FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1991

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Official logo for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1991 (Italian)
Official logo for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1991 (Italian)

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 previous championships. 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.

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[edit] Men's cross country

[edit] 10 km classical

February 11, 1991

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

[edit] 15 km freestyle

February 9, 1991

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of Norway Bjørn Dæhlie, Norway 36:57.2
Silver Flag of Sweden Gunde Svan, Sweden 37:05.6
Bronze Flag of the Soviet Union Vladimir Smirnov, USSR 37:07.8

[edit] 30 km classical

February 7, 1991

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

[edit] 50 km freestyle

February 17, 1991

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

[edit] 4 × 10 km relay

February 15, 1991

Medal Team Time
Gold Flag of Norway Norway (Øyvind Skaanes, Terje Langli, Vegard Ulvang, Bjørn Daehlie) 1:39:47.3
Silver Flag of Sweden Sweden (Thomas Eriksson, Christer Majbäck, Gunde Svan, Torgny Mogren) 1:41:39.1
Bronze Flag of Finland Finland (Mika Kuusisto, Harri Kirvesniemi, Jari Isometsä, Jari Räsänen) 1:42:10.0

[edit] Women's cross country

[edit] 5 km classical

February 12, 1991

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

[edit] 10 km freestyle

February 10, 1991

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

[edit] 15 km classical

February 8, 1991

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

[edit] 30 km freestyle

February 16, 1991

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of the Soviet Union Lyubov Yegorova, USSR 1:20:26.8
Silver Flag of the Soviet Union Yelena Välbe, USSR 1:21:02.4
Bronze Flag of Italy 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 × 5 km relay

February 15, 1991

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

[edit] Men's Nordic combined

[edit] 15 km Individual Gundersen

February 7, 1991

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of Norway Fred Børre Lundberg, Norway
Silver Flag of Austria Klaus Sulzenbacher, Austria
Bronze Flag of Austria Klaus Ofner, Austria

[edit] 3 × 10 km team

February 8, 1991

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

[edit] Men's ski jumping

[edit] Individual normal hill

February 16, 1991

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

[edit] Individual large hill

February 10, 1991

Medal Athlete Points
Gold Flag of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Franci Petek, Yugoslavia 217.5
Silver Flag of Norway Rune Olijnyk, Norway 216.3
Bronze Flag of Germany 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 Flag of Austria Austria (Heinz Kuttin, Ernst Vettori, Stefan Horngacher, Andreas Felder) 567.6
Silver Flag of Finland Finland (Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Raimo Ylipulli, Vesa Hakala, Risto Laakkonen) 562.8
Bronze Flag of Germany Germany (Heiko Hunger, André Kiesewetter, Dieter Thoma, Jens Weissflog) 549.4

[edit] Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Flag of Norway Norway 5 3 2 10
2 Flag of the Soviet Union Soviet Union 4 2 2 8
3 Flag of Sweden Sweden 2 5 1 8
4 Flag of Austria Austria 3 1 1 5
5 Flag of Italy Italy 0 1 4 5
6 Flag of Finland Finland 0 2 2 4
7 Flag of Germany Germany 0 0 2 2
8 Flag of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 1 0 0 1
9 Flag of France France 0 1 0 1
10 Flag of Japan Japan 0 0 1 1

[edit] References