Nordic Combined World Cup 2003/04

World Cup 2003/04
winner
Overall World Cup	Hannu Manninen
Sprint World Cup	Hannu Manninen
Grand Prix	Todd Lodwick
Nations ranking	Finland
Competitions
Venues	13
Individual competitions	21st
Team competitions	1
Called off	2
← 2002/03	2004/05 →

The 2003/04 Nordic Combined World Cup season began on November 29, 2003 in Kuusamo, Finland and ended on March 6, 2004 in Lahti, also in Finland . The season should be decided in 21 individual competitions and one team competition, but two competitions had to be canceled.

At the beginning of the season, the German Ronny Ackermann won five of the first six races. After that, however , the Finn Hannu Manninen got better and better and was ultimately able to win the overall and sprint world cup. Like Ackermann, he celebrated seven victories of the season. Third place went to Samppa Lajunen , who even left Ackermann behind in the Sprint World Cup .

The Norwegian Magnus Moan won his first World Cup in Reit im Winkl , making it the first World Cup success for Norway in almost three years. For Todd Lodwick , however, it was the last victory of his career. The Japanese Daito Takahashi managed a surprise in Lahti . He was able to celebrate his first World Cup victory in the sprint race and also won the individual race on the following day. The relay from Finland won the only team competition again .

Hannu Manninen took the most prize money with CHF 130,650.

Results and ratings

World Cup overview

date	venue	discipline	winner	Second	Third
11/29/2003	Kuusamo	Single K120 / 15km	Ronny Ackermann	Hannu Manninen	Samppa Lajunen
11/30/2003		Sprint K120 / 7.5km	Ronny Ackermann	Sebastian Haseney	Hannu Manninen
12/06/2003	Trondheim	Sprint K120 / 7.5km	Ronny Ackermann	Hannu Manninen	Petter Tande
07/12/2003		Sprint K120 / 7.5km	Competition canceled
12/12/2003	Val di Fiemme	Single K95 / 15km	Ronny Ackermann	Sebastian Haseney	Felix Gottwald
12/13/2003		Crowds 10km / K95	Hannu Manninen	Felix Gottwald	Michael Gruber
Warsteiner Grand Prix
12/30/2003	Oberhof	Single K120 / 15km	Ronny Ackermann	Felix Gottwald	Todd Lodwick
01/02/2004	Reit im Winkl	Sprint K90 / 7.5km	Magnus Moan	Samppa Lajunen	Todd Lodwick
04/01/2004	Schonach	Single K90 / 15km	Todd Lodwick	Ronny Ackermann	Hannu Manninen
Overall rating			Todd Lodwick	Ronny Ackermann	Samppa Lajunen
01/10/2004	Seefeld	Sprint K90 / 7.5km *	Hannu Manninen	Samppa Lajunen	Georg Hettich
01/11/2004		Single K90 / 15km	Hannu Manninen	Felix Gottwald	Sebastian Haseney
01/23/2004	Nayoro	Single K90 / 15km	Samppa Lajunen	Sebastian Haseney	Hannu Manninen
01/25/2004	Sapporo	Masses 10km / K120	Hannu Manninen	Samppa Lajunen	Christoph Bieler
01/27/2004		Sprint K120 / 7.5km	Hannu Manninen	Petter Tande	Christoph Bieler
02/14/2004	Oberstdorf	Team K120 / 3x5km	Finland Samppa Lajunen Jaakko Tallus Hannu Manninen	Germany I. Sebastian Haseney Georg Hettich Ronny Ackermann	Austria I. Felix Gottwald Michael Gruber Christoph Bieler
02/15/2004		Sprint K120 / 7.5km	Hannu Manninen	Daito Takahashi	Todd Lodwick
02/21/2004	Liberec	Sprint K120 / 7.5km	Competition canceled
02/22/2004		Single K120 / 15km	Ronny Ackermann	Hannu Manninen	Samppa Lajunen
02/28/2004	Oslo	Sprint K115 / 7.5km	Hannu Manninen	Samppa Lajunen	Ronny Ackermann
02/29/2004		Single K115 / 15km	Ronny Ackermann	Samppa Lajunen	Mario Stecher
03/05/2004	Lahti	Sprint K116 / 7.5km	Daito Takahashi	Felix Gottwald	Hannu Manninen
03/06/2004		Single K116 / 15km	Daito Takahashi	Felix Gottwald	Samppa Lajunen

* = Substitute venue for Bischofshofen

Ratings

Overall World Cup
Final result after 19 competitions
rank Surname Points 01.  Hannu Manninen 1392 02.  Ronny Ackermann 1143 03.  Samppa Lajunen 1058 04th  Felix Gottwald 0818 05.  Daito Takahashi 0817 06th  Sebastian Haseney 0744 07th  Todd Lodwick 0705 08th.  Magnus Moan 0552 09.  Christoph Bieler 0549 10.  Petter Tande 0543 11.  Ludovic Roux 0410 12.  Michael Gruber 0383 13.  Mario Stecher 0370 14th  Georg Hettich 0339 15th  Jaakko Tallus 0320 16.  Jouni Kaitainen 0294 17th  Jens Gaiser 0288 18th  Jan Schmid 0253 19th  Andreas Hurschler 0246 20th  Johnny Spillane 0217	rank Surname Points 21st  Håvard Klemetsen 0193 22nd  Ladislav Rygl 0192 23.  Thorsten Schmitt 0183 24.  Takashi Kitamuri 0161 25th  Pavel Churavý 0145 26th  Ivan Rieder 0138 27.  Jan Rune Grave 0136 28.  David Kreiner 0133 29  Tino Edelmann 0129 30th  Ronny Heer 0126 31.  Andy Hartmann 0125 32.  Aspens Rian 0116 33.  Kevin Arnould 0112 34.  Ola Morten Græsli 0111 35.  Kristian Hammer 0108 36.  Jochen Strobl 0103 37.  Mathieu Martinez 0099 38.  Wilhelm Denifl 0090 39.  Björn Kircheisen 0089 40.  Marc Frey 0085	rank Surname Points 41.  Tomáš Slavík 0082 42.  Matthias Menz 0079 43.  Sverre Rotevatn 0065 44.  Antti Kuisma 0064 45.  Christian Beetz 0059 46.  Lucas Vonlanthen 0058 47.  Stephan Münchmeyer 0057 48.  Gen Tomii 0056 49.  Nicolas Bal 0055 50.  Carl van Loan 0053 51.  Anssi Koivuranta 0029 52.  Matthias Mehringer 0028 53.  Michal Pšenko 0022nd 54.  Jason Lamy Chappuis 0016 55.  Marcel Höhlig 0015th 56.  Kenneth Braaten 0014th 57.  Tambet Pikkor 0009 58.  Jason Myslicki 0004th  Alexei Barannikov 0004th 60.  Dejan Plevnik 0001

Nations ranking
Final result after 20 competitions
rank Surname Points 01.  Finland 3272 02.  Germany 2836 03.  Austria 2292 04th  Norway 1711 05.  Japan 0937 06th  United States 0935 07th  Switzerland 0814 08th.  France 0643 09.  Czech Republic 0299 10.  Italy 0051 11.  Estonia 0005 12.  Russia 0004th  Canada 0004th 14th  Slovakia 0003

Web links

• FIS database - results
• FIS database - tables

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prizemoney Standings , on fis-ski.com, accessed on January 24, 2020 (English).
2. ↑ Overall ranking of the Warsteiner Grand Prix 2004 , on weltcup-b.org, accessed on January 24, 2020.
3. ↑ Individual ranking World Cup Nordic Combined 2003/2004 , on klingenthal.de/vsc, accessed on January 24, 2020.
4. ↑ Nations Cup World Cup Nordic Combined 2003/2004 , on klingenthal.de/vsc, accessed on January 24, 2020.