Nordic combined at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Individual large hill/10 km

Men's individual large hill/10 km
at the XXI Olympic Winter Games

Pictogram for Nordic combined
Venue Whistler Olympic Park
Dates 25 February
Competitors 46 from 14 nations
Winning time 25:32.9
Medalists
  Bill Demong   United States
  Johnny Spillane   United States
  Bernhard Gruber   Austria
Nordic combined at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Individual large hill/10 km   men  
Individual normal hill/10 km men
Team men

The men's individual large hill/10 km Nordic combined competition for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada was held at Whistler Olympic Park in Whistler, British Columbia on 25 February.[1] Austria's Felix Gottwald was the defending Olympic champion when the event was known as the 7.5 km Sprint.[2] Gottwald retired originally after the 2006-07 World Cup season, but came out of retirement in May 2009 to compete for the 2009-10 World Cup season including the 2010 Games.[3] Bill Demong of the United States was the defending world champion in this event.[4] Two test events took place at the Olympic venue on 16–17 January 2009 with Demong winning on the 16th[5] and Norway's Magnus Moan, defending Olympic silver medalist in this event when it was the 7.5 km sprint,[2] winning on the 17th.[6] The last World Cup event prior to the 2010 Games in this format took place on 10 January 2010 in Val di Fiemme, Italy and was won by Demong.[7]

Contents

Results

Ski Jumping

The ski jumping took place with a trial round at 09:00 PST and the competition round at 10:00 PST.[1] One jump in competition was scored similar to that of ski jumping. With 28 skiers having competed their jumps, officials abandoned the competition to high winds. They were restarted at 11:00 PST (19:00 GMT).[8] Jumping resumed despite complaints from co-test event winner Moan, defending Olympic champion Gottwald, and Lamy-Chappuis, the current World Cup leader and winner of the 10 km individual normal hill gold medal on the 14th.[9] Moan described the jumps as a "joke" while a French coach called the FIS's decision as a "scandal".[9] Despite the complaints, Gottwald's teammate Gruber had the longest jump with 134.0 m.[10]

Rank Bib Name Country Distance (m) Points Time Difference
1 27 Bernhard Gruber Austria 134.0 127.0 +0:00
2 39 Johnny Spillane United States 129.0 118.5 +0:34
3 28 Janne Ryynänen Finland 128.0 117.0 +0:40
4 30 Christoph Bieler Austria 127.5 116.8 +0:41
5 18 Francois Braud France 127.5 116.3 +0:43
6 37 Bill Demong United States 127.0 115.5 +0:46
7 10 Lukas Runggaldier Italy 126.5 114.2 +0:51
8 40 Pavel Churavy Czech Republic 126.0 114.0 +0:52
9 31 Akito Watabe Japan 125.0 112.5 +0:58
10 33 Petter L. Tande Norway 123.5 109.8 +1:09
10 41 Mario Stecher Austria 123.5 109.8 +1:09
12 38 Björn Kircheisen Germany 123.5 108.8 +1:13
13 34 Todd Lodwick United States 122.5 108.7 +1:13
13 36 Alessandro Pittin Italy 122.5 108.7 +1:13
15 12 Tommy Schmid Switzerland 125.0 108.5 +1:14
16 32 Hannu Manninen Finland 122.5 107.7 +1:17
17 19 Georg Hettich Germany 121.5 106.3 +1:23
18 17 Tomas Slavik Czech Republic 120.5 104.7 +1:29
19 13 Espen Rian Norway 120.5 104.2 +1:31
20 3 Ales Vodsedalek Czech Republic 119.5 102.8 +1:37
21 9 Sergey Maslennikov Russia 118.5 101.2 +1:43
21 20 Sebastien Lacroix France 118.5 101.2 +1:43
23 2 Armin Bauer Italy 117.5 99.8 +1:49
24 26 Ronny Heer Switzerland 115.0 96.0 +2:04
25 21 Jaakko Tallus Finland 115.5 95.8 +2:05
26 1 Niyaz Nabeev Russia 115.5 95.3 +2:07
27 16 Giuseppe Michielli Italy 114.0 94.0 +2:12
28 43 Magnus Moan Norway 112.5 91.7 +2:21
29 46 Jason Lamy-Chappuis France 113.0 91.5 +2:22
30 29 Norihito Kobayashi Japan 112.0 90.5 +2:26
31 22 Taihei Kato Japan 112.5 90.2 +2:27
32 6 Gašper Berlot Slovenia 112.5 89.2 +2:31
33 11 Mitja Oranič Slovenia 111.0 88.5 +2:34
34 15 Yusuke Minato Japan 110.0 87.0 +2:40
35 42 Tino Edelmann Germany 109.5 86.3 +2:43
36 24 Miroslav Dvořák Czech Republic 107.5 83.8 +2:53
37 14 Tim Hug Switzerland 107.0 82.5 +2:58
38 23 Seppi Hurschler Switzerland 107.5 82.3 +2:59
39 8 Maxime Laheurte France 106.0 80.0 +3:08
40 45 Felix Gottwald Austria 105.5 78.8 +3:13
41 44 Eric Frenzel Germany 104.5 74.2 +3:31
42 5 Jason Myslicki Canada 99.5 69.3 +3:51
43 4 Volodymyr Trachuk Ukraine 99.5 68.8 +3:53
44 35 Anssi Koivuranta Finland 97.5 66.3 +4:03
45 25 Mikko Kokslien Norway 96.5 64.2 +4:11
46 7 Taylor Fletcher United States 82.0 38.0 +5:56

Cross-Country

The start for the 10 kilometre race was staggered, with a one-point deficit in the ski jump portion resulting in a four second deficit in starting the cross-country course. This stagger meant that the first athlete across the finish line would the overall winner of the event. Cross-country skiing's part of the competition was scheduled to take place at 13:00 PST that same day,[1] but was moved to 14:00 PST in the wake of the high winds during the ski jumping part of the competition. Finland's Koivuranta, who finished 44th in the ski jumping part of this event, did not start in the cross-county portion of this event. Defending Olympic champion Gottwald had the fastest cross-country skiing part of the event to move from 40th to 17th. Meanwhile Spillane and defending World champion Demong caught ski jumping leader Gruber at the 4.0 km mark though all three skiers stayed together until 600 m was left in the event before Demong and Spillane pulled away to finish one-two in the event.[9][11][12] Spillane won his third Olympic silver medal in this Olympics while Demong's gold followed his silver earned in the team event two days earlier. In the post-race press conference, Demong stated that Spillane's silver in the 10 km individual normal hill event was "a dream come true" on 14 February, the silver in the team event was "icing on the cake", and that his gold was "something extra". Spillane stated that if there was one person who he wanted to beat him, "...it would have been Bill".[13] Bronze medalist Gruber commented that Demong and Spillane "...were just too strong".[14] It marked the first time an American won a gold medal in nordic skiing (cross-country skiing, nordic combined, ski jumping) in the Winter Olympics.

After the medal ceremony held later that evening, Demong proposed to his girlfriend, Katie Koczynski, in front of teammates and coaches at the team headquarters near Vancouver.[15] Koczynski said yes.[15] Also on that same day, Demong found out he was named the flagbearer for the American team at the closing ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics on 28 February.[15] It was Demong's teammate, Spillane, who gave Demong the courage to propose to his now fiancee.[15] Demong and his fiancee discussed how this happened on NBC's Today show the following morning.[16]

Rank Bib Name Country Start time Cross country
time		 Cross country
rank		 Finish time
6 Bill Demong United States +0:46 24:46.9 2 25:32.9
2 Johnny Spillane United States +0:34 25:02.9 7 +4.0
1 Bernhard Gruber Austria +0:00 25:43.7 19 +10.8
4 16 Hannu Manninen Finland +1:17 24:49.0 4 +33.1
5 8 Pavel Churavy Czech Republic +0:52 25:14.9 9 +34.0
6 11 Petter L. Tande Norway +1:09 25:02.2 6 +38.3
7 13 Alessandro Pittin Italy +1:13 25:00.6 5 +40.7
8 10 Mario Stecher Austria +1:09 25:12.1 8 +48.2
9 9 Akito Watabe Japan +0:58 25:23.7 11 +48.8
10 4 Christoph Bieler Austria +0:41 25:40.7 18 +48.8
11 7 Lukas Runggaldier Italy +0:51 25:40.6 17 +58.7
12 3 Janne Ryynänen Finland +0:40 26:00.9 25 +1:08.0
13 14 Todd Lodwick United States +1:13 25:30.2 14 +1:10.3
14 5 Francois Braud France +0:43 26:16.6 31 +1:26.7
15 28 Magnus Moan Norway +2:21 24:48.9 3 +1:37.0
16 15 Tommy Schmid Switzerland +1:14 26:11.7 29 +1:52.8
17 40 Felix Gottwald Austria +3:13 24:29.4 1 +2:09.5
18 29 Jason Lamy-Chappuis France +2:22 25:22.6 10 +2:11.7
19 21 Sebastien Lacroix France +1:43 26:02.2 26 +2:12.3
20 12 Björn Kircheisen Germany +1:13 26:33.5 37 +2:13.6
21 23 Armin Bauer Italy +1:49 26:00.1 23 +2:16.2
22 24 Ronny Heer Switzerland +2:04 25:45.5 21 +2:16.6
23 27 Giuseppe Michielli Italy +2:12 25:38.3 16 +2:17.4
24 17 Georg Hettich Germany +1:23 26:32.5 36 +2:22.6
25 18 Tomas Slavik Czech Republic +1:29 26:29.8 35 +2:25.9
26 34 Yusuke Minato Japan +2:40 25:30.0 13 +2:37.1
27 30 Norihito Kobayashi Japan +2:26 26:00.1 23 +2:53.2
28 36 Miroslav Dvořák Czech Republic +2:53 25:36.7 15 +2:56.8
29 35 Tino Edelmann Germany +2:43 25:52.0 22 +3:02.1
30 31 Taihei Kato Japan +2:27 26:11.0 28 +3:05.1
31 38 Seppi Hurschler Switzerland +2:59 25:44.9 20 +3:11.0
32 25 Jaakko Tallus Finland +2:05 26:51.1 38 +3:23.2
33 37 Tim Hug Switzerland +2:58 26:02.3 27 +3:27.4
34 20 Ales Vodsedalek Czech Republic +1:37 27:29.8 41 +3:33.9
35 19 Espen Rian Norway +1:31 27:41.8 42 +3:39.9
36 22 Sergey Maslennikov Russia +1:43 27:42.7 44 +3:52.8
37 32 Gašper Berlot Slovenia +2:31 26:57.9 39 +3:56.0
38 39 Maxime Laheurte France +3:08 26:24.2 33 +3:59.3
39 45 Mikko Kokslien Norway +4:11 25:23.9 12 +4:02.0
40 41 Eric Frenzel Germany +3:31 26:12.6 30 +4:10.7
41 33 Mitja Oranič Slovenia +2:34 27:42.1 43 +4:43.2
42 43 Volodymyr Trachuk Ukraine +3:53 26:25.2 34 +4:45.3
43 26 Niyaz Nabeev Russia +2:07 28:35.6 45 +5:09.7
44 42 Jason Myslicki Canada +3:51 27:02.4 40 +5:20.5
45 46 Taylor Fletcher United States +5:56 26:17.5 32 +6:40.6
44 Anssi Koivuranta Finland +4:03 DNS

References

  1. ^ a b c 2010 Winter Olympic nordic combined schedule. - accessed 4 November 2009.
  2. ^ a b 2006 Winter Olympics 7.5 km sprint results. - accessed 4 November 2009.
  3. ^ 17 May 2009 CTV Olympics.ca article on Gottwald's announcement of coming out retirement to compete for the 2010 Winter Olympics. - accessed 4 November 2009.
  4. ^ FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 Individual large hill/10 km results. - accessed 4 November 2009.
  5. ^ Whistler Olympic Park 16 January 2009 Individual large hill/10 km results. - accessed 4 November 2009
  6. ^ Whistler Olympic Park 17 January 2009 Individual large hill/ 10 km results. - accessed 4 November 2009.
  7. ^ FIS Nordic Combined world Cup 10 January 2010 HS 134/ 10 km results. - accessed 10 January 2010.
  8. ^ "Jumping to be restarted". - David Ljunggren 25 February 2010 Yahoo! Sports article accessed 26 February 2010.
  9. ^ a b c "Demong wins as rivals cry foul". - David Ljunggren 25 February 2010 Yahoo! Sports article accessed 26 February 2010.
  10. ^ 2010 Winter Olympics 25 February 2010 Nordic combined 10 km individual large hill ski jumping results. - accessed 26 February 2010.
  11. ^ 2010 Winter Olympics 25 February 2010 Nordic combined 10 km individual large hill final results. - accessed 26 February 2010.
  12. ^ Vancouver2010.com 2010 Winter Olympics 25 February 2010 Nordic combined 10 km individual large hill final results. - accessed 26 February 2010.
  13. ^ "Nordic Combined: Demong and Spillane go 1-2". - Yahoo! Sports 25 February 2010 online viedo accessed 26 February 2010.
  14. ^ "Americans win gold and silver in Nordic combined". - 25 February 2010 Arnie Stapleton (AP) Yahoo! Sports 25 February 2010 article accessed 26 February 2010.
  15. ^ a b c d "Hours after gold medal, U.S. skier proposes to girlfriend". - Chris Chase Yahoo! Sports 26 February 2010 article accessed 27 February 2010.
  16. ^ "Olympic rings to engagement ring for skier". - Mike Celizic msnbc.com Today 26 February 2010 article accessed 27 February 2010.

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