2014–15 FIS Nordic Combined World Cup

The 2014/15 FIS Nordic Combined World Cup was the 32nd world cup season, a combination of ski jumping and cross-country skiing organized by FIS. It started on 29 November 2014 in Ruka, Finland and ended on 14 March 2015 in Oslo, Norway.^[1]

Nordic Combined World Cup 2014/15

Winners
Overall	Eric Frenzel
Nations Cup	Germany
Triple trophy	Eric Frenzel
Competitions
Venues	11
Individual	17
Team	5
Cancelled	3
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Calendar

Men

Num	Season	Date	Place	Hill	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib	Ref.
425	1	29 November 2014	Ruka	Rukatunturi	HS142 / 10 km	Johannes Rydzek	Bernhard Gruber	Miroslav Dvořák	Johannes Rydzek	[2]
426	2	6 December 2014	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken	HS138 / 10 km	Eric Frenzel	Fabian Rießle	Jan Schmid	Johannes Rydzek Fabian Rießle	[3]
427	3	7 December 2014	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken	HS138 / 10 km	Mikko Kokslien	Fabian Rießle	Jason Lamy-Chappuis	Fabian Rießle	[4]
428	4	21 December 2014	Ramsau	W90-Mattensprunganlage	HS98 / 10 km	Jason Lamy-Chappuis	Mikko Kokslien	Fabian Rießle		[5]
429	5	4 January 2015	Schonach	Langenwaldschanze	HS106 / 10 km	Lukas Klapfer	Akito Watabe	Jan Schmid		[6]
430	6	10 January 2015	Chaux-Neuve	La Côté Feuillée	HS118 / 10 km	Eric Frenzel	Fabian Rießle	Magnus Moan		[7]
431	7	11 January 2015	Chaux-Neuve	La Côté Feuillée	HS118 / 10 km	Magnus Moan	Magnus Krog	Bernhard Gruber		[8]
2nd Nordic Combined Triple Overall (16–18 January 2015)
432	8	16 January 2015	Seefeld	Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze	HS109 / 5 km	Eric Frenzel	Jan Schmid	Jarl Magnus Riiber	Fabian Rießle	[9]
433	9	17 January 2015	Seefeld	Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze	HS109 / 10 km	Eric Frenzel	Bernhard Gruber	Tino Edelmann	Eric Frenzel	[10]
434	10	18 January 2015	Seefeld	Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze	HS109 / 15 km	Eric Frenzel	Håvard Klemetsen	Akito Watabe		[11]
435	11	23 January 2015	Sapporo	Ōkurayama	HS134 / 10 km	Eric Frenzel	Jan Schmid	Håvard Klemetsen	Eric Frenzel	[12]
436	12	24 January 2015	Sapporo	Ōkurayama	HS134 / 10 km	Eric Frenzel	Akito Watabe	Taylor Fletcher		[13]
437	13	30 January 2015	Val di Fiemme	Trampolino dal Ben	HS134 / 10 km	Bernhard Gruber	Jan Schmid	Jørgen Graabak		[14]
438	14	1 February 2015	Val di Fiemme	Trampolino dal Ben	HS134 / 10 km	Jørgen Graabak	Bernhard Gruber	Fabian Rießle		[15]
		7 February 2015	Liberec	Ještěd „A“	HS134 / 10 km	schedule overlapping with Biathlon;, rescheduled to Val di Fiemme[16]
		8 February 2015	Liberec	Ještěd „A“	HS134 / 10 km
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2015
439	15	6 March 2015	Lahti	Salpausselkä	HS130 / 10 km	Akito Watabe	Johannes Rydzek	Fabian Rießle	Eric Frenzel	[17]
440	16	12 March 2015	Trondheim	Granåsen	HS140 / 10 km	Magnus Moan	Fabian Rießle	Alessandro Pittin		[18]
441	17	14 March 2015	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken	HS134 / 15 km	Akito Watabe	Johannes Rydzek	Alessandro Pittin		[19]

Team

Num	Season	Date	Place	Hill	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib	Ref.
26	1	30 November 2014	Ruka	Rukatunturi	HS142 / 2 x 7.5 km Sprint	Norway I Håvard Klemetsen Jørgen Graabak	Germany II Björn Kircheisen Eric Frenzel	France I Jason Lamy-Chappuis François Braud	Germany	[20]
27	2	20 December 2014	Ramsau	W90-Mattensprunganlage	HS98 / 4 x 5 km	Norway Mikko Kokslien Håvard Klemetsen Jan Schmid Jørgen Graabak	Germany Tino Edelmann Eric Frenzel Johannes Rydzek Fabian Rießle	France Sébastien Lacroix Jason Lamy-Chappuis François Braud Maxime Laheurte		[21]
28	3	3 January 2015	Schonach	Langenwaldschanze	HS106 / 4 x 5 km	Germany Eric Frenzel Tino Edelmann Björn Kircheisen Johannes Rydzek	Norway Jan Schmid Håvard Klemetsen Mikko Kokslien Jørgen Graabak	France Maxime Laheurte Sébastien Lacroix François Braud Jason Lamy-Chappuis		[22]
		11 January 2015	Chaux-Neuve	La Côté Feuillée	HS118 / 2 x 7.5 km Sprint	heavy snow; replaced with an individual Gundersen.[23]
29	4	31 January 2015	Val di Fiemme	Trampolino dal Ben	HS134 / 2 x 7.5 km Sprint	Norway I Jan Schmid Jørgen Graabak	Germany Manuel Faißt Fabian Rießle	Austria I Sepp Schneider Bernhard Gruber	Germany	[24]
30	5	7 March 2015	Lahti	Salpausselkä	HS130 / 2 x 7.5 km Sprint	Germany I Fabian Rießle Johannes Rydzek	France I Sébastien Lacroix Jason Lamy-Chappuis	Norway I Magnus Krog Håvard Klemetsen		[25]

Standings

Overall Rank Points 1 Eric Frenzel 945 2 Akito Watabe 777 3 Johannes Rydzek 731 4 Fabian Rießle 724 5 Bernhard Gruber 684 6 Håvard Klemetsen 593 7 Jan Schmid 578 8 Magnus Moan 553 9 Mikko Kokslien 534 10 Lukas Klapfer 401 Standings after 17 events.

Nations Cup Rank Points 1 Germany 4458 2 Norway 4245 3 Austria 2851 4 France 2008 5 Japan 1798 6 Italy 1005 7 United States 805 8 Czech Republic 573 9 Finland 346 10 Slovenia 234 Standings after 22 events.

Prize money Rank CHF 1 Eric Frenzel 76,350 2 Fabian Rießle 57,950 3 Johannes Rydzek 53,070 4 Akito Watabe 47,175 5 Jan Schmid 45,975 6 Håvard Klemetsen 45,100 7 Bernhard Gruber 41,250 8 Jørgen Graabak 36,025 9 Mikko Kokslien 34,200 10 Magnus Moan 31,885 Standings after 22 events.

Points

The table shows the number of points won in the 2014–15 Nordic Combined World Cup.

Place	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Individual	100	80	60	50	45	40	36	32	29	26	24	22	20	18	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1
Nordic Combined Triple – Days 1 & 2	50	40	30	25	23	20	18	16	15	13	12	11	10	9	8	8	7	7	6	6	5	5	4	4	3	3	2	2	1	1
Nordic Combined Triple – Day 3	200	160	120	100	90	80	72	64	58	52	48	44	40	36	32	30	29	26	24	22	20	18	16	14	12	10	8	6	4	2
Team competition	400	350	300	250	200	150	100	50
Team sprint	200	175	150	125	100	75	50	25

Achievements

First World Cup career victory

•  Lukas Klapfer (AUT), 29, in his 10th season – the WC 5 in Schonach; first podium was 2008–09 in Seefeld
•  Jørgen Graabak (NOR), 23, in his 5th season – the WC 14 in Val di Fiemme; first podium was 2011–12 in Seefeld

First World Cup podium

•  Jarl Magnus Riiber (NOR), 17, in his 1st season – no. 3 in the WC 8 in Seefeld

Victories in this World Cup (in brackets victory for all time)

•  Eric Frenzel (GER), 7 (23) first places
•  Magnus Moan (NOR), 2 (24) first places
•  Akito Watabe (JPN), 2 (7) first places
•  Johannes Rydzek (GER), 1 (5) first place
•  Mikko Kokslien (NOR), 1 (7) first place
•  Jason Lamy-Chappuis (FRA), 1 (26) first place
•  Lukas Klapfer (AUT), 1 (1) first place
•  Bernhard Gruber (AUT), 1 (5) first place
•  Jørgen Graabak (NOR), 1 (1) first place

Retirements

Following are notable Nordic combined skiers who announced their retirement:

•  Jason Lamy-Chappuis (FRA)^[26]
•  Sébastien Lacroix (FRA)^[26]
•  Bill Demong (USA)^[27]
•  Mario Stecher (AUT)^[28]
•  Tomas Slavik (CZE)^[29]

References

1. "FIS Nordic Combined World Cup 2014/15". FIS. Archived from the original on 23 November 2014. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
2. "Men's HS 142 / 10 km – Ruka, Finland" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
3. "Men's HS 138 / 10 km – Lillehammer, Norway" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
4. "Men's HS 138 / 10 km – Lillehammer, Norway" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
5. "Men's HS 98 / 10 km – Ramsau, Austria" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
6. "Men's HS 106 / 10 km – Schonach, Germany" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
7. "Men's HS 118 / 10 km – Chaux-Neuve, France" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
8. "Men's HS 118 / 10 km – Chaux-Neuve, France" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
9. "Men's HS 109 / 5 km – Seefeld, Austria" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
10. "Men's HS 109 / 10 km – Seefeld, Austria" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
11. "Men's HS 109 / 15 km – Seefeld, Austria" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
12. "Men's HS 134 / 10 km – Sapporo, Japan" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
13. "Men's HS 134 / 10 km – Sapporo, Japan" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
14. "Men's HS 134 / 10 km – Val di Fiemme, Italy" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
15. "Men's HS 134 / 10 km – Val di Fiemme, Italy" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
16. "Statement regarding the cancelation of the World Cup in Liberec". Fis-Ski. 12 December 2014. Archived from the original on 22 January 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
17. "Men's HS 130 / 10 km – Lahti, Finland" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
18. "Men's HS 140 / 10 km – Trondheim, Norway" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
19. "Men's HS 134 / 15 km – Oslo, Norway" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
20. "Men's Team HS 142 / 15 km – Ruka, Finland" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
21. "Men's Team HS 98 / 20 km – Ramsau, Austria" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
22. "Men's Team HS 106 / 20 km – Schonach, Germany" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
23. "Moan gala performance in Chaux-Neuve". Fis-Ski. 11 January 2015. Archived from the original on 24 November 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
24. "Men's Team HS 134 / 15 km – Val di Fiemme, Italy" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
25. "Men's Team HS 130 / 15 km – Lahti, Finland" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
26. Yann Soude (14 March 2015). "Akito Watabe vainqueur, Jason Lamy Chappuis fait ses adieux sur une 12e place". lequipe.fr. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
27. fis-ski.com (31 July 2015). "Retirement – what now, Billy Demong?". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
28. fis-ski.com (7 August 2015). "Retirement – what now, Mario Stecher?". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
29. fis-ski.com (14 August 2015). "Retirement – what now, Tomas Slavik?". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 14 August 2015.

External links

• FIS Nordic Combined World Cup 2014/2015 (in English)
• Nordic Combined at eurosport.com (in English)
• Nordic Combined at lequipe.fr (in French)