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Nordische Kombination

Nordic combined joins ski jumping and cross-country skiing. Jump scores are converted into start gaps for the cross-country chase race under the Gundersen format, so flight technique, style, endurance and race pacing all matter.

LevelVariant FamilyWinter Sport CategoryWinter sport

AI-generated illustration: Nordische Kombination — AI-generated illustration

Classification

Category Winter sport

Family Winter Sport

Level Variant

Getting started

Kurzbeschreibung Nordic combined joins ski jumping and cross-country skiing.

Geeignet für Fits if you like winter endurance and flight technique together, you enjoy the Gundersen logic of points and time gaps, you can train long-term in ski-club and hill infrastructure.

Cost 20-200 EUR depending on equipment and venue. 0-80 EUR per month depending on class, club, or venue. 5-50 EUR per month if a club structure exists. For rare sports, cost and availability vary strongly.

First progress Depending on sport, from immediate to several months.

Fitness level medium

Was du brauchst

Cross-country equipment, ski-jumping equipment, coach, hill access, winter training and club structure.

First steps

Start through cross-country and ski-jumping youth or club training; for adults, cross-country skiing is the more realistic first building block.
Look for a ski club, Nordic combined programme, FIS/national federation, cross-country club or ski-jumping centre.

Look for a ski club, Nordic combined programme, FIS/national federation, cross-country club or ski-jumping centre.

Start only in the appropriate source-described context and follow local rules.

Weitere Angaben

Tags individual, snow, einzeln, schnee, nordische-kombination, winter-sport, nordic-combined, wintersport

Rules and format

Die Grundlagen

Ziel

Achieve the best combined performance after jump scoring and cross-country pursuit.

Teilnehmer

Individuals, teams and classes depending on FIS/event format.

Teamgröße

Individual or team.

Spielfeld

Jumping hill and cross-country course.

Dauer

Depends on format and event.

Wertung

Gundersen conversion of jump points into start time; cross-country finish order decides.

Gewinnbedingung

Best valid time, placing or score in the announced format.

Ausrüstung

ski-jumping equipment
cross-country equipment
helmet
waxing material

Wichtige Regelpunkte

safety breach
course/rule breach
equipment breach

Regelquellen

Federations and sources

Federations

International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS)

Nordic Combined 101: Basics of the Sport FIS · federation · high
What is Nordic Combined? Nordic Combined USA · official · medium
Nordic combined Encyclopaedia Britannica · context-guide · medium