Hagen doubles up in Oberhof with seventh straight win
Jan 18, 2026·Nordic Combined
Ida Marie Hagen (NOR) reeled off her seventh successive win in the Viessmann FIS Nordic Combined women’s World Cup, and her eighth in nine events this season, with victory in Sunday’s Gundersen in Oberhof, Germany.
The Norwegian star set a new record for individual World Cup wins on Saturday and took the opportunity to extend that by claiming her 25th to also move further clear in the overall standings as she chases down a second Crystal Globe.
Hagen’s consistently strong jumping – she finished third behind Minja Korhonen (FIN, 139.5 points) and Alexa Brabec (USA, 136.1) with a 98.5-meter jump (134.4 points) to give herself only a 20-second deficit for the cross-country – has embellished her dominance in the tracks.
The 25-year-old swiftly caught and went past Brabec inside the first 800m and moved past Korhonen - starting first in the tracks for the first time in her career - by the end of the second kilometer, with the Finn working hard to try to stay in touch. (below)
But by the halfway point Hagen had opened a 6.4-second lead which she extended to 23.2 seconds by 3.3km, powering through the second loop and celebrating with the crowd long before the end to win in 15:46.7, 35.4 seconds clear of Korhonen.
“I really love Oberhof, it is so cool to compete here, even though today was a harder course,” she said after extending her overall lead to 200 points over Brabec and 211 over Korhonen.
“It is always fun to do something a bit different. I suffered a bit more today – it was softer in the tracks - but it is cool for the race to be a bit longer so there is more time for people to share in that and enjoy our sport. It is just perfect.”
It was also another successful weekend for Korhonen, who after two seconds and a third in Otepää, clinched her fifth straight podium and sixth of the season on Sunday.
“There were some small changes to the course and it was even tougher than yesterday, so I was really giving it my all,” she said. “But it was nice that I could ski with my own speed and still keep a distance to the girls behind.”
Nathalie Armbruster (GER) caught Brabec early on in the battle for the third podium spot, but the American stayed in the German’s tracks until the final stages before Armbruster, spurred on by the home crowd, put in a finishing burst to take third.
First for Korhonen with win on hill
After sunny, clear conditions on Saturday, a misty start greeted the women on the HS100 Hans-Renner hill on Sunday.
Silva Verbic (SLO), the first one to go, set the marker with a 90.0-meter effort for 115.6 points, but the experienced Lena Brocard (FRA), who finished joint-sixth on the hill on Saturday but did not complete the cross-country through exhaustion, raised the bar with a superb 96.5m effort to set a challenging target of 132.3 points.
Claudia Purker (AUT) – 94.0m for 122.8 points - was the only one to get close to Brocard until the top 10 headed to the start gate.
Ingrid Laate (NOR), the best jumper of the season so far, soared out to 95.5m to take the lead with 133.2 points, but was later disqualified for the length of her skis.
Lisa Hirner (AUT) matched Brocard’s 96.5m effort but the final four athletes all went further.
First Armbruster took the lead with 97.5m for 133.3 points before the increasingly impressive Korhonen surpassed it, her stylish 98.5m jump good enough for the teenager (below) to take victory on the hill for the first time this season with 139.5 points.
Brabec did not quite match her women’s hill record of 103.5m from Saturday, but still delivered the longest jump, 101.5m, to take second behind Korhonen with 136.1 points, leaving her 14 seconds back for the cross-country.
But once again Hagen, jumping last, put herself in pole position with an excellent 98.5m effort, the joint-second longest, to leave her only 20 seconds to make up from third.
