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.
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| Host city | Seefeld in Tirol, Tyrol |
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| Country | Austria |
| Events | 22 |
| Opening | 20 February 2019 |
| Closing | 3 March 2019 |
Host selection
editChampionships 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 |
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| 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
editAll times are local (UTC+1).[7]
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Medal summary
editMedal table
edit* Host nation (Austria)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Norway (NOR) | 13 | 5 | 7 | 25 |
| 2 | Germany (GER) | 6 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 3 |  Sweden (SWE) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 4 |  Poland (POL) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 |  Russia (RUS) | 0 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 6 | Austria (AUT)* | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 7 |  Italy (ITA) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Slovenia (SLO) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 |  Japan (JPN) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 10 |  Finland (FIN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 France (FRA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (12 entries) | 22 | 22 | 22 | 66 | |
Cross-country skiing
editMen
edit| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sprint[8] |
Johannes Høsflot Klæbo Norway | 3:21.17 | Federico Pellegrino Italy | 3:21.40 | Gleb Retivykh Russia | 3:22.54 |
| 30 kilometre skiathlon[9] |
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] |
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] |
Martin Johnsrud Sundby Norway | 38:22.6 | Alexander Bessmertnykh Russia | 38:25.5 | Iivo Niskanen Finland | 38:43.0 |
| 4 × 10 kilometre relay[12] |
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] |
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] |
Maiken Caspersen Falla Norway | 2:32.35 | Stina Nilsson Sweden | 2:34.01 | Mari Eide Norway | 2:35.19 |
| 15 kilometre skiathlon[15] |
Therese Johaug Norway | 36:54.5 | Ingvild Flugstad Østberg Norway | 37:52.1 | Natalya Nepryayeva Russia | 37:53.2 |
| Team sprint[16] |
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] |
Therese Johaug Norway | 27:02.1 | Frida Karlsson Sweden | 27:14.3 | Ingvild Flugstad Østberg Norway | 27:37.7 |
| 4 × 5 kilometre relay[18] |
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] |
Therese Johaug Norway | 1:14:26.2 | Ingvild Flugstad Østberg Norway | 1:15:03.0 | Frida Karlsson Sweden | 1:15:10.2 |
Nordic combined
edit| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Individual large hill/10 km[20] |
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] |
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] |
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] |
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 | Japan Gō Yamamoto Yoshito Watabe Hideaki Nagai Akito Watabe | 50:44.2 |
Ski jumping
editMen
edit| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's individual large hill[24] |
Markus Eisenbichler Germany | 279.4 | Karl Geiger Germany | 267.3 | Killian Peier Switzerland | 266.1 |
| Men's team large hill[25] |
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] |
Dawid Kubacki Poland | 218.3 | Kamil Stoch Poland | 215.5 | Stefan Kraft Austria | 214.8 |
Women
edit| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's team normal hill[27] |
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] |
Maren Lundby Norway | 259.6 | Katharina Althaus Germany | 259.1 | Daniela Iraschko-Stolz Austria | 247.6 |
Mixed
edit| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mixed team normal hill[29] |
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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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
editFive 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
edit- ↑ 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]
- ↑ Deadlines for FIS Congress 2014
- ↑ Seven applications for 2018 and 2019 FIS World Championships[link removed], FIS-Newsflash, 8 May 2013
- ↑ Austrian Ski Federation Submits Bid To Host '19 Nordic World Ski Championship In Seefeld Archived 2014-01-14 at the Wayback Machine, sportsbusinessdaily.com, 6 May 2013
- ↑ Seven applications for 2018 and 2019 FIS World Championships, FIS Media Info, 3 May 2013, (PDF[permanent dead link], 67 KB)
- ↑ Seefeld will organize the World Championships in 2019! Archived 2015-04-12 at the Wayback Machine – accessed 6 April 2015.
- ↑ "Competition schedule". Archived from the original on 2019-02-23. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
- ↑ Men's sprint results
- ↑ Men's 30 kilometre pursuit results
- ↑ Men's team sprint results
- ↑ Men's 15 kilometre classical results
- ↑ Men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay results
- ↑ Men's 50 kilometre freestyle results
- ↑ Women's sprint results
- ↑ Women's 15 kilometre pursuit results
- ↑ Women's team sprint results
- ↑ Women's 10 kilometre classical results
- ↑ Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay results
- ↑ Women's 30 kilometre freestyle results
- ↑ Individual large hill/10 km results
- ↑ Team sprint large hill/2 × 7,5 km results
- ↑ Individual normal hill/10 km results
- ↑ Team normal hill/4 × 5 km results
- ↑ Individual large hill results
- ↑ Team large hill results
- ↑ Men's individual normal hill results
- ↑ Women's team normal hill results
- ↑ Women's individual normal hill results
- ↑ Mixed team normal hill results
- ↑ Rüttenauer, Andreas (27 February 2019). "Mit der Nadel im Arm". Die Tageszeitung: Taz (in German). die tageszeitung. Retrieved 15 May 2019.