FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1993

Official logo for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1993.

Host city| Falun
Country|  Sweden
Events| 15
Opening| 19 February 1993
Closing| 28 February 1993
Main venue| Lugnet

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The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1993 took place 19–28 February 1993 in Falun, Sweden, for the third time (1954, 1974). This event saw the creation of the combined pursuit where competitors would skate one distance in the classical interval style (10 km: men, 5 km: women) one day, then follow the next day in the freestyle pursuit (15 km: men, 10 km: women) with the first distance winner going first in the pursuit. Additionally it was the first competition since the breakup of the Soviet Union in late 1991 and the first competition with Czechoslovakia having been split up as the Czech Republic and Slovakia, however, the two nations competed as combined teams in women's relay in cross-country skiing and team large hill in ski jumping.

## Men's cross-country

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### 10 km classical

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22 February 1993

Medal  | Athlete  | Time

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Gold  |  Sture Sivertsen (NOR) | 24:51.6
Silver  |  Vladimir Smirnov (KAZ) | 24:55.5
Bronze  |  Vegard Ulvang (NOR) | 24:58.1

### 10 km + 15 km combined pursuit

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24 February 1993

Medal  | Athlete  | Time

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Gold  |  Bjørn Dæhlie (NOR) | 1:01:45.0
Silver  |  Vladimir Smirnov (KAZ) | 1:01:45.0
Bronze  |  Silvio Fauner (ITA) | 1:02:55.5

Dæhlie edged Smirnov at the finish line to earn the gold medal. Smirnov later stated that he lost out to Dæhlie by "only 16 centimeters".

### 30 km classical

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20 February 1993

Medal  | Athlete  | Time

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Gold  |  Bjørn Dæhlie (NOR) | 1:17:33.6
Silver  |  Vegard Ulvang (NOR) | 1:17:55.0
Bronze  |  Vladimir Smirnov (KAZ) | 1:17:55.3

### 50 km freestyle

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28 February 1993

Medal  | Athlete  | Time

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Gold  |  Torgny Mogren (SWE) | 2:03:36.8
Silver  |  Hervé Balland (FRA) | 2:04:30.9
Bronze  |  Bjørn Dæhlie (NOR) | 2:05:10.3

### 4 × 10 km relay

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26 February 1993

Medal  | Team  | Time

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Gold  |  Norway (Sture Sivertsen, Vegard Ulvang, Terje Langli, Bjørn Dæhlie)  | 1:44:14.9
Silver  |  Italy (Maurilio De Zolt, Marco Albarello, Giorgio Vanzetta, Silvio Fauner)  | 1:44:24.5
Bronze  |  Russia (Andrey Kirilov, Igor Badamshin, Alexey Prokourorov, Mikhail Botvinov)  | 1:44:27.2

## Women's cross-country

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### 5 km classical

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21 February 1993

Medal  | Athlete  | Time

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Gold  |  Larisa Lazutina (RUS) | 14:07.6
Silver  |  Lyubov Yegorova (RUS) | 14:12.1
Bronze  |  Trude Dybendahl (NOR) | 14:18.3

### 5 km + 10 km combined pursuit

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23 February 1993

Medal  | Athlete  | Time

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Gold  |  Stefania Belmondo (ITA) | 40:19.0
Silver  |  Larisa Lazutina (RUS) | 40:19.4
Bronze  |  Lyubov Yegorova (RUS) | 40:19.7

### 15 km classical

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19 February 1993

Medal  | Athlete  | Time

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Gold  |  Yelena Välbe (RUS) | 44:49.0
Silver  |  Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi (FIN) | 45:39.0
Bronze  |  Marjut Rolig (FIN) | 45:41.9

Välbe was the first Russian to win a gold medal in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's breakup in late 1991.

### 30 km freestyle

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27 February 1993

Medal  | Athlete  | Time

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Gold  |  Stefania Belmondo (ITA) | 1:22:41.3
Silver  |  Manuela Di Centa (ITA) | 1:22:55.0
Bronze  |  Lyubov Yegorova (RUS) | 1:23:48.3

### 4 × 5 km relay

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25 February 1993

Medal  | Team  | Time

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Gold  |  Russia (Yelena Välbe, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrylyuk, Lyubov Yegorova)  | 54:15.7
Silver  |  Italy (Gabriella Paruzzi, Bice Vanzetta, Manuela Di Centa, Stefania Belmondo)  | 54:35.1
Bronze  |  Norway (Trude Dybendahl, Inger Helene Nybråten, Anita Moen, Elin Nilsen)  | 55:09.0

## Men's Nordic combined

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### 15 km individual Gundersen

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18 February 1993

Medal  | Athlete  | Time

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Gold  |  Kenji Ogiwara (JPN) | 46.47.5
Silver  |  Knut Tore Apeland (NOR) | \+ 1.34.5
Bronze  |  Trond Einar Elden (NOR) | \+ 2.32.6

### 3 × 10 km team

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25 February 1993

Medal  | Team  | Time

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Gold  |  Japan (Takanori Kono, Masashi Abe, Kenji Ogiwara)  | 1:19:25.7
Silver  |  Norway (Trond Einar Elden, Knut Tore Apeland, Fred Børre Lundberg)  | +3:46.3
Bronze  |  Germany (Thomas Dufter, Jens Deimel, Hans-Peter Pohl)  | +8:30.5

Japan's four-minute victory margin at this event, followed by their nearly five-minute victory at the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer the following year, would lead the FIS to change the Nordic combined team event from a 3 x 10 km relay to a 4 x 5 km relay that would become effective at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1995 in Thunder Bay and the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. This was in an effort to lessen the emphasis on the ski jumping part of the competition.

## Men's ski jumping

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### Individual normal hill

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27 February 1993

Medal  | Athlete  | Points

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Gold  |  Masahiko Harada (JPN) | 237.8
Silver  |  Andreas Goldberger (AUT) | 231.3
Bronze  |  Jaroslav Sakala (CZE) | 228.2

### Individual large hill

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21 February 1993

Medal  | Athlete  | Points

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Gold  |  Espen Bredesen (NOR) | 241.4
Silver  |  Jaroslav Sakala (CZE) | 239.1
Bronze  |  Andreas Goldberger (AUT) | 237.6

Sakala was the first Czech to medal following Czechoslovakia's breakup earlier that year into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

### Team large hill

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23 February 1993

Medal  | Team  | Points

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Gold  |  Norway (Bjørn Myrbakken, Helge Brendryen, Øyvind Berg, Espen Bredesen)  | 821.5
Silver  |  Czech Republic (František Jež, Jiří Parma, Jaroslav Sakala)
Slovakia (Martin Švagerko) (combined team)  | 772.1
Bronze  |  Austria (Ernst Vettori, Heinz Kuttin, Stefan Horngacher, Andreas Goldberger)  | 745.4

The Czech Republic and Slovakia competed as a combined team despite their countries' agreement to split from Czechoslovakia on 25 November 1992. The country's split was made after the team had been selected prior to the championships.

## Medal table

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Medal winners by nation.

* Host nation (Sweden)

Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Norway| 6| 3| 5| 14
2|  Russia| 3| 2| 3| 8
3|  Japan| 3| 0| 0| 3
4|  Italy| 2| 3| 1| 6
5|  Sweden*| 1| 0| 0| 1
6|  Czech Republic| 0| 2| 1| 3
Kazakhstan| 0| 2| 1| 3
8|  Austria| 0| 1| 2| 3
9|  Finland| 0| 1| 1| 2
10|  France| 0| 1| 0| 1
11|  Germany| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (11 entries)| 15| 15| 15| 45

## References

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* FIS 1993 cross country results
* FIS 1993 Nordic combined results
* FIS 1993 ski jumping results

## External links

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Championships|

* 1925 Janské Lázně
* 1926 Lahti
* 1927 Cortina d'Ampezzo
* 1929 Zakopane
* 1930 Oslo
* 1931 Oberhof
* 1933 Innsbruck
* 1934 Sollefteå
* 1935 Vysoké Tatry
* 1937 Chamonix
* 1938 Lahti
* 1939 Zakopane
* (1941 Cortina d'Ampezzo)
* 1950 Lake Placid/Rumford
* 1954 Falun
* 1958 Lahti
* 1962 Zakopane
* 1966 Oslo
* 1970 Vysoké Tatry
* 1974 Falun
* 1978 Lahti
* 1980 Falun
* 1982 Oslo
* 1984 Rovaniemi/Engelberg
* 1985 Seefeld
* 1987 Oberstdorf
* 1989 Lahti
* 1991 Val di Fiemme
* 1993 Falun
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* 1997 Trondheim
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* 2001 Lahti
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* 2005 Oberstdorf
* 2007 Sapporo
* 2009 Liberec
* 2011 Oslo
* 2013 Val di Fiemme
* 2015 Falun
* 2017 Lahti
* 2019 Seefeld
* 2021 Oberstdorf
* 2023 Planica
* 2025 Trondheim
* 2027 Falun

Medalists|

* Cross-country (men)
* Cross-country (women)
* Nordic combined
* Ski jumping

* FIS Nordic World Ski Championships at SVT's open archive (in Swedish)

*[NOR]: Norway
*[KAZ]: Kazakhstan
*[ITA]: Italy
*[SWE]: Sweden
*[FRA]: France
*[RUS]: Russia
*[FIN]: Finland
*[JPN]: Japan
*[AUT]: Austria
*[CZE]: Czech Republic
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