Espen Bjoernstad and Norway completed second in ski leaping and first in cross-country to win the Nordic mixed males’s group competitors on Thursday in Zhangjiakou, China. Picture by Martin Divisek/EPA-EFE
Feb. 17 (UPI) — Norwegian skiers Espen Bjoernstad, Espen Anderson, Jens Luraas Oftebro and Joergen Graabak claimed gold within the group Gunderson massive hill and 4×5-kilometer cross-country Nordic mixed occasion Thursday on the 2022 Winter Video games.
Norway completed in second place within the ski leaping portion and first within the cross-country leg of the occasion to win the competitors at Zhangjiakou Nationwide Cross-Nation Snowboarding Middle.
Germany’s Manuel Faisst, Julian Schmid, Eric Frenzel and Vinzenz Geigertrailed have been 54.9 factors behind the Norwegians and captured a silver medal.
Japan’s Yoshito Watabe, Hideaki Nagai, Akito Watabe and Ryota Yamamoto claimed bronze. Austria, who received the ski leaping portion, and France rounded out the High 5 finishers.
People Taylor Fletcher, Ben Loomis, Jasper Good and Jared Shumate completed sixth with a time of 53:07.1. The cross-country snowboarding and ski leaping competitors was the ultimate occasion on the Nordic mixed schedule.
Graabak and Anderson additionally have been members of the Norwegian group that received silver within the occasion on the 2018 Winter Video games. Germany and Austria received respective gold and bronze medals in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Graabak and Norway additionally received gold within the occasion on the 2014 Winter Video games in Sochi, Russia.
Graabak, a six-time Olympic medalist, received gold within the particular person massive hill occasion and silver within the particular person regular hill occasion on the 2022 Winter Video games. Oftebro received silver within the particular person massive hill in Beijing.