FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1995 explained

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1995
Host City:Thunder Bay, Canada
Events:15
Opening:9 March 1995
Closing:19 March 1995
Stadium:Big Thunder
Previous:1993

The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1995 took place 9–19 March 1995 in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. This marked the second time the separate championships (not part of Winter Olympics) were held outside Europe (the first was in the US towns of Lake Placid, New York, and Rumford, Maine, in 1950). The Nordic combined team event was changed from a 3 × 10 km relay to a 4 × 5 km relay for these championships.

Men's cross-country

10 km classical

11 March 1995

MedalAthleteTime
Gold24:52.3
Silver25:10.1
Bronze25:11.5

10 km + 15 km combined pursuit

13 March 1995

MedalAthleteTime
Gold1:06:19.5
Silver1:06:29.7
Bronze1:06:30.0

30 km classical

9 March 1995

MedalAthleteTime
Gold1:15:52.3
Silver1:16:52.4
Bronze1:17:35.6

50 km freestyle

19 March 1995

MedalAthleteTime
Gold1:56:36.0
Silver1:57:48.5
Bronze1:58:10.7

This marks the first recorded time the 50 km was completed in under two hours.

4 × 10 km relay

17 March 1995

MedalTeamTime
Gold (Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, Thomas Alsgaard)1:34:27.1
Silver (Karri Hietamäki, Harri Kirvesniemi, Jari Räsänen, Jari Isometsä)1:35:10.5
Bronze (Fulvio Valbusa, Marco Albarello, Fabio Maj, Silvio Fauner)1:36:28.4

Women's cross-country

5 km classical

12 March 1995

MedalAthleteTime
Gold15:23.7
Silver15:47.1
Bronze15:57.8

5 km + 10 km combined pursuit

14 March 1995

MedalAthleteTime
Gold43:19.6
Silver43:45.3
Bronze43:56.9

15 km classical

10 March 1995

MedalAthleteTime
Gold41:27.5
Silver42:39.1
Bronze43:03.2

30 km freestyle

18 March 1995

MedalAthleteTime
Gold1:16:27.3
Silver1:16:40.5
Bronze1:16:58.6

4 × 5 km relay

17 March 1995

MedalTeamTime
Gold (Olga Danilova, Yelena Välbe, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrylyuk)53:47.6
Silver (Marit Mikkelsplass, Inger Helene Nybråten, Elin Nilsen, Anita Moen-Guidon)55:18.6
Bronze (Anna Frithioff, Marie-Helene Östlund, Antonina Ordina, Anette Fanqvist)55:18.7

Men's Nordic combined

15 km individual Gundersen

9 March 1995

MedalAthleteTime
Gold44.19.9
Silver+ 30.3
Bronze+ 39.7

4 × 5 km team

10 March 1995

MedalTeamTime
Gold (Masashi Abe, Tsugiharu Ogiwara, Kenji Ogiwara, Takanori Kono)56:20.2
Silver (Halldor Skard, Bjarte Engen Vik, Knut Tore Apeland, Fred Børre Lundberg)58:14.8
Bronze (Markus Wüst, Armin Krugel, Stefan Wittwer, Jean-Yves Cuendet)1:01:41.9

Men's ski jumping

Individual normal hill

12 March 1995

MedalAthletePoints
Gold266.0
Silver256.5
Bronze243.5

Individual large hill

18 March 1995

MedalAthletePoints
Gold272.6
Silver259.5
Bronze229.9

Team large hill

16 March 1995

MedalTeamPoints
Gold (Jani Soininen, Janne Ahonen, Mika Laitinen, Ari-Pekka Nikkola) 889.0
Silver (Jens Weißflog, Gerd Siegmund, Hansjörg Jäkle, Dieter Thoma)882.5
Bronze (Takanobu Okabe, Jinya Nishikata, Hiroya Saito, Naoki Yasuzaki)836.9

Medal table

Medal winners by nation.The host country, Canada, did not get any medals.

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