Nordic combined · International
Hagen wins the opening race of Seefeld’s first women’s Triple
A decisive cross-country lead helped the Norwegian preserve her unbeaten season as women joined the three-day Triple for the first time.
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Hagen keeps her winning sequence intact
Ida Marie Hagen won the women’s Nordic combined mass start in Seefeld on 31 January 2025, opening the first women’s Nordic Combined Triple with her seventh victory from seven World Cup competitions that season. Her sequence extended to eleven consecutive wins when the end of the previous winter was included. The Norwegian established the platform on the five-kilometre course, finishing in 14 minutes 0.9 seconds, 12.2 seconds ahead of Marte Leinan Lund. With the cross-country race preceding the jumping in this format, that advantage gave Hagen room to defend her position on the hill. She jumped 93 metres as the final competitor and completed the event on 92.8 points. A strong afternoon jump by Gyda Westvold Hansen made the conclusion competitive, but Hagen retained the lead.
The final scores show the balance between disciplines
The official final classification placed Westvold Hansen second on 88.5 points and Germany’s Nathalie Armbruster third on 87.3. Hagen therefore won by 4.3 points, with a further 1.2 separating the two other podium athletes. The result was a Norwegian one-two rather than a sweep: Armbruster occupied the remaining medal position. Leinan Lund, second in the morning’s skiing race, finished eighth in the combined classification. That change in position illustrates why the mass-start finish line was an intermediate result, with the afternoon hill still capable of reshaping the order. The overall competition rewarded the combined score, so the standings after skiing alone could not settle the outcome.
Purker gives the home team a milestone
The Austrian federation identified a separate home-team achievement in Claudia Purker’s seventh place. It was her best World Cup result, improving on the eleventh place she had achieved in Schonach two weeks earlier. Purker said reaching the top ten brought relief and described her cross-country performance as solid. Her finish supplied a concrete measure of progress for Austria alongside the Norwegian victory. The federation also recorded Annalena Slamik in twelfth, giving the host team another result in the upper half of the final classification. Purker’s milestone was therefore part of the same competition, with its own significance for the Austrian programme.
A first Triple for the women
Seefeld’s importance extended beyond a single World Cup start. The German federation’s 29 January preview confirmed that women would join the three-day Triple for the first time. Its programme scheduled Friday’s five-kilometre mass start before a compact competition on Saturday and a 7.5-kilometre Gundersen on Sunday, all using the HS109 hill. Before the event, Armbruster welcomed the chance for women to contest all three formats at this venue and highlighted the longer concluding race. Her third place on Friday gave that debut a podium start. Hagen’s January victory established the opening result; the weekend’s remaining races were scheduled for February.
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