Team (Sprint), Men

In 2026, the team event transformed into the team sprint, with two men competing rather than four. Thus, there were no previous results on which to base a favourite, although the Norwegian men were the defending Olympic champions in the four-man version. One of them, Jens Lurås Oftebro, was back and had already won the normal and large hill events in Milano-Cortina. In this event, he would be partnered with Andreas Skoglund. One of the German runners-up from Beijing, Vinzenz Geiger, was also present, as were two of the bronze medal-winning Japanese competitors: Akito Watabe and Ryota Yamamoto.

The German duo of Geiger and Johannes Rydzek won the ski jump handily, with the Norwegians and the Japanese behind in second and third respectively. The Germans, however, could not capitalize on their advantage in the cross-country portion and would end up fifth in both the race and the overall event. Norway led for most of the skiing phase, but in the final lap Lurås Oftebro was challenged by Eero Hirvonen of Finland, who had been the bronze medalist in the normal hill and was partnered with the large hill bronze medalist Ilkka Herola. Lurås Oftebro held out in what might have been his closest competition of these Olympics, and finished first to complete his sweep of the Nordic combined gold medals at Milano-Cortina. Herola and Hirvonen finished second to give Finland the silver medal.

Earlier in the race, Geiger and Yamamoto crashed and were left out of contention for the podium. This allowed Austria, represented by Johannes Lamparter, who had won silver medals in both the normal and large hill events, and Stefan Rettenegger, to take bronze. Rettenegger had also fallen, but managed to recover fast enough to finish fourth in a time that placed them ahead of the second-place ski finishers from Italy, who had been 11th after the ski jump.