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(L-R) Norway's second placed Ida Marie Hagen, Finland's winner Minja Korhonen and US' third placed Alexa Brabec celebrate after the Women's 5km Individual Gundersen of Nordic Combined at the FIS Nordic World Cup Lahti Ski Games. Petri Korteniemi/Lehtikuva/dpa
World Cup champions Johannes Lamparter and Ida Maria Hagen wrapped up the Nordic combined skiing season in style on Sunday with victories in Oslo.
Austrian Lamparter dominated the morning ski jump at the famed Holmenkollen venue and held on to the lead in the 10 kilometres cross-country pursuit for a sixth season victory.
"Oslo has been on my bucket list so I was really happy it worked out today. It was a perfect ending to an awesome season," he said.
He won 31.9 seconds ahead of triple Olympic champion Jens Lurås Oftebro, with the Norwegian's brother, Einar Lurås Oftebro, completing the podium in third ahead of Finland's Ilkka Herola.
Multiple world and Olympic champion Johannes Rydzek of Germany, Japanese former world and World Cup champion Akito Watabe and Italian great Alessandro Pittin ended their careers and were sent into retirement with a special ceremony.
Like Lamparter, Hagen had already clinched the World Cup title before the final race.
She rose from second after the jumping to first in the 5km race. She claimed a 12th season success, 41.6 seconds ahead of Tara Geraghty-Moats, who claimed a photo-finish for second place against Finland's Minja Korhonen.
The Norwegian winner set a record of 11 individual victories in a women's season in the 14th and last event on home snow.
"It means so much," she said. "Before my home competition I always have more emotions. I was like out of my head when I was skiing today. It was hard to focus but I’m happy with the job I did and to perform in front of my friends and family and celebrate this year."
Japan's Ito and Naito take surprise ski-jumping wins
Yuki Ito ended a 26-month ski-jumping winning drought as she soared to victory in Oslo in a Japanese one-two, while Slovenian champion Nika Prevc suffered a second worst result of the season in sixth.
"I never expected to win here today — I’m absolutely thrilled," said Ito.
"This is my 10th World Cup victory after a break of more than two years. I’m totally happy and also a little proud. Now I’m really looking forward to the two ski-flying events in Vikersund and then in Planica — that’s a dream come true for me."
Ito rose from fourth to first with 127 and 126.5 metres as she edged team-mate and first round leader Nozomi Maruyama by half a point. Maruyama had 123m and 125m to finish second like on Saturday.
Double Olympic champion Anna Odine Strøm repeated third place with 122m and 120.5m for hosts Norway at the famous Holmenkollen venue.
Ito claimed her 10th career win and first since January 2024.
Already crowned World Cup champion Prevc rose from fifth to first on Saturday, but was unable to repeat the trick on Sunday when she dropped from fifth to sixth with two jumps of 120m.
Prevc had only fared worse once in 2025-26 when she came 15th in the season-opener in November in Lillehammer. Since then, apart from one disqualification, she had not finished worse than fourth en route to claiming a World Cup season points record.
Prevc also has a record 17 wins in one campaign, which ends in a fortnight on her home hill in Planica. The Vikersund meet comes first next weekend for women and men.
Sunday's men's ski-jumping in Oslo was won by Japan's Tomofumi Naito for his maiden World Cup victory aged 33.
Naito benefitted from only one jump counting in high winds and his 131.5 metres was enough to edge Slovenian Anze Lanisek by just 0.1 points for victory. Finland's Antti Aalto was third.
Domen Prevc, who wrapped up a first World Cup title last weekend, was only ninth. Olympic champion Philipp Raimund of Germany decided not to jump because of the conditions.
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