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Winter Sports - Nordic Combined History
History - Facts - Teams - World Cup Winners
- The Nordic Combined is a winter sport in which athletes compete in both cross-country skiing and ski jumping.
- There are currently six kinds of Nordic combined events: Individual, Mass start, Teams, Team sprint, Hurricane sprint, Sprint. Only three - the individual, sprint and team - are World Championship events.
- The first major competition in Nordic combined was held in 1892 in Oslo at the first Holmenkollen Ski Festival
- There is currently no women's competition in the Olympic Games.
- The sport was included at the 1924 Winter Olympics, and has been on the program ever since. World Championships have been held since 1925.
- Traditionally, Norway has always delivered top athletes in the sport, but Finland, Germany, Austria and Japan are also among the top nations in the Nordic combined.
- As of 2006, top athletes in the sport include current World Champion Hannu Manninen, Ronny Ackermann and Felix Gottwald.
Nordic Combined Medal Table at the Winter Olympics 2006
| Rank |
Nation |
Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
Total |
| 1 |
Norway (NOR) |
11 |
8 |
7 |
26 |
| 2 |
Finland (FIN) |
4 |
8 |
2 |
14 |
| 3 |
East Germany (GDR) |
3 |
0 |
4 |
7 |
| 4 |
Austria (AUT) |
2 |
2 |
6 |
10 |
| 5 |
West Germany (FRG) |
2 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
| Japan (JPN) |
2 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
| 7 |
Germany (GER) |
1 |
3 |
1 |
5 |
| 8 |
Switzerland (SUI) |
1 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
| 9 |
France (FRA) |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
| 10 |
Germany (EUA) |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
| 11 |
Soviet Union (URS) |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
| 12 |
Sweden (SWE) |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
| 13 |
Poland (POL) |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| Russia (RUS) |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
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