World Championships in Trondheim

LIVE from 3 p.m.: Mass start competition in women’s combined

Lisa Hirner(Bild: EPA/Ole Martin Wold)

Lisa Hirner missed out on the medals in the first competition of the Nordic combined women at the World Championships in Trondheim. After finishing 14th in the 5 km cross-country race on Thursday, the 21-year-old Styrian improved to seventh place with a jump of 94 m on the normal hill. 

Gold went to Japan's Yuna Kasai, who triumphed just ahead of the Norwegian cross-country champion Gyda Westvold Hansen and her twin sister Haruka Kasai.

Hirner, who had traveled to the event with a training deficit due to an autoimmune disease and was 55.5 seconds behind Westvold Hansen in the cross-country race, had mixed feelings about the result. "Only the first three places count at the World Championships, so I'm a bit out of it now. But I'm really happy, I did a good job in the cross-country and showed a solid jump on the hill," said Hirner, who nevertheless achieved her best individual result at the World Championships. She was exactly 9.9 points short of precious metal.

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Slamik and Purker missed the top ten
Annalena Slamik managed to catch up to 13th place with a long jump of 100.5 m, putting the Tyrolean just ahead of Claudia Purker from Salzburg (91.5 m). The 16-year-old Katharina Gruber from Upper Austria finished 22nd and was happy about a satisfying World Championship debut in the mass start, her first time in the combined women's World Championship program.

Yuna Kasai finished third after the cross-country and jumped 96.5 m to win her first World Championship medal. Westvold Hansen had her fourth gold medal in sight, but after bad luck with the wind, the local heroine had to settle for silver. The Norwegian top favorite Ida Marie Hagen was unable to finish higher than tenth.

Hirner, Purker, Lamparter and S. Rettenegger in the mixed team

Lisa Hirner(Bild: GEPA)

Austria took bronze in the mixed team competition at the 2023 World Championships in Planica. This will take place in Trondheim on Friday (12:00 team jumping, 16:05 team relay), with Johannes Lamparter and Stefan Rettenegger as well as Hirner and Purker in the hunt for medals for the ÖSV. Norway, Germany and Japan are the favorites going into the competition.

Combined - women, 5 km mass start/jumping: 1. Yuna Kasai (JPN) 121.0 points - 2. Gyda Westvold Hansen (NOR) 118.7 - 3. Haruka Kasai (JPN) 115.6. Next (all AUT): 7. Lisa Hirner 105.7 - 13. Annalena Slamik 86.1 - 14. Claudia Purker 85.4 - 22. Katharina Gruber 67.1.