Norway dominate for first team gold in 22 years

The quartet of Anders Jacobsen, Anders Fannemel, Anders Bardal and Rune Velta totalled 872.6 points to take a clear victory over Austria and Poland, with Olympic champions Germany only managing fifth.

It had actually been Austria who had been leading after the very first jump but Jacobsen and Bardal put in solid performances before world record holder Fannemel jumped 126.5m and 127.5m.

Velta was the last to go and he made sure to add to the normal hill gold and large hill bronze already won at the Championships, with marks of 124m and 121m.

The Austrians meanwhile were in an exciting battle for second place with Manuel Poppinger recovering from a bad first jump to record 129.5 on his second outing as his team posted 853.2 points for silver, bringing to an end their undefeated run in the Championships since 2003.

Poland, led by double Olympic champion Kamil Stoch, had to settle for bronze, 5.1 points behind while Japan missed out in fourth.