Severin Freund of Germany Wins Season-Opening Ski Jump Severin Freund of Germany won the season-opening ski jump World Cup event in Lillehammer, Norway, for the third individual victory of his career. Freund, 24, did not have the longest jump but impressed the judges with his style, giving him a total score of 268.5 points after leaping 99 meters in the first round on the normal hill and 100.5 in the second. Austria's Thomas Morgenstern jumped 102 meters in the second but settled for second with 267.2 points, while the defending overall champion, Anders Bardal of Norway, was third with 267. In the women's event, Sara Takanashi of Japan scored 265.2 points for the victory. Sarah Hendrickson of the United States, the defending overall champion, had 261.4 points, and Anette Sagen of Norway was third with 258.9. ¶ Svet Kramer led a Dutch sweep in the men's 5,000-meter race in Koloman, Russia, while his countrywoman Marrit Leenstra earned her second career speedskating World Cup victory by winning the women's 1,500-meter race. Kramer, the Olympic champion, clocked 6 minutes 10.62 seconds to mark his second straight victory in the discipline this season. Leenstra was timed in 1:55.04. Kim Bo-Reum of South Korea won the women's mass start in 8:40.77. ¶ Magnus Moan of Norway won the season-opening Nordic combined World Cup event in Lillehammer, Norway, securing his 19th individual victory and his first in almost two years. Moan, 29, was eighth after the ski jumping portion of the competition, but Moan showed good form in the 10-kilometer cross-country race, holding off the defending overall champion, Jason Lamy Chappuis of France, by one second in the final sprint. Moan finished in 24:46.2. ¶ The three-time Olympic champion Marit Bjoergen of Norway earned her 56th individual cross-country World Cup win by dominating the 10-kilometer freestyle event in the season opener in Gallivare, Sweden. Bjoergen, 32, finished in 22:31.8, beating her teammate Therese Johaug by 12.6 seconds and Kikkan Randall of the United States by 25.9 seconds.