| FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2021 | |
| Size: | 100px |
| Host City: | Oberstdorf |
| Country: | Germany |
| Events: | 24 |
| Previous: | 2019 |
The 42nd FIS Nordic World Ski Championships were held from 24 February to 7 March 2021 in Oberstdorf, Germany. It was the third time that the World Championships have been held in Oberstdorf, having previously hosted the event in 1987 and 2005.
On 9 December 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) banned Russia from all international sport for a period of four years, after the Russian government was found to have tampered with laboratory data that it provided to WADA in January 2019 as a condition of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency being reinstated. As a result of the ban, WADA plans to allow individually cleared Russian athletes to take part in the 2021–2022 World Championships and 2022 Winter Olympics under a neutral banner, as instigated at the 2018 Winter Olympics, but they will not be permitted to compete in team sports. The title of the neutral banner has yet to be determined; WADA Compliance Review Committee head Jonathan Taylor stated that the IOC would not be able to use "Olympic Athletes from Russia" (OAR) as it did in 2018, emphasizing that neutral athletes cannot be portrayed as representing a specific country.[1] [2] [3] Russia later filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the WADA decision.[4] The Court of Arbitration for Sport, on review of Russia's appeal of its case from WADA, ruled on 17 December 2020 to reduce the penalty that WADA had placed. Instead of banning Russia from sporting events, the ruling allowed Russia to participate at the Olympics and other international events, but for a period of two years, the team cannot use the Russian name, flag, or anthem and must present themselves as "Neutral Athlete" or "Neutral Team". The ruling does allow for team uniforms to display "Russia" on the uniform as well as the use of the Russian flag colors within the uniform's design, although the name should be up to equal predominance as the "Neutral Athlete/Team" designation.[5]
All times are local (UTC+1).
| Date | Time | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 February | 09:00 | Women's 5 km freestyle qualification | |
| 10:30 | Men's 10 km freestyle qualification | ||
| 25 February | 11:30 | Women's sprint | |
| 11:30 | Men's sprint | ||
| 27 February | 11:45 | Women's 2 × 7.5 km skiathlon | |
| 13:30 | Men's 2 × 15 km skiathlon | ||
| 28 February | 13:00 | Women's team sprint | |
| 13:00 | Men's team sprint | ||
| 2 March | 13:15 | Women's 10 km freestyle | |
| 3 March | 13:15 | Men's 15 km freestyle | |
| 4 March | 13:15 | Women's 4 × 5 km relay | |
| 5 March | 13:15 | Men's 4 × 10 km relay | |
| 6 March | 12:30 | Women's 30 km classical | |
| 7 March | 13:00 | Men's 50 km classical |
| Date | Time | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 February | 10:15/16:00 | Men's HS106 / 10 km | |
| 27 February | 10:00/15:30 | Women's HS106 / 5 km | |
| 28 February | 10:00/15:00 | Men's team HS106 / 4 × 5 km | |
| 4 March | 11:00/15:15 | Men's HS137 / 10 km | |
| 6 March | 10:00/15:00 | Men's team sprint HS137 / 2 × 7.5 km |
| Date | Time | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 February | 18:00 | Women's HS106 qualification | |
| 25 February | 17:00 | Women's HS106 | |
| 26 February | 17:15 | Women's team HS106 | |
| 20:30 | Men's HS106 qualification | ||
| 27 February | 16:30 | Men's HS106 | |
| 28 February | 17:00 | Team mixed HS106 | |
| 2 March | 18:00 | Women's HS137 qualification | |
| 3 March | 17:15 | Women's HS137 | |
| 4 March | 17:30 | Men's HS137 qualification | |
| 5 March | 17:00 | Men's HS137 | |
| 6 March | 17:00 | Men's team HS137 |
| Sprint classical[9] | 3:01.30 | 3:01.96 | 3:02.10 | ||||
| 30 kilometre skiathlon[10] | Alexander Bolshunov | 1:11:33.9 | 1:11:35.0 | 1:11:35.6 | |||
| Team sprint freestyle[11] | 15:01.74 | 15:03.42 | 15:03.83 | ||||
| 15 kilometre freestyle individual[12] | 33:48.7 | 34:08.9 | 34:24.3 | ||||
| 4 × 10 kilometre relay[13] | 1:52:39.0 | 1:52:51.0 | 1:53:51.6 | ||||
| 50 kilometre classical mass start[14] | 2:10:52.9 | Alexander Bolshunov | 2:10:53.6 | 2:11:01.1 |
| Sprint classical[15] | 2:36.76 | 2:39.08 | 2:39.11 | ||||
| 15 kilometre skiathlon[16] | 38:35.5 | 39:05.5 | 39.05.7 | ||||
| Team sprint freestyle[17] | 16:27.94 | Laurien van der Graaff Nadine Fähndrich | 16:28.89 | Eva Urevc Anamarija Lampič | 16:31.40 | ||
| 10 kilometre freestyle individual[18] | 23:09.8 | 24:04.0 | 24:16.7 | ||||
| 4 × 5 kilometre relay[19] | 53:43.2 | 54:09.8 | 54:29.4 | ||||
| 30 kilometre classical mass start[20] | 1:24:56.3 | 1:27:30.5 | 1:27:31.1 |
| Individual large hill/10 km[21] | 23:11.1 | 23:48.2 | 23:56.9 | ||||
| Team normal hill/4 × 5 km[22] | 43:57.7 | 44:40.4 | 44:46.8 | ||||
| Individual normal hill/10 km[23] | 23:01.2 | 23:01.6 | 23:02.1 | ||||
| Team sprint large hill/2 × 7,5 km[24] | 29:29.7 | 30:09.3 | 30:37.1 |
| Individual normal hill/5 km[25] | 13:10.4 | 13:24.2 | 13:39.2 |
| Men's individual normal hill[26] | 268.8 | 265.2 | 261.5 | ||||
| Men's individual large hill[27] | 276.5 | 272.1 | 267.4 | ||||
| Men's team large hill[28] | 1046.6 | 1035.5 | 1031.2 |
| Women's individual normal hill[29] | 279.6 | 276.5 | 276.3 | ||||
| Women's individual large hill[30] | 296.6 | 287.9 | 287.1 | ||||
| Women's team normal hill[31] | 959.3 | 957.9 | 942.1 |
| Mixed team normal hill[32] | 1000.8 | 995.6 | 986.5 |