NORDIC COMBINED IN VAL DI FIEMME THE WORLD CUP IS COMING IN DECEMBER
Val di Fiemme will host the third stage of the 2026/27 Nordic Combined World Cup 11–13 December: ski jumping and cross-country skiing at the Olympic stadiums in Predazzo and Lago di Tesero First up is the Individual Compact, followed by the Individual Gundersen and the Mixed Team Large Hill HS 141 The Val di Fiemme season is set to get into full swing, with Nordic Ski Val di Fiemme hard at work
The arrival of autumn means only one thing for Val di Fiemme: the season of major winter sporting events is just around the corner. Following the opening event of the calendar – the grand finale of the Rollerski World Cup – the Olympic valley is preparing to take centre stage once again on a top international circuit, this time with the Nordic Combined World Cup. From December 11 to 13, the world's best Nordic Combined athletes will gather in Trentino for the third of eleven stages of the 2026/27 World Cup. Before that, the circuit will head to Ruka (FIN) from November 26 to 29, and Trondheim (NOR) from December 3 to 6, meanwhile, the season will conclude in March in the Norwegian capital, Oslo.
A key venue at the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic Games – with nine medals awarded at the G. Dal Ben Ski Jumping Stadium in Predazzo and the Cross-Country Stadium at Lago di Tesero – Val di Fiemme is therefore ready to return to the international spotlight for a historic sport that combines two profoundly different disciplines, ski jumping and cross-country skiing, in a unique balance of precision, technique, endurance and tactics.
The curtain will rise on the three-day event in Val di Fiemme as early as Thursday, December 10, with official training sessions and the PCR (Provisional Competition Round). Things will get serious from Friday 11, with the Individual Compact. At 09.00, the competition will begin on the Large Hill HS 141, whilst at 14:45 the action will move to Lago di Tesero, where the women will compete over 5 km, followed by the men over 7.5 km. Unlike the traditional Gundersen format, in which every point of difference accumulated in the Ski Jumping event translates into a four-second delay in the cross-country race, in the Individual Compact – introduced in the 2023/24 season – the time gaps are fixed and predetermined based on the ranking position achieved in the Ski Jumping event, thereby enhancing the spectacle.
Saturday, December 12, will be dedicated to the Individual Gundersen, starting in Predazzo at 08:30, with the cross-country pursuit event kicking off at 13:00. The weekend will draw to a close on Sunday 13 with the Mixed Team event from the Large Hill (HS 141), featuring two men and two women per nation.
Among the many stars expected to participate, the Norwegians once again stand out, with Jens Luraas Oftebro set to return to the Olympic venues where, some seven months ago, he won no fewer than three gold medals at the Milano Cortina Olympic Games, and Ida Marie Hagen, winner of the World Cup in 2024 and 2026.
On the other hand, the season got off to a decidedly difficult start for the reigning champion Johannes Lamparter, a top athlete who has won two Crystal Globes and a world title at just 24 years of age. In August, the Austrian suffered an injury during training, sustaining a sprain to the medial collateral ligament in his knee and a fractured ankle, which will force him to take a break for several months.
September also brought a serious injury for Greta Pinzani, who was forced to cope with a torn cruciate ligament in her left knee. It will therefore be Daniela Dejori, born in 2002, who will lead the Italian team following Veronica Gianmoena’s retirement, whilst on the men’s side another Italian stands out: Aaron Kostner, buoyed by his excellent fourth-place finish at the Olympic Games in the Team Sprint alongside Samuel Costa, who has retired from the Nordic Combined following his Olympic experience.
The work of the tried-and-tested Nordic Ski Val di Fiemme organising committee is proceeding at full speed, with the support of two leading clubs in Nordic disciplines: US Dolomitica of Predazzo, which is organising the Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined Alpen Cup from October 16 to 18, as well as the Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined Italian Championships on October 31, and US Cornacci, with the Italian Cross-Country Skiing Championships scheduled for the weekend of January 16 and 17. The major events in Fiemme will not stop with the Nordic Combined World Cup: the following week will see the Ski Jumping FIS Continental Cup, scheduled for December 19 and 20, followed by the grand finale of the Tour de Ski, scheduled for January 8 to 10.
