FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1993
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The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1993 took place February 19-28, 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.
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[edit] Men's cross country
[edit] 10 km classical
| Medal | Athlete | Time |
| Gold |  Sture Sivertsen, Norway |
24:51.6 |
| Silver |  Vladimir Smirnov, Kazakhstan |
24:55.5 |
| Bronze | Vegard Ulvang, Norway |
24:58.1 |
[edit] 10 km + 15 km combined pursuit
| Medal | Athlete | Time |
| Gold | Bjørn Dæhlie, Norway |
1:01:45.0 |
| Silver | Vladimir Smirnov, Kazakhstan |
1:01:45.0 |
| Bronze |  Silvio Fauner, Italy |
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".[1]
[edit] 30 km classical
| Medal | Athlete | Time |
| Gold | Bjørn Dæhlie, Norway |
1:17:33.6 |
| Silver | Vegard Ulvang, Norway |
1:17:55.0 |
| Bronze | Vladimir Smirnov, Kazakhstan |
1:17:55.3 |
[edit] 50 km freestyle
| Medal | Athlete | Time |
| Gold |  Torgny Mogren, Sweden |
2:03:36.8 |
| Silver |  Hervé Balland, France |
2:04:30.9 |
| Bronze | Bjørn Dæhlie, Norway |
2:05:10.3 |
[edit] 4×10 km relay
| Medal | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Badamchin, Alexey Prokourorov, Mikhail Botvinov) |
1:44:27.2 |
[edit] Women's cross country
[edit] 5 km classical
| Medal | Athlete | Time |
| Gold | Larisa Lazutina, Russia |
14:07.6 |
| Silver | Lyubov Yegorova, Russia |
14:12.1 |
| Bronze | Trude Dybendahl, Norway |
14:18.3 |
[edit] 5 km + 10 km combined pursuit
| Medal | Athlete | Time |
| Gold | Stefania Belmondo, Italy |
40:19.0 |
| Silver | Larisa Lazutina, Russia |
40:19.4 |
| Bronze | Lyubov Yegorova, Russia |
40:19.7 |
[edit] 15 km classical
| Medal | Athlete | Time |
| Gold | Yelena Välbe, Russia |
44:49.0 |
| Silver |  Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi, Finland |
45:39.0 |
| Bronze | Marjut Rolig, Finland |
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.
[edit] 30 km freestyle
| Medal | Athlete | Time |
| Gold | Stefania Belmondo, Italy |
1:22:41.3 |
| Silver | Manuela Di Centa, Italy |
1:22:55.0 |
| Bronze | Lyubov Yegorova, Russia |
1:23:48.3 |
[edit] 4×5 km relay
| Medal | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Gold | Russia (Yelena Välbe, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrilyuk, 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 |
[edit] Men's Nordic combined
[edit] 15 km Individual Gundersen
| Medal | Athlete | Time |
| Gold |  Kenji Ogiwara, Japan |
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| Silver | Knut Tore Apeland, Norway |
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| Bronze | Trond Einar Elden, Norway |
[edit] 3 × 10 km team
| Medal | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
[edit] Men's ski jumping
[edit] Individual normal hill
| Medal | Athlete | Points |
| Gold | Masahiko Harada, Japan |
237.8 |
| Silver |  Andreas Goldberger, Austria |
231.3 |
| Bronze |  Jaroslav Sakala, Czech Republic |
228.2 |
[edit] Individual large hill
| Medal | Athlete | Points |
| Gold | Espen Bredesen, Norway |
241.4 |
| Silver | Jaroslav Sakala, Czech Republic |
239.1 |
| Bronze | Andreas Goldberger, Austria |
237.6 |
Sakala was the first Czech to medal following Czechoslovakia's breakup earlier that year into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
[edit] Team large hill
| Medal | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Gold | Norway (Bjørn Myrbakken, Helge Brendryen, Øyvind Berg, Espen Bredesen) |
821.5 |
| Silver | Czech Republic (František Jež, Jiří Parma, Jaroslav Sakala) |
772.1 |
 Slovakia (Martin Švagerko) (combined team) |
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| 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 November 25, 1992. The country's split was made after the team had been selected prior to the championships
[edit] Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | Norway |
6 | 3 | 5 | 14 |
| 2 | Russia |
3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 3 | Italy |
2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 4 | Japan |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | Kazakhstan |
0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Austria |
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | Czech Republic |
0 | 1.75 | 1 | 2.75 |
| 8 | Finland |
0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | Sweden |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | France |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Germany |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | Slovakia |
0 | 0.25 | 0 | 0.25 |
[edit] References
- ^ Post-race analysis of the event. - Accessed May 24, 2007 (Norwegian)
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