Both men's and women's competitions are scheduled as the FIS Nordic Combined World Cup circuit arrives in Ramsau, while a women's Ski Jumping World Cup is also on the cards.

Women's Nordic Combined is first on the agenda, with the provisional competition round taking place tomorrow morning.

Qualifying for a Ski Jumping World Cup leg will follow in the afternoon.

A women's Gundersen contest is then scheduled for Friday (December 17), as is a standalone ski jumping competition - both on the normal hill.

Back-to-back men's Nordic Combined World Cups are then scheduled for Saturday and Sunday (December 18 and 19).

Marita Kramer will be a red-hot favourite on home snow in the ski jumping.

The 20-year-old has won each of the last three World Cup contests and has a healthy lead in the overall standings.

The Austrian has won four of this season's six events, but the last three of those victories all came on a large hill.

Gyda Westvold Hansen is in even more dominant form in the women's Nordic Combined World Cup, winning all four events so far this campaign.

Hansen leads a Norwegian one-two-three in the overall season standings.

Fellow Norwegian Jarl Magnus Riiber has also won four legs on the spin in the men's competition, and has won five of six this season.

Riiber and Hansen like Kramer enter Ramsau as heavy favorites, and with a chance to extend their leads in the race for the crystal globe.