Following a victory in Lahti and both events in Oslo, Riiber mounted pressure on Austria's Johannes Lamparter by crossing the line after the 10-kilometre cross-country skiing leg in 23min 48.9sec.

This was 38.1 seconds in front of runner-up Lamparter.

It meant Riiber is a single point ahead of Lamparter going into tomorrow's final event at Langenwaldschanze and offers the opportunity to make up for the disappointment of the Winter Olympics. 

The 24-year-old had finished eighth in the individual large hill/10 kilometres at Beijing 2022, a disappointing performance after he had led following the ski jumping.

Since coming back from China, Ribber has won every World Cup event. taking his total of victories this season to 12 and 48 in his career.

A fantastic jump gave him 143.5 points to start the cross-country leg with more than a minute on Lamparter, which gave him enough in hand to defeat his closest rival.

Riiber's team-mate Jørgen Graabak defeated German Vinzenz Geiger in a sprint finish to finish third, just six seconds behind Lamparter.

Ilkka Herola of Finland, who leads the standings for the "best skier trophy", completed the top five.

Anju Nakamura won the women's event for the first time, the Japanese athlete taking advantage of a fall from Gyda Westvold Hansen of Norway in the ski jumping leg.

Hansen had won all seven World Cup events this season prior to today and had already won the Crystal Globe.

Nakamura was sixth to head out on the cross-country leg 58 seconds behind the ski jumping winner, 18-year-old Annika Sieff of Italy.

Sieff started two seconds in front of Japan's Haruka Kasai, with Slovenian Ema Volavšek, the third to go out, 48 seconds off the leader.

Nakamura hauled back the gap to finish in a time of 14:22.3, 11.1 seconds in front of her team-mate Kasai, who took silver.

Sieff finished after crossing the line 39.2 seconds behind the winner.