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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