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March World Cup Sports Combined

Updated: Jul 1, 2023

In this month's issue: crying because it is the end of season for winter sports and pretty much only it (okay, featuring F1 and football).


Ready? Set! GO!


So I say, thank you for the season/For giving it to me


Changing lyrics of ABBA’s “Thank you for the music” a little bit. This is the end. Winter came to an end and so did winter sports (okay, until summer season and plastic covers). A lot was happening - lots of lots of competitions, world championships etc. etc. Not gonna lie - it would take a few articles to recap all of it. But let me present to you the top 3 overall athletes of some of the disciplines, and winners of other classifications.



Nordic Skiing


Ski jumping:


Men Overall:

  1. Halvor Egner Granerud (Norway)

  2. Stefan Kraft (Austria)

  3. Anze Lanisek (Slovenia)

  4. Dawid Kubacki (Poland)

Needed to mention Dawid on fourth place. He had a great season but had to end it earlier because of his wife's illness. Sport doesn't matter in such situation, family is first. Ski jumping community knows it as well, there is a reason why it is a ski jumping family. Everyone sends best wishes to them.


photo: Eurosport Polska; from the left: Kraft, Granerud, Lanisek and Kubacki as a cardboard

photo: Eurosport Polska; from the left: Lanisek, Timi Zajc (winner of last competition in season), Kraft; translation: Dawid, good luck for you family.


photo: Damian Michałowski on twitter

Men Ski Flying:

  1. Stefan Kraft (Austria)

  2. Halvor Egner Granerud (Norway)

  3. Anze Lanisek (Slovenia)

Women Overall:

  1. Eva Pinkelnig (Austria)

  2. Katharina Althaus (Germany)

  3. Ema Klinec (Slovenia)



photo: Tadziu from ski jumping.pl; from the left: Althaus, Pinkelnig, Klinec



Nordic Combined:


Men Overall:

  1. Johannes Lamparter (Austria)

  2. Jens Luraas Oftebro (Norway)

  3. Julian Schmid (Germany)

Men Best Jumper Trophy: Ryota Yamamoto (Japan)


Men Best Skier Trophy: Jens Luraas Oftebro (Norway)


Don’t ask me why overall winner isn’t best jumper or best skier, I really don’t know, I understand rules in nordic combined less than points for wind during ski jump


Women Overall:

  1. Gyda Westvold Hansen (Norway)

  2. Nathalie Armbruster (Germany)

  3. Ida Marie Hagen (Norway)

Women Best Jumper Trophy: Gyda Westvold Hansen (Norway)


Woman Best Skier Trophy: Ida Marie Hagen (Norway)



photo: fisnordiccombined on instagram

photo: fisnordiccombined on instagram

Cross-country


Men Overall:

  1. Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo (Norway)

  2. Paal Golberg (Norway)

  3. Federico Pellegrino (Italy)

Men Distance: Paal Golberg (Norway)


Men Sprint: Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo (Norway)


Women Overall:

  1. Tiril Udnes Weng (Norway)

  2. Jessie Diggins (USA)

  3. Kerttu Niskanen (Finland)


Women Distance: Kerttu Niskanen (Finland)


Women Sprint: Maja Dahlqvist (Sweden)



Alpine skiing


Men Overall:

  1. Marco Odermatt (Switzerland)

  2. Aleksander Aamodt Kilde (Norway)

  3. Henrik Kristoffersen (Norway)


Men Downhill: Aleksander Aamodt Kilde (Norway)


Men Slalom: Lucas Braathen (Norway)


Men Giant Slalom: Marco Odermatt (Switzerland)


Men Super G: Marco Odermatt (Switzerland)


Women Overall:

  1. Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) - THE GOAT, THE QUEEN

  2. Lara Gut-Behrami (Switzerland)

  3. Petra Vlhova (Slovakia)


Women Downhill: Sofia Goggia (Italy)


Women Slalom: Mikaela Shiffrin (USA)


Women Giant Slalom: Mikaela Shiffrin (USA)


Women Super G: Lara Gut-Behrami (Switzerland)



photo: fisalpine on instagram

photo: fisalpine on instagram

Snowboard

Here only the winner, because there is way to much different classifications, there is no only one overall

​Men Snowboardcross: Martin Noerl (Germany) Men Parallel Giant Slalom: Roland Fischnaller (Italy) Men Parallel Slalom: Fabian Obmann (Austria) Men Parallel: Fabian Obmann (Austria)

Men Halfpipe: Ruka Hirano (Japan) Men Slopestyle: Dusty Henricksen (USA) Men Big Air: Valentino Guseli (Australia) Men Overall Park&Pipe:

  1. Valentino Guseli (Australia)

  2. Dusty Henricksen (USA)

  3. Taiga Hasegawa (Japan)

Women Snowboardcross: Charlotte Bankes (Great Britain) Women Parallel Giant Slalom: Ramona Theresia Hofmeister (Germany) Women Parallel Slalom: Julie Zogg (Switzerland) Women Parallel: Julie Zogg (Switzerland) Women Halfpipe: Mitsuki Ono (Japan) Women Slopestyle: Julia Marino (USA) Women Big Air: Reira Iwabuchi (Japan) Women Overall Park&Pipe:

  1. Mitsuki Ono (Japan)

  2. Julia Marino (USA)

  3. Reira Iwabuchi (Japan)



Speed skating:


Here also no overall, many different classifications, so only the winners:

​Men's 500 metres: Laurent Dubreuil (Canada) Men's 1000 metres: Hein Otterspeer (Netherlands) Men's 1500 metres: Kjeld Nuls (Netherlands) Men's long distances: Beau Snellink (Netherlands) Men's mass start: Bart Swings (Belgium)

​Women's 500 metres: Kim Min-sun (South Korea) Women's 1000 metres: Miho Takagi (Japan) Women's 1500 metres: Miho Takagi (Japan) Women's long distances: Ragne Wiklund (Norway) Women's mass start: Ivanie Blondin (Canada)

Yeah, sooooo

Listed all winners from disciplines most interesting to me. Believe me, it would take much longer to list all of it.


Gonna miss it. Have to wait till the summer grand prix. Now I have nothing to watch on the weekends. Or do I?



UEFA EURO QUALIFIRIES


…

Yeah, still nothing to watch. Mostly because there are two matches per round and a long break after it. And if you don't know already - I am not into football that much, so yes. And no comment from me *cough cough* polish team terrible, ski jumping is superior *cough cough*. Anyways, here are the results of the first two rounds. And results only, counting points that each team has is beyond my understanding of football.


​Round 1: Kazakhstan - Slovenia: 1 - 2 Denmark - Finland: 3 - 1 Portugal - Liechtenstein: 4 - 0 San Marino - Northern Ireland: 0 -2 North Macedonia - Malta: 2 -1 Bosnia and Herzegovina - Iceland: 3 - 0 Slovakia - Luxemburg: 0 - 0 Italy - England: 1 - 2 Bulgaria - Montenegro: 0 -1 Gibraltar - Greece: 0 - 3 Moldova - Faroe Islands: 1 - 1 Serbia - Lithuania: 2 - 0 Austria - Azerbaijan: 4 - 1 Sweden - Belgium: 0 - 3 Czech Republic - Poland: 3 -1 France - Netherlands: 4 - 0 Scotland - Cyprus: 3 - 0 Israel - Kosovo: 1 - 1 Armenia - Turkiye: 1 - 2

Belarus - Switzerland: 0 - 5 Spain - Norway: 3 - 0 Croatia - Wales: 1 - 1 Andorra - Romania: 0 - 2

​Round 2:

Kazakhstan - Denmark: 3 - 2

England - Ukraine: 2 - 0

Liechtenstein - Iceland: 0 - 7

Slovenia - San Marino: 2 - 0

Slovakia - Bosnia and Herzegovina: 2 - 0

Northern Ireland - Finland: 0 -1

Luxemburg - Portugal: 0 - 6

Malta - Italy: 0 - 2

Montenegro - Serbia: 0 - 2

Netherlands - Gibraltar: 3 - 0

Poland - Albania: 1 - 0

Austria - Estonia: 2 - 1

Sweden - Azerbaijan: 5 - 0

Moldova - Czech Republic: 0 - 0

Hungary - Bulgaria: 3 - 0

Ireland - France: 0 - 1

Georgia - Norway:

Wales - Latvia:

Romania - Belarus:

Switzerland - Israel:

Kosovo - Andorra:

Turkiye - Croatia:

Scotland - Spain:


Next rounds: starting on 16th June



F1


It started. Yay I guess. I'm still not into it, maybe it will change, who knows?


Some basics about this season:

  • record amount of races - 23

  • after 41 years, there will be a race in Las Vegas

  • started on 5 march in Bahrain

  • will end on 26 november in Abu Dhabi

  • two absolute debutants - Oscar Piastri (McLaren) and Logan Sargeant


Results from races:

  • 5th March, GP Bahrain - Max Verstappen

  • 19th March, GP Saudi Arabia - Sergio Perez

  • 2nd April, GP Australia -


Next race: 30th April, GP Azerbaijan




That's for it, thanks for reading!

In the next issue: no football, continuing with F1, go for some tennis because it is missed here and I'll see what else



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