FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1978

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The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1978 took place February 18-26, 1978 in Lahti, Finland. This was Lahti's record fourth time hosting the event after previously doing so in 1926, 1938, and 1958. The women's 20 km event was added.

Contents 1 Men's cross country 1.1 15 km 1.2 30 km 1.3 50 km 1.4 4 × 10 km relay 2 Women's cross country 2.1 5 km 2.2 10 km 2.3 20 km 2.4 4 × 5 km relay 3 Men's Nordic combined 3.1 Individual 4 Men's ski jumping 4.1 Individual normal hill 4.2 Individual large hill 5 Medal table 6 References

[edit] Men's cross country

[edit] 15 km

February 21, 1978

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Josef Łuszczek, Poland	49:09.37
Silver	Yevgeny Belyayev, USSR	49:11.62
Bronze	Juha Mieto, Finland	49:14.37

[edit] 30 km

February 19, 1978

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Sergey Savelyev, USSR	1:32:56.0
Silver	Nikolay Zimyatov, USSR	1:33:48.23
Bronze	Josef Łuszczek, Poland	1:33:52.21

[edit] 50 km

February 26, 1978

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Sven-Åke Lundbäck, Sweden	2:46:43.06
Silver	Yevgeny Belyayev, USSR	2:47:34.48
Bronze	Jean-Paul Pierrat, France	2:47:52.27

[edit] 4 × 10 km relay

February 23, 1978

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	Sweden (Sven-Åke Lundbäck, Christer Johansson, Tommy Limby, Thomas Magnusson)	2:05:17.63
Silver	Finland (Esko Lähtevänoja, Juha Mieto, Pertti Teurajärvi, Matti Pitkänen)	2:05:28.95
Bronze	Norway (Lars-Erik Eriksen, Ove Aunli, Ivar Formo, Oddvar Brå)	2:06:48.37

[edit] Women's cross country

[edit] 5 km

February 20, 1978

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Helena Takalo, Finland	18:53.50
Silver	Hilkka Riihivuori, Finland	18:58.49
Bronze	Raisa Smetanina, USSR	19:01.30

[edit] 10 km

February 18, 1978

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Zinaida Amosova, USSR	37:01.72
Silver	Raisa Smetanina, USSR	37:13.37
Bronze	Hilkka Riihivuori, Finland	37:23.43

[edit] 20 km

February 25, 1978

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Zinaida Amosova, USSR
Silver	Raisa Smetanina, USSR
Bronze	Helena Takalo, Finland

[edit] 4 × 5 km relay

February 22, 1978

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	Finland (Taina Impiö, Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen, Hilkka Riihivuori, Helena Takalo)	1:13:25.8
Silver	East Germany (Marlies Rostock, Birgit Schreiber, Barbara Petzold, Christel Meinel)	1:13:29.74
Bronze	USSR (Nina Rocheva, Zinaida Amosova, Raisa Smetanina, Galina Kulakova)	1:13:39.88

[edit] Men's Nordic combined

[edit] Individual

February 19-20, 1978

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Konrad Winkler, East Germany	435.24
Silver	Rauno Miettinen, Finland	431.66
Bronze	Ulrich Wehling, East Germany	430.83

[edit] Men's ski jumping

[edit] Individual normal hill

February 18, 1978

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Matthias Buse, East Germany
Silver	Henry Glaß, East Germany
Bronze	Aleksey Borovitin, USSR

[edit] Individual large hill

February 25, 1978

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Tapio Räisänen, Finland	256.6
Silver	Alois Lipburger, Austria	256.3
Bronze	Falko Weißpflog, East Germany	255.8

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	3	5	3	11
2	Finland	3	3	3	9
3	East Germany	2	2	2	6
4	Sweden	2	0	0	2
5	Poland	1	0	1	2
6	Austria	0	1	0	1
7	Norway	0	0	1	1
8	France	0	0	1	1

[edit] References

• FIS 1978 Cross country results
• FIS 1978 Nordic combined results
• FIS 1978 Ski jumping results
• Results from German Wikipedia

v • d • e FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1925 * 1926 * 1927 * 1929 * 1930 * 1931 * 1933 * 1934 * 1935 * 1937 * 1938 * 1939 * (1941) * 1950 * 1954 * 1958 * 1962 * 1966 * 1970 * 1974 * 1978 * 1980 * 1982 * 1984 * 1985 * 1987 * 1989 * 1991 * 1993 * 1995 * 1997 * 1999 * 2001 * 2003 * 2005 * 2007 * 2009 * 2010 * 2011 * 2013 See also: List of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in men's cross country skiing, List of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in women's cross country skiing, List of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in nordic combined, and List of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping.