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Combined is an event in alpine ski racing. The event format has changed within the last 30 years. A traditional combined competition is a two-day event consisting of one run of downhill and two runs of slalom; each discipline takes place on a separate day. The winner is the skier with the fastest aggregate time.
Alpine skiing has been contested at every Winter Olympics since 1936, when a combined event was held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. From 1948 to 1980 , the Winter Olympics also served as the World Championships in Olympic years, with separate competitions held in even-numbered non-Olympic years.
The cross-country skiing technique would switch from classical to freestyle for all competitions beginning in 1985. At the 1988 Winter Olympics the Gundersen method was adopted, meaning the 15 km cross country portion would go from an interval start race to a pursuit race, so that whoever crossed the finish line first won the event.
Nordic combined at the 2010 Winter Olympics (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Nordic combined competitions in Canada" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
The 2026 Winter Olympics will include the sport of ski mountaineering for the first time. [1] There will be three medal events: men's and women's sprint and a mixed relay. [2] Two additional events, the men's and women's individual, were proposed but not approved for the final program. [3] [4]
Alpine skiing and snowboarding — in Pyeongchang. The Summer Olympics could be up next for the multi-talented Czech athlete. Ledecka has already competed in the Defi Wind competition in France ...
N.B.: Alfred Aufdenblatten, Antenore Cuel, Otto Furrer, Alfons Julen, Herbert Leupold, Maurice Mandrillon, Ville Mattila, Reidar Ødegaard, Daniele Pellissier, Szczepan Witkowski and Robert Zurbriggen have participated at the military patrol at the Winter Olympics but it was just a demonstrative sport, so it's not clear if their Olympic appearance in military patrol is official or not (if it ...
To compete in super combined an athlete must have a point average less than 160, but a point average of less than 80 in downhill. On January 24, 2022, the IOC granted four extra male quotas while the FIS began investigating the legitimacy of some low level qualifying events.