FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1958 explained

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1958
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Host City:	Lahti
Country:	Finland
Events:	8
Previous:	1954

The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1958 took place 2–9 March 1958 in Lahti, Finland. This marked the third time the city hosted this event having done so in 1926 and 1938. Germany returned to the FIS Nordic Ski Championships for the first time officially since 1939, albeit as East Germany and West Germany. Additionally, it was the first championships to electronic timekeeping where results were timed to the tenth of a second rather than the full second.

Men's cross-country

15 km

4 March 1958

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold		48:58.3
Silver		49:11.8
Bronze		49:29.4

30 km

2 March 1958

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold		1:40:03.0
Silver		1:40:15.2
Bronze		1:40:44.4

50 km

8 March 1958

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold		2:56:21.9
Silver		2:57:39.7
Bronze		2:58:49.5

4 x 10 km relay

8 March 1958

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	(Sixten Jernberg, Lennart Larsson, Sture Grahn, Per-Erik Larsson)	2:18:15.0
Silver	(Fyodor Terentyev, Nikolay Anikin, Anatoly Shelyukhin, Pavel Kolchin)	2:18:44.4
Bronze	(Kalevi Hämäläinen, Arto Tiainen, Arvo Viitanen, Veikko Hakulinen)	2:19:23.2

Women's cross-country

10 km

5 March 1958

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold		44:49.0
Silver		45:28.2
Bronze		46:02.8

3 x 5 km relay

7 March 1958

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	(Radya Yeroshina, Alevtina Kolchina, Lyubov Kozyreva)	58:32.4
Silver	(Toini Mikkola-Pöysti, Pirkko Korkee, Siiri Rantanen)	1:00:14.0
Bronze	(Märta Norberg, Irma Johansson, Sonja Edström)	1:01:58.5

Men's Nordic combined

Individual

2-3 March 1958

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold
Silver
Bronze

Men's ski jumping

Individual large hill

9 March 1958

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold
Silver
Bronze