FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1974

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1974

Host city	Falun
Country	Sweden
Events	11
Opening ceremony	February 16, 1974 (1974-02-16)
Closing ceremony	February 24, 1974 (1974-02-24)
Main venue	Lugnet
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The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1974 took place February 16–24, 1974 in Falun, Sweden. This was the second time this city hosted the event having done so in 1954. The women's 3 × 5 km relay changed to a 4 × 5 km relay at these championships.

Men's cross country

15 km

February 19, 1974

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Magne Myrmo (NOR)	41:39.09
Silver	Gerhard Grimmer (GDR)	41:40.01
Bronze	Vasily Rochev (URS)	41:40.65

30 km

February 17, 1974

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Thomas Magnusson (SWE)	1:33:41.40
Silver	Juha Mieto (FIN)	1:34:34.81
Bronze	Jan Staszel (POL)	1:34:56.49

50 km

February 24, 1974

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Gerhard Grimmer (GDR)	2:19:45.26
Silver	Stanislav Henych (TCH)	2:21:35.50
Bronze	Thomas Magnusson (SWE)	2:21:49.42

4 × 10 km relay

February 21, 1974

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	East Germany (Gerd Hessler, Dieter Meinel, Gerhard Grimmer, Gert-Dietmar Klause)	2:03:15.85
Silver	Soviet Union (Ivan Garanin, Fyodor Simashev, Vasily Rochev, Yuri Skobov)	2:03:25.31
Bronze	Norway (Magne Myrmo, Odd Martinsen, Ivar Formo, Oddvar Brå)	2:03:46.03

Women's cross country

5 km

February 18, 1974

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Galina Kulakova (URS)	15:17.42
Silver	Blanka Paulů (TCH)	15:19.15
Bronze	Raisa Smetanina (URS)	15:34.80

10 km

February 20, 1974

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Galina Kulakova (URS)	31:25.78
Silver	Barbara Petzold (GDR)	31:50.55
Bronze	Helena Takalo (FIN)	31:59.54

4 × 5 km relay

February 23, 1974

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	Soviet Union (Nina Fyodorova, Nina Selyunina, Raisa Smetanina, Galina Kulakova)	1:02:57.39
Silver	East Germany (Sigrun Krause, Petra Hinze, Barbara Petzold, Veronika Hesse)	1:03:09.14
Bronze	Czechoslovakia (Alena Bartošová, Gabriela Sekajová, Miroslava Jaškovská, Blanka Paulů)	1:03:52.57

Men's Nordic combined

Individual

February 17–18, 1974

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Ulrich Wehling (GDR)
Silver	Günter Deckert (GDR)
Bronze	Stefan Hula (POL)

Men's ski jumping

Individual normal hill

February 16, 1974

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Hans-Georg Aschenbach (GDR)	258.9
Silver	Dietrich Kampf (GDR)	241.2
Bronze	Aleksey Borovitin (URS)	239.3

Individual large hill

February 23, 1974

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Hans-Georg Aschenbach (GDR)	240.4
Silver	Heinz Wossipiwo (GDR)	223.3
Bronze	Rudolf Höhnl (TCH)	217.1

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	5	6	0	11
2	Soviet Union	3	1	3	7
3	Norway	1	0	1	2
	Sweden	1	0	1	2
5	Czechoslovakia	0	2	2	4
6	Finland	0	1	1	2
7	Poland	0	0	2	2

References

• FIS 1974 Cross country results
• FIS 1974 Nordic combined results
• FIS 1974 Ski jumping results
• Results from German Wikipedia

External links

• The event at SVT's open archive (in Swedish)