In the World Cup of Ski Nordic Combined, the 5th individual round was held in Estonia on the 11th, and Japanese ace Akito Watabe was in 7th place.
Nordic combined and Watanabe are aiming to break the record for the Beijing Olympics season, alongside the record for the most Japanese athletes to win the World Cup last season.
Round 5 of the World Cup individual was held in Estonia on the 11th.
Due to bad weather, it has been changed to a "mass start method" that usually starts with cross-country skiing after a jump.
In the 10km cross-country that started all at once, Watanabe finished in 11th place with 23 minutes 32 seconds 9 behind the top player by 5.7 seconds.
Only 1.4 points behind the top, I faced the second half of the jump on a normal hill with a hill size of 97 meters, but I could not extend the flight distance to 85 meters and I was in 7th place.
In addition, Ryota Yamamoto was behind in 17th place in the cross-country skiing in the first half, but he marked 88 meters with his favorite jump and finished in 4th place, the highest among Japanese players.
In addition, Japanese
players were ▽ Sora Taniji 11th
▽ Hideaki Nagai 21st
▽ Yoshito
Watabe's younger brother 24th
▽ Kodai Kimura 34th
.
The winner was Jarl Magnus Riiber of Norway, who had already won his fourth victory in three consecutive races.