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The Gundersen method is a method in the Nordic combined developed by Gunder Gundersen, a Nordic combined athlete from Norway, that was first used in the 1980s.In it, the ski jumping portion comes first, and points in the ski jump determine when individuals start the cross-country skiing portion, which is a pursuit race, so that whoever crosses the finish line first wins the competition.
Along with cross-country skiing, it constitutes the traditional group of Nordic skiing disciplines. [1] The ski jumping venue, commonly referred to as a hill, consists of the jumping ramp (in-run), take-off table, and a landing hill. Each jump is evaluated according to the distance covered and the style performed.
In the ski jumping part, every athlete makes one competition jump like in the Individual Gundersen or Team Event formats and the time behind for the start of the successive cross-country race. The team to arrive first at the finish line wins the competition. Mass Start: the only format in which the cross-country part takes place before the ski ...
The sport of ski jumping has seen the use of numerous different techniques, or "styles", over the course of its more than two-hundred-year history. Depending on how the skis are positioned by an athlete, distances have increased by as much as 200 metres (660 ft) within the past century.
1986: First with 30 km (men) and 15 km (women) in cross-country skiing / First with ski jumping team event; 2000: First with a sprint in cross-country skiing / First with sprint (5 km) in Nordic combined; 2006: First with ski jumping for women / First with under-23 events; 2008: Originally scheduled in Szczyrk and Wisła
Event Gold Silver Bronze Men's Junior Events: Sprint freestyle [3]: Lars Heggen Norway 2:17.77 Anton Grahn Sweden 2:17.98 Jonatan Lindberg Sweden 2:20.42 10 kilometre classical [4]
Alpine skiing competitions (known as hill races) existed in Norway during the 18th and 19th centuries, but were discontinued when the main ski festival in Oslo focused on long races (competitive cross-country skiing) and ski jumping (now known as the Nordic disciplines). The alpine disciplines reemerged in Central Europe around 1920.
Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreational activity; however, some still use it as a means of travel. Variants of cross-country skiing are adapted to a range of terrain which spans unimproved, sometimes mountainous terrain to groomed courses that are specifically designed for the sport.