Ladies start into packed Nordic Combined winter
Dec 10, 2018·Nordic Combined
The winter finally begins for the Nordic Combined ladies and with a Continental Cup calendar that has grown considerably compared to last year and the first-ever official medals for ladies in Nordic Combined on the line at the FIS Junior Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti (FIN), the upcoming winter will go into the history books of the discipline,
A total number of eleven Continental Cup events are planned for 2018/19 (compared to four held in the last winter), which will take the ladies from the USA to Russia in a truly “continental” calendar this winter.
The tour opener will be staged in Steamboat Spring and Park City (USA), along with the men’s Continental Cup tour. Two Individual Gundersen 5 km events are planned on Steamboats HS 75 hill, two on Park City’s HS 100. Live streaming provided by USA Nordic will enable Nordic Combined fans all over the world to follow the events on their own devices again. The live stream will also be available on the FIS website.
After this, the ladies will join the men’s World Cup for a Nordic Combined extravaganza weekend in Otepää (EST), which will, if the weather gods permit this year, include nation wide live television coverage in Estonia for the Nordic Combined ladies.
After this, the junior ladies of the field will be off to Lahti to fight for the first-ever individual medals and a first Junior World Champion will be crowned.
In February, men and ladies will reunite in Rena (NOR), for two events on the HS 111 normal hill, before three days of Continental Cup finals take the entire group back to Nizhny Tagil (RUS). Here, the ladies will also have their first-ever Mass Start 5 km event on schedule.
Athletes to watch
With both, Russian Stefaniya Nadymova and American Tara Geraghty-Moats dominating the first-ever ladies Summer Grand Prix in Oberwiesenthal (GER) this summer, two of the favourites seem to be clear.
Last winter’s Continental Cup runner-up Ayane Miyazaki should not be forgotten, along with German team leader Jenny Nowak. In Norway, Gyda Westvold Hansen has posted stable, strong results over the last months. for Italy, Veronica Gianmoena will go on the hunt for points.
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