2015–16 FIS Nordic Combined World Cup

Nordic Combined World Cup 2015/16

Winners
Overall	Eric Frenzel
Nations Cup	Germany
Triple trophy	Eric Frenzel
Competitions
Venues	10
Individual	19
Team	3
Cancelled	7

The 2015/16 FIS Nordic Combined World Cup was the 33rd World Cup season, organized by the International Ski Federation. It started on 4 December 2015 in Lillehammer, Norway and ended on 6 March 2016 in Schonach, Germany.

Calendar

Men

No.	Season	Date	Place	Hill	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow Jersey	Det.
		28 November 2015	Ruka	Rukatunturi	HS 142 / 10 km	strong wind; rescheduled to Trondheim[1]
		29 November 2015	Ruka	Rukatunturi	HS 142 / 10 km	strong wind; rescheduled to Lahti[2]
441	1	4-5 December 2015[nb 1]	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken	HS 138 / 10 km	Fabian Rießle	Akito Watabe	Ilkka Herola	Fabian Rießle	[3][4]
442	2	6 December 2015[nb 2]	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken	HS 100 / 10 km	Magnus Krog	Fabian Rießle	Lukas Klapfer		[5]
443	3	19 December 2015	Ramsau	W90-Mattensprunganlage	HS 98 / 10 km	Magnus Moan	Magnus Krog	Jarl Magnus Riiber	Magnus Krog	[6]
444	4	20 December 2015	Ramsau	W90-Mattensprunganlage	HS 98 / 10 km	Eric Frenzel	Jarl Magnus Riiber	Manuel Faisst		[7]
		2 January 2016	Klingenthal	Vogtland Arena	HS 140 / 10 km	lack of snow and warm temperatures; rescheduled to Schonach[8][9]
		3 January 2016	Klingenthal	Vogtland Arena	HS 140 / 10 km	lack of snow and warm temperatures[10]
		9 January 2016	Schonach	Langenwaldschanze	HS 106 / 10 km	lack of snow and warm temperatures; rescheduled to March[11][12]
445	5	23 January 2016	Chaux-Neuve	La Côté Feuillée	HS 118 / 10 km	Eric Frenzel	Bernhard Gruber	Akito Watabe	Fabian Rießle	[13]
446	6	24 January 2016	Chaux-Neuve	La Côté Feuillée	HS 118 / 10 km	Fabian Rießle	Eric Frenzel	Akito Watabe		[14]
3rd Nordic Combined Triple Overall (29-31 Jan)
447	7	29 January 2016	Seefeld	Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze	HS 109 / 5 km	Eric Frenzel	Akito Watabe	Fabian Rießle	Fabian Rießle	[15]
448	8	30 January 2016	Seefeld	Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze	HS 109 / 10 km	Eric Frenzel	Akito Watabe	Fabian Rießle	Eric Frenzel	[16]
449	9	31 January 2016	Seefeld	Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze	HS 109 / 10 km	Eric Frenzel	Akito Watabe	Fabian Rießle		[17]
450	10	6 February 2016	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken	HS 134 / 10 km	Jarl Magnus Riiber	Akito Watabe	Eric Frenzel	Eric Frenzel	[18]
451	11	9 February 2016[nb 3]	Trondheim	Granåsen	HS 140 / 10 km	Jørgen Graabak	Eric Frenzel	Jarl Magnus Riiber		[19]
452	12	10 February 2016	Trondheim	Granåsen	HS 140 / 10 km	Eric Frenzel	Akito Watabe	Jørgen Graabak		[20]
453	13	19 February 2016	Lahti	Salpausselkä	HS 130 / 10 km	Eric Frenzel	Akito Watabe	Jan Schmid		[21]
454	14	21 February 2016[nb 4]	Lahti	Salpausselkä	HS 130 / 10 km	Fabian Rießle	Eric Frenzel	Akito Watabe		[22]
455	15	23 February 2016	Kuopio	Puijo	HS 127 / 10 km	Johannes Rydzek	Akito Watabe	Wilhelm Denifl		[23]
456	16	27 February 2016	Val di Fiemme	Trampolino dal Ben	HS 134 / 10 km	Bernhard Gruber	Eric Frenzel	Jørgen Graabak		[24]
457	17	28 February 2016[nb 5]	Val di Fiemme	Trampolino dal Ben	HS 134 / 10 km	Magnus Krog	Jørgen Graabak	Fabian Rießle		[25]
458	18	5 March 2016[nb 6]	Schonach	Langenwaldschanze	HS 106 / 10 km	Eric Frenzel	Jan Schmid	Akito Watabe		[26]
459	19	6 March 2016[nb 7]	Schonach	Langenwaldschanze	HS 106 / 15 km	Jørgen Graabak	Fabian Rießle	Lukas Klapfer		[27]

Team

No.	Season	Date	Place	Hill	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow Jersey	Det.
		5 December 2015	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken	HS 138 / 4 x 5 km	strong wind; replaced with an individual Gundersen[28]
		10 January 2016	Schonach	Langenwaldschanze	HS 106 / 4 x 5 km	lack of snow and warm temperatures; rescheduled to March[11][12]
31	1	20 February 2016	Lahti	Salpausselkä	HS 130 / 2 x 7.5 km Sprint	Germany I Johannes Rydzek Fabian Rießle	Austria I Lukas Klapfer Bernhard Gruber	Austria II Franz-Josef Rehrl Philipp Orter	Germany	[29]
32	2	26 February 2016	Val di Fiemme	Trampolino dal Ben	HS 134 / 2 x 7.5 km Sprint	Norway I Magnus Krog Jørgen Graabak	Germany I Tobias Haug Tino Edelmann	France I François Braud Maxime Laheurte		[30]
33	3	4 March 2016[nb 8]	Schonach	Langenwaldschanze	HS 106 / 4 x 5 km	Norway Magnus Moan Jan Schmid Magnus Krog Jørgen Graabak	Germany Manuel Faisst Eric Frenzel Johannes Rydzek Fabian Rießle	Austria Bernhard Gruber Bernhard Flaschberger Lukas Klapfer Philipp Orter		[31]

Footnotes

1. Originally this event was scheduled as team event, but the ski jumping round was cancelled because of strong wind. That's why it was transformed into an individual Gudersen with PCR round held on 4 December counted as a ski jumping part of competition. Cross-country round was held on regular schedule on 5 December and together counted as individual HS 138 / 10 km event.
2. Ski jumping part of competition in Lillehammer on 6 December scheduled on large hill was moved to normal hill because of strong wind forecast.
3. Cancelled event from 28 November 2015 in Ruka was replaced in Trondheim on 9 February 2016.^[1]
4. Cancelled event from 29 November 2015 in Ruka was replaced in Lahti on 21 February 2016.^[2]
5. Originally HS 134 / 15 km Gundersen event in Val di Fiemme on 28 January 2016 was replaced with HS 134 / 10 km event
6. Cancelled event from 2 January 2016 in Klingenthal was replaced in Schonach on 5 March 2016.^[9]
7. Originally scheduled individual event in Schonach on 9 January 2016 was rescheduled to 6 March 2016
8. Originally scheduled team event in Schonach on 10 January 2016 was rescheduled to 4 March 2016

Standings

Overall Rank Points 1 Eric Frenzel 1389 2 Akito Watabe 1070 3 Fabian Rießle 1064 4 Jørgen Graabak 908 5 Johannes Rydzek 685 6 Magnus Krog 666 7 Bernhard Gruber 618 8 Jan Schmid 595 9 Lukas Klapfer 577 10 Ilkka Herola 373 Final standings after 19 events.

Nations Cup Rank Points 1  Germany 4662 2  Norway 4317 3  Austria 3019 4  Japan 1858 5  France 1100 6  Finland 606 7  Italy 558 8  United States 440 9  Czech Republic 289 10   Switzerland 158 Final standings after 22 events.

Prize money Rank CHF 1 Eric Frenzel 102700 2 Fabian Rießle 74840 3 Akito Watabe 71720 4 Jørgen Graabak 63460 5 Magnus Krog 46690 6 Johannes Rydzek 39610 7 Bernhard Gruber 37325 8 Jan Schmid 31730 9 Lukas Klapfer 29550 10 Jarl Magnus Riiber 24750 Final standings after 22 events.

Achievements

First World Cup career victory

•  Fabian Rießle (GER), 24, in his 7th season – the WC 1 in Lillehammer; first podium was 2011–12 in Oberstdorf
•  Jarl Magnus Riiber (NOR), 18, in his 2nd season – the WC 10 in Oslo, first podium was 2014–15 in Seefeld

First World Cup podium

•  Ilkka Herola (FIN), 20, in his 2nd season – no. 3 in the WC 1 in Lillehammer
•  Manuel Faisst (GER), 22, in his 7th season – no. 3 in the WC 4 in Ramsau

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

•  Eric Frenzel (GER), 8 (31) first places
•  Fabian Rießle (GER), 3 (3) first places
•  Magnus Krog (NOR), 2 (3) first places
•  Jørgen Graabak (NOR), 2 (3) first places
•  Magnus Moan (NOR), 1 (25) first place
•  Bernhard Gruber (AUT), 1 (6) first place
•  Johannes Rydzek (GER), 1 (6) first place
•  Jarl Magnus Riiber (NOR), 1 (1) first place

Retirements

Following are notable nordic combined skiers who announced their retirement:

•  Ole Martin Storlien (NOR)^[32]

References

1. "FIS Nordic Combined World Cup: Ruka rescheduled in Trondheim". FIS. 17 December 2015.
2. "Second cancelled Ruka-event rescheduled in Lahti". FIS. 18 January 2016.
3. "Individual Gundersen 10.0 km, provisional - Lillehammer, Norway" (PDF). International Ski Federation. 4 December 2015.
4. "Individual Gundersen 10.0 km, final result - Lillehammer, Norway" (PDF). International Ski Federation. 5 December 2015.
5. "Individual Gundersen 10.0 km, final result - Lillehammer, Norway" (PDF). International Ski Federation. 6 December 2015.
6. "Individual Gundersen 10.0 km, final result - Ramsau, Austria" (PDF). International Ski Federation. 19 December 2015.
7. "Individual Gundersen 10.0 km, final result - Ramsau, Austria" (PDF). International Ski Federation. 20 December 2015.
8. "Nordic Combined World Cup in Klingenthal cancelled". FIS. 21 December 2015.
9. "One additional event in Schonach". FIS. 18 February 2016.
10. "Nordic Combined World Cup in Klingenthal cancelled". FIS. 21 December 2015.
11. "World Cup in Schonach falls prey to warm temperatures". FIS. 31 December 2015.
12. "FIS Nordic Combined World Cup: Schonach (GER) rescheduled 05./06.03.2016". FIS. 15 January 2016.
13. "Individual Gundersen 10.0 km, final result - Chaux-Neuve, France" (PDF). International Ski Federation. 23 January 2016.
14. "Individual Gundersen 10.0 km, final result - Chaux-Neuve, France" (PDF). International Ski Federation. 24 January 2016.
15. "Individual Gundersen 5.0 km, final result - Seefeld, Austria" (PDF). International Ski Federation. 29 January 2016.
16. "Individual Gundersen 10.0 km, final result - Seefeld, Austria" (PDF). International Ski Federation. 30 January 2016.
17. "Individual Gundersen 10.0 km, final result - Seefeld, Austria" (PDF). International Ski Federation. 31 January 2016.
18. "Individual Gundersen 10.0 km, final result - Oslo, Norway" (PDF). International Ski Federation. 6 February 2016.
19. "Individual Gundersen 10.0 km, final result - Trondheim, Norway" (PDF). International Ski Federation. 9 February 2016.
20. "Individual Gundersen 10.0 km, final result - Trondheim, Norway" (PDF). International Ski Federation. 10 February 2016.
21. "Individual Gundersen 10.0 km, final result - Lahti, Finland" (PDF). International Ski Federation. 19 February 2016.
22. "Individual Gundersen 10.0 km, final result - Lahti, Finland" (PDF). International Ski Federation. 21 February 2016.
23. "Individual Gundersen 10.0 km, final result - Kuopio, Finland" (PDF). International Ski Federation. 23 February 2016.
24. "Individual Gundersen 10.0 km, final result - Val di Fiemme, Italy" (PDF). International Ski Federation. 27 February 2016.
25. "Individual Gundersen 10.0 km, final result - Val di Fiemme, Italy" (PDF). International Ski Federation. 28 February 2016.
26. "Individual Gundersen 10.0 km, final result - Schonach, Germany" (PDF). International Ski Federation. 5 March 2016.
27. "Individual Gundersen 15.0 km, final result - Schonach, Germany". International Ski Federation. 6 March 2016.
28. "First World Cup win for Fabian Rießle in Lillehammer". Fis-Ski. 5 December 2015.
29. "Men's Team Sprint HS 130 / 15 km - Lahti, Finland" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
30. "Men's Team Sprint HS 130 / 15 km - Val di Fiemme, Italy" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
31. "Men's Team Gundersen 4 x 5 km - Schonach, Germany" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
32. "Career ends for Lafarge and Storlien". fis-ski.com. 22 March 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2016.