15:02. He didn’t miss a beat. Widely in the lead of the nordic combined world cup gundersen in Lillehammer (Norway), Norway’s Jarl Magnus Riiber won the 10 km cross-country ski pursuit as expected . Above all, this umpteenth success gave him his 75th win on the world circuit and his 100th podium finish. To top it all off, he took back the yellow bib.
On the day’s podium, he was joined by Julian Schmid and Johannes Lamparter , while his compatriot Jens Luraas Oftebro and Estonian Kristjan Ilves finished in the top 5, just ahead of Joergen Graabak, Johannes Rydzek and Martin Fritz.
In the French clan, Laurent Muhlethaler, twentieth at the start, was twenty-second, while Doubiste Mattéo Baud was twenty-eighth. Thirty-fifth place for Edgar Vallet and forty-third for Marco Heinis.
Full results
The overall World Cup standings
- Lillehammer: Jarl Magnus Riiber kills the suspense in the ski jumping competition, Laurent Muhlethaler best Frenchman
- Lillehammer: Jarl Magnus Riiber wins the reserve jump
- Regular top 10 finishes for Laurent Muhlethaler and Mattéo Baud, podium finishes for Léna Brocard: the French team’s ambitions for the 2024/2025 World Cup
- France in five for the rest of the World Cup in Lillehammer, where the women start the competition
