FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2005

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2005
	Official logo for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2005.
Host city	Oberstdorf, Germany
Events	19
Opening ceremony	16 February
Closing ceremony	27 February
Main venue	Schattenbergschanze
Website	Oberstdorf2005.com
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The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 took place 16–27 February 2005 in Oberstdorf, Germany, for the second time after hosting it previously in 1987. The ski jumping team normal hill event returned after not being held in 2003. The double pursuit distances of 10 km (5 km classical mass start + 5 km freestyle pursuit) women and 20 km (10 km classical mass start + 10 km freestyle pursuit) men were lengthened to 15 km for women (7.5 km classical mass start + 7.5 km freestyle pursuit) and 30 km for men (15 km classical mass start + 15 km freestyle pursuit). Team sprint was also added as well. The Nordic combined 4 × 5 km team event had its change between ski jumping points and cross-country skiing start time changed from 1 point equals to 1.5 seconds to 1 point equals 1 second at this championship.

Cross-country skiing[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
15 kilometre freestyle^[1] details	Pietro Piller Cottrer Italy	34:49.7	Fulvio Valbusa Italy	35:00.9	Tore Ruud Hofstad Norway	35:03.9
30 kilometre skiathlon^[2] details	Vincent Vittoz France	1:19:20.5	Giorgio Di Centa Italy	1:19:21.3	Frode Estil Norway	1:19:21.3
50 kilometre classic mass start^[3] details	Frode Estil Norway	2:30:10.1	Anders Aukland Norway	2:30:10.8	Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset Norway	2:30:11.5
4 × 10 kilometre relay^[4] details	Norway Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset Frode Estil Lars Berger Tore Ruud Hofstad	1:39:04.4	Germany Jens Filbrich Andreas Schlütter Tobias Angerer Axel Teichmann	1:39:22.1	Russia Nikolay Pankratov Vasily Rochev Yevgeny Dementyev Nikolay Bolshakov	1:39:23.1
Sprint classic^[5] details	Vasily Rochev Russia	2:32.1	Tor Arne Hetland Norway	2:32.3	Thobias Fredriksson Sweden	2:39.0
Team sprint^[6]	Norway Tore Ruud Hofstad Tor Arne Hetland	14:08.6	Germany Jens Filbrich Axel Teichmann	14:12.4	Czech Republic Dušan Kožíšek Martin Koukal	14:13.4

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 kilometre freestyle^[7]	Kateřina Neumannová Czech Republic	26:27.6	Yuliya Chepalova Russia	26:28.8	Marit Bjørgen Norway	26:42.8
15 kilometre skiathlon^[8]	Yuliya Chepalova Russia	42:16.8	Marit Bjørgen Norway	42:32.5	Kristin Størmer Steira Norway	42:42.7
30 kilometre classic mass start^[9]	Marit Bjørgen Norway	1:27:05.8	Virpi Kuitunen Finland	1:27:14.7	Natalya Baranova-Masalkina Russia	1:27:16.1
4 × 5 kilometre relay^[10]	Norway Vibeke Skofterud Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen Kristin Størmer Steira Marit Bjørgen	57:15.7	Russia Larisa Kurkina Natalya Baranova-Masalkina Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Abruzova Yuliya Chepalova	57:23.3	Italy Gabriella Paruzzi Antonella Confortola Sabina Valbusa Arianna Follis	58:05.4
Sprint classic^[11] details	Emilie Öhrstig Sweden	2:15.5	Lina Andersson Sweden	2:16.8	Sara Renner Canada	2:16.9
Team sprint^[12]	Norway Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen Marit Bjørgen	12:19.7	Finland Riitta-Liisa Lassila Pirjo Manninen	12:22.5	Russia Yuliya Chepalova Alyona Sidko	12:23.3

On the women's sprint classic, Sara Renner of Canada became the first North American skier to win a medal at the Nordic World Ski Championships.

Men's Nordic combined[]

7.5 km sprint[]

27 February 2005

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Ronny Ackermann (GER)	20:15.6
Silver	Magnus Moan (NOR)	20:26.7
Bronze	Kristian Hammer (NOR)	20:53.3

15 km individual Gundersen[]

18 February 2005

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Ronny Ackermann (GER)	38:56.2
Silver	Björn Kircheisen (GER)	38:57.6
Bronze	Felix Gottwald (AUT)	38:59.4

4 × 5 km team[]

23 February 2005

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Norway (Petter Tande, Håvard Klemetsen, Magnus Moan, Kristian Hammer)	49:45.5
Silver	Germany (Sebastian Haseney, Georg Hettich, Björn Kircheisen, Ronny Ackermann)	49:52.6
Bronze	Austria (Michael Gruber, Christoph Bieler, David Kreiner, Felix Gottwald)	49:52.9

Men's ski jumping[]

Individual normal hill[]

19 February 2005

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Rok Benkovič (SLO)	256.0
Silver	Jakub Janda (CZE)	249.5
Bronze	Janne Ahonen (FIN)	249.0

Individual large hill[]

25 February 2005

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Janne Ahonen (FIN)	313.2
Silver	Roar Ljøkelsøy (NOR)	307.2
Bronze	Jakub Janda (CZE)	304.2

Team normal hill[]

20 February 2005

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Austria (Wolfgang Loitzl, Andreas Widhölzl, Thomas Morgenstern, Martin Höllwarth)	970.5
Silver	Germany (Michael Neumayer, Martin Schmitt, Michael Uhrmann, Georg Späth)	964.0
Bronze	Slovenia (Primož Peterka, Jure Bogataj, Rok Benkovič, Jernej Damjan)	929.5

Team large hill[]

26 February 2005

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Austria (Wolfgang Loitzl, Andreas Widhölzl, Thomas Morgenstern, Martin Höllwarth)	1137.3
Silver	Finland (Risto Jussilainen, Tami Kiuru, Matti Hautamäki, Janne Ahonen)	1122.9
Bronze	Norway (Bjørn Einar Romøren, Sigurd Pettersen, Lars Bystøl, Roar Ljøkelsøy)	1113.5

Medal table[]

Medal winners by nation.

* Host nation (Germany)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway (NOR)	7	5	7	19
2	Germany (GER)*	2	5	0	7
3	Russia (RUS)	2	2	3	7
4	Austria (AUT)	2	0	2	4
5	Finland (FIN)	1	3	1	5
6	Italy (ITA)	1	2	1	4
7	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	1	2	4
8	Sweden (SWE)	1	1	1	3
9	Slovenia (SLO)	1	0	1	2
10	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
11	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 nations)		19	19	19	57

References[]

External links[]

[1] Men's 15 kilometre freestyle results

[2] Men's 30 kilometre pursuit results

[3] Men's 50 kilometre classic results

[4] Men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay results

[5] Men's sprint classic results

[6] Men's team sprint results

[7] Women's 10 kilometre freestyle results

[8] Women's 15 kilometre pursuit results

[9] Women's 30 kilometre classic results

[10] Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay results

[11] Women's sprint classic results

[12] Women's team sprint results

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FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2005
Cross-country skiing
Sprint	men	women
Interval start	15 km men
Pursuit	30 km men
Mass start	50 km men
Team sprint
Relay	4×10 km men
Nordic combined
Normal hill
Large hill
Ski jumping
Normal hill
Large hill
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