FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1999

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The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1999 took place February 19-28, 1999 in Ramsau, Austria. The 7.5 km Nordic combined sprint event debuted at these championships.

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[edit] Men's cross country

[edit] 10 km classical

February 22, 1999

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of Finland Mika Myllylä, Finland 24:19.2
Silver Flag of Austria Alois Stadlober, Austria 24:34.7
Bronze Flag of Norway Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Norway 24:37.1

[edit] 10 km + 15 km combined pursuit

February 23, 1999

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of Norway Thomas Alsgaard, Norway 1:05:54.9
Silver Flag of Finland Mika Myllylä, Finland 1:05:55.6
Bronze Flag of Italy Fulvio Valbusa, Italy 1:06:17.6

[edit] 30 km freestyle

February 19, 1999

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of Finland Mika Myllylä, Finland 1:15:26.2
Silver Flag of Norway Thomas Alsgaard, Norway 1:16:01.5
Bronze Flag of Norway Bjørn Dæhlie, Norway 1:16:08.7

[edit] 50 km classical

February 28, 1999

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of Finland Mika Myllylä, Finland 2:18:08.7
Silver Flag of Estonia Andrus Veerpalu, Estonia 2:18:40.5
Bronze Flag of Austria Mikhail Botvinov, Austria 2:19:52.3

[edit] 4 × 10 km relay

February 26, 1999

Medal Team Time
Gold Flag of Austria Austria (Markus Gandler, Alois Stadlober, Mikhail Botvinov, Christian Hoffman) 1:35:07.5
Silver Flag of Norway Norway (Espen Bjervig, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, Thomas Alsgaard) 1:35:07.7
Bronze Flag of Italy Italy (Giorgio Di Centa, Fabio Maj, Fulvio Valbusa, Silvio Fauner) 1:36:38.1

The first two legs were run in the classical style while the last two legs were run in freestyle. Austria won its first relay medal since 1933 though it was done in dramatic fashion. Botvinov fell during his leg, causing Austria to lose its large lead, setting up a fight to the finish between Austria's Hoffman and Norway's Alsgaard.

[edit] Women's cross country

[edit] 5 km classical

February 22, 1999

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of Norway Bente Martinsen, Norway 12:49.8
Silver Flag of Russia Olga Danilova, Russia 13:02.5
Bronze Flag of the Czech Republic Katerina Neumannová, Czech Republic 13:07.0

[edit] 5 km + 10 km combined pursuit

February 23, 1999

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of Italy Stefania Belmondo, Italy 42:27.9
Silver Flag of Russia Nina Gavrilyuk, Russia 42:56.8
Bronze Flag of Ukraine Irina Terelia Taranenko, Ukraine 43:02.3

Taranenko is the first Ukrainian to medal in the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.

[edit] 15 km freestyle

February 19, 1999

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of Italy Stefania Belmondo, Italy 38:49.0
Silver Flag of Estonia Kristina Šmigun, Estonia 39:19.4
Bronze Flag of Austria Maria Theurl, Austria 39:43.5

[edit] 30 km classical

February 27, 1999

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of Russia Larisa Lazutina, Russia 1:29:19.9
Silver Flag of Russia Olga Danilova, Russia 1:30:53.9
Bronze Flag of Estonia Kristina Šmigun, Estonia 1:31:14.6

[edit] 4 × 5 km relay

February 26, 1999

Medal Team Time
Gold Flag of Russia Russia (Olga Danilova, Larisa Lazutina, Anfisa Reztsova, Nina Gavrilyuk)
Silver Flag of Italy Italy (Sabina Valbusa, Gabriella Paruzzi, Antonella Confortola, Stefania Belmondo)
Bronze Flag of Germany Germany (Viola Bauer, Ramona Roth, Evi Sachenbacher, Sigrid Wille)

The first two legs were run in classical style while the last two legs were run in freestyle.

[edit] Men's Nordic combined

[edit] 7.5 km sprint

February 27, 1999

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of Norway Bjarte Engen Vik, Norway 0.0
Silver Flag of Austria Mario Stecher, Austria +30.2
Bronze Flag of Japan Kenji Ogiwara, Japan +31.0

[edit] 15 km Individual Gundersen

February 20, 1999

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of Norway Bjarte Engen Vik, Norway 0.0
Silver Flag of Finland Samppa Lajunen, Finland 34.5
Bronze Flag of Russia Dmitry Sinitzyn, Russia 152.9

[edit] 4 × 5 km team

February 25, 1999

Medal Team Time
Gold Flag of Finland Finland (Hannu Manninen, Tapio Nurmela, Jari Mantila, Samppa Lajunen)
Silver Flag of Norway Norway (Fred Børre Lundberg, Trond Einar Elden, Bjarte Engen Vik, Kenneth Bråten)
Bronze Flag of Russia Russia (Nikolai Parfionov, Alexey Fadeyev, Valeri Stolyarov, Dmitry Sinitzyn)

[edit] Men's ski jumping

[edit] Individual normal hill

February 26, 1999

Medal Athlete Points
Gold Flag of Japan Kazuyoshi Funaki, Japan 255.0
Silver Flag of Japan Hideharu Miyahira, Japan 253.5
Bronze Flag of Japan Masahiko Harada, Japan 252.0

[edit] Individual large hill

February 21, 1999

Medal Athlete Points
Gold Flag of Germany Martin Schmitt, Germany 263.4
Silver Flag of Germany Sven Hannawald, Germany 261.7
Bronze Flag of Japan Hideharu Miyahira, Japan 258.8

[edit] Team large hill

February 20, 1999

Medal Team Points
Gold Flag of Germany Germany (Sven Hannawald, Christof Duffner, Dieter Thoma, Martin Schmitt) 988.9
Silver Flag of Japan Japan (Noriaki Kasai, Hideharu Miyahira, Masahiko Harada, Kazuyoshi Funaki) 987.0
Bronze Flag of Austria Austria (Andreas Widhölzl, Martin Höllwarth, Reinhard Schwarzenberger, Stefan Horngacher) 905.5

[edit] Medal table

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

[edit] References