Gold Medal
Norway
Magnus Moan
Magnus Hovdal Moan (born 26 August 1983) is a Norwegian Nordic combined skier who has competed since 2002. Magnus moved from Lillehammer when he was two years old and has lived in Trondheim ever since. He skis with the Byåsen IL club. When he is not training or competing Moan works for a company called Doka Norge A/S. It's a sister-company of Doka Austria. They rent/sell shuttering accessories to building constructors. Moan (shown in front of picture on the right) is 6 ft 2 in (189 cm) tall, his weight is 11 st 4 lb (158 lb; 72 kg).
Moan finished second in the 2005-6 FIS Nordic combined world cup. Moan is a solid ski jumper, but his strength lies in his cross country skiing. He won one world cup event in the 2005/2006 season, in the sprint in Ramsau am Dachstein, Austria, and finished a race outside of the top eight only once this season. In the 2004/2005 season he finished fifth, 2003/2004 season eighth, and forty-first in the 2002/2003 season.
Moan won an Olympic bronze medal in the Nordic combined on February 11, 2006 in the 15 km individual. He jumped 97.5 m and 97 m scoring 237.5 points after both jumps, leaving him one minute, forty seconds behind Georg Hettich, who won the ski jumping phase. He then skied the 15 km race in 39:44.6, 16.2 seconds behind the winner Hettich, beating fellow countryman Petter Tande in a photo finish. On February 21, 2006 Moan won a silver in the 7.5 km sprint. He completed the race in 18:34.4, 5.4 seconds behind winner Felix Gottwald of Austria.
Moan also has five medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with one gold (4 x 5 km team: 2005), two silvers (7.5 km sprint: 2005, 2007), and two bronzes (4 x 5 km team: 2007 and 2009). He also won the individual Nordic combined event at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 2005.
Håvard Klemetsen
Håvard Klemetsen (born 5 January 1979) is a Norwegian Nordic combined skier who has competed since 2002, representing Kautokeino I.L. He debuted in the World Cup in 2003. He has four 4 x 5 km team medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a gold in 2005 and bronze in 2007 and twice in 2011. Klemetsen also finished 20th in the 15 km individual event at the 2005 championships.
Klemetsen finished 20th in the 15 km individual at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. His best individual career finish was second in a 7.5 km sprint event in Park City, Utah in the United States in 2002.
Magnus Krog
Magnus Krog (born 19 March 1987) is a Norwegian nordic combined skier[ who has competed since 2005. He has one FIS Nordic Combined World Cup win and other 3 podiums.
Jørgen Graabak
Jørgen Nyland Graabak (born 26 April 1991) is a Norwegian Nordic combined skier and Olympic gold medalist.
He hails from Trondheim and represents the club Byåsen IL. He competed for Norway at the 2014 Winter Olympics. After not participating in the Normal Hill race, he replaced Mikko Kokslien in the Large Hill event and came back from 6th place after the jump to win gold. He won a second gold in the men's Nordic combined relay race, completing Norway's final rounds.
6th Place
USA
Bryan Fletcher
Bryan Fletcher (born June 27, 1986 in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, Colorado) is an American Nordic combined skier who has competed since 2002 and in the world cup since 2009.
At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo, Fletcher finished 22nd in the 10 km individual normal hill and 40th in the individual large hill.
His best World Cup finish was 7th, first in a 10 km individual normal hill event at Seefeld (Austria) in December 2011, and in another 10 km race in Predazzo (Italy) one month later.
Todd Lodwick
Todd Lodwick (born November 21, 1976, in Steamboat Springs, Colorado) is an American nordic combined skier and by several measures the most successful North American in this sport ever. In 2009, he became world champion in Nordic combined.
Taylor Fletcher
Taylor Fletcher (born May 11, 1990) is an American Nordic combined skier who has competed since 2006 and ski jumper since 2010. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished 11th in the team large hill ski jumping event and 45th in the Nordic combined 10 km individual large hill event.
Fletcher's best World Cup finish was 3rd in the HS 109/ 10 km event in Seefeld (Austria) in January 2013.
Bill Demong
Bill Demong (born March 29, 1980 in Vermontville, New York) is an American Nordic combined skier and Olympic gold medalist. Demong is a four-time Olympian competing in Nagano, Salt Lake City, Torino and Vancouver.
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