandFinland Hannu Manninen 0763
06th FranceFrance Sylvain Guillaume 0686
07th NorwayNorway Fred Børre Lundberg 0678
08th. FinlandFinland Samppa Lajunen 0665
09. AustriaAustria Christoph Eugen 0638
10. FranceFrance Ludovic Roux 0586
11. Czech RepublicCzech Republic Milan Kučera 0576
12. GermanyGermany Ronny Ackermann 0546
13. JapanJapan Kenji Ogiwara 0508
14th GermanyGermany Jens Deimel 0495
15th NorwayNorway Kristian Hammer 0485
16. NorwayNorway Gard Myhre 0471
RussiaRussia Dmitri Sinitsyn 0471
18th Czech RepublicCzech Republic Ladislav Rygl 0467
19th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Urs Kunz 0461
rank Surname Points
20th GermanyGermany Matthias Loess 0456
21st NorwayNorway Kenneth Braaten 0444
22nd JapanJapan Satoshi Mori 0442
23. FinlandFinland Jari Mantila 0427
24. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Marco Zarucchi 0424
25th JapanJapan Tsugiharu Ogiwara 0422
26th NorwayNorway Trond Einar Elden 0342
27. FinlandFinland Tapio Nurmela 0319
28. NorwayNorway Halldor Skard 0314
29 FranceFrance Fabrice Guy 0288
30th NorwayNorway Knut Tore Apeland 0277
United StatesUnited States Tim Tetreault 0277
32. RussiaRussia Denis Tischagin 0273
33. GermanyGermany Sepp Buchner 0268
34. RussiaRussia Alexei Fadeev 0267
35. RussiaRussia Vladimir Lysenin 0250
36. AustriaAustria Christoph Bieler 0237
37. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Andreas Hartmann 0231
38. GermanyGermany Thorsten Schmitt 0228
rank Surname Points
39. ItalyItaly Andrea Longo 0226
40. AustriaAustria David Kreiner 0216
41. FinlandFinland Mikko Keskinarkaus 0210
42. JapanJapan Futoshi Otake 0207
43. NorwayNorway Gunnes Jacob 0206
44. FinlandFinland Topi Sarparanta 0202
45. GermanyGermany Sven Koch 0197
RussiaRussia Valery Stolyarov 0197
47. AustriaAustria Robert Stadelmann 0171
48. GermanyGermany Jens Gaiser 0130
49. FinlandFinland Jouni Kaitainen 0083
50. FinlandFinland Tony Kilponen 0005
51. SwedenSweden Mattias Lind 0004th
Czech RepublicCzech Republic Petr Šmejc 0004th
53. SwedenSweden Fredrik Jakobsson 0003
54. SwedenSweden Daniel Johansson 0002
Czech RepublicCzech Republic Jaroslav Kříž 0002

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