FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
At the Nordic World Ski Championships 1924 will be the world champion in the sport of skiing styles of Nordic skiing, cross-country skiing, ski jumping and Nordic combined, determined. Since 1985, they are held every two years in odd-numbered years. Is organized by the International Ski Federation FIS.
According to the official version of the FIS the sporting event is named in the plural and is called " Nordic World Ski Championships ( year) ".
- 3.1 Cross-country skiing
- 3.2 Nordic Combined
- 3.3 Jumping
History
First world championships were held in Chamonix in Nordic skiing in 1924. By 1939, the competitions were held annually. From 1925 to 1927, the FIS described the events as Rendezvous races, as they were then discharged as a FIS race in the years up to 1935. Since 1937, the competitions carry the official title of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. Up to the 1980 Winter Olympics Olympic champions were at the same time world champion, except in the Nordic combined.
The Nordic World Ski Championships 1940 were canceled due to the war, but this was at that time also criticized. Thus organized, the Italian ski resort of Cortina d' Ampezzo from 1 to 10 February 1941, the Nordic World Ski Championships 1941. However, FIS said in 1946 at a congress later this void, so that the awarded medals lost its official status and are no longer counted.
The first world championships after the end of World War II took place in 1948 in St. Moritz, Switzerland. By 1982, they were now held every two years. Since 1980, some competitions have been dropped from the Olympic program. Thus addressed, the Swedish town of Falun in the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1980 for the World Cup scoring, but not Olympic, 20 km cross-country women from.
With the 1984 Winter Olympics eventually became the rule that the Olympic champions were also world champions at the same time, abandoned. Only in the Nordic combined and ski jumping Olympic competitions were held as World Cup 1984 for the last time. Now find since 1985, regardless of the Olympic Winter Games, the Nordic World Ski Championships in odd-numbered years instead, to avoid overlap with the Olympics.
In the episode were at the Nordic World Ski Championships 1984 in Engelberg ( Switzerland ) and Rovaniemi ( Finland) belonging to the Nordic World Ski Championships, but not Olympic discharged team competitions in ski jumping and Nordic combined.
In the following years the number of discharged competitions has increased steadily and reached 19 races at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 in Oberstdorf its peak. In the future, should more competitions will be held under the World Championship. Thus, a ladies' competition was held in ski jumping ( normal hill ) and the mass start competition at the Nordic World Ski Championships, the combiner 2009 in Liberec for the first time.
Nordic World Ski Championships since 1924
Since 1924 Nordic World Ski Championships were held 46. Up to the 1980 Winter Olympics Olympic champions were also world champion, except in the Nordic combined. Therefore, the Winter Olympics and 1980 are at the same time as the Nordic World Ski Championships and therefore are in this list. The competitions are held in the disciplines of cross-country skiing ( LL), Nordic combined (NK ) and ski jumping (SP / SS). In the most successful nation at the Olympic Games column include only the contests that were held at the World Championships, so the Nordic combined is not taken into account.
Finland Rovaniemi
Nations Cup
Overviews
Cross-country skiing
- List of world champion in cross-country skiing
Nordic Combined
- List of World Champion in Nordic Combined
Ski Jumping
- List of world champion in ski jumping