LAKE PLACID — Austria’s Tomaz Druml skied and jumped
his way to victory Wednesday in the Lamb Lumber
FIS World Cup B Nordic Combined competition held
at Whiteface Mountain and the MacKenzie Intervale
Jump Complex.
The event, which featured an international field
of 51 competitors, began early in the morning with
a 10-kilometer mass start cross country ski race
at Whiteface and concluded with two rounds of jumping
on Intervale’s 90-meter hill.
Druml turned in the fourth-fastest ski time, 31:07.9,
on a course that included 10 laps on a 1k loop,
and then nailed down the victory on the final jump
of the day. Druml’s two jumps, which covered distances
of 93 and 96 meters, were the second-longest efforts
in each round. Druml won the event with 250 points.
Germany’s Tino Edelmann, the World Cup B tour’s
points leader, finished a close second with 248
points. Edelmann put down longest jump in each round,
soaring 93.5 and 97 meters, and covered the cross
country course in 31:28, which was the seventh fastest
time in the race.
Third place went to Nicolas Bal of France, who combined
the third-fastest ski result, 30:59 with jumps of
90 and 86 meters for 226.2 points. Italians rounded
out the top five, with Giuseppe Michielli taking
fourth with 222.5 points and teammate Jochen Strobl
placing fifth with 217.7 points.
Park City, Utah twins Brett and Eric Camerota were
the top United States Ski Team finishers in the
competition, placing 12th and 14th respectively.
Americans Alex Glueck and Bryan Fletcher also broke
into the top 20, with Glueck finishing 16th and
Fletcher placing 20th.
Also for the United States: Alex Miller placed 33rd,
Skyler Keate placed 38th, Davis Miller finished
39th, Willy Graves was 40th, Trevor Keate placed
46th, Peter Freire finished 47th, Lake Placid’s
Colin Delaney was 48th, Alex Madden of Saranac Lake
placed 49th and Cooper Dodds finished in 50th place.
The two-day Nordic Combined World Cup B wraps up
today with a team competition, which features two
athletes per team. The event begins at Whiteface
Mountain with a cross country relay race and wraps
up with another two-round jumping contest at Intervale.
