2016–17 FIS Nordic Combined World Cup explained

Competition:	Nordic Combined World Cup 2016/17
Competition1:	Overall
Competition2:	Nations Cup
Competition3:	Triple trophy
Venues:	12
Individual:	23
Team:	2
Following:	2017/18

The 2016/17 FIS Nordic Combined World Cup was the 34th World Cup season, organized by the International Ski Federation. It started on 26 November 2016 in Ruka, Finland and ended on 19 March 2017 in Schonach, Germany.^[1]

Calendar

Men

		Date	Place	Hill	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib
461	1	26 November 2016	Ruka	Rukatunturi	HS142 / 10 km	Johannes Rydzek	Eric Frenzel	Jørgen Graabak	Johannes Rydzek	^[2]
462	2	27 November 2016	Ruka	Rukatunturi	HS142 / 10 km	Johannes Rydzek	Wilhelm Denifl	Akito Watabe		^[3]
463	3	3 December 2016	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken	HS100 / 10 km	Eric Frenzel	Johannes Rydzek	Fabian Rießle		^[4]
464	4	4 December 2016	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken	HS138 / 10 km	Eric Frenzel	Björn Kircheisen	Jørgen Graabak		^[5]
465	5	17 December 2016	Ramsau	W90-Mattensprunganlage	HS98 / 10 km	Johannes Rydzek	Fabian Rießle	Eric Frenzel		^[6]
466	6	18 December 2016	Ramsau	W90-Mattensprunganlage	HS98 / 10 km	Eric Frenzel	Fabian Rießle	Vinzenz Geiger		^[7]
467	7	7 January 2017	Lahti	Salpausselkä	HS130 / 10 km	Eric Frenzel	Eero Hirvonen	Johannes Rydzek	Eric Frenzel	^[8]
468	8	8 January 2017	Lahti	Salpausselkä	HS130 / 10 km	Fabian Rießle	Eric Frenzel	Johannes Rydzek		^[9]
469	9	13 January 2017	Val di Fiemme	Trampolino dal Ben	HS134 / 10 km	Eric Frenzel	Johannes Rydzek	Magnus Moan		^[10]
470	10	15 January 2017	Val di Fiemme	Trampolino dal Ben	HS134 / 10 km	Eric Frenzel	Johannes Rydzek	Akito Watabe		^[11]
471	11	21 January 2017	Chaux-Neuve	La Côté Feuillée	HS118 / 10 km	Johannes Rydzek	Fabian Rießle	Akito Watabe		^[12]
472	12	22 January 2017	Chaux-Neuve	La Côté Feuillée	HS118 / 10 km	Fabian Rießle	Johannes Rydzek	Eric Frenzel		^[13]
4th Nordic Combined Triple (27–29 January 2016)
473	13	27 January 2017	Seefeld	Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze	HS109 / 5 km	Johannes Rydzek	Eric Frenzel	Samuel Costa	Eric Frenzel	^[14]
474	14	28 January 2017	Seefeld	Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze	HS109 / 10 km	Johannes Rydzek	Eric Frenzel	Samuel Costa	Johannes Rydzek	^[15]
475	15	29 January 2017	Seefeld	Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze	HS109 / 15 km	Eric Frenzel	Johannes Rydzek	Bernhard Gruber	Eric Frenzel	^[16]
476	16	4 February 2017	PyeongChang	Alpensia	HS140 / 10 km	Johannes Rydzek	Mario Seidl	Fabian Rießle	Johannes Rydzek	^[17]
477	17	5 February 2017	PyeongChang	Alpensia	HS140 / 10 km	Johannes Rydzek	Eric Frenzel	Mario Seidl		^[18]
478	18	10 February 2017	Sapporo	Okurayama	HS134 / 10 km	Björn Kircheisen	Akito Watabe	Mikko Kokslien		^[19]
479	19	11 February 2017	Sapporo	Okurayama	HS134 / 10 km	Akito Watabe	Tim Hug			^[20]
480	20	11 March 2017	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken	HS134 / 10 km	Akito Watabe	Eric Frenzel	Björn Kircheisen	Johannes Rydzek	^[21]
481	21	15 March 2017	Trondheim	Granåsen	HS140 / 10 km	Eric Frenzel	Johannes Rydzek	Fabian Rießle	Eric Frenzel	^[22]
482	22	18 March 2017	Schonach	Langenwaldschanze	HS106 / 10 km	Eric Frenzel	Wilhelm Denifl	Johannes Rydzek		^[23]
483	23	19 March 2017	Schonach	Langenwaldschanze	HS106 / 10 km	Eric Frenzel	François Braud	Akito Watabe		^[24]

Men's team

		Date	Place	Hill	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib
34	1	2 December 2016	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken	HS100 / 4x5 km Relay					^[25]
35	2	14 January 2017	Val di Fiemme	Trampolino dal Ben	HS134 / 2x7.5 km Sprint				^[26]
36	3	4 February 2017	PyeongChang	Alpensia	HS140 / 4x5 km Relay	replaced with an individual Gundersen

Standings

Overall

Pos		Points
1		1734
2		1609
3		1086
4		1069
5		748
6		719
7		475
8		464
9		442
10		436

• Final standings after 23 events.^[27]

Nations Cup

Pos		Points
1		6688
2		3372
3		2823
4		2106
5		1450
6		860
7		675
8		464
9		357
10		215

• Final standings after 25 events.^[28]

Prize money

Pos		CHF
1		135430
2		121420
3		68860
4		61300
5		39920
6		34505
7		26940
8		22300
9		21370
10		21220

• Final standings after 25 events.^[29]

Achievements

First World Cup podium:

• , 19, in his 2nd season – no. 3 in the WC 6 in Ramsau
• , 20, in his 2nd season – no. 2 in the WC 7 in Lahti
• , 24, in his 6th season – no. 3 in the WC 13 in Seefeld
• , 24, in his 5th season – no. 2 in the WC 16 in PyeongChang

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

• , 10 (41) first places
• , 8 (14) first places
• , 2 (9) first places
• , 2 (5) first places
• , 1 (17) first place

Retirements

Following are notable Nordic combined skiers who announced their retirement:

• ^[30]

Notes and References

1. Web site: FIS Nordic Combined World Cup 2016/17 . FIS . 27 November 2016.
2. Web site: Individual Gundersen 10.0 km – Ruka, Finland . FIS . 26 November 2016.
3. Web site: Individual Gundersen 10.0 km – Ruka, Finland . FIS . 27 November 2016.
4. Web site: Individual Gundersen 10.0 km – Lillehammer, Norway . FIS . 3 December 2016.
5. Web site: Individual Gundersen 10.0 km – Lillehammer, Norway . FIS . 4 December 2016.
6. Web site: Individual Gundersen 10.0 km – Ramsau, Austria . FIS . 17 December 2016.
7. Web site: Individual Gundersen 10.0 km – Ramsau, Austria . FIS . 18 December 2016.
8. Web site: Individual Gundersen 10.0 km – Lahti, Finland . FIS . 7 January 2017.
9. Web site: Individual Gundersen 10.0 km – Lahti, Finland . FIS . 8 January 2017.
10. Web site: Individual Gundersen 10.0 km – Val di Fiemme, Italy . FIS . 13 January 2017.
11. Web site: Individual Gundersen 10.0 km – Val di Fiemme, Italy . FIS . 15 January 2017.
12. Web site: Individual Gundersen 10.0 km – Chaux-Neuve, France . FIS . 21 January 2017.
13. Web site: Individual Gundersen 10.0 km – Chaux-Neuve, France . FIS . 22 January 2017.
14. Web site: Individual Gundersen 5.0 km – Seefeld, Austria . FIS . 27 January 2017.
15. Web site: Individual Gundersen 10.0 km – Seefeld, Austria . FIS . 28 January 2017.
16. Web site: Individual Gundersen 15.0 km – Seefeld, Austria . FIS . 29 January 2017.
17. Web site: Individual Gundersen 10.0 km – PyeongChang, South Korea . FIS . 4 February 2017.
18. Web site: Individual Gundersen 10.0 km – PyeongChang, South Korea . FIS . 5 February 2017.
19. Web site: Individual Gundersen 10.0 km – Sapporo, Japan . FIS . 10 February 2017.
20. Web site: Individual Gundersen 10.0 km – Sapporo, Japan . FIS . 11 February 2017.
21. Web site: Individual Gundersen 10.0 km – Oslo, Norway . FIS . 11 March 2017.
22. Web site: Individual Gundersen 10.0 km – Trondheim, Norway . FIS . 15 March 2017.
23. Web site: Individual Gundersen 10.0 km – Schonach, Germany . FIS . 18 March 2017.
24. Web site: Individual Gundersen 10.0 km – Schonach, Germany . FIS . 19 March 2017.
25. Web site: Team Gundersen 4 x 5 km – Lillehammer, Norway . FIS . 2 December 2016.
26. Web site: Team Sprint 2 x 7.5 km – Val Di Fiemme, Italy . FIS . 14 January 2017.
27. Web site: World Cup Standings . FIS . 19 March 2017.
28. Web site: Nations Cup Standings . FIS . 19 March 2017.
29. Web site: Prizemoney Standings . FIS . 19 March 2017.
30. Web site: Norwegian veteran Håvard Klemetsen retires . 24 April 2017 . fis-ski.com . 3 May 2017 . 28 April 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170428123334/http://www.fis-ski.com/nordic-combined/news-multimedia/news/article=norwegian-veteran-havard-klemetsen-retires.html . dead .