Does Lamparter win again in Mass Start ?

Johannes Lamparter from Austria has been the king of Ruka so far by winning both Individual compact race on friday and the Gundersen race on Saturday in a Nordic Combined and he sure wants to start this World Cup season by three wins. 

The biggest threat to the Austrian will likely be the German Julian Schmid who has been second in both races in Ruka so far this weekend. Of course the Finns would like to see their own Ilkka Herola at the podium and he has shown his skiing speed this weekend. The 30 year old Finn has never been a big fan of Ruka, but was third at Friday’s Individual compact race which was his first podium at Ruka and it will be seen how Sunday’s gonna be for Herola.

Wind has been heavy for a couple of days now so it´s interesting to see how´s the weather going to be for Sunday. 

Final Nordic combined competition of this weekend will start tomorrow with 10 kilometres mass start skiing at 10 am and continue with ski jumping at 2 pm.

Text: Niko Kovanen
Photo: Teemu Moisio