Nordic combined: Gyda Westvold Hansen wins on home soil
It couldn’t have been any other way. On Sunday afternoon, the 5km cross-country ski pursuit in the women’s Nordic combined gundersen at the Trondheim World Championships (Norway) went in Norway’s favour.
Just a few days after Japan’s Yuna Kasai won the mass-start, it was the local combined women who shone in the original format of their sport. At the start of the cross-country race, it was Ingrid Laate, the reigning world junior champion, who was well ahead… and by a long way.
Still too frail, she quickly lost her advantage and saw Gyda Westvold Hansen, 1 min 12 behind at the start, Ida Marie Hagen, 1 min 5 behind at the gun, and Lisa Hirner, third, 50 seconds behind at the jump.
Gyda Westvold Hansen strikes on the final climb
No sooner had Ingrid Laate rejoined the group than she was able to hold on to fourth place, leaving the trio to fight it out for the medals. At her peak of form at the right time of the season, Gyda Westvold Hansen put in an impressive attack on the climb, bringing the race back into the stadium and flying away with the title… her third in a row on the format.
Crowned in front of the King and Queen of Norway, she saw her compatriot Ida Marie Hagen get the better of Lisa Hirner, the first individual world medallist in the Austrian women’s combined event, for silver.
Léna Brocard seventeenth, Marion Droz-Vincent twenty-fifth
Léna Brocard, twenty-first at the start after missing her ski jumping run, climbed a few places to cross the line in seventeenth place, far from her podium hopes.
Marion Droz-Vincent, 17, from Doubs, was twenty-fifth.
Full results
- The full programme for the cross-country skiing, Nordic combined and ski jumping world championships in Trondheim, the highlight of the 2024/2025 season
- Six-man French team for the Trondheim Worlds… for now
- Marion Droz-Vincent completes the French squad for the Trondheim World Championships
- Trondheim: Gyda Westvold Hansen wins the mass-start cross-country skiing race, Léna Brocard tenth at 31 sec 7
- Trondheim: Yuna Kasai first ever mass-start world champion, Léna Brocard fifteenth
- Mattéo Baud withdraws from the world championships in Trondheim
- Trondheim: buoyed by Jarl Magnus Riiber and Gyda Westvold Hansen, the Norwegians took the lead after the jump in the mixed competition, with France in seventh place.
- Trondheim: Norway golden in mixed competition, sixth place for France
- Trondheim: Jarl Magnus Riiber ahead after the compact jump, Laurent Muhlethaler seventh, 30 seconds behind
- Trondheim: Jarl Magnus Riiber wins the individual compact race ahead of Jens Luraas Oftebro and Vinzenz Geiger, with Laurent Muhlethaler tenth.
- Trondheim: Ingrid Laate dominates the gundersen jumping competition, Léna Brocard and Marion Droz-Vincent far ahead of cross-country skiing
