Reigning men’s Nordic combined world champion Jarl Magnus Riiber is
set to miss his opening event of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics
following a positive COVID-19 test, while several team-mates have been
identified as close contacts.
Tara Geraghty-Moats and Terence Weber are the first winners of the Continental Cup Finals weekend in Nizhny Tagil. The American stormed to the win from position 10 and won by 22.6 seconds, while Germany’s Weber had to outsprint Lars Ivar Skaarset (+1.5) for the win.
Skaarset was the best male jumper on the hill in a cold Russian morning that greeted the athletes with sun and temperatures of -18°C. The Norwegian showed a beautiful jump of 94 metres and claimed 111.2 points to take the pole position for the race. World Cup athlete and World Championship medal winner Terence Weber from Germany was second with 87.5 metres and 110.7 points and started only two seconds behind Skaarset.
Simen Tiller wins first Continental Cup event in Klingenthal
Klingenthal presented itself as a perfect winter wonderland on the first day of the Continental Cup weekend, if only there had been no wind. After one trial round and the Provisional Competition Round on Friday morning, the competition round for the Individual Gundersen 5km had to be interrupted over and over again until the jury decided that jumping wasn’t possible anymore and PCR had to be used.
Norway’s Simen Tiller was the lucky jumping round winner with a jump to 139.0m (137.5p.), which brought him an advantage of 26 seconds ahead of his teammate Espen Andersen (133.0m, 131.0p.) and Austria’s Christian Deuschl (130.0m, 131.0p.). Fourth place after jumping went to Austria’s Philipp Orter (134.0m, 130.1p.), fifth was Szczepan Kupczak (132.5m, 126.4p.), on rank six followed Lars Ivar Skaarset (133.0m, 125.4p.).