FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2019
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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 | 
| Cross-country skiing  | ||
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| Sprint | men | women | 
| Interval start | 15 km men | 10 km women | 
| Pursuit | 30 km men | 15 km women | 
| Mass start | 50 km men | 30 km women | 
| Team sprint | men | women | 
| Relay | 4 × 10 km men | 4 × 5 km women | 
| Nordic combined  | ||
| Normal hill | Individual | Team | 
| Large hill | Individual | Team sprint | 
| Ski jumping  | ||
| Normal hill | Men | Women | 
| Women's team | Mixed team | |
| Large hill | Individual | Men's team | 
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.
Host selection
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
All times are local (UTC+1).[7]
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Medal summary
Medal table
* 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 | |
| .svg.png) Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (12 entries) | 22 | 22 | 22 | 66 | |
Cross-country skiing
Men
| 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

| 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
| 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
Men
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's individual large hill[24] | Markus Eisenbichler  Germany | 279.4 | Karl Geiger  Germany | 267.3 | Killian Peier .svg.png) 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
| 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
| 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

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
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
- ^ 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, 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, 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.