Nordic Combined World Cup 1999/2000

World Cup 1999/2000
winner
Overall World Cup	Samppa Lajunen
Nations ranking	Finland
Competitions
Venues	15th
Individual competitions	18th
Team competitions	1
Called off	2 (of which 0 made up)
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The 1999/2000 Nordic Combined World Cup season began on December 9, 1999 in Vuokatti, Finland and ended on March 17, 2000 in Santa Caterina, Italy . With its originally planned 21 World Cup races, the season was the longest since the Nordic Combined World Cup series began.

The overall ranking was won for the second time after the 1996/97 season by the Finn Samppa Lajunen . With eight World Cup victories, he was able to relegate the Norwegian Bjarte Engen Vik , who celebrated five wins, to second place. Third was the Czech Ladislav Rygl , for whom his success in Liberec was the last of his career.

With the victory in Vuokatti , Ronny Ackermann achieved the first German World Cup success in almost 13 years. The last victory in the World Cup for Germany comes from the 1986/87 season by Hermann Weinbuch . In addition, Kristian Hammer also celebrated his first World Cup success . The team from Austria won the team competition, which was held for the first time as part of the World Cup circuit, ahead of Finland and Norway .

Results and ratings

World Cup overview

date	venue	discipline	winner	Second	Third
04/12/1999	Lillehammer	Single race	Competition canceled
05.12.1999		sprint	Competition canceled
12/09/1999	Vuokatti	Single race	Ronny Ackermann	Samppa Lajunen	Bjarte Engen Vik
12/11/1999		sprint	Samppa Lajunen	Bjarte Engen Vik	Hannu Manninen
12/19/1999	Steamboat Springs	Single race	Ladislav Rygl	Samppa Lajunen	Bjarte Engen Vik
December 21, 1999		sprint	Samppa Lajunen	Bjarte Engen Vik	Ladislav Rygl
03/01/2000	Oberwiesenthal	sprint	Samppa Lajunen	Bjarte Engen Vik	Jari Mantila
05/01/2000	Reit im Winkl	Single race (?)	Bjarte Engen Vik	Samppa Lajunen	Mario Stecher
08/01/2000	Schonach	Single race	Bjarte Engen Vik	Samppa Lajunen	Mario Stecher
January 11, 2000	Val di Fiemme	Single race	Samppa Lajunen	Kenji Ogiwara	Bjarte Engen Vik
January 16, 2000	Breitenwang	sprint	Samppa Lajunen	Ladislav Rygl	Felix Gottwald
01/22/2000	Liberec	Single race	Ladislav Rygl	Samppa Lajunen	Kenji Ogiwara
02/05/2000	Hakuba	Single race	Bjarte Engen Vik	Hannu Manninen	Ronny Ackermann
02/08/2000	Nozawa Onsen	sprint	Samppa Lajunen	Bjarte Engen Vik	Ladislav Rygl
02/12/2000	Sapporo	Single race	Kristian Hammer	Todd Lodwick	Mario Stecher
02/26/2000	Chaux-Neuve	Single race	Samppa Lajunen	Jaakko Tallus	Mario Stecher
03/04/2000	Lahti	sprint	Hannu Manninen	Bjarte Engen Vik	Kristian Hammer
03/10/2000	Oslo	Single race	Bjarte Engen Vik	Samppa Lajunen	Jaakko Tallus
03/11/2000		sprint	Bjarte Engen Vik	Kenneth Braaten	Kristian Hammer
March 16, 2000	Santa Caterina	Mass start team 3 × 5 km	Austria Michael Gruber Christoph Bieler Felix Gottwald	Finland I Hannu Manninen Jaakko Tallus Samppa Lajunen	Norway I. Kristian Hammer Kenneth Braaten Bjarte Engen Vik
03/17/2000		Single race	Samppa Lajunen	Kenji Ogiwara	Lars Andreas Østvik

Ratings

Overall World Cup
Final result after 19 competitions
rank Surname Points 01.  Samppa Lajunen 2175 02.  Bjarte Engen Vik 1990 03.  Ladislav Rygl 1274 04th  Todd Lodwick 1138 05.  Ronny Ackermann 1100 06th  Kenji Ogiwara 1076 07th  Felix Gottwald 1020 08th.  Mario Stecher 0955 09.  Hannu Manninen 0898 10.  Jari Mantila 0880 11.  Kristian Hammer 0854 12.  Kenneth Braaten 0826 13.  Satoshi Mori 0738 14th  Jaakko Tallus 0732 15th  Sebastian Haseney 0696 16.  Halldor Skard 0594 17th  Jens Deimel 0557 18th  Lars Andreas Østvik 0536 19th  Jouni Kaitainen 0511 20th  Alexei Fadeev 0503 21st  Ludovic Roux 0495	rank Surname Points 22nd  Fred Børre Lundberg 0491 23.  Trond Einar Elden 0446 24.  Knut Tore Apeland 0377 25th  Daito Takahashi 0376 26th  Christoph Bieler 0372 27.  Gen Tomii 0345 28.  Preben Fjære Brynemo 0338 29  Georg Hettich 0326 30th  Ralf Adloff 0320 31.  Marko Baacke 0316 32.  Andreas Hurschler 0308 33.  Nicolas Bal 0302 34.  Sven Koch 0298 35.  Sylvain Guillaume 0295 36.  Milan Kučera 0287 37.  Andrea Longo 00281 38.  Michael Gruber 0275  Kouji Takasawa 0275 40.  Matthias Loess 0262 41.  Bill Demong 0253	rank Surname Points 42.  Christoph Eugen 0247 43.  Baptist Rousset 0238 44.  Pavel Churavý 0231 45.  David Kreiner 0218 46.  Valery Stolyarov 0201 47.  Jens Gaiser 0200 48.  Andreas Hartmann 0159 49.  Wilhelm Denifl 0153 50.  Ivan Rieder 0132 51.  Urs Kunz 0126 52.  Kevin Arnould 0105 53.  Jari Hiukka 0097 54.  Carl Van Loan 0089 55.  Petter Kukkonen 0068 56.  Norihito Kobayashi 0055 57.  Michal Psenko 0054 58.  Matthias Mehringer 0045 59.  Chris Holland 0034 60.  Alexei Zwetkow 0030th 61.  Ronny Heer 0021st

Nations ranking
Final result after 19 competitions
rank country Points 01.  Finland 5054 02.  Norway 4962 03.  Germany 2945 04th  Japan 2674 05.  Austria 2621 06th  Czech Republic 1661 07th  United States 1391 08th.  France 1284 09.  Russia 0789 10.  Switzerland 0434

Web links

• FIS database - results
• FIS database - tables