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German nordic combined skier Vinzenz Geiger competes during the men's jumping competition of the FIS Nordic Combined World Cup in Ramsau am Dachstein. Barbara Gindl/APA/dpa
German Olympic champion Vinzenz Geiger sent a strong signal at the year-end Nordic combined World Cup event in Austria's Ramsau am Dachstein on Saturday, surging from 15th after the ski jump to win following the cross-country skiing.
After 10 kilometres, the 28-year-old defending World Cup champion prevailed in a gripping sprint ahead of Norway's Jens Lurås Oftebro and Austria's season leader Johannes Lamparter. His margin over Oftebro was a tiny 0.1 seconds.
"I think that was a very clever race of mine. I knew it would be decisive in the end," Geiger told ZDF television after an 18th individual World Cup win and sixth in Ramsau.
Geiger had missed the start of the season through injury, but a first German men's win of the campaign came just a month and a half before the Winter Olympics in Italy.
In the women's event also on the normal hill, Norway's 2024 overall titleholder and current leader Ida Marie Hagen won from American Alexa Brabec - enjoying a break-out year - and Germany's Nathalie Armbruster, the defending World Cup champion.
In the Swiss town of Engelberg, Slovenian ski-jumper Domen Prevc won his fifth World Cup event in a row to look in prime form ahead of the Four Hills Tournament starting on December 29.
He jumped 138.5 metres and 142m for 330.2 points on the large hill to edge out German Felix Hoffmann and Japan's Ren Nikaido. Ryoyu Kobayashi led after the first jump but then slumped to sixth second time.
In women's ski jumping in Engelberg, Japan's Nozomi Maruyama won for a fifth time this season on the women's large hill. Twice defending World Cup champion and Domen's sister Nika Prevc, who led after the first jump, placed second and Norway's Anna Odine Strøm was third.
The men and women are back on the same hill on Sunday.
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