FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2005

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The 2005 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships took place February 16-27, 2005 in Oberstdorf, Germany for the second time after hosting it previously in 1987. The ski jumping team normal hill returned after not being held in 2003. The combined pursuit of 10 km (5 km classical interval + 5 km freestyle pursuit) women and 20 km (10 km classical interval + 10 km freestyle pursuit) men was changed to a double pursuit of 15 km women (7.5 km classical mass start + 7.5 km freestyle pursuit) and 30 km men (15 km classical mass start + 15 km freestyle pursuit). Team sprint was also added as well.

Men's cross country

1.2 km individual sprint classical

February 22, 2005

Medal Athlete Time
Gold   Vasili Rotchev, Russia
Silver   Tor Arne Hetland, Norway
Bronze   Thobias Fredriksson, Sweden

6 x 1.2 km team sprint freestyle

February 25, 2005

Medal Athlete Time
Gold   Norway (Tor Ruud Hofstad, Tor Arne Hetland) 14:08.6
Silver   Germany (Jens Filbrich, Axel Teichmann) 14:12.4
Bronze   Czech Republic (Dusan Kozisek, Martin Koukal) 14:13.4

15 km freestyle interval start

February 17, 2005

Medal Athlete Time
Gold   Pietro Piller Cottrer, Italy 34:44.9
Silver   Fulvio Valbusa, Italy 35:00.9
Bronze   Tore Ruud Hofstad, Norway 35:03.9

15 km + 15 km double pursuit

February 20, 2005

Medal Athlete Time
Gold   Vincent Vittoz, France 1:19:20.5
Silver   Giorgio di Centa, Italy 1:19:21.3
Bronze   Frode Estil, Norway 1:19:21.3

Di Centa edged out Estil at the finish line to earn the silver medal.

50 km classical mass start

February 27, 2005

Medal Athlete Time
Gold   Frode Estil, Norway 2:30:10.1
Silver   Anders Aukland, Norway 2:30:10.8
Bronze   Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Norway 2:30:11.5

4 x 10 km relay

February 24, 2005

Medal Athlete Time
Gold   Norway (Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Frode Estil, Lars Berger, Tore Ruud Hofstad) 1:39:04.4
Silver   Germany (Jens Filbrich, Andreas Schlütter, Tobias Angerer, Axel Teichmann) 1:39:22.1
Bronze   Russia (Nikolay Pankratov, Vasili Rotchev,Yevgeny Dementiev, Nikolay Bolschakov) 1:39:23.1

Women's cross country

0.9 km individual sprint classical

February 22, 2005

Medal Athlete Time
Gold   Emile Öhrstig, Sweden
Silver   Lina Andersson, Sweden
Bronze   Sara Renner, Canada

Renner is the first Canadian and the first North American woman to medal at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.

6 x 0.9 km team sprint freestyle

February 25, 2005

Medal Athlete Time
Gold   Norway (Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen, Marit Bjørgen) 12:19.7
Silver   Finland (Riitta Liisa Lassila, Pirjo Manninen) 12:22.5
Bronze   Russia (Julija Tchepalova, Alena Sidko) 12:23.3

10 km freestyle interval start

February 17, 2005

Medal Athlete Time
Gold   Kateřina Neumannová, Czech Republic 26:27.6
Silver   Julija Tchepalova, Russia 26:28.8
Bronze   Marit Bjørgen, Norway 26:42.8

7.5 km + 7.5 km double pursuit

February 19, 2005

Medal Athlete Time
Gold   Julija Tchepalova, Russia 42:16.8
Silver   Marit Bjørgen, Norway 42:32.5
Bronze   Kristin Størmer Steira, Norway 42:42.7

30 km classical mass start

February 26, 2005

Medal Athlete Time
Gold   Marit Bjørgen, Norway 1:27:05.8
Silver   Virpi Kuitunen, Finland 1:27:14.7
Bronze   Natalia Baranova-Masolkina, Russia 1:27:16.1

4 x 5 km relay

February 21, 2005

Medal Athlete Time
Gold   Norway (Vibeke Skofterud, Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen, Hilde Kristin Størmer Steira, Marit Bjørgen) 57:15.7
Silver   Russia (Larisa Kurkina, Natalia Baranova-Masolkina, Evgenia Medvedeva-Abruzova, Julija Tchepalova) 57:23.3
Bronze   Italy (Gabriella Paruzzi, Antonella Confortola, Sabina Valbusa, Arianna Follis) 58:05.4

Men's Nordic combined

7.5km sprint

February 27, 2005

Medal Athlete Time
Gold   Ronny Ackermann, Germany 20:15.6
Silver   Magnus Moan, Norway 20:26.7
Bronze   Kristian Hammer, Norway 20:53.3

15km Indivudal Gundersen

February 18, 2005

Medal Athlete Time
Gold   Ronny Ackermann, Germany 38:56.2
Silver   Björn Kircheisen, Germany 38:57.6
Bronze   Felix Gottwald, Austria 38:59.4

4 x 5 km team

February 23, 2005

Medal Athlete Time
Gold   Norway (Petter Tande, Håvard Klemetsen, Magnus Moan, Kristian Hammer) 49:45.5
Silver   Germany (Sebastian Haseney, Georg Hettich, Björn Kircheisen, Ronny Ackermann) 49:52.6
Bronze   Austria (Michael Gruber, Christoph Bieler, David Kreiner, Felix Gottwald) 49:52.9

Men's ski jumping

Individual normal hill

February 19, 2005

Medal Athlete Points
Gold   Rok Benkovič, Slovenia 256.0
Silver   Jakub Janda, Czech Republic 249.5
Bronze   Janne Ahonen, Finland 249.0

Individual large hill

February 25, 2005

Medal Athlete Points
Gold   Janne Ahonen, Finland 313.2
Silver   Roar Ljøkelsøy, Norway 306.2
Bronze   Jakub Janda, Czech Republic 304.2

Team normal hill

February 20, 2005

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

Team large hill

February 26, 2005

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