| Individual Gundersen at the XX Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Pragelato | ||||||||||||
| Dates | February 11 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 50 from 15 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 39:44.6 | ||||||||||||
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| Nordic combined at the 2006 Winter Olympics | |
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| Sprint | men |
| Individual Gundersen | men |
| Team | men |
The Men's individual Gundersen Nordic combined competition for the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Pragelato, Italy. It took place on 11 February. [1]
Fifty athletes entered the ski jumping portion of the sprint; each made two jumps, which was judged in the same fashion as the Olympic ski jumping competition. The combined scores from these two jumps were used to calculate the deficit with which each athlete began the cross-country portion of the event. Each point behind the leading score of Georg Hettich was equivalent to four seconds of time deficit. [2]
The start for the 15 kilometre race was staggered, with a one-point deficit in the ski jump portion resulting in a four second deficit in starting the cross-country course. This stagger meant that the first athlete across the finish line, Georg Hettich, was the overall winner of the event. Silver medallist Felix Gottwald of Austria and bronze medallist Magnus Moan of Norway both managed to beat Hettich by more than a minute in the cross-country leg, but with eleventh and ninth place respectively in the ski jumping leg, their cross-country skiing was not enough to take them to the very top of the podium. Moan beat compatriot Petter Tande in a dash for the finish line, while Finn Jaakko Tallus is a further second behind. [2]
| Rank | Name | Country | Deficit | Cross-Country Time | Total | Notes |
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 | Georg Hettich |  Germany | +0:00 | 39:44.6 | 39:44.6 | |
 | Felix Gottwald |  Austria | +1:52 | 38:02.4 | +0:09.8 | |
 | Magnus Moan |  Norway | +1:40 | 38:20.8 | +0:16.2 | [1] |
| 4 | Petter Tande | Norway | +0:02 | 39:58.9 | +0:16.3 | [1] |
| 5 | Jaakko Tallus |  Finland | +0:22 | 39:39.9 | +0:17.3 | |
| 6 | Sebastian Haseney | Germany | +3:20 | 37:15.7 | +0:51.1 | |
| 7 | Björn Kircheisen | Germany | +2:34 | 38:21.1 | +1:10.5 | |
| 8 | Todd Lodwick |  United States | +2:02 | 38:54.6 | +1:12.0 | |
| 9 | Hannu Manninen | Finland | +1:38 | 39:42.2 | +1:35.6 | |
| 10 | Sergej Maslennikov |  Russia | +0:46 | 40:44.2 | +1:45.6 | |
| 11 | Jason Lamy Chappuis |  France | +0:22 | 41:12.0 | +1:49.4 | |
| 12 | Michael Gruber | Austria | +0:56 | 40:51.9 | +2:03.3 | |
| 13 | Christoph Bieler | Austria | +0:46 | 41:05.3 | +2:06.7 | |
| 14 | Giuseppe Michielli |  Italy | +2:52 | 39:13.5 | +2:20.9 | |
| 15 | Bill Demong | United States | +2:50 | 39:18.5 | +2:23.9 | |
| 16 | Norihito Kobayashi |  Japan | +3:02 | 39:21.1 | +2:38.5 | |
| 17 | Antti Kuisma | Finland | +3:00 | 39:33.8 | +2:49.2 | |
| 18 | Ronny Ackermann | Germany | +3:16 | 39:42.9 | +3:14.3 | |
| 19 | Mario Stecher | Austria | +2:38 | 40:21.2 | +3:14.6 | |
| 20 | Havard Klemetsen | Norway | +2:14 | 40:46.5 | +3:15.9 | |
| 21 | Pavel Churavy |  Czech Republic | +3:30 | 39:44.2 | +3:29.6 | |
| 22 | Seppi Hurschler |  Switzerland | +3:26 | 39:52.4 | +3:33.8 | |
| 23 | Andreas Hurschler | Switzerland | +4:36 | 38:45.9 | +3:37.3 | |
| 24 | Ronny Heer | Switzerland | +3:16 | 40:11.0 | +3:42.4 | |
| 25 | Anssi Koivuranta | Finland | +2:48 | 40:49.3 | +3:52.7 | |
| 26 | Ludovic Roux | France | +3:24 | 40:18.6 | +3:58.0 | |
| 27 | Ivan Rieder | Switzerland | +2:10 | 41:48.6 | +4:14.0 | |
| 28 | Ivan Fesenko | Russia | +3:10 | 40:51.3 | +4:16.7 | |
| 29 | Alexsej Barannikov | Russia | +4:34 | 39:46.3 | +4:35.7 | |
| 30 | Johnny Spillane | United States | +2:50 | 41:37.6 | +4:43.0 | |
| 31 | Nicolas Bal | France | +4:56 | 39:32.9 | +4:44.3 | |
| 32 | Yosuke Hatakeyama | Japan | +1:50 | 42:39.8 | +4:45.2 | |
| 33 | Tambet Pikkor |  Estonia | +4:56 | 39:43.9 | +4:55.3 | |
| 34 | Jochen Strobl | Italy | +4:48 | 39:54.3 | +4:57.7 | |
| 35 | Kristian Hammer | Norway | +5:18 | 39:32.8 | +5:06.2 | |
| 36 | Ladislav Rygl | Czech Republic | +4:18 | 40:40.7 | +5:14.1 | |
| 37 | Tomas Slavik | Czech Republic | +4:24 | 40:35.4 | +5:14.8 | |
| 38 | Brett Camerota | United States | +3:56 | 41:03.6 | +5:15.0 | |
| 39 | Daniele Munari | Italy | +4:24 | 40:42.3 | +5:21.7 | |
| 40 | Damjan Vtic |  Slovenia | +3:02 | 42:34.9 | +5:52.3 | |
| 41 | Jason Myslicki |  Canada | +3:40 | 42:41.0 | +6:36.4 | |
| 42 | Francois Braud | France | +4:34 | 42:28.3 | +7:17.7 | |
| 43 | Takashi Kitamura | Japan | +4:40 | 42:37.3 | +7:32.7 | |
| 44 | Max Thompson | Canada | +6:04 | 41:58.3 | +8:13.2 | |
| 45 | Sergei Diyachuk |  Ukraine | +7:26 | 40:42.1 | +8:23.5 | |
| 46 | Alessandro Pittin | Italy | +6:44 | 42:06.2 | +9:05.6 | |
| 47 | Patrik Chlum | Czech Republic | +5:20 | 44:43.9 | +10:19.3 | |
| 48 | Volodymyr Trachuk | Ukraine | +8:10 | 43:45.2 | +12:10.6 | |
| - | Daito Takahashi | Japan | +1:56 | Did not start | ||
^ 1: The bronze medal was determined by a photo finish, with Moan just edging Tande for third place.
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