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Germany returns to Nordic combined team gold in Trondheim
Germany beat Austria in the large-hill and 4 x 5 km relay event, with Norway taking bronze after a jumping-stage equipment disqualification.
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Sweden wins women's relay world title by seven tenths
Emma Ribom, Frida Karlsson, Ebba Andersson and Jonna Sundling secured Sweden's second women's relay world title ahead of Norway and Germany.
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Slovenia defends men's ski-jumping team world title
Lovro Kos, Domen Prevc, Timi Zajc and Anže Lanišek scored 1080.8 points to retain Slovenia's team title ahead of Austria and Norway.
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Andersson retains world skiathlon title in Trondheim photo finish
Ebba Andersson defended her 20 km skiathlon world title, taking gold ahead of Therese Johaug with Jonna Sundling completing the podium.
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Westvold Hansen wins third consecutive Gundersen world title
Norway secured gold and silver in the women's normal-hill Gundersen, while Lisa Hirner earned her first individual world medal for Austria.
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Norway earns first women's ski-jumping team world title
Norway scored 904.5 points to beat Austria and Germany, upgrading the bronze medals it had won at all three previous editions.
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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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France tops medal count at Lenzerheide Biathlon World Championships
France finished the 12-event championships with six golds and 13 medals, while Johannes Thingnes Bø set two career world-title records.
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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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Riiber wins Seefeld mass start after retirement announcement
The Norwegian converted a narrow cross-country lead into an eight-point victory over Johannes Lamparter in the Triple’s opening competition.
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Handball study finds athlete stress reports and blood markers tell overlapping stories
A season-long observational study cautions against treating questionnaires and hormones as identical monitoring tools.
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Oberg sisters power Sweden's comeback win in Oberhof mixed relay
Sweden recovered from two penalty loops to beat France in the closing Oberhof race on 12 January.
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Lou Jeanmonnot wins Oberhof pursuit as Elvira Oberg climbs from 37th to third
Jeanmonnot won with one miss on 11 January, while Oberg's 34-place rise produced an exceptional pursuit podium.
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Sturla Holm Laegreid leads Norwegian sweep of Oberhof pursuit podium
Laegreid, Tarjei Boe and Johannes Thingnes Boe occupied the podium one day after France swept the sprint.
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Paula Botet wins first Biathlon World Cup race in wet Oberhof sprint
France's Botet hit all ten targets to win on 9 January, ahead of two fellow first-time World Cup podium finishers.
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Stefan Kraft wins Bischofshofen qualification before close Four Hills finale
Kraft topped the 5 January qualification with 155.4 points as Austria's three title contenders prepared for a finale separated by only 1.3 points.
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