FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1991

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The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1991 took place February 7-17, 1991 in Val di Fiemme, Italy. The women's 5 km was reintroduced after not being held in the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1989. The men's 10 km was introduced in this championships. Additionally, this was the first championship with a unified German team for the first time officially since 1939 following separate East German and West German teams that had competed from 1958 to 1989.

[edit] Men's cross country

[edit] 10 km classical

February 11, 1991

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Terje Langli, Norway	25:55.0
Silver	Christer Majbaeck, Sweden	25:59.7
Bronze	Torgny Mogren, Sweden	26:01.5

[edit] 15 km freestyle

February 9, 1991

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Bjoern Daehlie, Norway	36:57.2
Silver	Gunde Svan, Sweden	37:05.6
Bronze	Vladimir Smirnov, USSR	37:07.8

[edit] 30 km classical

February 7, 1991

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Gunde Svan, Sweden	1:16:12.4
Silver	Vladimir Smirnov, USSR	1:16:17.3
Bronze	Vegard Ulvang, Norway	1:16:32.8

[edit] 50 km freestyle

February 17, 1991

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Torgny Mogren, Sweden	2:03:31.6
Silver	Gunde Svan, Sweden	2:03:48.8
Bronze	Maurilio de Zolt, Italy	2:04:01.7

[edit] 4 x 10 km relay

February 15, 1991

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	Norway (Oeivind Skaanes, Terje Langli, Vegard Ulvang, Bjoern Daehlie)	1:39:47.3
Silver	Sweden (Thomas Eriksson, Christer Majbaeck, Gunde Svan, Torgny Mogren)	1:41:39.1
Bronze	Finland (Mika Kuusisto, Harri Kirvesniemi, Jari Isometsä, Jari Raesaenen)	1:42:10.0

[edit] Women's cross country

[edit] 5 km classical

February 12, 1991

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Trude Dybendahl, Norway	14:04.2
Silver	Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi, Finland	14:04.9
Bronze	Manuela Di Centa, Italy	14:24.1

[edit] 10 km freestyle

February 10, 1991

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Yelena Välbe, USSR	28:25.9
Silver	Marie-Helene Westin, Sweden	28:59.4
Bronze	Tamara Tikhonova, USSR	29:06.5

[edit] 15 km classical

February 8, 1991

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Yelena Välbe, USSR	44:58.5
Silver	Trude Dybendahl, Norway	46:02.4
Bronze	Stefania Belmondo, Italy	46:31.4

[edit] 30 km freestyle

February 16, 1991

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Lyubov Yegorova, USSR	1:20:26.8
Silver	Yelena Välbe, USSR	1:21:02.4
Bronze	Manuela Di Centa, Italy	1:21:15.3

Yegorova was the last person to win a gold medal for the Soviet Union before its breakup later that year.

[edit] 4 x 5 km relay

February 15, 1991

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	USSR (Lyubov Yegorova, Raisa Smetanina, Tamara Tikhonova, Yelena Välbe)	55:36.6
Silver	Italy (Bice Vanzetta, Manuela Di Centa, Gabriella Paruzzi, Stefania Belmondo)	56:22.5
Bronze	Norway (Solveig Pedersen, Inger Nybraaten, Elin Nilsen, Trude Dybendahl)	56:34.5

[edit] Men's Nordic combined

[edit] 15 km Individual Gundersen

February 7, 1991

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Fred-Boerre Lundberg, Norway
Silver	Klaus Sulzenbacher, Austria
Bronze	Klaus Ofner, Austria

[edit] 3 x 10 km team

February 8, 1991

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	Austria (Guenther Csar, Klaus Ofner, Klaus Sulzenbacher)
Silver	France (Francis Repellin, Xavier Girard, Fabrice Guy)
Bronze	Japan (Reiichi Mikata, Masashi Abe, Kazuoki Kodama)

[edit] Men's ski jumping

[edit] Individual normal hill

February 16, 1991

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Heinz Kuttin, Austria	222.9
Silver	Kent Johanssen, Norway	222.0
Bronze	Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Finland	219.6

[edit] Individual large hill

February 10, 1991

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Franci Petek, Yugoslavia	217.5
Silver	Rune Olijnyk, Norway	216.3
Bronze	Jens Weissflog, Germany	210.0

Petek became the last Yugoslavian to medal before the country's plunge into war later that year. Weissflog is the first German to win an individual medal following reunification of East Germany and West Germany and the first to medal since before World War II.

[edit] Team large hill

February 8, 1991

Medal	Team	Points
Gold	Austria (Heinz Kuttin, Ernst Vettori, Stefan Horngacher, Andreas Felder)	567.6
Silver	Finland (Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Raimo Ylipulli, Vesa Hakala, Risto Laakkonen)	562.8
Bronze	Germany (Heiko Hunger, André Kiesewetter, Dieter Thoma, Jens Weissflog)	549.4