The individual normal hill/10 km competition in Nordic combined at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 9 February, at the Kuyangshu Nordic Center and Biathlon Center in Zhangjiakou. Vinzenz Geiger of Germany won the event. For him, this was the first Olympic medal in an individual event. Jørgen Graabak of Norway, the 2014 individual large hill and team champion, was second. Lukas Greiderer of Austria won the bronze medal, his first Olympic medal.
The defending champion was Eric Frenzel, who won this event in 2014 and 2018. Frenzel qualified for the Olympics but did not participate in the event. The 2018 silver medalist, Akito Watabe, qualified as well. but the bronze medalist, Lukas Klapfer, did not. Johannes Lamparter was the overall leader of the 2021–22 FIS Nordic Combined World Cup before the Olympics, followed by Jarl Magnus Riiber and Geiger. Riiber was the 2021 World Champion in individual large hill/10 km. Riiber had to withdraw from the event due to a positive COVID-19 test.
Ryota Yamamoto won the jump. In the cross-country part, the three athletes with the next best results in the jump, Greiderer, Julian Schmid, and Johannes Rydzek, soon caught up with Yamamoto and skied together, followed by another group 25–30 seconds behind. At 6 km, Yamamoto has already dropped out of medal contention, and Greiderer, Schmid, and Rydzek were 30 seconds ahead of the second group, then the gap started to narrow. The group caught up with Greiderer, but at 8.5 km Schmid and Rydzek were still 15 seconds ahead. Finally, they were caught up as well, and at the finish line Geiger was first, Graabak second, and Greiderer third, with Lamparter fourth not so far behind.
Qualification
Results Ski jumping The ski jumping part was held at 16:00.Ski jumping results
Rank Bib Name Country Distance (m) Points Time difference 1 39 Ryōta Yamamoto 108.0 133.0 2 34 Lukas Greiderer 103.5 123.4 +0:38 3 42 Julian Schmid 103.0 123.1 +0:40 4 38 Johannes Rydzek 104.0 122.2 +0:43 5 46 Johannes Lamparter 100.0 116.9 +1:04 5 29 Sora Yachi 103.5 116.9 +1:04 7 32 Franz-Josef Rehrl 102.0 115.8 +1:09 8 37 Ilkka Herola 100.0 115.7 +1:09 9 44 Jørgen Graabak 98.5 114.1 +1:16 9 40 Akito Watabe 98.0 114.1 +1:16 11 45 Vinzenz Geiger 98.0 111.4 +1:26 12 20 Mattéo Baud 97.5 111.3 +1:27 13 31 Yoshito Watabe 97.5 110.8 +1:29 13 27 Tomáš Portyk 97.0 110.8 +1:29 15 34 Espen Bjørnstad 99.0 110.1 +1:32 16 36 Espen Andersen 96.0 109.3 +1:35 17 26 Ben Loomis 94.5 105.6 +1:50 18 33 Martin Fritz 96.0 105.2 +1:51 19 28 Eero Hirvonen 93.0 104.1 +1:56 20 41 Jens Lurås Oftebro 92.5 103.8 +1:57 21 30 Laurent Mühlethaler 94.0 102.4 +2:02 22 24 Raffaele Buzzi 93.0 99.9 +2:12 22 12 Ondřej Pažout 96.0 99.9 +2:12 24 19 Jared Shumate 93.5 99.2 +2:15 25 18 Lukáš Daněk 97.0 98.2 +2:19 26 2 Iacopo Bortolas 93.5 97.0 +2:24 27 23 Arttu Mäkiaho 95.5 95.1 +2:32 28 21 Perttu Reponen 90.0 94.2 +2:35 29 16 Jan Vytrval 92.5 93.5 +2:38 30 14 Gaël Blondeau 91.0 91.3 +2:47 31 17 Vid Vrhovnik 91.5 88.0 +3:00 32 13 Szczepan Kupczak 89.5 87.5 +3:02 33 4 Stephen Schumann 88.5 86.4 +3:06 34 22 Taylor Fletcher 86.5 83.3 +3:19 35 11 Dmytro Mazurchuk 87.0 82.5 +3:22 36 8 Park Je-un 90.0 82.3 +3:23 37 6 Andrzej Szczechowicz 82.5 76.4 +3:46 38 10 Chingiz Rakparov 79.5 69.9 +4:12 39 3 Artem Galunin 77.0 66.8 +4:25 40 15 Alessandro Pittin 75.5 62.9 +4:40 41 5 Viacheslav Barkov 78.0 61.6 +4:46 42 9 Zhao Jiawen 81.0 59.0 +4:56 43 7 Markuss Vinogradovs 72.0 55.0 +5:12 44 1 Samir Mastiev 72.0 47.8 +5:41 25 Antoine Gérard Disqualified 43 Terence Weber Did not start
Cross-country The cross-country part was held at 19:00.Final results
RankBibNameCountryStart timeCross-countryFinish timeDeficit Time Rank 11 Vinzenz Geiger 1:26 23:41.7 1 25:07.7 9 Jørgen Graabak 1:16 23:52.5 2 25:08.5 2 Lukas Greiderer 0:38 24:36.3 7 25:14.3 4 5 Johannes Lamparter 1:04 24:12.7 3 25:16.7 5 4 Johannes Rydzek 0:43 24:46.5 9 25:29.5 6 8 Ilkka Herola 1:09 24:24.1 4 25:33.1 7 10 Akito Watabe 1:16 24:24.1 4 25:40.1 8 3 Julian Schmid 0:40 25:17.9 21 25:57.9 9 7 Franz-Josef Rehrl 1:09 25:08.3 17 26:17.3 +1:09.6 10 20 Jens Lurås Oftebro 1:57 24:53.2 11 26:50.2 +1:42.5 11 16 Espen Andersen 1:35 25:17.3 20 26:52.3 +1:44.6 12 18 Martin Fritz 1:51 25:02.4 14 26:53.4 +1:45.7 13 13 Yoshito Watabe 1:29 25:25.2 23 26:54.2 +1:46.5 14 1 Ryota Yamamoto 0:00 26:54.3 34 26:54.3 +1:46.6 15 17 Ben Loomis 1:50 25:07.8 16 26:57.8 +1:50.1 16 22 Raffaele Buzzi 2:12 24:47.3 10 26:59.3 +1:51.6 17 19 Eero Hirvonen 1:56 25:06.3 15 27:02.3 +1:54.6 18 12 Mattéo Baud 1:27 25:42.0 25 27:09.0 +2:01.3 19 24 Jared Shumate 2:15 24:55.0 13 27:10.0 +2:02.3 20 14 Tomáš Portyk 1:29 25:47.4 26 27:16.4 +2:08.7 21 25 Lukáš Daněk 2:19 25:22.8 22 27:41.8 +2:34.1 22 28 Perttu Reponen 2:35 25:09.7 18 27:44.7 +2:37.0 23 27 Arttu Mäkiaho 2:32 25:14.3 19 27:46.3 +2:38.6 24 34 Taylor Fletcher 3:19 24:31.9 6 27:50.9 +2:43.2 25 33 Stephen Schumann 3:06 24:46.4 8 27:52.4 +2:44.7 26 29 Jan Vytrval 2:38 25:26.7 24 28:04.7 +2:57.0 27 15 Espen Bjørnstad 1:32 26:40.1 32 28:12.1 +3:04.4 28 21 Laurent Mühlethaler 2:02 26:24.6 31 28:26.6 +3:18.9 29 23 Ondřej Pažout 2:12 26:19.4 30 28:31.4 +3:23.7 30 6 Sora Yachi 1:04 27:34.6 40 28:38.6 +3:30.9 31 30 Gaël Blondeau 2:47 25:56.3 27 28:43.3 +3:35.6 32 40 Alessandro Pittin 4:40 24:53.4 12 29:33.4 +4:25.7 33 26 Iacopo Bortolas 2:24 27:30.8 38 29:54.8 +4:47.1 34 32 Szczepan Kupczak 3:02 27:22.3 37 30:24.3 +5:16.6 35 37 Andrzej Szczechowicz 3:46 26:40.2 33 30:26.2 +5:18.5 36 35 Dmytro Mazurchuk 3:22 27:08.3 35 30:30.3 +5:22.6 37 31 Vid Vrhovnik 3:00 27:34.5 39 30:34.5 +5:26.8 38 41 Viacheslav Barkov 4:46 26:08.2 28 30:54.2 +5:46.5 39 39 Artem Galunin 4:25 27:13.8 36 31:38.8 +6:31.1 40 44 Samir Mastiev 5:41 26:18.0 29 31:59.0 +6:51.3 41 38 Chingiz Rakparov 4:12 27:51.1 41 32:03.1 +6:55.4 42 36 Park Je-un 3:23 29:11.3 43 32:34.3 +7:26.6 43 42 Zhao Jiawen 4:56 28:33.8 42 33:29.8 +8:22.1 44 43 Markuss Vinogradovs 5:12 29:22.4 44 34:34.4 +9:26.7
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