FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1999

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The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1999 took place February 19-28, 1999 in Ramsau, Austria. The 7.5 km Nordic combined sprint event debuted at these championships.

[edit] Men's cross country

[edit] 10 km classical

February 22, 1999

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Mika Myllylä, Finland	24:19.2
Silver	Alois Stadlober, Austria	24:34.7
Bronze	Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Norway	24:37.1

[edit] 10 km + 15 km combined pursuit

February 23, 1999

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Thomas Alsgaard, Norway	1:05:54.9
Silver	Mika Myllylä, Finland	1:05:55.6
Bronze	Fulvio Valbusa, Italy	1:06:17.6

[edit] 30 km freestyle

February 19, 1999

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Mika Myllylä, Finland	1:15:26.2
Silver	Thomas Alsgaard, Norway	1:16:01.5
Bronze	Bjørn Dæhlie, Norway	1:16:08.7

[edit] 50 km classical

February 28, 1999

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Mika Myllylä, Finland	2:18:08.7
Silver	Andrus Veerpalu, Estonia	2:18:40.5
Bronze	Mikhail Botvinov, Austria	2:19:52.3

[edit] 4 x 10 km relay

February 26, 1999

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	Austria (Markus Gandler, Alois Stadlober, Mikhail Botvinov, Christian Hoffman)	1:35:07.5
Silver	Norway (Espen Bjervig, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, Thomas Alsgaard)	1:35:07.7
Bronze	Italy (Giorgio Di Centa, Fabio Maj, Fulvio Valbusa, Silvio Fauner)	1:36:38.1

The first two legs were run in the classical style while the last two legs were run in freestyle. Austria won its first relay medal since 1933 though it was done in dramatic fashion. Botvinov fell during his leg, causing Austria to lose its large lead, setting up a fight to the finish between Austria's Hoffman and Norway's Alsgaard.

[edit] Women's cross country

[edit] 5 km classical

February 22, 1999

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Bente Martinsen, Norway	12:49.8
Silver	Olga Danilova, Russia	13:02.5
Bronze	Kateřina Neumannová, Czech Republic	13:07.0

[edit] 5 km + 10 km combined pursuit

February 23, 1999

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Stefania Belmondo, Italy	42:27.9
Silver	Nina Gavrilyuk, Russia	42:56.8
Bronze	Irina Terelia Taranenko, Ukraine	43:02.3

Taranenko is the first Ukrainian to medal in the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.

[edit] 15 km freestyle

February 19, 1999

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Stefania Belmondo, Italy	38:49.0
Silver	Kristina Šmigun, Estonia	39:19.4
Bronze	Maria Theurl, Austria	39:43.5

[edit] 30 km classical

February 27, 1999

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Larisa Lazutina, Russia	1:29:19.9
Silver	Olga Danilova, Russia	1:30:53.9
Bronze	Kristina Šmigun, Estonia	1:31:14.6

[edit] 4 x 5 km relay

February 26, 1999

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	Russia (Olga Danilova, Larisa Lazutina, Anfisa Reztsova, Nina Gavrilyuk)
Silver	Italy (Sabina Valbusa, Gabriella Paruzzi, Antonella Confortola, Stefania Belmondo)
Bronze	Germany (Viola Bauer, Ramona Roth, Evi Sachenbacher, Sigrid Wille)

The first two legs were run in classical style while the last two legs were run in freestyle.

[edit] Men's Nordic combined

[edit] 7.5 km sprint

February 27, 1999

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Bjarte Engen Vik, Norway	0.0
Silver	Mario Stecher, Austria	+30.2
Bronze	Kenji Ogiwara, Japan	+31.0

[edit] 15 km Individual Gundersen

February 20, 1999

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Bjarte Engen Vik, Norway	0.0
Silver	Samppa Lajunen, Finland	34.5
Bronze	Dmitry Sinitzyn, Russia	152.9

[edit] 4 x 5 km team

February 25, 1999

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	Finland (Hannu Manninen, Tapio Nurmela, Jari Mantila, Samppa Lajunen)
Silver	Norway (Fred Børre Lundberg, Trond Einar Elden, Bjarte Engen Vik, Kenneth Bråten)
Bronze	Russia (Nikolai Parfionov, Alexey Fadeyev, Valeri Stolyarov, Dmitry Sinitzyn)

[edit] Men's ski jumping

[edit] Individual normal hill

February 26, 1999

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Kazuyoshi Funaki, Japan	255.0
Silver	Hideharu Miyahira, Japan	253.5
Bronze	Masahiko Harada, Japan	252.0

[edit] Individual large hill

February 21, 1999

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Martin Schmitt, Germany	263.4
Silver	Sven Hannawald, Germany	261.7
Bronze	Hideharu Miyahira, Japan	258.8

[edit] Team large hill

February 20, 1999

Medal	Team	Points
Gold	Germany (Sven Hannawald, Christof Duffner, Dieter Thoma, Martin Schmitt)	988.9
Silver	Japan (Noriaki Kasai, Hideharu Miyahira, Masahiko Harada, Kazuyoshi Funaki)	987.0
Bronze	Austria (Andreas Widhölzl, Martin Höllwarth, Reinhard Schwarzenberger, Stefan Horngacher)	905.5