FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 explained

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2005
Host City:	Oberstdorf, Germany
Events:	19
Opening:	16 February 2005
Closing:	27 February 2005
Stadium:	Schattenbergschanze
Website:	Oberstdorf2005.com
Previous:	2003

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

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

Women

10 kilometre freestyle^[6]	Kateřina Neumannová	26:27.6	Yuliya Chepalova	26:28.8	Marit Bjørgen	26:42.8
15 kilometre skiathlon^[7]	Yuliya Chepalova	42:16.8	Marit Bjørgen	42:32.5	Kristin Størmer Steira	42:42.7
	Marit Bjørgen	1:27:05.8	Virpi Kuitunen	1:27:14.7	Natalya Baranova-Masalkina	1:27:16.1
4 × 5 kilometre relay^[8]	Vibeke Skofterud Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen Kristin Størmer Steira Marit Bjørgen	57:15.7	Larisa Kurkina Natalya Baranova-Masalkina Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Abruzova Yuliya Chepalova	57:23.3	Gabriella Paruzzi Antonella Confortola Sabina Valbusa Arianna Follis	58:05.4
Sprint classic^[9]	Emilie Öhrstig	2:15.5	Lina Andersson	2:16.8	Sara Renner	2:16.9
Team sprint^[10]	Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen Marit Bjørgen	12:19.7	Riitta-Liisa Lassila Pirjo Manninen	12:22.5	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		20:15.6
Silver		20:26.7
Bronze		20:53.3

15 km individual Gundersen

18 February 2005

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold		38:56.2
Silver		38:57.6
Bronze		38:59.4

4 × 5 km team

23 February 2005

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	(Petter Tande, Håvard Klemetsen, Magnus Moan, Kristian Hammer)	49:45.5
Silver	(Sebastian Haseney, Georg Hettich, Björn Kircheisen, Ronny Ackermann)	49:52.6
Bronze	(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		256.0
Silver		249.5
Bronze		249.0

Individual large hill

25 February 2005

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold		313.2
Silver		307.2
Bronze		304.2

Team normal hill

20 February 2005

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

Team large hill

26 February 2005

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

Medal table

Medal winners by nation.

External links

Notes and References

http://medias2.fis-ski.com/pdf/2005/CC/2331/2005CC2331RL.pdf Men's 15 kilometre freestyle results
http://medias4.fis-ski.com/pdf/2005/CC/2333/2005CC2333RL.pdf Men's 30 kilometre pursuit results
http://medias4.fis-ski.com/pdf/2005/CC/2339/2005CC2339RL.pdf Men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay results
http://medias4.fis-ski.com/pdf/2005/CC/2338/2005CC2338RL.pdf Men's sprint classic results
http://medias2.fis-ski.com/pdf/2005/CC/2341/2005CC2341RL.pdf Men's team sprint results
http://medias2.fis-ski.com/pdf/2005/CC/2330/2005CC2330RL.pdf Women's 10 kilometre freestyle results
http://medias1.fis-ski.com/pdf/2005/CC/2332/2005CC2332RL.pdf Women's 15 kilometre pursuit results
http://medias2.fis-ski.com/pdf/2005/CC/2334/2005CC2334RL.pdf Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay results
http://medias2.fis-ski.com/pdf/2005/CC/2336/2005CC2336RL.pdf Women's sprint classic results
http://medias3.fis-ski.com/pdf/2005/CC/2340/2005CC2340RL.pdf Women's team sprint results