3rd in Japan in the Ski Nordic Combined World Cup team match January 26 at 0:33

Ski Nordic Combined World Cup team competitions took place in Germany, and Japan came in third and was on the podium for the first time this season.

The combined group was fought by four teams, and in the World Cup held in Oberstdorf, Germany on the 25th, Japan started with Ace's Akito Watanabe and his brother Yoshito Watanabe and Hideaki Nagai. , Ryota Yamamoto, four people.

In Japan, in the first half of the jump, Akito Watanabe marked 130m50, Nagai flew 129m50, and Yoshito Watanabe flew 129m. Was.

In the latter half of the cross-country, where four riders skated in 5-kilometer steps, the race started one minute and 33 seconds behind the top, and slid tenaciously into the third place, two minutes and 50 seconds four behind.

Japan is on the podium in this event for the first time in this season since it was an adult in November.

The champion was Norway and the second was Germany.