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

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	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

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Sprint[8] details	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo  Norway	3:21.17	Federico Pellegrino  Italy	3:21.40	Gleb Retivykh  Russia	3:22.54
30 kilometre skiathlon[9] details	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] details	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] details	Martin Johnsrud Sundby  Norway	38:22.6	Alexander Bessmertnykh  Russia	38:25.5	Iivo Niskanen  Finland	38:43.0
4 × 10 kilometre relay[12] details	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] details	Hans Christer Holund  Norway	1:49:59.3	Alexander Bolshunov  Russia	1:50:27.1	Sjur Røthe  Norway	1:50:57.1

Women

Yulia Stupak

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Sprint[14] details	Maiken Caspersen Falla  Norway	2:32.35	Stina Nilsson  Sweden	2:34.01	Mari Eide  Norway	2:35.19
15 kilometre skiathlon[15] details	Therese Johaug  Norway	36:54.5	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg  Norway	37:52.1	Natalya Nepryayeva  Russia	37:53.2
Team sprint[16] details	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] details	Therese Johaug  Norway	27:02.1	Frida Karlsson  Sweden	27:14.3	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg  Norway	27:37.7
4 × 5 kilometre relay[18] details	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] details	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] details	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] details	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] details	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] details	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] details	Markus Eisenbichler  Germany	279.4	Karl Geiger  Germany	267.3	Killian Peier  Switzerland	266.1
Men's team large hill[25] details	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] details	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] details	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] details	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] details	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

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.^[30]) were caught during Operation Aderlass.