FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2017

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2017

Official logo for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2017.
Host city	Lahti
Country	Finland
Events	21
Opening	22 February 2017
Closing	5 March 2017
Main venue	Salpausselkä
Website	Lahti2017.fi
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The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 was the 40th World Championships in nordic skiing and took place in Lahti, Finland from 22 February to 5 March 2017. ^[1] This was the seventh time the event has been held there, having previously been held in 1926, 1938, 1958, 1978, 1989 and 2001.

Host selection

Of the four candidate cities three had already submitted unsuccessful bids for the previous championships in 2015.

City	Country	Previous championships hosted
Lahti	Finland	1926, 1938, 1958, 1978, 1989, 2001
Oberstdorf	Germany	1987, 2005
Planica	Slovenia
Zakopane	Poland	1929, 1939, 1962

The winner was selected at the FIS Congress in South Korea on 31 May 2012. ^[2] The Voting results were as following:

City	First vote	Second vote	Third vote
Lahti	7	7	12
Planica	5	5	3
Oberstdorf	3	3	Out
Zakopane	0	Out	Out

Schedule

All times are local (UTC+2). ^[3]

Cross-country Date Time Event 22 February 14:00 Women's 5 km classical qualification 15:30 Men's 10 km classical qualification 23 February 15:00 Men's & women's sprint 25 February 12:00 Women's 2x7.5 km skiathlon 14:30 Men's 2x15 km skiathlon 26 February 11:30 Men's & women's team sprint 28 February 13:45 Women's 10 km classical 1 March 13:45 Men's 15 km classical 2 March 15:00 Women's 4 x 5 km relay 3 March 13:30 Men's 4 x 10 km relay 4 March 14:30 Women's 30 km freestyle 5 March 14:30 Men's 50 km freestyle

Nordic combined Date Time Event 24 February 10:30 13:30 HS100 / 10 km 26 February 12:00 15:30 Team HS100 / 4x5 km 1 March 12:00 16:15 HS130 / 10 km 3 March 16:00 18:15 Team sprint HS130 / 2x7.5 km

Ski jumping Date Time Event 23 February 14:00 Women's HS100 qualification 24 February 14:30 Men's HS100 qualification 17:30 Women's HS100 25 February 17:30 Men's HS100 26 February 17:30 Team mixed HS100 1 March 18:00 Men's HS130 qualification 2 March 18:30 Men's HS130 4 March 17:15 Men's team HS130

Medal summary

Medal table

  The host country is highlighted in blue

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway  (NOR)	7	6	5	18
2	Germany  (GER)	6	3	2	11
3	Russia  (RUS)	2	4	0	6
4	Austria  (AUT)	2	1	2	5
5	Finland  (FIN)*	1	1	3	5
6	Italy  (ITA)	1	1	0	2
7	Poland  (POL)	1	0	1	2
8	Canada  (CAN)	1	0	0	1
9	Japan  (JPN)	0	2	3	5
10	Sweden  (SWE)	0	2	2	4
11	United States  (USA)	0	1	2	3
12	France  (FRA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		21	21	21	63

Top athletes

All athletes with three or more medals or at least two gold medals.

Rank	Athlete	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Johannes Rydzek  (GER)	4	0	0	4
	Marit Bjørgen  (NOR)	4	0	0	4
3	Maiken Caspersen Falla  (NOR)	3	0	0	3
4	Sergey Ustiugov  (RUS)	2	3	0	5
5	Stefan Kraft  (AUT)	2	1	1	4
6	Eric Frenzel  (GER)	2	1	0	3
	Heidi Weng  (NOR)	2	1	0	3
8	Carina Vogt  (GER)	2	0	0	2
9	Andreas Wellinger  (GER)	1	2	0	3
	Martin Johnsrud Sundby  (NOR)	1	2	0	3
11	Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen  (NOR)	1	0	2	3
12	Charlotte Kalla  (SWE)	0	2	1	3
Totals (12 entries)		24	12	4	40

Fifteen other athletes earned 2 medals.

Cross-country skiing

Cross-country skiing in Lahti

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
15 kilometre classical [4] details	Iivo Niskanen   Finland	36:44.0	Martin Johnsrud Sundby   Norway	37:01.9	Niklas Dyrhaug   Norway	37:15.3
30 kilometre skiathlon [5] details	Sergey Ustiugov   Russia	1:09:16.7	Martin Johnsrud Sundby   Norway	1:09:23.4	Finn Hågen Krogh   Norway	1:09:48.5
50 kilometre freestyle mass start [6] details	Alex Harvey   Canada	1:46:28.9	Sergey Ustiugov   Russia	1:46:29.5	Matti Heikkinen   Finland	1:46:30.3
4 × 10 kilometre relay [7] details	Norway Didrik Tønseth Niklas Dyrhaug Martin Johnsrud Sundby Finn Hågen Krogh	1:37:20.1	Russia Andrey Larkov Alexander Bessmertnykh Aleksey Chervotkin Sergey Ustiugov	1:37:24.7	Sweden Daniel Rickardsson Johan Olsson Marcus Hellner Calle Halfvarsson	1:39:51.9
Sprint [8] details	Federico Pellegrino   Italy	3:13.76	Sergey Ustiugov   Russia	3:13.91	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo   Norway	3:14.20
Team sprint [9] details	Russia Nikita Kriukov Sergey Ustiugov	17:40.69	Italy Dietmar Nöckler Federico Pellegrino	17:42.83	Finland Sami Jauhojärvi Iivo Niskanen	17:49.33

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 kilometre classical [10] details	Marit Bjørgen   Norway	25:24.9	Charlotte Kalla   Sweden	26:05.9	Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen   Norway	26:20.4
15 kilometre skiathlon [11] details	Marit Bjørgen   Norway	37:57.5	Krista Pärmäkoski   Finland	38:02.3	Charlotte Kalla   Sweden	38:29.5
30 kilometre freestyle mass start [12] details	Marit Bjørgen   Norway	1:08:36.8	Heidi Weng   Norway	1:08:38.7	Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen   Norway	1:08:38.7
4 × 5 kilometre relay [13] details	Norway Maiken Caspersen Falla Heidi Weng Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen Marit Bjørgen	52:21.5	Sweden Anna Haag Charlotte Kalla Ebba Andersson Stina Nilsson	53:23.1	Finland Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Kerttu Niskanen Laura Mononen Krista Pärmäkoski	53:23.6
Sprint [14] details	Maiken Caspersen Falla   Norway	3:02.34	Jessie Diggins   United States	3:04.00	Kikkan Randall   United States	3:06.10
Team sprint [15] details	Norway Heidi Weng Maiken Caspersen Falla	20:20.56	Russia Yulia Belorukova Natalya Matveyeva	20:26.12	United States Sadie Bjornsen Jessie Diggins	20:38.94

Nordic combined

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual large hill/10 km [16] details	Johannes Rydzek   Germany	26:41.6	Akito Watabe   Japan	26:46.4	François Braud   France	26:54.6
Individual normal hill/10 km [17] details	Johannes Rydzek   Germany	26:19.6	Eric Frenzel   Germany	26:34.5	Björn Kircheisen   Germany	26:49.6
Team normal hill/4 × 5 km [18] details	Germany Björn Kircheisen Eric Frenzel Fabian Rießle Johannes Rydzek	47:57.3	Norway Magnus Moan Mikko Kokslien Magnus Krog Jørgen Graabak	48:39.0	Austria Bernhard Gruber Mario Seidl Philipp Orter Paul Gerstgraser	49:01.0
Team sprint large hill/2 × 7,5 km [19] details	Germany Eric Frenzel Johannes Rydzek	29:01.8	Norway Magnus Moan Magnus Krog	29:02.8	Japan Yoshito Watabe Akito Watabe	29:12.0

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2017

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's individual normal hill [20] details	Stefan Kraft   Austria	270.8	Andreas Wellinger   Germany	268.7	Markus Eisenbichler   Germany	263.6
Men's individual large hill [21] details	Stefan Kraft   Austria	279.3	Andreas Wellinger   Germany	278.0	Piotr Żyła   Poland	276.7
Men's team large hill [22] details	Poland Piotr Żyła Dawid Kubacki Maciej Kot Kamil Stoch	1104.2	Norway Anders Fannemel Johann Andre Forfang Daniel-André Tande Andreas Stjernen	1078.5	Austria Michael Hayböck Manuel Fettner Gregor Schlierenzauer Stefan Kraft	1068.9

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Women's individual normal hill [23] details	Carina Vogt   Germany	254.6	Yuki Ito   Japan	252.6	Sara Takanashi   Japan	251.1

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Mixed team normal hill [24] details	Germany Carina Vogt Markus Eisenbichler Svenja Würth Andreas Wellinger	1035.5	Austria Daniela Iraschko-Stolz Michael Hayböck Jacqueline Seifriedsberger Stefan Kraft	999.3	Japan Sara Takanashi Taku Takeuchi Yuki Ito Daiki Ito	979.7

References

1. Lahti 2017 promises medals and magic. Yle News. 2017-02-22
2. Lahti erhält Nordische Ski-WM 2017, Kulm Skiflug-WM 2016 auf www.skijumping.de; retrieved, 31 May 2012.
3. "Competition schedule" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-01-09. Retrieved 2017-01-09.
4. Men's 15 kilometre classical results
5. Men's 30 kilometre pursuit results
6. Men's 50 kilometre freestyle results
7. Men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay results
8. Men's sprint results
9. Men's team sprint results
10. Women's 10 kilometre classical results
11. Women's 15 kilometre pursuit results
12. Women's 30 kilometre freestyle results
13. Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay results
14. Women's sprint results
15. Women's team sprint results
16. Individual large hill/10 km results
17. Individual normal hill/10 km results
18. Team normal hill/4 × 5 km results
19. Team sprint large hill/2 × 7,5 km results
20. Men's individual normal hill results
21. Individual large hill results
22. Men's team large hill results
23. Women's individual normal hill results
24. Mixed team normal hill

External links

• Official website