Nordic Combined: Jarl Magnus Riiber thrills the crowds in Trondheim
For once, the Granåsen ski jump was packed to the rafters on Saturday lunchtime for the ski jumping competition in the men’s individual combined event at the Trondheim World Championships (Norway). The thousands of spectators gathered around the finish racket were there for one man: Jarl Magnus Riiber.
The day after his collective success in the mixed event, the nine-time world champion is competing in front of his home crowd in his final World Championships. Jarl Magnus Riiber was the last to take to the skies on this compact jump, putting everyone in agreement by landing at 103.5 metres. Of course, he is in the lead after this round of jumping, but he will be closely followed in the afternoon in the 7.5 km cross-country ski pursuit.
It has to be said that this format of the individual compact has the particularity of presenting predetermined gaps. Ryota Yamamoto (99.5 metres) will be 6 seconds behind, Julian Schmid (102 metres) 12, Johannes Lamparter (103 metres) 17, Martin Fritz (100.5 metres) 22 and Vinzenz Geiger (101.5 metres) 26.
Laurent Muhlethaler to play for medal
Seventh in the rankings with a leap measured at 99.5 metres that had him shouting with joy, Laurent Muhlethaler from the Jura region will start 30 seconds behind. The Franc-Comtois can therefore dream of a medal. Especially as Joergen Graabak (98.5 metres) and Johannes Rydzek (97.5 metres), the men to watch, will be 3 and 10 seconds behind him respectively at the start.
As for the other two Frenchmen taking part in this first men’s individual event of the 2025 Nordic Combined World Championships, Gaël Blondeau (91 metres) from Doubs is thirty-first at 1 min 20 m , whileEdgar Vallet (91.5 metres), thirty-seventh, will start at 1 min 30 m.
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-strong 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
