A page in the history of the Nordic combined is written in Prémanon during the Lausanne 2020 Olympic Games. The Tuffes stadium sees the birth of the high-level women’s combined.
Nordic combined opens to women
Until 2014, the Nordic combined was a largely male discipline.
It was not until 2016 that the women’s event was recognized as a discipline at the international level.
The women’s Nordic combined makes its debut at the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Games.
next season will be the first Women’s Combined World Cup with eight competitions in addition to a first participation in the Nordic Ski Worlds in Oberstdorf, Germany.
“Technically young ladies combined have nothing to envy boys”
Two French teenagers took off on the springboard then in cross-country skiing. Emma Tréand, 16 from the Haut-Doubs Olympic Mont d’Or club, finished 13th and Maela Didier, 16 from the Vosges Ski Club La Bressaude finished 21st.
For these young athletes it is a great experience at home for one of them. “Finally the girls enter the circuit, it’s a chance, it’s a good learning,” explains Emma Tréand.
Interview with Emma Tréand, young franc-comtoise combination –
Nicolas Martin, coach of the French Nordic combined team:
These Youth Olympic Games is a first step for the Nordic combined, it allows you to see the level of other nations and also to show the whole world that there is level while it is still a young sport. Technically girls have nothing to envy boys and they sometimes have a foolproof mentality, it’s interesting
Interview with Nicolas Martin, coach of the young French team of Nordic combined
Interview with Nicolas Martin, coach of the young French Nordic combined team –
Since 1991, each sport wishing to be integrated into the Olympic program must include women’s events.
Women’s participation in the Olympic Games has increased sharply since the first Games, and the next Beijing Winter Olympics heralds near parity with 45.44% women.
The Nordic women’s combined registered for the Olympics in 2026?
For the 2022 Beijing Olympics, the IOC (International Olympic Committee) has chosen not to enter the women’s Nordic combined competitions.
He will remain only winter Olympic sport relying only on male athletes in Beijing 2022.
The International Ski Federation must try again for the Milan Games and Cortina d’Ampezzo in 2026, 102 years after the appearance of the men’s combined at the first Winter Olympics in Chamonix.
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