Nordic Combined shooting star Jarl Riiber has taken his first Summer Grand Prix win in the Individual Gundersen event in Oberwiesenthal.

Daniel Andre Tande will return to the Norwegian team for the upcoming FIS Grand Prix in Hakuba (JPN) next weekend.

The big Summer Grand Prix finals have had their home in Oberstdorf for the last couple of years and have always included at least one victory of local hero Johannes Rydzek in the last five of them.

Heidi Weng and Petter Northug won this year's edition of Toppidrettsveka, held in Aure and Trondheim from 18th - 20th August.

The second Continental Cup competition on the Puijo in Kuopio (FIN) on Sunday morning ended with a win of nordic combined skier Jarl Magnus Riiber.

Following an invitation of the Georgian Government, FIS Race Director visited the traditional winter sports resort of Bakuriani this week, where a ski jumper center shall be built over the next years.

This hill inauguration did not go as planned for Swiss Nordic Combined ahtlete Tim Hug.

After two FIS Cups on Thursday and Friday, both won by Poland's Jan Ziobro, the first of two Continental Cup competitions was held in Kuopio on Saturday.

Aure and Trondheimin Norway welcomes this week some of the World’s best Cross-Country skiers at the traditional sports week called Toppidrettsveka, which features several roller skiing, running and triathlon competitions. 

The Norges Cup had its second weekend of action in Trondheim on the past weekend and team youngster Jarl Riiber presented himself in excellent summer shape.