| Team at the XVI Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Courchevel (ski jumping) Les Saisies (cross-country skiing) | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 17–18 February | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 33 from 11 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | Team jump: 645.1 Ski time: 1:23:36.5 Final time: 1:23:36.5 | ||||||||||||
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| Nordic combined at the 1992 Winter Olympics | |
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| Individual | men |
| Team | men |
The men's team Nordic combined competition for the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville was held at Courchevel and Les Saisies on 16 and 17 February. [1]
Each of the three team members performed three jumps, with the top two scores counting. The scores for each team were combined and used to calculate their deficit in the cross-country skiing portion of the event. Each point difference between teams in the ski jumping portion in this event resulted in a six-second difference in the cross country part of the event. [1]
| Rank | Team | Points | Time difference |
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| 1 |  Japan Reiichi Mikata Takanori Kono Kenji Ogiwara | 645.1 218.6 199.0 227.5 | +0:00 |
| 2 |  Austria Klaus Ofner Stefan Kreiner Klaus Sulzenbacher | 615.6 195.5 212.6 207.5 | +2:27 |
| 3 |  Germany Hans-Peter Pohl Jens Deimel Thomas Dufter | 609.7 180.1 207.4 222.2 | +2:57 |
| 4 |  United States Joe Holland Tim Tetreault Ryan Heckman | 591.3 184.3 198.1 208.9 | +4:29 |
| 5 |  France Francis Reppelin Sylvain Guillaume Fabrice Guy | 578.4 177.2 191.1 210.1 | +5:33 |
| 6 |  Norway Knut Tore Apeland Fred Børre Lundberg Trond Einar Elden | 569.9 185.3 185.7 198.9 | +6:16 |
| 7 |  Finland Pasi Saapunki Jari Mantila Teemu Summanen | 561.2 195.2 166.4 199.6 | +6:59 |
| 8 |  Czechoslovakia Josef Kovařík Milan Kučera František Máka | 546.7 166.0 184.5 196.2 | +8:12 |
| 9 |  Unified Team Andrey Dundukov Sergey Shvagirev Valery Stolyarov | 545.3 193.1 167.4 184.8 | +8:19 |
| 10 |  Estonia Ago Markvardt Peter Heli Allar Levandi | 525.9 161.0 183.4 181.5 | +9:56 |
| 11 |  Switzerland Hippolyt Kempf Andreas Schaad Marco Zarucchi | 521.9 175.9 161.2 184.8 | +10:16 |
Each member of the team completed a ten kilometre cross-country skiing leg. [1]
| Rank | Team | Start time | Cross-country | Finish time | |
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| Time | Place | ||||
 | Japan Reiichi Mikata Takanori Kono Kenji Ogiwara | +0:00 | 1:23:36.5 28:22.5 28:40.2 26:33.8 | 6 | 1:23:36.5 |
 | Norway Knut Tore Apeland Fred Børre Lundberg Trond Einar Elden | +6:16 | 1:18:46.9 26:22.8 26:19.7 26:04.4 | 1 | 1:25:02.9 |
 | Austria Klaus Ofner Stefan Kreiner Klaus Sulzenbacher | +2:27 | 1:22:49.6 27:56.6 28:34.2 26:18.8 | 3 | 1:25:16.6 |
| 4 | France Francis Reppelin Sylvain Guillaume Fabrice Guy | +5:33 | 1:20:19.0 27:27.0 26:28.8 26:23.2 | 2 | 1:25:52.0 |
| 5 | Germany Hans-Peter Pohl Jens Deimel Thomas Dufter | +2:57 | 1:25:24.9 28:01.2 29:53.5 27:30.2 | 8 | 1:28:21.9 |
| 6 | Czechoslovakia Josef Kovařík Milan Kučera František Máka | +8:12 | 1:24:29.2 27:47.8 29:37.8 27:03.6 | 7 | 1:32:41.2 |
| 7 | Finland Pasi Saapunki Jari Mantila Teemu Summanen | +6:59 | 1:25:44.3 27:15.5 30:23.1 28:05.7 | 9 | 1:32:43.3 |
| 8 | United States Joe Holland Tim Tetreault Ryan Heckman | +4:29 | 1:28:15.8 29:44.9 28:48.6 29:42.3 | 10 | 1:32:44.8 |
| 9 | Estonia Ago Markvardt Peter Heli Allar Levandi | +9:56 | 1:23:20.9 28:17.8 28:06.9 26:56.2 | 4 | 1:33:16.9 |
| 10 | Switzerland Hippolyt Kempf Andreas Schaad Marco Zarucchi | +10:16 | 1:23:22.4 27:24.2 27:43.4 28:14.8 | 5 | 1:33:38.4 |
| 11 | Unified Team Andrey Dundukov Sergey Shvagirev Valery Stolyarov | +8:19 | 1:29:38.2 28:35.2 30:39.6 30:23.4 | 11 | 1:37:57.2 |
Nordic combined is a winter sport in which athletes compete in cross-country skiing and ski jumping. The Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics has been held since the first ever Winter Olympics in 1924, while the FIS Nordic Combined World Cup has been held since 1983. Many Nordic combined competitions use the Gundersen method, where placement in the ski jumping segment results in time (dis)advantages added to the contestant's total in the cross-country skiing segment.
The 1992 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVI Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Albertville '92, was a winter multi-sport event held from 8 to 23 February 1992 in and around Albertville, France. Albertville won the bid to host the Winter Olympics in 1986, beating Sofia, Falun, Lillehammer, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Anchorage, and Berchtesgaden. The 1992 Winter Olympics were the last winter games held in the same year as the Summer Olympics. The Games were the fifth Olympic Games held in France and the country's third Winter Olympics, after the 1924 Winter Games in Chamonix and the 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble. This games was the first of two consecutive Olympic games to be held in Western Europe, preceding the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
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Austria competed at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France.
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