02/20/98 Team Norway 
02/19/98 Combined Ski Jumping, Tsugiharu Ogiwara (JPN) 
02/14/98 Bjarte Engen Vik (NOR) receives gold medal 
02/14/98 Bjarte Engen Vik (NOR) wins gold 
02/14/98 Bjarte Engen Vik (NOR) - gold 
02/14/98 Bjarte Engen Vik (NOR) - gold 
02/14/98 Combined Cross-Country Skiing 15km, Samppa Lajunen (FIN) - silver |
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Men's Individual
Norway's Bjarte Engen Vik comfortably won the individual nordic combined. He finished 27.5 seconds ahead of the silver medallist. Vik blew away the competition in the ski jumping portion with 241 points. That earned him a 36 second advantage for the 15km cross-country section. Vik's 94.5 jump on the normal hill was actually three metres longer than the best of the actual ski jumping competition a few days earlier. Samppa Lajunen won the silver medal just ahead of the third place finisher, Valeri Stoljarov of Russia. The Finn was 27.5 seconds behind of Vik and Stoljarov was 28.2 seconds behind. Stoljarov was second after the ski jumping portion and Lajunen was sixth but Lajunen was almost half a second faster in the 15km cross-country. Men's Individual Final Results PLACE ATHLETE COUNTRY TIME BEHIND ===== ======= ======= =========== 1 Bjarte Engen Vik Norway -- 2 Samppa Lajunen Finland 27.5 3 Valerij Stoljarov Russia 28.2 4 Kenji Ogiwara Japan 1:21.1 5 Milan Kucera Czech Republic 1:24.7There were no Canadians in this event. Men's Team The Norwegians won the team nordic combined. They began with a four second lead over Austria in the cross-country relay after winning the ski jumping section. Norway's Halldor Skard put his team 11.6 seconds ahead and Kenneth Braaten stretched their lead some more. When it was individual nordic combined Olympic Champion Bjarte Engen Vik's turn in the 4X5km relay, he had a 64 second lead and finished 1 minute, 18.9 seconds ahead. Austria was only four seconds behind Norway to start the cross-country relay but Christoph Eugen crashed during his leg. The Austrians finished in fourth place and 1 minute, 53.1 seconds behind. Finland won the silver with strong skiing in the end and France took home the bronze. Men's Team Final Results PLACE COUNTRY TIME BEHIND ===== ======= =========== 1 Team Norway -- 2 Team Finland 1:18.9 3 Team France 1:41.9 4 Team Austria 1:53.1 5 Team Japan 2:07.3There were no Canadian team. 
02/14/98 Bjarte Engen Vik (NOR) after winning gold 
02/19/98 Nordic Combined Ski Jumping, Valerij Stolrajov (RUS) Back to Main |
