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Norway retains mixed-team Nordic combined world title
Norway finished 1:16.8 ahead of Germany, while Austria beat Japan by 0.2 seconds for bronze in Trondheim's mixed-team competition.
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The defending champions finish first
Norway won mixed-team Nordic combined gold at the 2025 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships on 28 February. Jens Lurås Oftebro, Gyda Westvold Hansen, Ida Marie Hagen and Jarl Magnus Riiber completed the cross-country relay in 36 minutes 37.5 seconds at Granåsen, retaining the title the same quartet had won at the event's first World Championships appearance in Planica in 2023.
Germany finished second, 1 minute 16.8 seconds behind. Austria took bronze at 1:55.1, with Japan fourth at 1:55.3. The final medal position was therefore separated by two tenths of a second, while the Norwegian victory was established by a substantially larger margin. It was the host nation's first Nordic combined gold of the Trondheim championships.
A four-athlete combined test
Each team included two women and two men. The normal-hill jumping scores determined the starting intervals for a cross-country relay comprising 5 km, 2.5 km, 2.5 km and 5 km legs. Norway scored 471.9 points in the jumping, ahead of Japan's 458.3, Germany's 443.9 and Austria's 426.9.
Those totals gave Norway a 14-second starting advantage over Japan, 28 seconds over Germany and 45 seconds over Austria. The final time deficits included those starting intervals; they were not simply differences between each team's standalone skiing time. The official result sheet separately records Germany's skiing time as 37:26.3, Austria's as 37:47.6 and Japan's as 38:18.8. Norway led both the jumping classification and the cross-country time classification.
Norway extends the lead across its relay legs
FIS recorded Norway's advantage increasing from 14 seconds at the start to 43 seconds when Oftebro completed the opening 5 km leg. Westvold Hansen then extended the lead to more than a minute on the first women's leg. Hagen handed over to Riiber with a 1:15.6 advantage over Germany's Geiger for the final 5 km. Norway ultimately finished 1:16.8 ahead of Germany.
The much closer bronze contest involved Austria's Lamparter and Japan's Yamamoto. Japan protested the finish, and FIS reported that the jury reviewed the incident before allowing the original result to stand. Austria's 1:55.1 deficit and Japan's 1:55.3 therefore remained the final classification, awarding Austria bronze by two tenths of a second. The official relay course used a 2.5 km loop, with men skiing two laps and women one.
The same champions and podium as in Planica
Norway's quartet had won the first World Championships mixed-team title in Planica on 26 February 2023. Germany took silver and Austria bronze at that inaugural edition, giving Trondheim the same national podium two years later. The four Norwegian champions also returned unchanged: Oftebro, Hagen, Westvold Hansen and Riiber. Retaining the title made Norway the winner of both of the event's first two World Championships editions.
For Riiber, the mixed-team victory brought a ninth World Championships gold and 12th medal overall. FIS's pre-championship preview recorded eight golds and 11 medals before Trondheim, following his four-title performance in Planica. He had announced that he would retire at the end of the season, making Trondheim his final major championships. The mixed-team victory supplied the first gold of his programme there.
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