FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2003

Template:Short description Template:Template other The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2003 took place February 18 – March 1, 2003 in Val di Fiemme, Italy for a second time (1991). The ski jumping team normal hill held in 2001 was not held at this championships while the women's 30 km returned after being cancelled in the previous championships due to extremely cold weather. Additionally the pursuit races went from separate races run on the same day (combined) to Skiathlon races.

Men's cross-country

1.5 km individual sprint

February 26, 2003

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Template:Flagathlete	3:12.1
Silver	Template:Flagathlete	3:12.9
Bronze	Template:Flagathlete	3:13.5

15 km classical

February 21, 2003

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Template:Flagathlete	35:47.5
Silver	Template:Flagathlete	35:54.4
Bronze	Template:Flagathlete	35:56.0

10 km + 10 km double pursuit

February 23, 2003

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Template:Flagathlete	47:42.3
Silver	Template:Flagathlete	47:42.6
Bronze	Template:Flagathlete	47:42.7

30 km classical mass start

February 19, 2003

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Template:Flagathlete	1:12:29.3
Silver	Template:Flagathlete	1:12:29.9
Bronze	Template:Flagathlete	1:12:30.4

50 km freestyle

March 1, 2003

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Template:Flagathlete	1:54:25.3
Silver	Template:Flagathlete	1:54:40.3
Bronze	Template:Flagathlete	1:55:09.0

4 × 10 km relay

February 25, 2003

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	(Anders Aukland, Frode Estil, Tore Ruud Hofstad, Thomas Alsgaard)	1:31:56.4
Silver	(Jens Filbrich, Andreas Schlütter, René Sommerfeldt, Axel Teichmann)	1:31:56.6
Bronze	(Anders Södergren, Mathias Fredriksson, Per Elofsson, Jörgen Brink)	1:32:12.8

Women's cross-country

1.5 km individual sprint

February 26, 2003

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Template:Flagathlete	3:28.8
Silver	Template:Flagathlete	3:29.9
Bronze	Template:Flagathlete	3:30.6

10 km classical

February 20. 2003

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Template:Flagathlete	25:47.0
Silver	Template:Flagathlete	26:08.0
Bronze	Template:Flagathlete	26:16.7

5 km + 5 km double pursuit

February 22, 2003

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Template:Flagathlete	26:38.4
Silver	Template:Flagathlete	26:39.0
Bronze	Template:Flagathlete	26:39.0

Sachenbacher beat Zavyalova in a photo finish to earn the silver medal.

15 km classical mass start

February 18, 2003

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Template:Flagathlete	39:40.9
Silver	Template:Flagathlete	39:53.7
Bronze	Template:Flagathlete	40:36.7

30 km freestyle

February 28, 2003

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Template:Flagathlete	1:14:29.8
Silver	Template:Flagathlete	1:14:45.1
Bronze	Template:Flagathlete	1:14:56.7

4 × 5 km relay

February 24, 2003

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	(Manuela Henkel, Viola Bauer, Claudia Künzel, Evi Sachenbacher)	50:54.7
Silver	(Anita Moen, Marit Bjørgen, Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen, Vibeke Skofterud)	51:26.3
Bronze	(Natalya Korostelyova, Olga Zavyalova, Yelena Burukhina, Nina Gavrylyuk)	52:06.3

The Finnish relay team finished second, but was disqualified when Kaisa Varis tested positive for doping.

Men's Nordic combined

7.5 km sprint

February 28, 2003

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Template:Flagathlete	18:47.8
Silver	Template:Flagathlete	18:49.1
Bronze	Template:Flagathlete	18:49.1

Spillane is the first American to win a gold medal in the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. Ackermann beat Gottwald at the line to earn the silver medal.

15 km Individual Gundersen

February 21, 2003

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Template:Flagathlete	37:54.2
Silver	Template:Flagathlete	38:46.3
Bronze	Template:Flagathlete	39:10.1

4 × 5 km team

February 24, 2003

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	(Michael Gruber, Wilhelm Denifl, Christoph Bieler, Felix Gottwald)	47:23.9
Silver	(Thorsten Schmitt, Georg Hettich, Björn Kircheisen, Ronny Ackermann)	+ 12.6
Bronze	(Hannu Manninen, Jouni Kaitainen, Jaakko Tallus, Samppa Lajunen)	+ 1:15.5

Men's ski jumping

Individual normal hill

February 28, 2003

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Template:Flagathlete	279.0
Silver	Template:Flagathlete	263.0
Bronze	Template:Flagathlete	259.5

Individual large hill

February 22, 2003

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Template:Flagathlete	289.0
Silver	Template:Flagathlete	286.5
Bronze	Template:Flagathlete	273.2

Team large hill

February 23, 2003

Medal	Team	Points
Gold	(Janne Ahonen, Tami Kiuru, Arttu Lappi, Matti Hautamäki)	1046.6
Silver	(Kazuyoshi Funaki, Akira Higashi, Hideharu Miyahira, Noriaki Kasai)	1010.1
Bronze	(Tommy Ingebrigtsen, Lars Bystøl, Sigurd Pettersen, Bjørn Einar Romøren)	991.9

Medal table

Medal winners by nation. The host country, Italy, did not get any medals. Template:Medals table

References

• FIS 2003 Cross country results
• FIS 2003 Nordic combined results
• FIS 2003 Ski jumping results
• 2003 FIS Nordic Ski World Championships official website