FIS Nordic World Ski Championships explained

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
Status:	active
Genre:	sporting event
Date:	February–March
Frequency:	biennial (since 1985)
Location:	various
Organised:	FIS

The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships is a biennial Nordic skiing event organized by the International Ski Federation (FIS). The World Championships was started in 1925 for men and opened for women's participation in 1954. World Championship events include Nordic skiing's three disciplines: cross-country skiing, ski jumping, and Nordic combined (the latter being a combination sport consisting of both cross-country and ski jumping). From 1924 to 1939, the World Championships were held every year, including the Winter Olympics. After World War II, the World Championships were held every four years from 1950 to 1982. Since 1985, the World Championships have been held in odd-numbered years.

History

The International Ski Federation arranged annual Rendezvous races from 1925 to 1927 and annual FIS races from 1929 to 1935. At the FIS congress in 1936, it was decided that the first World Championships should be held in 1937 and take place in Chamonix, France.^[1] All Rendezvous and FIS races were given official World Championship status at FIS' 25th congress in 1965.^[2] This decision meant that the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1925 in Janské Lázně, Czechoslovakia, were given status as the first official World Championships.

The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1941 were declared a non-World Championship event by FIS at the 16th FIS congress in 1946^[3] and their results have been struck from the official records.

The 1980 and 1984 World Championships consisted of a total of only three events; women's 20 km cross-country (1980), ski-jumping team event and Nordic combined team event (both 1984). These events were not held in the 1980 and 1984 Winter Olympics and therefore got their own World Championships.

Historical notes

1. In the years 1925–1927, the FIS referred to these events as Rendezvous races. During the periods of 1929–1931 and 1933–1935, the FIS referred to these events as FIS races. This event has been officially referred to as the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships since 1937.
2. The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1941 were declared a non-event by the FIS at their 1946 meeting and their results have been struck from the official records.
3. The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1980 consisted of a women's 20 km cross-country event because it was not included in the program of the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid.
4. The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1984 consisted of team events in both ski jumping and Nordic combined held at separate locations because neither event was included in the program of the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

The following list shows when new events were added for the first time:

• 1933, men's relay (cross-country) was added.
• 1954, women's 10 km and 3 × 5 km relay was added, men's 15 km (cross-country) replaced the 18 km.
• 1962, men's normal hill (ski jumping) and women's 5 km (cross-country) were added.
• 1978, women's 20 km (cross-country) was added.
• 1982, men's ski jumping team large hill and Nordic combined team large hill were added.
• 1989, women's 15 km was added (cross-country) and women's 30 km replaced the 20 km.
• 1991, men's 10 km (cross-country) was added.
• 1993, cross-country pursuit (both genders) were added.
• 2001, men's ski jumping team normal hill was added and cross-country sprint (both genders) replaced the 10 km (men) and the 5 km (women).
• 2003, women's 30 km and men's 50 km (cross-country) changed from interval start to mass start.
• 2005, cross-country team sprint (both genders) were added.
• 2009, women's normal hill (ski jumping) was added.
• 2011, Nordic combined team normal hill was added.
• 2013, mixed team (ski jumping) was added and team sprint large hill (Nordic combined) replaced the team large hill.
• 2019, women's team normal hill (ski jumping) was added.
• 2021, women's Nordic combined with women's large hill (ski jumping) were added.
• 2023, Nordic combined mixed team event replaced men's team sprint large hill.
• 2025, men's 10 km replaced the 15 km (interval start, cross-country), women's 50 km replaced the 30 km (mass-start, cross-country), men's and women's 4x7,5 km replaced the men's 4x10 km and the women's 4x5 km (relay, cross-country), men's and women's 20 km replaced the men's 30 km and the women's 15 km (skiathlon, cross-country), men's compact 7,5 km replaced the Gundersen 10 km (normal hill, Nordic combined), women's mass-start 5 km + normal hill (Nordic combined) and men's and women's Para Sprint (separated from Para Cross-Country World Championships) were added.^[4]

Editions

	Year	Location	Date	Venue	Host country	Top nation	Events	Notes
align=center	1	align=center				align=center	—			align=center	4	Denoted Rendezvous races
align=center	2	align=center			4–6 Feb				align=center	4	Denoted Rendezvous races
align=center	3	align=center			2–5 Feb	Trampolino Olimpico			align=center	4	Denoted FIS races
align=center	4	align=center			5–9 Feb	align=center	—			align=center	4	Denoted FIS races
align=center	5	align=center							align=center	4
align=center	6	align=center			13–15 Feb	align=center	—			align=center	4
align=center	7	align=center			8–12 Feb				align=center	5	Denoted FIS races. First with cross-country relay
align=center	8	align=center				Hallstaberget			align=center	5	Denoted FIS races
align=center	9	align=center			13–18 Feb				align=center	5	Denoted FIS races
align=center	10	align=center			12–28 Feb				align=center	5	First official FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
align=center	11	align=center		Lahti (2)	24–28 Feb		(2)		align=center	5
align=center	12	align=center		Zakopane (2)	11–19 Feb	align=center	—	(2)		align=center	5
align=center	—	align=center			1–10 Feb		(2)		align=center	5	Declared unofficial in 1946
align=center	13	align=center		Lake Placid Rumford	1–6 Feb	Intervales —			align=center	5	First championship outside Europe
align=center	14	align=center			13–21 Feb		(2)		align=center	8	First championship with women
align=center	15	align=center		Lahti (3)	1–9 Mar		(3)		align=center	8
align=center	16	align=center		Zakopane (3)	18–25 Feb	align=center	—	(3)		align=center	10	First with normal hill
align=center	17	align=center		Oslo (2)	17–27 Feb		(2)		align=center	10
align=center	18	align=center		Vysoké Tatry (2)	14–22 Feb		(3)		align=center	10
align=center	19	align=center		Falun (2)	16–24 Feb		(3)		align=center	10
align=center	20	align=center		Lahti (4)	18–26 Feb		(4)		align=center	11
align=center	21	align=center		Falun (3)	8 Mar		(4)		align=center	1^[5]	Non-Olympic event
align=center	22	align=center		Oslo (3)	19–28 Feb		(3)		align=center	13	First with team large hill/Nordic combined relay
align=center	23	align=center		Engelberg Rovaniemi	26 Feb 17 Mar	Gross-Titlis-Schanze –	(5)		align=center	2^[6]	Non-Olympic events
align=center	24	align=center			16–27 Jan		(2)		align=center	13
align=center	25	align=center			12–21 Feb	Schattenberg Ski Jump / Birgsautal			align=center	13
align=center	26	align=center		Lahti (5)	17–26 Feb		(6)		align=center	15
align=center	27	align=center			7–17 Feb		(3)		align=center	15	First with 10 km cross-country (men)
align=center	28	align=center		Falun (4)	19–28 Feb		(5)		align=center	15	First with pursuit
align=center	29	align=center			9–19 Mar				align=center	15
align=center	30	align=center			21 Feb – 2 Mar		(4)		align=center	15
align=center	31	align=center			19–28 Feb		(3)		align=center	16	First with 10 km/large hill
align=center	32	align=center		Lahti (6)	15–25 Feb		(7)		align=center	19	First with team normal hill; first with sprint
align=center	33	align=center		Val di Fiemme (2)	18 Feb – 1 Mar		(4)		align=center	18
align=center	34	align=center		Oberstdorf (2)	16–27 Feb		(2)		align=center	19	First with team sprint
align=center	35	align=center			22 Feb – 4 Mar				align=center	18
align=center	36	align=center			18 Feb – 1 Mar				align=center	20	First with ski jumping for women; only with Nordic combined mass start
align=center	37	align=center		Oslo (4)	23 Feb – 6 Mar		(5)		align=center	21	First with Nordic combined normal hill relay
align=center	38	align=center		Val di Fiemme (3)	20 Feb – 3 Mar		(5)		align=center	21	First with mixed team ski jumping First with Nordic combined large hill team sprint
align=center	39	align=center		Falun (5)	18 Feb – 1 Mar		(6)		align=center	21
align=center	40	align=center		Lahti (7)	22 Feb – 5 Mar		(8)		align=center	21
align=center	41	align=center		Seefeld (2)	20 Feb – 3 Mar		(4)		align=center	22	First with women's team ski jumping
align=center	42	align=center		Oberstdorf (3)	24 Feb – 7 Mar		(3)		align=center	24	First with women's nordic combined individual race First with women's ski jumping large hill
align=center	43	align=center			22 Feb – 5 Mar				align=center	24	First with Nordic combined mixed team event
align=center	44	align=center	2025	Trondheim (2)	26 Feb – 9 Mar		(6)		align=center
align=center	45	align=center	2027	Falun (6)	24 Feb – 7 Mar		(7)		align=center

Medalists by sport

• Cross-country skiing
  • List of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in men's cross-country skiing
  • List of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in women's cross-country skiing
• Nordic combined
  • List of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in Nordic combined
• Ski jumping
  • List of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping

Medal table

Table updated after the 2023 Championships.

Multiple medalists

Boldface denotes active athletes and highest medal count among all athletes (including these who not included in these tables) per type.

All events

Rank	Athlete	Country	Gender	Discipline	From	To	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1			F	Cross-country skiing	2003	2017	18	5	3	26
2			F	Cross-country skiing	1989	1997	14	3	–	17
3	Therese Johaug		F	Cross-country skiing	2007	2021	14	2	3	19
4			M	Cross-country skiing	2007	2015	13	3	–	16
5			F	Cross-country skiing	1987	2001	11	3	2	16
6			M	Cross-country skiing	1991	1999	9	5	3	17
7	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo		M	Cross-country skiing	2017	2023	9	2	1	12
8	Jarl Magnus Riiber		M	Nordic combined	2019	2023	8	3	–	11
9			M	Ski jumping	2005	2013	8	2	1	11
10			M	Nordic combined	2011	2023	7	8	3	18

Individual events

Men

Rank	Athlete	Country	Discipline	From	To	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1			Cross-country skiing	2009	2015	7	2	–	9
2			Cross-country skiing	1991	1999	5	4	3	12
3			Cross-country skiing	1985	1991	5	2	–	7
4			Cross-country skiing	1989	1995	4	3	3	10
5			Cross-country skiing	1995	1999	4	2	2	8
6			Nordic combined	2001	2007	4	1	1	6
			Ski jumping	2001	2011	4	1	1	6
8	Jarl Magnus Riiber		Nordic combined	2019	2023	4	1	–	5
9	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo		Cross-country skiing	2017	2023	3	2	1	6
10			Nordic combined	2011	2019	3	1	1	5
	Johannes Rydzek		Nordic combined	2011	2017	3	1	1	5

Women

Rank	Athlete	Country	Discipline	From	To	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1			Cross-country skiing	2003	2017	12	4	1	17
2			Cross-country skiing	1989	1997	10	2	–	12
3	Therese Johaug		Cross-country skiing	2007	2021	10	1	3	14
4			Cross-country skiing	1987	2001	5	3	2	10
5			Cross-country skiing	1999	2003	5	–	–	5
6			Cross-country skiing	1991	1999	4	4	1	9
7			Cross-country skiing	1958	1966	4	1	–	5
8			Cross-country skiing	1970	1980	3	1	1	5
9			Cross-country skiing	2009	2013	2	3	2	7
10			Cross-country skiing	1987	1989	2	2	2	6

TV broadcasters

Eurosport (75 countries)
Match TV (Russia)
ORF (Austria)
Eesti Media (Estonia)
YLE (Finland)
ARD/ZDF (Germany)
NRK (Norway)
Viaplay/TV6 (Sweden)
SRG/SSR (Switzerland)
RUV (Iceland)
NBC (USA)
TVP (Poland)
Rai Sport (Italia)
L'equipe (France)
CBC (Canada)
CT Sport (Czech Republic)
JOJ Sport (Slovakia)
RTV Slovenija (Slovenia)

See also

• FIS Nordic Junior World Ski Championships
• World Para Nordic Skiing Championships
• Cross-country skiing at the Winter Olympics
• Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics
• Ski jumping at the Winter Olympics
• FIS Cross-Country World Cup
• FIS Nordic Combined World Cup
• FIS Ski Jumping World Cup

External links

• FIS Nordic World Ski Championships from official site
• Sport 123 results – cross-country skiing
• Sport 123 results – Nordic combined
• Sport 123 results – ski jumping

See main article: world championships.

Notes and References

1. Web site: 14th Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GER) 1936 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160326080240/http://www.fis-ski.com/inside-fis/about/fis-structure/congress/article=garmisch-partenkirchen-1936.html . dead . 26 March 2016 . fis-ski.com. . 11 January 2019.
2. Web site: 25th Mamaia (ROM) 1965 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180314024809/http://www.fis-ski.com/inside-fis/about/fis-structure/congress/article=mamaia-1965.html . dead . 14 March 2018 . fis-ski.com. . 11 January 2019.
3. Web site: 16th Pau (FRA) 1946 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180314025119/http://www.fis-ski.com:80/inside-fis/about/fis-structure/congress/article=pau-1946.html . dead . 14 March 2018 . fis-ski.com. . 11 January 2019.
4. Web site: Trondheim 2025 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships including Para Cross-Country Sprint events. Invitation .
5. Non-Olympic event: women's 20 km cross-country skiing.
6. Non-Olympic events: FIN: 3 x 10 km team Nordic combined; SUI: Non-Olympic event: team large hill ski jumping.