11:06. This Friday morning saw the Gundersen jump at the Nordic Combined World Cup in Lahti (Finland), the final stage of the season. In a competition made difficult by a strong, shifting wind, the jury decided to stop the competition after twenty-one athletes had passed through. As a result, the reserve jump contested on Thursday will be used for the cross-country ski pursuit.
So it was Germany’s Julian Schmid (126 metres) who took the lead eight seconds ahead of Austria’s Johannes Lamparter (123 metres) and twenty seconds ahead of Japan’s Ryota Yamamoto (124.5 metres). Marco Heinis, splendid fourth in this reserve jump, will start twenty-five seconds behind the German.
The other Frenchmen were further back: Laurent Muhlethaler (110 metres) was thirty-sixth at 2 min 25 sec, Gaël Blondeau (101 metres) forty-second at 3 min 18 sec, Maël Tyrode (102.5 metres) – in his first World Cup of the season – forty-third at 3 min 22.
Edgar Vallet (95 metres) was forty-seventh at 3 min 56 sec and Tom Rochat (96 metres) was fiftieth at 4 min 15 sec.
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