FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Template other 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). The Winter Olympics from 1924 to 1980 were also the Nordic World Ski Championships. This meant that the Olympic champions were also World champions and received an additional medal from the International Ski Federation (FIS). Since 1985, the World Championships have been held in odd-numbered years.

History

The first Nordic Skiing World Championships were held in Chamonix in 1924, as part of the first Winter Olympics, which were only later recognized as such. The competitions took place annually until 1939. From 1925 to 1927, the FIS referred to the events as Rendezvous races, while in the years after that until 1935 they were held as FIS races. Since 1937, the competitions have had the official title of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. Until the 1980 Winter Olympics, the Olympic champions were also World champions.

The 1940 Nordic World Ski Championships were canceled due to the war, but this was also criticized at the time. The Italian winter sports resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo organized the 1941 Nordic World Ski Championships. However, the FIS subsequently declared these invalid at a congress in Pau in 1946, so that the medals awarded lost their official status and were no longer counted.

With the 1984 Winter Olympics, the rule that the Olympic winners were also World champions was finally abandoned. Since 1985, the Nordic World Ski Championships have taken place in odd-numbered years, independently of the Winter Olympics, in order to avoid an overlap with the Olympics.

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 Winter Olympics and 1984 Winter Olympics and therefore got their own World Championships.

Historical notes

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. Additionally, the Skiathlon format was introduced for pursuit races (previously separate races on the same day).
• 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.

Editions

#	Year	Location	Date	Venue	Host country	Top nation	Events	Notes
—	1924	Chamonix	25 Jan – 2 Feb	Stade Olympique de Chamonix / Tremplin Olympique du Mont			4	Declared the first Winter Olympic Games in 1926. Declared the first Nordic World Ski Championships in 1965.
1	1925	Janské Lázně	4–14 Feb	—			4	Denoted Rendezvous races
2	1926	Lahti	4–6 Feb	Salpausselkä			4	Denoted Rendezvous races
3	1927	Cortina d'Ampezzo	2–5 Feb	Trampolino Olimpico	Template:Flagcountry		4	Denoted FIS races
—	1928	St. Moritz	11–17 Feb	Olympic Stadium / Olympiaschanze			4	Winter Olympic Games
4	1929	Zakopane	5–9 Feb	—	Template:Flagcountry		4	Denoted FIS races
5	1930	Oslo	27 Feb – 1 Mar	Holmenkollen			4
6	1931	Oberhof	13–15 Feb	—	Template:Flagcountry		4
—	1932	Lake Placid	10–13 Feb	James B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink / Lake Placid Olympic Ski Jumping Complex			4	Winter Olympic Games
7	1933	Innsbruck	8–12 Feb				5	Denoted FIS races. First with cross-country relay
8	1934	Sollefteå	20–25 Feb	Hallstaberget			5	Denoted FIS races
9	1935	Vysoké Tatry	13–18 Feb		(2)		5	Denoted FIS races
—	1936	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	6–15 Feb	Olympic Stadium / Große Olympiaschanze	Germany		5	Winter Olympic Games
10	1937	Chamonix	12–28 Feb	Tremplin Olympique / Stade Olympique			5	First official FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
11	1938	Lahti (2)	24–28 Feb	Salpausselkä	(2)		5
12	1939	Zakopane (2)	11–19 Feb	—	Template:Flagcountry (2)		5
—	1941	Cortina d'Ampezzo	1–10 Feb	Trampolino Olimpico	Template:Flagcountry		5	Declared unofficial in 1946
—	1948	St. Moritz	31 Jan – 7 Feb	Olympic Stadium / Olympiaschanze			5	Winter Olympic Games
13	1950	Lake Placid (SJ) Rumford (XC)	1–6 Feb	Intervales —	Template:Flagcountry		5	First championship outside Europe
—	1952	Oslo	17–24 Feb	Holmenkollbakken			6	Winter Olympic Games
14	1954	Falun	13–21 Feb	Lugnet	(2)	Template:Flagcountry	8	First championship with women
—	1956	Cortina d'Ampezzo	27 Jan – 5 Feb	Stadio della neve / Trampolino Olimpico			8	Winter Olympic Games
15	1958	Lahti (3)	1–9 Mar	Salpausselkä	(3)		8
—	1960	Squaw Valley	19–27 Feb	McKinney Creek Stadium / Papoose Peak Jumps			8	Winter Olympic Games
16	1962	Zakopane (3)	18–25 Feb	—	Template:Flagcountry (3)	Template:Flagcountry	10	First with normal hill
—	1964	Innsbruck Seefeld in Tirol	18–28 Feb	Bergiselschanze / Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze / Olympiaregion Seefeld			10	Winter Olympic Games
17	1966	Oslo (2)	17–27 Feb	Holmenkollen	(2)		10
—	1968	Grenoble	7–18 Feb	Dauphine / Le Claret / Austrans			10	Winter Olympic Games
18	1970	Vysoké Tatry (2)	14–22 Feb	Štrbské pleso	(3)	Template:Flagcountry	10
—	1972	Sapporo	5–13 Feb	—		Template:Flagcountry	10	Winter Olympic Games
19	1974	Falun (2)	16–24 Feb	Lugnet	(3)	Template:GDR	10
—	1976	Innsbruck Seefeld in Tirol	7–15 Feb	Bergiselschanze / Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze / Olympiaregion Seefeld		Template:Flagcountry	10	Winter Olympic Games
20	1978	Lahti (4)	18–26 Feb	Salpausselkä	(4)	Template:Flagcountry	11
—	1980	Lake Placid	14–23 Feb	Lake Placid Olympic Ski Jumping Complex / Olympic Sports Complex		Template:Flagcountry	10	Winter Olympic Games. Last Winter Olympics, which were also considered the Nordic World Ski Championships
21	1980	Falun (3)	8 Mar	Lugnet	(4)	Template:GDR	1	Non-Olympic event
22	1982	Oslo (3)	19–28 Feb	Holmenkollen	(3)		13	First with team large hill/Nordic combined relay
23	1984	Engelberg (SJ) Rovaniemi (NC)	26 Feb 17 Mar	Gross-Titlis-Schanze –	(5)		2	Non-Olympic events
24	1985	Seefeld	16–27 Jan	Seefeld Nordic Competence Centre / Bergiselschanze in Innsbruck	(2)		13
25	1987	Oberstdorf	12–21 Feb	Schattenberg Ski Jump / Birgsautal			13
26	1989	Lahti (5)	17–26 Feb	Salpausselkä / Lahti Stadium	(6)		15
27	1991	Val di Fiemme	7–17 Feb	Lago di Tesero / Trampolino dal Ben	(2)		15	First with 10 km cross-country (men)
28	1993	Falun (4)	19–28 Feb	Lugnet	(5)		15	First with pursuit
29	1995	Thunder Bay	9–19 Mar	Big Thunder			15
30	1997	Trondheim	21 Feb – 2 Mar	Granåsen Ski Centre	(4)		15
31	1999	Ramsau	19–28 Feb	Ramsau am Dachstein / Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze in Bischofshofen	(3)		16	First with 10 km/large hill
32	2001	Lahti (6)	15–25 Feb	Salpausselkä / Lahti Stadium	(7)		19	First with team normal hill; first with sprint
33	2003	Val di Fiemme (2)	18 Feb – 1 Mar	Lago di Tesero / Trampolino dal Ben	(3)		18
34	2005	Oberstdorf (2)	16–27 Feb	Schattenberg Ski Jump / Ried	(2)		19	First with team sprint
35	2007	Sapporo	22 Feb – 4 Mar	Miyanomori / Okurayama / Shirahatayama / Sapporo Dome			18
36	2009	Liberec	18 Feb – 1 Mar	Ještěd / Vesec			20	First with ski jumping for women; only with Nordic combined mass start
37	2011	Oslo (4)	23 Feb – 6 Mar	Holmenkollen	(5)		21	First with Nordic combined normal hill relay
38	2013	Val di Fiemme (3)	20 Feb – 3 Mar	Lago di Tesero / Trampolino dal Ben	(4)		21	First with mixed team ski jumping First with Nordic combined large hill team sprint
39	2015	Falun (5)	18 Feb – 1 Mar	Lugnet	(6)		21
40	2017	Lahti (7)	22 Feb – 5 Mar	Salpausselkä / Lahti Stadium	(8)		21
41	2019	Seefeld (2)	20 Feb – 3 Mar	Seefeld Nordic Competence Centre / Bergiselschanze in Innsbruck	(4)		22	First with women's team ski jumping
42	2021	Oberstdorf (3)	24 Feb – 7 Mar	Schattenberg Ski Jump / Ried	(3)		24	First with women's nordic combined individual race First with women's ski jumping large hill
43	2023	Planica	22 Feb – 5 Mar	Planica Nordic Centre			24	First with Nordic combined mixed team event
44	2025	Trondheim (2)	26 Feb – 9 Mar	Granåsen Ski Centre	(6)		25+6	First with women's mass-start 5 km + normal hill (Nordic combined), men's and women's para sprint events
45	2027	Falun (6)	24 Feb – 7 Mar	Lugnet	(7)
46	2029	Lahti (8)		Salpausselkä / Lahti Stadium	(9)

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 2025 Championships.
The medals won at the 13 Winter Olympics (from 1924 through 1980) are not included into this table.
The medals won at the para cross-country events (in 2025) are also not included. Template:Medals table

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	Marit Bjørgen		F	Cross-country skiing	2003	2017	18	5	3	26
2	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo		M	Cross-country skiing	2017	2025	15	2	1	18
3	Therese Johaug		F	Cross-country skiing	2007	2025	14	5	4	23
4	Yelena Välbe		F	Cross-country skiing	1989	1997	14	3	–	17
5	Petter Northug		M	Cross-country skiing	2007	2015	13	3	–	16
6	Larisa Lazutina (Ptitsyna)		F	Cross-country skiing	1987	2001	11	3	2	16
7	Jarl Magnus Riiber		M	Nordic combined	2019	2025	11	3	1	15
8	Bjørn Dæhlie		M	Cross-country skiing	1991	1999	9	5	3	17
9	Thomas Morgenstern		M	Ski jumping	2005	2013	8	2	1	11
10	Eric Frenzel		M	Nordic combined	2011	2023	7	8	3	18

Individual events

Men

Rank	Athlete	Country	Discipline	From	To	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo		Cross-country skiing	2017	2025	7	2	1	10
2	Petter Northug		Cross-country skiing	2009	2015	7	2	–	9
3	Jarl Magnus Riiber		Nordic combined	2019	2025	6	1	–	7
4	Bjørn Dæhlie		Cross-country skiing	1991	1999	5	4	3	12
5	Gunde Svan		Cross-country skiing	1985	1991	5	2	–	7
6	Vladimir Smirnov		Cross-country skiing	1989	1995	4	3	3	10
7	Mika Myllylä		Cross-country skiing	1995	1999	4	2	2	8
8	Ronny Ackermann		Nordic combined	2001	2007	4	1	1	6
	Adam Małysz		Ski jumping	2001	2011	4	1	1	6
10	Eric Frenzel		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	Marit Bjørgen		Cross-country skiing	2003	2017	12	4	1	17
2	Therese Johaug		Cross-country skiing	2007	2025	10	3	4	17
3	Yelena Välbe		Cross-country skiing	1989	1997	10	2	–	12
4	Larisa Lazutina (Ptitsyna)		Cross-country skiing	1987	2001	5	3	2	10
5	Bente Skari (Martinsen)		Cross-country skiing	1999	2003	5	–	–	5
6	Stefania Belmondo		Cross-country skiing	1991	1999	4	4	1	9
7	Alevtina Kolchina		Cross-country skiing	1958	1966	4	1	–	5
8	Ebba Andersson		Cross-country skiing	2021	2025	4	–	3	7
9	Galina Kulakova		Cross-country skiing	1970	1980	3	1	1	5
10	Gyda Westvold Hansen		Nordic combined	2021	2025	3	1	–	4

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

• Cross-country skiing at the Winter Olympics
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• Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics
• Polish medalists of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
• Ski jumping at the Winter Olympics
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External links

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