FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2005

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

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
15 kilometre freestyle^[1] details	Pietro Piller Cottrer Italy	34:49.7	Fulvio Valbusa Italy	35:00.9	Tore Ruud Hofstad Norway	35:03.9
30 kilometre skiathlon^[2] details	Vincent Vittoz France	1:19:20.5	Giorgio Di Centa Italy	1:19:21.3	Frode Estil Norway	1:19:21.3
50 kilometre classic mass start^[3] details	Frode Estil Norway	2:30:10.1	Anders Aukland Norway	2:30:10.8	Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset Norway	2:30:11.5
4 × 10 kilometre relay^[4] details	Norway Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset Frode Estil Lars Berger Tore Ruud Hofstad	1:39:04.4	Germany Jens Filbrich Andreas Schlütter Tobias Angerer Axel Teichmann	1:39:22.1	Russia Nikolay Pankratov Vasily Rochev Yevgeny Dementyev Nikolay Bolshakov	1:39:23.1
Sprint classic^[5] details	Vasily Rochev Russia		Tor Arne Hetland Norway		Thobias Fredriksson Sweden
Team sprint^[6] details	Norway Tore Ruud Hofstad Tor Arne Hetland	14:08.6	Germany Jens Filbrich Axel Teichmann	14:12.4	Czech Republic Dušan Kožíšek Martin Koukal	14:13.4

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 kilometre freestyle^[7] details	Kateřina Neumannová Czech Republic	26:27.6	Yuliya Chepalova Russia	26:28.8	Marit Bjørgen Norway	26:42.8
15 kilometre skiathlon^[8] details	Yuliya Chepalova Russia	42:16.8	Marit Bjørgen Norway	42:32.5	Kristin Størmer Steira Norway	42:42.7
30 kilometre classic mass start^[9] details	Marit Bjørgen Norway	1:27:05.8	Virpi Kuitunen Finland	1:27:14.7	Natalya Baranova-Masalkina Russia	1:27:16.1
4 × 5 kilometre relay^[10] details	Norway Vibeke Skofterud Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen Kristin Størmer Steira Marit Bjørgen	57:15.7	Russia Larisa Kurkina Natalya Baranova-Masalkina Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Abruzova Yuliya Chepalova	57:23.3	Italy Gabriella Paruzzi Antonella Confortola Sabina Valbusa Arianna Follis	58:05.4
Sprint classic^[11] details	Emilie Öhrstig Sweden		Lina Andersson Sweden		Sara Renner Canada
Team sprint^[12] details	Norway Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen Marit Bjørgen	12:19.7	Finland Riitta-Liisa Lassila Pirjo Manninen	12:22.5	Russia 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	Ronny Ackermann (GER)	20:15.6
Silver	Magnus Moan (NOR)	20:26.7
Bronze	Kristian Hammer (NOR)	20:53.3

15 km individual Gundersen

18 February 2005

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Ronny Ackermann (GER)	38:56.2
Silver	Björn Kircheisen (GER)	38:57.6
Bronze	Felix Gottwald (AUT)	38:59.4

4 × 5 km team

23 February 2005

Medal	Team	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

19 February 2005

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Rok Benkovič (SLO)	256.0
Silver	Jakub Janda (CZE)	249.5
Bronze	Janne Ahonen (FIN)	249.0

Individual large hill

25 February 2005

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Janne Ahonen (FIN)	313.2
Silver	Roar Ljøkelsøy (NOR)	306.2
Bronze	Jakub Janda (CZE)	304.2

Team normal hill

20 February 2005

Medal	Team	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

26 February 2005

Medal	Team	Points
Gold	Austria (Wolfgang 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

Medal table

Medal winners by nation.

* Host nation (Germany)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway (NOR)	7	5	7	19
2	Germany (GER)*	2	5	0	7
3	Russia (RUS)	2	2	3	7
4	Austria (AUT)	2	0	2	4
5	Finland (FIN)	1	3	1	5
6	Italy (ITA)	1	2	1	4
7	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	1	2	4
8	Sweden (SWE)	1	1	1	3
9	Slovenia (SLO)	1	0	1	2
10	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
11	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		19	19	19	57

References

External links

[1] Men's 15 kilometre freestyle results

[2] Men's 30 kilometre pursuit results

[3] Men's 50 kilometre classic results

[4] Men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay results

[5] Men's sprint classic results

[6] Men's team sprint results

[7] Women's 10 kilometre freestyle results

[8] Women's 15 kilometre pursuit results

[9] Women's 30 kilometre classic results

[10] Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay results

[11] Women's sprint classic results

[12] Women's team sprint results

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FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2005
Cross-country skiing
Sprint	men	women
Interval start	15 km men	10 km women
Pursuit	30 km men	15 km women
Mass start	50 km men	30 km women
Team sprint	men	women
Relay	4×10 km men	4×5 km women
Nordic combined
Normal hill	15 km Gundersen
Large hill	7.5 km Sprint	Team
Ski jumping
Normal hill	Men	Team
Large hill	Men	Team
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Medalists	Cross-country (men) Cross-country (women) Nordic combined Ski jumping