FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1989

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The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1989 took place February 17-26, 1989 in Lahti, Finland for a record fifth time (1926, 1938, 1958, 1978). The women's 5 km was not held after being reintroduced in the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1987. These championships featured separate races of men's 15 km and women's 10 km both in the classical technique and in the freestyle technique. Additionally, the women's 15 km event debuted and the women's 20 km event was lengthened to 30 km.

[edit] Men's cross country

[edit] 15 km classical

February 22, 1989

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Harri Kirvesniemi, Finland	42:40.7
Silver	Paal Gunnar Mikkelsplass, Norway	42:44.0
Bronze	Vegard Ulvang, Norway	43:08.4

[edit] 15 km freestyle

February 20, 1989

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Gunde Svan, Sweden	40:39.6
Silver	Torgny Mogren, Sweden	41:02.9
Bronze	Lars Håland, Sweden	41:10.3

[edit] 30 km classical

February 18, 1989

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Vladimir Smirnov, USSR	1:24:56.9
Silver	Vegard Ulvang, Norway	1:25:03,6
Bronze	Christer Majbaeck, Sweden	1:25:09,8

[edit] 50 km freestyle

February 26, 1989

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Gunde Svan, Sweden	2:15:24.9
Silver	Torgny Mogren, Sweden	2:16:09.2
Bronze	Alexey Prokurorov, USSR	2:16:18.8

[edit] 4 x 10 km relay

February 24, 1989

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	Sweden (Christer Majbaeck, Gunde Svan, Lars Håland, Torgny Mogren)	1:40:12.1
Silver	Finland (Aki Karvonen, Harri Kirvesniemi, Kari Ristanen, Jari Raesaenen)	1:40:13.6
Bronze	Czechoslovakia (Ladislav Švanda, Martin Petrášek, Radim Nyč, Václav Korunka)	1:40:13.7

Among the 19 relay teams competing were Australia, Denmark, Greece, and the Netherlands.

[edit] Women's cross country

[edit] 10 km classical

February 19, 1989

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi, Finland	29:19.0
Silver	Pirkko Määttä, Finland	30:12.2
Bronze	Marjo Matikainen, Finland	30:12.9

[edit] 10 km freestyle

February 17, 1989

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Yelena Välbe, USSR	27:04.5
Silver	Marjo Matikainen, Finland	27:36.7
Bronze	Tamara Tikhonova, USSR	27:58.8

[edit] 15 km classical

February 21, 1989

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Marjo Matikainen, Finland	47:46.6
Silver	Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi, Finland	47:48.6
Bronze	Pirkko Määttä, Finland	48:20.8

[edit] 30 km freestyle

February 25, 1989

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Yelena Välbe, USSR	1:29:59.7
Silver	Larisa Lazutina, USSR	1:30:07.7
Bronze	Marjo Matikainen, Finland	1:30:30.6

[edit] 4 x 5 km relay

February 24, 1989

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	Finland (Pirkko Määttä, Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi, Jaana Savolainen, Marjo Matikainen)	54:49.8
Silver	USSR (Yuliya Shamshurina, Raisa Smetanina, Tamara Tikhonova, Yelena Välbe)	54:56.9
Bronze	Norway (Inger Helene Nybråten, Anne Jahren, Nina Skeime, Marianne Dahlmo)	55:52.3

[edit] Men's Nordic combined

[edit] 15 km Individual Gundersen

February 17, 1989

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Trond Einar Elden, Norway
Silver	Andrey Dundukov, USSR
Bronze	Trond-Arne Bredesen, Norway

[edit] 3 x 10 km team

February 18, 1989

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	Norway (Trond Einar Elden, Trond-Arne Bredesen, Bård Jørgen Elden)
Silver	Switzerland (Andreas Schaad, Hippolyt Kempf, Fredy Glanzmann)
Bronze	East Germany (Ralph Leonhardt, Bernd Blechschmidt, Thomas Abratis)

[edit] Men's ski jumping

[edit] Individual normal hill

February 26, 1989

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Jens Weissflog, East Germany	114.5
Silver	Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Finland	110.5
Bronze	Heinz Kuttin, Austria	108.5

[edit] Individual large hill

February 20, 1989

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Jari Puikkonen, Finland	218.5
Silver	Jens Weissflog, East Germany	212.5
Bronze	Matti Nykänen, Finland	205.0

[edit] Team large hill

February 26, 1989

Medal	Team	Points
Gold	Finland (Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Jari Puikkonen, Matti Nykänen, Risto Laakkonen)	645.0
Silver	Norway (Magne Johansen, Clas Brede Bråthen, Ole Gunnar Fidjestøl, Jon Inge Kjørum)	626.0
Bronze	Czechoslovakia (Jiří Parma, Martin Švagerko, Ladislav Dluhoš, Pavel Ploc)	595.5