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World champion Johannes Rydzek successfully defended his German championship title in the Nordic combined. The 25-year-old prevailed in Klingenthal after a jump from the Grossschanze and ten kilometres on roller skis, clearly ahead of overall World Cup winners Eric Frenzel and Tobias Simon.

In the team sprint on Sunday, Frenzel and Björn Kircheisen won as Team Sachsen I ahead of Rydzek and Vinzenz Geiger. German national coach Hermann Weinbuch was satisfied with the performance of his charges one month before the start of the Olympic winter “Especially in running it looked very good, the boys ran very powerfully. We have some work to do on the hill in the next few weeks.”