FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2019

The 41st FIS Nordic World Ski Championships were held from 20 February to 3 March 2019 in Seefeld in Tirol, Tyrol, Austria. It was the second time Seefeld in Tirol hosted the world championships, the event having been hosted there previously in 1985.

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2019
Host citySeefeld in Tirol, Tyrol
CountryAustria
Events22
Opening20 February 2019 (2019-02-20)
Closing3 March 2019 (2019-03-03)
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Host selection

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Championships was awarded to Seefeld in Tirol in Tyrol in Austria during the FIS Congress from 1–6 June 2014 in Barcelona, Spain.[1][2]

Finalist applicants were Seefeld in Tirol (Austria), Oberstdorf (Germany), Planica (Slovenia) and Almaty (Kazakhstan).[3] Oberstdorf had already applied for 2013, 2015 and 2017, Planica for 2017. Seefeld submitted its candidacy shortly before the deadline.

The Austrian winter sports resort had hosted the Championships in 1985,[4] the German resort of Oberstdorf in 1987 and 2005.

Detailed application concepts were to be submitted by 1 September 2013.[5]

City Country Previous championships hosted Recent bids
Seefeld in Tirol   Austria 1985
Oberstdorf   Germany 1987, 2005 3rd (2017), 4th (2015), 5th (2013)
Planica   Slovenia 2nd (2017)
Almaty   Kazakhstan
City First vote Second vote Third vote[6]
Seefeld in Tirol 6 6 9
Oberstdorf 8 8 8
Planica 3 3 Out
Almaty 0 Out Out

Schedule

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All times are local (UTC+1).[7]

Medal summary

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Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Austria)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Norway (NOR)135725
2  Germany (GER)6309
3  Sweden (SWE)2215
4  Poland (POL)1102
5  Russia (RUS)0538
6  Austria (AUT)*0459
7  Italy (ITA)0112
8  Slovenia (SLO)0101
9  Japan (JPN)0022
10  Finland (FIN)0011
  France (FRA)0011
  Switzerland (SUI)0011
Totals (12 entries)22222266

Cross-country skiing

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Sprint[8]
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Johannes Høsflot Klæbo
  Norway
3:21.17 Federico Pellegrino
  Italy
3:21.40 Gleb Retivykh
  Russia
3:22.54
30 kilometre skiathlon[9]
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Sjur Røthe
  Norway
1:10:21.8 Alexander Bolshunov
  Russia
1:10:21.9 Martin Johnsrud Sundby
  Norway
1:10:22.5
Team sprint[10]
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  Norway
Emil Iversen
Johannes Høsflot Klæbo
18:49.86   Russia
Gleb Retivykh
Alexander Bolshunov
18:51.74   Italy
Francesco De Fabiani
Federico Pellegrino
18:53.89
15 kilometre classical[11]
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Martin Johnsrud Sundby
  Norway
38:22.6 Alexander Bessmertnykh
  Russia
38:25.5 Iivo Niskanen
  Finland
38:43.0
4 × 10 kilometre relay[12]
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  Norway
Emil Iversen
Martin Johnsrud Sundby
Sjur Røthe
Johannes Høsflot Klæbo
1:42:32.1   Russia
Andrey Larkov
Alexander Bessmertnykh
Alexander Bolshunov
Sergey Ustiugov
1:43:10.9   France
Adrien Backscheider
Maurice Manificat
Clément Parisse
Richard Jouve
1:43:33.1
50 kilometre freestyle mass start[13]
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Hans Christer Holund
  Norway
1:49:59.3 Alexander Bolshunov
  Russia
1:50:27.1 Sjur Røthe
  Norway
1:50:57.1

Women

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Sprint[14]
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Maiken Caspersen Falla
  Norway
2:32.35 Stina Nilsson
  Sweden
2:34.01 Mari Eide
  Norway
2:35.19
15 kilometre skiathlon[15]
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Therese Johaug
  Norway
36:54.5 Ingvild Flugstad Østberg
  Norway
37:52.1 Natalya Nepryayeva
  Russia
37:53.2
Team sprint[16]
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  Sweden
Stina Nilsson
Maja Dahlqvist
15:14.93   Slovenia
Katja Višnar
Anamarija Lampič
15:15.30   Norway
Ingvild Flugstad Østberg
Maiken Caspersen Falla
15:15.53
10 kilometre classical[17]
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Therese Johaug
  Norway
27:02.1 Frida Karlsson
  Sweden
27:14.3 Ingvild Flugstad Østberg
  Norway
27:37.7
4 × 5 kilometre relay[18]
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  Sweden
Ebba Andersson
Frida Karlsson
Charlotte Kalla
Stina Nilsson
55:21.0   Norway
Heidi Weng
Ingvild Flugstad Østberg
Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen
Therese Johaug
55:24.1   Russia
Yuliya Belorukova
Anastasia Sedova
Anna Nechaevskaya
Natalya Nepryaeva
57:24.8
30 kilometre freestyle mass start[19]
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Therese Johaug
  Norway
1:14:26.2 Ingvild Flugstad Østberg
  Norway
1:15:03.0 Frida Karlsson
  Sweden
1:15:10.2

Nordic combined

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual large hill/10 km[20]
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Eric Frenzel
  Germany
23:43.0 Jan Schmid
  Norway
23:47.3 Franz-Josef Rehrl
  Austria
23:51.7
Team sprint large hill/2 × 7,5 km[21]
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  Germany
Eric Frenzel
Fabian Rießle
28:29.5   Norway
Jan Schmid
Jarl Magnus Riiber
28:37.7   Austria
Franz-Josef Rehrl
Bernhard Gruber
28:38.7
Individual normal hill/10 km[22]
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Jarl Magnus Riiber
  Norway
25:01.3 Bernhard Gruber
  Austria
25:02.7 Akito Watabe
  Japan
25:05.9
Team normal hill/4 × 5 km[23]
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  Norway
Espen Bjørnstad
Jan Schmid
Jørgen Graabak
Jarl Magnus Riiber
50:15.5   Germany
Johannes Rydzek
Eric Frenzel
Fabian Rießle
Vinzenz Geiger
50:16.5   Austria
Bernhard Gruber
Mario Seidl
Franz-Josef Rehrl
Lukas Klapfer
50:20.5

Ski jumping

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's individual large hill[24]
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Markus Eisenbichler
  Germany
279.4 Karl Geiger
  Germany
267.3 Killian Peier
  Switzerland
266.1
Men's team large hill[25]
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  Germany
Karl Geiger
Richard Freitag
Stephan Leyhe
Markus Eisenbichler
987.5   Austria
Philipp Aschenwald
Michael Hayböck
Daniel Huber
Stefan Kraft
930.9   Japan
Yukiya Satō
Daiki Itō
Junshirō Kobayashi
Ryōyū Kobayashi
920.2
Men's individual normal hill[26]
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Dawid Kubacki
  Poland
218.3 Kamil Stoch
  Poland
215.5 Stefan Kraft
  Austria
214.8

Women

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Women's team normal hill[27]
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  Germany
Juliane Seyfarth
Ramona Straub
Carina Vogt
Katharina Althaus
898.9   Austria
Eva Pinkelnig
Jacqueline Seifriedsberger
Chiara Hölzl
Daniela Iraschko-Stolz
880.3   Norway
Anna Odine Strøm
Ingebjørg Saglien Bråten
Silje Opseth
Maren Lundby
876.9
Women's individual normal hill[28]
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Maren Lundby
  Norway
259.6 Katharina Althaus
  Germany
259.1 Daniela Iraschko-Stolz
  Austria
247.6

Mixed

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Mixed team normal hill[29]
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  Germany
Katharina Althaus
Markus Eisenbichler
Juliane Seyfarth
Karl Geiger
1012.2   Austria
Eva Pinkelnig
Philipp Aschenwald
Daniela Iraschko-Stolz
Stefan Kraft
989.9   Norway
Anna Odine Strøm
Robert Johansson
Maren Lundby
Andreas Stjernen
938.4

Venues

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Bergisel Ski Jump in Innsbruck

The cross-country skiing events took place at the Seefeld Nordic Competence Centre. The ski jumping large hill events were held in the Bergisel Ski Jump in Innsbruck. The Bergisel Ski Jump is a large ski jumping hill with a hill size of 130 and a construction point (K-spot) of 120. It has a spectator capacity of 26,000. The current structure dates from 2003. The normal hill competitions were held in the Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze normal hill with a hill size of 109 and a K-point of 99.

Medal ceremonies were held at the Medal Plaza, a square in the town center.

Doping

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Five cross-country skiers (Max Hauke and Dominik Baldauf from Austria, Andreas Veerpalu and Karel Tammjärv from Estonia, as well as Alexey Poltoranin from Kazakhstan.[30]) were caught during Operation Aderlass.

References

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  1. ^ Seefeld (AUT), Åre (SWE), Oberstdorf (GER) and Park City (USA) win Archived 2015-11-20 at the Wayback Machine at www.fiscrosscountry.com 5 June 2014. accessdate: 7 September 2014]
  2. ^ Deadlines for FIS Congress 2014
  3. ^ Seven applications for 2018 and 2019 FIS World Championships, FIS-Newsflash, 8 May 2013
  4. ^ Austrian Ski Federation Submits Bid To Host '19 Nordic World Ski Championship In Seefeld, sportsbusinessdaily.com, 6 May 2013
  5. ^ Seven applications for 2018 and 2019 FIS World Championships, FIS Media Info, 3 May 2013, (PDF[permanent dead link], 67 KB)
  6. ^ Seefeld will organize the World Championships in 2019! Archived 2015-04-12 at the Wayback Machine – accessed 6 April 2015.
  7. ^ "Competition schedule". Archived from the original on 2019-02-23. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  8. ^ Men's sprint results
  9. ^ Men's 30 kilometre pursuit results
  10. ^ Men's team sprint results
  11. ^ Men's 15 kilometre classical results
  12. ^ Men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay results
  13. ^ Men's 50 kilometre freestyle results
  14. ^ Women's sprint results
  15. ^ Women's 15 kilometre pursuit results
  16. ^ Women's team sprint results
  17. ^ Women's 10 kilometre classical results
  18. ^ Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay results
  19. ^ Women's 30 kilometre freestyle results
  20. ^ Individual large hill/10 km results
  21. ^ Team sprint large hill/2 × 7,5 km results
  22. ^ Individual normal hill/10 km results
  23. ^ Team normal hill/4 × 5 km results
  24. ^ Individual large hill results
  25. ^ Team large hill results
  26. ^ Men's individual normal hill results
  27. ^ Women's team normal hill results
  28. ^ Women's individual normal hill results
  29. ^ Mixed team normal hill results
  30. ^ Rüttenauer, Andreas (27 February 2019). "Mit der Nadel im Arm". Die Tageszeitung: Taz (in German). die tageszeitung. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
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