Germany delivered a superb display of cross-country skiing to secure victory in the men's Olympic team event on Thursday and complete a clean sweep of gold medals in the Nordic Combined events at the Games.
Norway overcame a poor performance in the ski jumping section to take the silver medal, 52.7 seconds behind the Germans, and Austria claimed the bronze.
Germany has dominated the Nordic Combined events in Pyeongchang, sweeping the podium in the large hill individual and Eric Frenzel winning the normal hill event.
"It was not so easy because in the beginning of the season we had problems on the jumping hill, but everybody here in Pyeongchang did a really good job and it was a really good teamwork today," Frenzel told reporters.
Germany joined Finland as the only country to have won three gold medals in the sport at one Games. It was also Germany's 13th gold in Pyeongchang, surpassing its record of 12 in 1998 and 2002.
Following the team ski jump, the cross-country started as a four-way fight for medals between leaders Austria, Germany, Japan and Norway.
Defending Olympic champions Norway had a poor showing in the ski jumping and started the cross-country skiing 27 seconds...
