Sunday as it happened: Goggia makes it three in Lake Louise; SLC speed skate gold for Japan's Miho Takagi

The winter season continued on Sunday 5 December with World Cup action in Nordic combined, cross-country skiing, ski jumping, luge, biathlon and speed skating.

Read on to learn about all the results...

Speed Skating

The third day of ISU speed skating world cup action got underway in Salt Lake City’s Olympic Oval, with Japan’s Wataru Morishige winning the second men’s 500m race of the weekend and grabbing the gold ahead of Russian Artem Arefyev (silver) and Laurent Dubreuil of Canada (bronze).

Japan’s Yamato Matsui - who won Friday’s first men’s 500m race - finished just off the podium in fourth.

It was a Japanese one-two finish in the women's 1500m with PyeongChang 2018 silver medallist Miho Takagi winning her second race in 24 hours, followed up by teammate Ayano Sato. Antoinette de Jong of the Netherlands landed on the third spot of the podium.

The men's 1000m race saw a 1-2-3 podium from the Netherlands with Thomas Krol winning, Kjeld Nuis coming in second and Hein Otterspeer rounding out the field.

The women's mass start was won by Canada's Ivanie Blondin with Marijke Groenewoud of the Netherlands taking the silver and Norwegian Sofie Karoline Haugen coming in third-place.

The host American team won the men's pursuit (the last final of the day) with the team of Florida-born Joey Mantia, Emery Lehman and Casey Dawson taking the gold over the teams from Norway (second) and Italy (third).

Alpine Skiing

Sofia Goggia of Italy continued her imperious form in Lake Louise, high in the Canadian Rockies, winning the first women’s super-G race of the FIS 2021/22 Alpine World Cup tour on Saturday with a time of 1:18.28.

The victory (her third in the space of three days) sees Goggia become the first woman since the legendary Lindsey Vonn (in 2015, for the third time) to win all three women’s tour events at the Lake Louise venue.

The rocket-fast defending women’s Olympic downhill champion was followed onto the podium in Canada by Lara Gut-Behrami of Switzerland (second with a time of 1:18.39) and Austrian Mirjam Puchner (third with a time of 1:18.72). Team USA's Mikaela Shiffrin had a second-straight disappointing day on home snow with a sixth-place finish.

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The men's downhill event scheduled for Beaver Creek, Colorado was cancelled due to high winds and dangerous conditions on the mountain. Norway's twice Olympian Aleksander Aamodt Kilde was set to chase his own hat-trick before the announcement was made -- having won the men's super-G and downhill events on Friday and Saturday.

The next Men's Downhill race is scheduled to take place in Val Gardena, Italy on 18 December.

Luge

Luge action continued in Russia as the Olympic ice track in Sochi hosts the third stage of this already exciting 2021/2022 World Cup season.

After Kristers Aparjods became the first Latvian man to win a world cup luge race on the 2014 Olympic track in Sochi on Saturday, reigning world champion Julia Taubitz and reigning Olympic champion Natalie Geisenberger led a Germany one-two in the women's competition on Sunday morning.

1. Julia Taubitz (GER): 1.39.434
2. Natalie Geisenberger (GER): +0.368
3. Kendija Aparjode (LAT): +0.422

The result means that Taubitz extends her slim lead at the top of the World Cup standings, while Geisenberger climbs to seventh following a rough start to her season.

World Cup standings

After three races

1. Julia Taubitz (GER) - 224 points
2. Anna Berreiter (GER) - 220 points
3. Madeleine Egle (AUT) - 201 points

Taubitz wasn't done, however, as she would claim her second gold medal of the day in the sprint competition, pipping Summer Britcher (USA) to the top of the podium in the final run of the day.

1. Julia Taubitz (GER): 31.743
2. Summer Britcher (USA): +0.021
3. Dajana Eitberger (GER): +0.032

The men's sprint competition for the day has just wrapped up, with 2020 sprint world champion Dominik Fischnaller winning the first race of the season; the Italian also finished third in the singles competition yesterday.

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1. Dominik Fischnaller (ITA): 34.833
2. Roman Repilov (RUS): +0.039
3. Wolfgang Kindl (AUT): +0.05

Elsewhere, brothers Andris and Juris Šics - who finished third in the doubles competition on Saturday - continued a great weekend for Latvia after finishing first in the doubles sprint competition.

1. Andris/Juris Šics (LAT): 31.385
2. Alexander Denisyev/Vladislav Antonov (RUS): +0.038
3. Robin Johannes Geueke/David Gamm (GER): +0.068

Cross-country

The sixth event of the 2021-22 FIS Cross-Country World Cup is taking place in Lillehammer, Norway with the women's 4x5 km relay, scheduled to start at 11:45 CET.

The men's 4x7.5km relay, which took place earlier in the day, was won by the Norway I team, anchored by triple Olympic champion Johannes Høsflot Klæbo.

1. Norway I: 1:14:58.7
2. Russia II: 1:14:58.9 +0.2
3. Norway II: 1:14:59.9 +1.2

The women's 4x5 km relay has also just come to a close, with Russia I, led by Natalya Nepryayeva (who won a bronze medal in this event representing OAR at PyeongChang 2018), finishing just one second ahead of Sweden I to claim gold.

1. Russia I: 54:40.6
2. Sweden I: 54:41.7 +1.1
3. Norway I: 54:41.8 +1.2

Nordic combined

The fourth event of the men's 2021-22 Nordic combined World Cup is currently taking place in Lillehammer, Norway, with the men's Individual Gundersen Large Hill/10.0km competition.

After the large hill event Jarl Magnus Riiber (NOR), who won silver at PyeongChang 2018 in the team competition and is currently first in the World Cup standings, leads ahead of reigning world champion Johannes Lamparter (AUT). The 10km race is scheduled to take place at 14:00 CET.

1. Jarl Magnus Riiber (NOR)
2. Johannes Lamparter (AUT)
3. Mario Seidl (AUT)

So, the cross-country portion of the Nordic combined World Cup event in Lillehammer has just finished, and Riiber has cemented his status as the gold-medal favourite for Beijing 2022 with a dominant performance to win the race and the event as a whole. It's the Norwegian's third stage win of the season, and sees him extend his lead at the top of the overall standings to 28 points.

1. Jarl Magnus Riiber (NOR)
2. Johannes Lamparter (AUT)
3. Eric Frenzel (GER)

World Cup standings

After four of 22 events

1. Jarl Magnus Riiber (NOR): 300 points
2. Johannes Lamparter (AUT): 272 points
3. Terence Weber (GER): 196 points

Biathlon

The 2021-22 biathlon World Cup kicked off last weekend in Östersund, and the competition returned to the Swedish city on 2 December for the second stage of the season.

The women's relay was the penultimate event of the weekend and on the back of some incredible shooting by Olympic bronze medallist and anchor Justine Braisaz-Bouchet, the French team stormed to victory, finishing almost a full minute ahead of the Belarusian quartet in second.

1. France: 1:10:30.3
2. Belarus: +57.9
3. Sweden: +1:09.6

The men's 12.5km pursuit, the last biathlon event of the weekend, has just started.

Two-time Olympic medallist Sebastian Samuelsson (SWE), who currently leads the overall standings after picking up two event wins in the 10km sprint, is first to depart.

However, the day belongs to Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen (NOR)! The three-time world champion claims victory thanks in part to a 5/5 shooting performance on the last set of targets, before skiing home in a winning time of 30:14.8.

1. Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen (NOR): 30:14.8.
2. Sebastien Samuelsson (SWE): + 9.8
3. Emilien Jacquelin (FRA): + 11.0

Ski jumping

Over we go to Wisla, Poland, where the men's World Cup large hill ski jumping competition has just concluded.

Jan Hoerl (AUT), who won a silver medal in the team large hill competition at the 2021 World Championships**,** has won the event with a combined score of 261.9 after two jumps.

1. Jan Hoerl (AUT): 261.9
2. Marius Lindvik (NOR): 255.2
3. Stefan Kraft (AUT): 253.6

The women's large hill competition in Lillehammer, later in the day, was won by Marita Kramer -- making it an Austrian double on the day.

1. Marita Kramer (AUT): 268.9
2. Katharina Althaus (GER): 259.8
3. Silje Opseth (NOR): 253.2