FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1997

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The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1997 took place February 21-March 2, 1997 in Trondheim, Norway. This event was the first time in consecutive championships that the number or type of events did not change since 1966 and 1970. It also was historical with Russia's Yelena Välbe winning gold in all five women's cross country events, the first person of either sex to do that honor.

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[edit] Men's cross country

[edit] 10 km classical

February 24, 1997

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of Norway Bjørn Dæhlie, Norway 23:41.8
Silver Flag of Russia Alexey Prokurorov, Russia 24:09.7
Bronze Flag of Finland Mika Myllylä, Finland 24:14.2

[edit] 10 km + 15 km combined pursuit

February 25, 1997

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of Norway Bjørn Dæhlie, Norway 1:00:11.1
Silver Flag of Finland Mika Myllylä, Finland 1:01:01.2
Bronze Flag of Russia Alexey Prokurorov, Russia 1:01:01.8

[edit] 30 km freestyle

February 21, 1997

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of Russia Alexey Prokurorov, Russia 1:06:28.2
Silver Flag of Norway Bjørn Dæhlie, Norway 1:06:45.6
Bronze Flag of Norway Thomas Alsgaard, Norway 1:06:49.2

[edit] 50 km classical

March 2, 1997

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of Finland Mika Myllylä, Finland 2:16:37.5
Silver Flag of Norway Erling Jevne, Norway 2:17:32.4
Bronze Flag of Norway Bjørn Dæhlie, Norway 2:18:36.0

[edit] 4 × 10 km relay

February 28, 1997

Medal Team Time
Gold Flag of Norway Norway (Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, Thomas Alsgaard) 1:37:06.1
Silver Flag of Finland Finland (Harri Kirvesniemi, Mika Myllylä, Jari Räsänen, Jari Isometsä) 1:39:17.3
Bronze Flag of Italy Italy (Giorgio Di Centa, Silvio Fauner, Pietro Piller Cottrer, Fulvio Valbusa) 1:39:56.9

[edit] Women's cross country

[edit] 5 km classical

February 23, 1997

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of Russia Yelena Välbe, Russia 13:32.7
Silver Flag of Italy Stefania Belmondo, Italy 13:35.0
Bronze Flag of Russia Olga Danilova, Russia 13:37.7

Lyubov Yegorova of Russia finished first in this event, but was disqualified three days later for doping violation of bromotan. The three finishers behind her were subsequently awarded the medals shown.

[edit] 5 km + 10 km combined pursuit

February 24, 1997

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of Russia Yelena Välbe, Russia 39:13.5
Silver Flag of Italy Stefania Belmondo, Italy 39:13.5
Bronze Flag of Russia Nina Gavrilyuk, Russia 39:32.1

Välbe edged Belmondo in a photo finish to earn the gold medal.

[edit] 15 km freestyle

February 21, 1997

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of Russia Yelena Välbe, Russia 36:28.2
Silver Flag of Italy Stefania Belmondo, Italy 36:39.1
Bronze Flag of the Czech Republic Kateřina Neumannová, Czech Republic 36:42.0

[edit] 30 km classical

March 1, 1997

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of Russia Yelena Välbe, Russia 1:23:04.9
Silver Flag of Italy Stefania Belmondo, Italy 1:23:33.2
Bronze Flag of Norway Marit Mikkelsplass, Norway 1:24:55.7

[edit] 4 × 5 km relay

February 28, 1997

Medal Team Time
Gold Flag of Russia Russia (Olga Danilova, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrilyuk,Yelena Välbe) 56:40.2
Silver Flag of Norway Norway (Bente Martinsen, Marit Mikkelsplass, Elin Nilsen, Trude Dybendahl Hartz) 56:56.2
Bronze Flag of Finland Finland (Riikka Sirviö, Tuulikki Pyykkönen, Kati Pulkkinen, Satu Salonen) 57:38.0

[edit] Men's Nordic combined

[edit] 15 km Individual Gundersen

February 22, 1997

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of Japan Kenji Ogiwara, Japan
Silver Flag of Norway Bjarte Engen Vik, Norway
Bronze Flag of France Fabrice Guy, France

[edit] 4 × 5 km team

February 23, 1997

Medal Team Time
Gold Flag of Norway Norway (Halldor Skard, Bjarte Engen Vik, Knut Tore Apeland, Fred Børre Lundberg) 52:18.0
Silver Flag of Finland Finland (Jari Mantila, Tapio Nurmela, Samppa Lajunen, Hannu Manninen) 53:03.6
Bronze Flag of Austria Austria (Christophe Eugen, Felix Gottwald, Mario Stecher, Robert Stadelmann) 53:30.9

[edit] Men's ski jumping

[edit] Individual normal hill

February 22, 1997

Medal Athlete Points
Gold Flag of Finland Janne Ahonen, Finland 263.5
Silver Flag of Japan Masahiko Harada, Japan 258.5
Bronze Flag of Austria Andreas Goldberger, Austria 257.5

[edit] Individual large hill

March 1, 1997

Medal Athlete Points
Gold Flag of Japan Masahiko Harada, Japan 252.1
Silver Flag of Germany Dieter Thoma, Germany 244.9
Bronze Flag of Switzerland Sylvain Freiholz, Switzerland 237.3

[edit] Team large hill

February 27, 1997

Medal Team Points
Gold Flag of Finland Finland (Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Jani Soininen, Mika Laitinen, Janne Ahonen) 955.3
Silver Flag of Japan Japan (Kazuyoshi Funaki, Takanobu Okabe, Masahiko Harada, Hiroya Saito) 905.0
Bronze Flag of Germany Germany (Christof Duffner, Martin Schmitt, Hansjörg Jäkle, Dieter Thoma) 845.6

[edit] Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Flag of Norway Norway 4 4 3 11
2 Flag of Russia Russia 6 1 3 10
3 Flag of Finland Finland 3 3 2 8
4 Flag of Italy Italy 0 4 1 5
5 Flag of Japan Japan 2 2 0 4
6 Flag of Germany Germany 0 1 1 2
7 Flag of Austria Austria 0 0 2 2
8 Flag of the Czech Republic Czech Republic 0 0 1 1
9 Flag of France France 0 0 1 1
10 Flag of Switzerland Switzerland 0 0 1 1

[edit] References