Nordic combined: Akito Watabe takes large hill bronze at world c ships
Japan s Akito Watabe took bronze in the Nordic combined large hill individual Gundersen competition Thursday to reach the podium at a third straight Nordic World Ski Championships.
Reigning junior world champion Johannes Lamparter from Austria won the event in Oberstdorf, Germany, ahead of normal hill world champion Jarl Magnus Riiber and Watabe.
Japan s Akito Watabe (L) and Jarl Magnus Riiber of Norway compete in the 10-kilometer cross-country leg of the men s large hill Nordic combined individual Gundersen competition at the FIS Ski World Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany, on March 4, 2021. (Nordic Focus/Kyodo)