14:02. Ida Marie Hagen is the best nordic combined skier on the planet. Having already won the opening gundersen at the Lillehammer World Cup (Norway) on Friday, the outgoing globe winner dominated the individual compact on Saturday.
Starting off 12 seconds behind Germany’s Maria Gerboth at the start of the 5km cross-country ski race, she (very) quickly closed the gap on her rival… before dropping her. After 1.3 km, she already had a margin of more than 35 seconds over her closest pursuers.
After two laps of the Lillehamring track, Ida Marie Hagen won solo. She was joined on the podium by Germany’s Nathalie Armbruster and Gyda Westvold Hansen. Gyda Westvold Hansen put in a strong finish to overtake Slovenia’s Ema Volavsek on the final straight.
France’s Léna Brocard, twenty-first at the start, made a fine comeback to finish this compact individual race in thirteenth place… less than 10 seconds behind the top 10.
Full results
- Lillehammer: the individual compact jumping competition for Maria Gerboth, Léna Brocard 1 minute off the lead
- Lillehammer: Ida Marie Hagen begins the defence of her crystal globe by winning the first gundersen of the winter, Léna Brocard in the top 15
- Lillehammer: Germany’s Maria Gerboth wins the Gundersen jump, Léna Brocard nineteenth
- Lillehammer: Haruka Kasai wins the first reserve jump of the winter, Léna Brocard outside the top 20
- 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
- Léna Brocard tells Nordic Magazine on the morning of the start of the World Cup: “The aim is to try and finish on the podium”.
- France in five for the rest of the World Cup in Lillehammer, where the women start the competition
