October 19, 2014 (Einsiedeln, Switzerland) – Tim Hug has claimed the Swiss National Summer Nordic Combined title once more, this time also beating out top U.S. team members who were on the start line as part of a collaboration between the respective ski federations. After a jump on Einsiedeln’s HS 117 hill and a 7.5 kilometre cross-country run, Hug crossed the finish line 25.5 seconds ahead of recently crowned U.S. summer champion Bryan Fletcher. Bill Demong finished third at 56.2 seconds behine Hug.

Tim Hug wins the Swiss summer Nordic Combined title © FIS

In the Junior competition, Andreas Schuler won over Jan Kirchhofer. Schuler had been in the lead after the ski jumping with a total of 118.1 points and started the race 26 second ahead of Fletcher who accumulated 111.6 points following the ski jump. Hug looked promising in third at only 4 seconds behind Fletcher.

The cross-country run which had the athletes ascend the steps next to the hill multiple times proved to be Hug’s domain as he easily outran Fletcher and Schuler claiming the fourth-fastest time on the track. The fastest man in the running leg was USA junior Karl Schulz who needed 26:17.8 for the 7.5 kilometres, and improved his intermediate 16th place after the jump to a final ranking of ninth.

Adam Loomis finished 4th, Taylor Fletcher was 5th and Brett Denney 6th ahead of Schule who finished 8th overall as the next best Swiss athlete in the final standings.

The U16 class was won by USA’s Jared Shumate ahead of teammate Stephan Schuman (+00:03.8), Pascal Müller from Einsiedeln was the best Swiss athlete on rank three (+00:19.7)

Final results here.
U16 results here.
Photos here.