FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2019

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2019

Host city	Seefeld in Tirol, Tyrol
Country	Austria
Events	22
Opening	20 February 2019 (2019-02-20)
Closing	3 March 2019 (2019-03-03)

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. Finalist applicants were Seefeld in Tirol (Austria), Oberstdorf (Germany), Planica (Slovenia) and Almaty (Kazakhstan). 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, the German resort of Oberstdorf in 1987 and 2005. Detailed application concepts were to be submitted by 1 September 2013.

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
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).

Cross-country

Date	Time	Event
20 February	12:30	Women's 10 km classical qualification
	14:00	Men's 15 km classical qualification
21 February	14:30	Men's & women's sprint
23 February	11:00	Women's 2 × 7.5 km skiathlon
	12:30	Men's 2 × 15 km skiathlon
24 February	09:15	Men's & women's team sprint
26 February	15:00	Women's 10 km classical
27 February	14:00	Men's 15 km classical
28 February	13:00	Women's 4 × 5 km relay
1 March	13:15	Men's 4 × 10 km relay
2 March	12:15	Women's 30 km freestyle
3 March	15:30	Men's 50 km freestyle

Nordic combined

Date	Time	Event
22 February	10:30 16:15	HS130 / 10 km
24 February	10:30 13:30	Team HS130 / 2 × 7.5 km
28 February	11:00 15:15	HS109 / 10 km
2 March	11:00 14:45	Team HS109 / 4 × 5 km

Ski jumping

Date	Time	Event
22 February	14:30	Men's HS130 qualification
23 February	14:30	Men's HS130
24 February	14:45	Men's team HS130
26 February	16:15	Women's team HS109
27 February	15:00	Women's HS109 qualification
27 February	16:15	Women's HS109
28 February	16:30	Men's HS109 qualification
1 March	16:00	Men's HS109
2 March	16:00	Team mixed HS109

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	5	9
7	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
8	Slovenia (SLO)	0	1	0	1
9	Japan (JPN)	0	0	2	2
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

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Sprint	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo Norway	3:21.17	Federico Pellegrino Italy	3:21.40	Gleb Retivykh Russia	3:22.54
30 kilometre skiathlon	Sjur Røthe Norway	1:10:21.8	Alexander Bolshunov Russia	1:10:21.9	Martin Johnsrud Sundby Norway	1:10:22.5
Team sprint	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	Martin Johnsrud Sundby Norway	38:22.6	Alexander Bessmertnykh Russia	38:25.5	Iivo Niskanen Finland	38:43.0
4 × 10 kilometre relay	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	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	Maiken Caspersen Falla Norway	2:32.35	Stina Nilsson Sweden	2:34.01	Mari Eide Norway	2:35.19
15 kilometre skiathlon	Therese Johaug Norway	36:54.5	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg Norway	37:52.1	Natalya Nepryayeva Russia	37:53.2
Team sprint	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	Therese Johaug Norway	27:02.1	Frida Karlsson Sweden	27:14.3	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg Norway	27:37.7
4 × 5 kilometre relay	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	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	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	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	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	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

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's individual large hill	Markus Eisenbichler Germany	279.4	Karl Geiger Germany	267.3	Killian Peier Switzerland	266.1
Men's team large hill	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	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	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	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	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

File:Bergiselschanze04.jpg

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

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.) were caught during Operation Aderlass.

External links

• Official website