FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2005

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2005

Official logo for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2005.
Host city	Oberstdorf, Germany
Events	19
Opening	16 February 2005
Closing	27 February 2005
Main venue	Schattenbergschanze
Website	Oberstdorf2005.com
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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	2:32.1	Tor Arne Hetland  Norway	2:32.3	Thobias Fredriksson  Sweden	2:39.0
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	2:15.5	Lina Andersson  Sweden	2:16.8	Sara Renner  Canada	2:16.9
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

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	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

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)	307.2
Bronze	Jakub Janda (CZE)	304.2

Team normal hill

20 February 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

26 February 2005

Medal	Athlete	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

• FIS 2005 Cross country results
• FIS 2005 Nordic combined results
• FIS 2005 Ski jumping results