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

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]

Men's individual large hill/10 km
at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for Nordic combined
VenueWhistler Olympic Park
Dates25 February
Competitors46 from 14 nations
Winning time25:32.9
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 (large hill / 4 × 5 km)men

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]

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]

RankBibNameCountryDistance (m)PointsTime Difference
127Bernhard Gruber Austria134.0127.0+0:00
239Johnny Spillane United States129.0118.5+0:34
328Janne Ryynänen Finland128.0117.0+0:40
430Christoph Bieler Austria127.5116.8+0:41
518Francois Braud France127.5116.3+0:43
637Bill Demong United States127.0115.5+0:46
710Lukas Runggaldier Italy126.5114.2+0:51
840Pavel Churavy Czech Republic126.0114.0+0:52
931Akito Watabe Japan125.0112.5+0:58
1033Petter L. Tande Norway123.5109.8+1:09
1041Mario Stecher Austria123.5109.8+1:09
1238Björn Kircheisen Germany123.5108.8+1:13
1334Todd Lodwick United States122.5108.7+1:13
1336Alessandro Pittin Italy122.5108.7+1:13
1512Tommy Schmid Switzerland125.0108.5+1:14
1632Hannu Manninen Finland122.5107.7+1:17
1719Georg Hettich Germany121.5106.3+1:23
1817Tomas Slavik Czech Republic120.5104.7+1:29
1913Espen Rian Norway120.5104.2+1:31
203Ales Vodsedalek Czech Republic119.5102.8+1:37
219Sergey Maslennikov Russia118.5101.2+1:43
2120Sebastien Lacroix France118.5101.2+1:43
232Armin Bauer Italy117.599.8+1:49
2426Ronny Heer Switzerland115.096.0+2:04
2521Jaakko Tallus Finland115.595.8+2:05
261Niyaz Nabeev Russia115.595.3+2:07
2716Giuseppe Michielli Italy114.094.0+2:12
2843Magnus Moan Norway112.591.7+2:21
2946Jason Lamy-Chappuis France113.091.5+2:22
3029Norihito Kobayashi Japan112.090.5+2:26
3122Taihei Kato Japan112.590.2+2:27
326Gašper Berlot Slovenia112.589.2+2:31
3311Mitja Oranič Slovenia111.088.5+2:34
3415Yūsuke Minato Japan110.087.0+2:40
3542Tino Edelmann Germany109.586.3+2:43
3624Miroslav Dvořák Czech Republic107.583.8+2:53
3714Tim Hug Switzerland107.082.5+2:58
3823Seppi Hurschler Switzerland107.582.3+2:59
398Maxime Laheurte France106.080.0+3:08
4045Felix Gottwald Austria105.578.8+3:13
4144Eric Frenzel Germany104.574.2+3:31
425Jason Myslicki Canada99.569.3+3:51
434Volodymyr Trachuk Ukraine99.568.8+3:53
4435Anssi Koivuranta Finland97.566.3+4:03
4525Mikko Kokslien Norway96.564.2+4:11
467Taylor Fletcher United States82.038.0+5:56

Cross-Country
Bill Demong skating to victory

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 fiancée.[15] Demong and his fiancée discussed how this happened on NBC's Today show the following morning.[16]

RankBibNameCountryStart timeCross country
time		Cross country
rank		Finish time
6Bill Demong United States+0:4624:46.9225:32.9
2Johnny Spillane United States+0:3425:02.97+4.0
1Bernhard Gruber Austria+0:0025:43.719+10.8
416Hannu Manninen Finland+1:1724:49.04+33.1
58Pavel Churavy Czech Republic+0:5225:14.99+34.0
611Petter L. Tande Norway+1:0925:02.26+38.3
713Alessandro Pittin Italy+1:1325:00.65+40.7
810Mario Stecher Austria+1:0925:12.18+48.2
99Akito Watabe Japan+0:5825:23.711+48.8
104Christoph Bieler Austria+0:4125:40.718+48.8
117Lukas Runggaldier Italy+0:5125:40.617+58.7
123Janne Ryynänen Finland+0:4026:00.925+1:08.0
1314Todd Lodwick United States+1:1325:30.214+1:10.3
145Francois Braud France+0:4326:16.631+1:26.7
1528Magnus Moan Norway+2:2124:48.93+1:37.0
1615Tommy Schmid Switzerland+1:1426:11.729+1:52.8
1740Felix Gottwald Austria+3:1324:29.41+2:09.5
1829Jason Lamy-Chappuis France+2:2225:22.610+2:11.7
1921Sebastien Lacroix France+1:4326:02.226+2:12.3
2012Björn Kircheisen Germany+1:1326:33.537+2:13.6
2123Armin Bauer Italy+1:4926:00.123+2:16.2
2224Ronny Heer Switzerland+2:0425:45.521+2:16.6
2327Giuseppe Michielli Italy+2:1225:38.316+2:17.4
2417Georg Hettich Germany+1:2326:32.536+2:22.6
2518Tomas Slavik Czech Republic+1:2926:29.835+2:25.9
2634Yūsuke Minato Japan+2:4025:30.013+2:37.1
2730Norihito Kobayashi Japan+2:2626:00.123+2:53.2
2836Miroslav Dvořák Czech Republic+2:5325:36.715+2:56.8
2935Tino Edelmann Germany+2:4325:52.022+3:02.1
3031Taihei Kato Japan+2:2726:11.028+3:05.1
3138Seppi Hurschler Switzerland+2:5925:44.920+3:11.0
3225Jaakko Tallus Finland+2:0526:51.138+3:23.2
3337Tim Hug Switzerland+2:5826:02.327+3:27.4
3420Ales Vodsedalek Czech Republic+1:3727:29.841+3:33.9
3519Espen Rian Norway+1:3127:41.842+3:39.9
3622Sergey Maslennikov Russia+1:4327:42.744+3:52.8
3732Gašper Berlot Slovenia+2:3126:57.939+3:56.0
3839Maxime Laheurte France+3:0826:24.233+3:59.3
3945Mikko Kokslien Norway+4:1125:23.912+4:02.0
4041Eric Frenzel Germany+3:3126:12.630+4:10.7
4133Mitja Oranič Slovenia+2:3427:42.143+4:43.2
4243Volodymyr Trachuk Ukraine+3:5326:25.234+4:45.3
4326Niyaz Nabeev Russia+2:0728:35.645+5:09.7
4442Jason Myslicki Canada+3:5127:02.440+5:20.5
4546Taylor Fletcher United States+5:5626:17.532+6:40.6
44Anssi Koivuranta Finland+4:03DNS

References
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  2. 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.
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  8. "Jumping to be restarted". - David Ljunggren 25 February 2010 Yahoo! Sports article accessed 26 February 2010.
  9. "Demong wins as rivals cry foul". - David Ljunggren 25 February 2010 Yahoo! Sports article accessed 26 February 2010.
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  13. "Nordic Combined: Demong and Spillane go 1-2". - Yahoo! Sports 25 February 2010 online video accessed 26 February 2010.
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