Minja Korhonen in good positions in the podium battle

Combined Finnish star Minja Korhonen is in a good position in Friday’s joint start race in Seefeld, Austria.

Korhonen was eighth in the five-kilometer cross-country skiing section, but fell short of the third-place finisher from the United States Alexa Brabecista only 13.8 seconds away.

Converted into hill points, Korhose has only 3.5 points to reach the podium. The joint start ends on Friday afternoon at 3:10 p.m. on the jumpable hill section.

To lead the competition ida marie hageniin the Finn has a difference of 10.4 points. Norway’s Hagen was the fastest in the skiing section before his landing Marte Leinan Lundia.

Finland Anna Kerko was 21 and Heta Hirvonen 26th According to Viaplay’s commentary, Hirvonen lost time in the first ski round when he lost his pole.

Citizen of the United States and Finland Annika Malacinski was 11th in the skiing section.

Korhonen, 18, who is in top form, has already placed on the podium in five consecutive World Cup competitions.

Men’s in mass output Eero Hirvonen and Ilkka Herola were in the top group for a long time, but froze a little during the last ski lap.

Hirvonen, who turned 30 on Friday, was seventh (+32.2 seconds) and Herola eighth (+47.5). Measured in points, the difference between the Finnish stars and the top is 8.1 and 11.9 points.

Norwegian Jens Lurås Oftebro was the fastest of the ten kilometer skiing section.

Remember the Finns Wille Karhumaa was the 36th and Herman Happonen 45th Representing the United States Niklas Malacinski reached the 15th place nicely.

The men’s hill section starts after the women’s section at 16:00.

Before at the start of the women’s joint start, a protest was seen at the starting line, when the athletes raised their poles and formed the letter x with them.

The letter X refers to the term “no exception”. Combined athletes have been using the term on social media since 2022, when women’s combined was questionably left unadded as part of the Winter Olympics program.

Combined is the only sport in the Winter Olympics in which women are not included at all.

in Austria the Seefeld tripla, which has become a tradition, is contested on the weekend, where the results of the three races at the end of the week are added together, like the cross-country Tour de Ski.

The competitions are the last in the World Cup before the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.

Story updated at 2:28 p.m.: Men’s results and a photo of the protest have been updated to the story.