FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1989

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Official poster for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1989. (English), (Finnish), & (German)
Official poster for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1989. (English), (Finnish), & (German)

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 previous championships. 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.

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[edit] Men's cross country

[edit] 15 km classical

February 22, 1989

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

[edit] 15 km freestyle

February 20, 1989

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

[edit] 30 km classical

February 18, 1989

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of the Soviet Union Vladimir Smirnov, USSR 1:24:56.9
Silver Flag of Norway Vegard Ulvang, Norway 1:25:03,6
Bronze Flag of Sweden Christer Majbäck, Sweden 1:25:09,8

[edit] 50 km freestyle

February 26, 1989

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

[edit] 4 × 10 km relay

February 24, 1989

Medal Team Time
Gold Flag of Sweden Sweden (Christer Majbäck, Gunde Svan, Lars Håland, Torgny Mogren) 1:40:12.1
Silver Flag of Finland Finland (Aki Karvonen, Harri Kirvesniemi, Kari Ristanen, Jari Raesaenen) 1:40:13.6
Bronze Flag of Czechoslovakia 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 Flag of Finland Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi, Finland 29:19.0
Silver Flag of Finland Pirkko Määttä, Finland 30:12.2
Bronze Flag of Finland Marjo Matikainen, Finland 30:12.9

[edit] 10 km freestyle

February 17, 1989

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

[edit] 15 km classical

February 21, 1989

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

[edit] 30 km freestyle

February 25, 1989

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

[edit] 4 × 5 km relay

February 24, 1989

Medal Team Time
Gold Flag of Finland Finland (Pirkko Määttä, Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi, Jaana Savolainen, Marjo Matikainen) 54:49.8
Silver Flag of the Soviet Union USSR (Yuliya Shamshurina, Raisa Smetanina, Tamara Tikhonova, Yelena Välbe) 54:56.9
Bronze Flag of Norway 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 Flag of Norway Trond Einar Elden, Norway
Silver Flag of the Soviet Union Andrey Dundukov, USSR
Bronze Flag of Norway Trond-Arne Bredesen, Norway

[edit] 3 × 10 km team

February 18, 1989

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

[edit] Men's ski jumping

[edit] Individual normal hill

February 26, 1989

Medal Athlete Points
Gold Flag of the German Democratic Republic Jens Weissflog, East Germany 114.5
Silver Flag of Finland Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Finland 110.5
Bronze Flag of Austria Heinz Kuttin, Austria 108.5

The second round of jumping was cancelled to strong winds, so the results were taken only from the first round.

[edit] Individual large hill

February 20, 1989

Medal Athlete Points
Gold Flag of Finland Jari Puikkonen, Finland 218.5
Silver Flag of the German Democratic Republic Jens Weissflog, East Germany 212.5
Bronze Flag of Finland Matti Nykänen, Finland 205.0

[edit] Team large hill

February 26, 1989

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

[edit] Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Flag of Finland Finland 6 5 4 15
2 Flag of the Soviet Union Soviet Union 3 3 2 8
3 Flag of Norway Norway 2 3 3 8
4 Flag of Sweden Sweden 3 2 2 7
5 Flag of the German Democratic Republic East Germany 1 1 1 3
6 Flag of Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 0 0 2 2
7 Flag of Switzerland Switzerland 0 1 0 1
8 Flag of Austria Austria 0 0 1 1

[edit] References