FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
| FIS Nordic World Ski Championships | |
|---|---|
| File:FIS World Ski Championships Gold Medal.jpg Gold medal | |
| Status | active |
| Genre | sporting event |
| Date(s) | February–March |
| Frequency | biennial (since 1985) |
| Location(s) | various |
| Inaugurated | 1925 |
| Organised by | FIS |
The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships is a biennial Nordic skiing event organized by the International Ski Federation (FIS). The World Championships was started in 1925 for men and opened for women's participation in 1954. World Championship events include Nordic skiing's three disciplines: cross-country skiing, ski jumping, and Nordic combined (the latter being a combination sport consisting of both cross-country and ski jumping). From 1924 to 1939, the World Championships were held every year, including the Winter Olympics. After World War II, the World Championships were held every four years from 1950 to 1982. Since 1985, the World Championships have been held in odd-numbered years.
History
The International Ski Federation arranged annual Rendezvous races from 1925 to 1927 and annual FIS races from 1929 to 1935. At the FIS congress in 1936, it was decided that the first World Championships should be held in 1937 and take place in Chamonix, France.[1] All Rendezvous and FIS races were given official World Championship status at FIS' 25th congress in 1965.[2] This decision meant that the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1925 in Janské Lázně, Czechoslovakia, were given status as the first official World Championships. The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1941 were declared a non-World Championship event by FIS at the 16th FIS congress in 1946[3] and their results have been struck from the official records. The 1980 and 1984 World Championships consisted of a total of only three events; women's 20 km cross-country (1980), ski-jumping team event and Nordic combined team event (both 1984). These events were not held in the 1980 and 1984 Winter Olympics and therefore got their own World Championships.
Historical notes
- In the years 1925–1927, the FIS referred to these events as Rendezvous races. During the periods of 1929–1931 and 1933–1935, the FIS referred to these events as FIS races. This event has been officially referred to as the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships since 1937.
- The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1941 were declared a non-event by the FIS at their 1946 meeting and their results have been struck from the official records.
- The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1980 consisted of a women's 20 km cross-country event because it was not included in the program of the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid.
- The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1984 consisted of team events in both ski jumping and Nordic combined held at separate locations because neither event was included in the program of the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.
The following list shows when new events were added for the first time:
- 1933, men's relay (cross-country) was added.
- 1954, women's 10 km and 3 × 5 km relay was added, men's 15 km (cross-country) replaced the 18 km.
- 1962, men's normal hill (ski jumping) and women's 5 km (cross-country) were added.
- 1978, women's 20 km (cross-country) was added.
- 1982, men's ski jumping team large hill and Nordic combined team large hill were added.
- 1989, women's 15 km was added (cross-country) and women's 30 km replaced the 20 km.
- 1991, men's 10 km (cross-country) was added.
- 1993, cross-country pursuit (both genders) were added.
- 2001, men's ski jumping team normal hill was added and cross-country sprint (both genders) replaced the 10 km (men) and the 5 km (women).
- 2003, women's 30 km and men's 50 km (cross-country) changed from interval start to mass start.
- 2005, cross-country team sprint (both genders) were added.
- 2009, women's normal hill (ski jumping) was added.
- 2011, Nordic combined team normal hill was added.
- 2013, mixed team (ski jumping) was added and team sprint large hill (Nordic combined) replaced the team large hill.
- 2019, women's team normal hill (ski jumping) was added.
- 2021, women's Nordic combined with women's large hill (ski jumping) were added.
- 2023, Nordic combined mixed team event replaced men's team sprint large hill.
- 2025, men's 10 km replaced the 15 km (interval start, cross-country), women's 50 km replaced the 30 km (mass-start, cross-country), men's and women's 4x7,5 km replaced the men's 4x10 km and the women's 4x5 km (relay, cross-country), men's and women's 20 km replaced the men's 30 km and the women's 15 km (skiathlon, cross-country), men's compact 7,5 km replaced the Gundersen 10 km (normal hill, Nordic combined), women's mass-start 5 km + normal hill (Nordic combined) and men's and women's Para Sprint (separated from Para Cross-Country World Championships) were added.[4]
Editions
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Medalists by sport
- Cross-country skiing
- Nordic combined
- Ski jumping
Medal table
Table updated after the 2023 Championships.
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Multiple medalists
Boldface denotes active athletes and highest medal count among all athletes (including these who not included in these tables) per type.
All events
Individual events
Men
Women
TV broadcasters
Eurosport (75 countries)
Match TV (Russia)
ORF (Austria)
Eesti Media (Estonia)
YLE (Finland)
ARD/ZDF (Germany)
NRK (Norway)
Viaplay/TV6 (Sweden)
SRG/SSR (Switzerland)
RUV (Iceland)
NBC (USA)
TVP (Poland)
Rai Sport (Italia)
L'equipe (France)
CBC (Canada)
CT Sport (Czech Republic)
JOJ Sport (Slovakia)
RTV Slovenija (Slovenia)
See also
- FIS Nordic Junior World Ski Championships
- World Para Nordic Skiing Championships
- Cross-country skiing at the Winter Olympics
- Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics
- Ski jumping at the Winter Olympics
- FIS Cross-Country World Cup
- FIS Nordic Combined World Cup
- FIS Ski Jumping World Cup
References
- ↑ "14th Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GER) 1936". fis-ski.com. International Ski Federation (FIS). Archived from the original on 26 March 2016. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
- ↑ "25th Mamaia (ROM) 1965". fis-ski.com. International Ski Federation (FIS). Archived from the original on 14 March 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
- ↑ "16th Pau (FRA) 1946". fis-ski.com. International Ski Federation (FIS). Archived from the original on 14 March 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
- ↑ "Trondheim 2025 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships including Para Cross-Country Sprint events. Invitation" (PDF).
- ↑ Non-Olympic event: women's 20 km cross-country skiing.
- ↑ Non-Olympic events: FIN: 3 x 10 km team Nordic combined; SUI: Non-Olympic event: team large hill ski jumping.
