FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1997

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The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1997 took place February 21-March 2, 1997 in Trondheim, Norway. This event was the first time in consecutive championships that the number or type of events did not change since 1966 and 1970. It also was historical with Russia's Elena Välbe winning gold in all five women's cross country events, the first person of either sex to do that honor.

[edit] Men's cross country

[edit] 10 km classical

February 24, 1997

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Bjørn Dæhlie, Norway	23:41.8
Silver	Alexey Prokurorov, Russia	24:09.7
Bronze	Mika Myllylä, Finland	24:14.2

[edit] 10 km + 15 km combined pursuit

February 25, 1997

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Bjørn Dæhlie, Norway	1:00:11.1
Silver	Mika Myllylä, Finland	1:01:01.2
Bronze	Alexey Prokurorov, Russia	1:01:01.8

[edit] 30 km freestyle

February 21, 1997

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Alexey Prokurorov, Russia	1:06:28.2
Silver	Bjørn Dæhlie, Norway	1:06:45.6
Bronze	Thomas Alsgaard, Norway	1:06:49.2

[edit] 50 km classical

March 2, 1997

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Mika Myllylä, Finland	2:16:37.5
Silver	Erling Jevne, Norway	2:17:32.4
Bronze	Bjørn Dæhlie, Norway	2:18:36.0

[edit] 4 x 10 km relay

February 28, 1997

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	Norway (Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, Thomas Alsgaard)	1:37:06.1
Silver	Finland (Harri Kirvesniemi, Mika Myllylä, Jari Räsänen, Jari Isometsä)	1:39:17.3
Bronze	Italy (Giorgio Di Centa, Silvio Fauner, Pietro Piller Cottrer, Fulvio Valbusa)	1:39:56.9

[edit] Women's cross country

[edit] 5 km classical

February 23, 1997

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Yelena Välbe, Russia	13:32.7
Silver	Stefania Belmondo, Italy	13:35.0
Bronze	Olga Danilova, Russia	13:37.7

Lyubov Yegorova of Russia finished first in this event, but was disqualified three days later for doping violation of bromotan. The three finishers behind her were subsequently awarded the medals shown.

[edit] 5 km + 10 km combined pursuit

February 24, 1997

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Yelena Välbe, Russia	39:13.5
Silver	Stefania Belmondo, Italy	39:13.5
Bronze	Nina Gavrilyuk, Russia	39:32.1

Välbe edged Belmondo in a photo finish to earn the gold medal.

[edit] 15 km freestyle

February 21, 1997

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Yelena Välbe, Russia	36:28.2
Silver	Stefania Belmondo, Italy	36:39.1
Bronze	Kateřina Neumannová, Czech Republic	36:42.0

[edit] 30 km classical

March 1, 1997

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Yelena Välbe, Russia	1:23:04.9
Silver	Stefania Belmondo, Italy	1:23:33.2
Bronze	Marit Mikkelsplass, Norway	1:24:55.7

[edit] 4 x 5 km relay

February 28, 1997

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	Russia (Olga Danilova, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrilyuk,Yelena Välbe)	56:40.2
Silver	Norway (Bente Martinsen, Marit Mikkelsplass, Elin Nilsen, Trude Dybendahl Hartz)	56:56.2
Bronze	Finland (Riikka Sirviö, Tuulikki Pyykkönen, Kati Pulkkinen, Satu Salonen)	57:38.0

[edit] Men's Nordic combined

[edit] 15 km Individual Gundersen

February 22, 1997

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Kenji Ogiwara, Japan
Silver	Bjarte Engen Vik, Norway
Bronze	Fabrice Guy, France

[edit] 4 x 5 km team

February 23, 1997

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	Norway (Halldor Skard, Bjarte Engen Vik, Knut Tore Apeland, Fred Børre Lundberg)	52:18.0
Silver	Finland (Jari Mantila, Tapio Nurmela, Samppa Lajunen, Hannu Manninen)	53:03.6
Bronze	Austria (Christophe Eugen, Felix Gottwald, Mario Stecher, Robert Stadelmann)	53:30.9

[edit] Men's ski jumping

[edit] Individual normal hill

February 22, 1997

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Janne Ahonen, Finland	263.5
Silver	Masahiko Harada, Japan	258.5
Bronze	Andreas Goldberger, Austria	257.5

[edit] Individual large hill

March 1, 1997

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Masahiko Harada, Japan	252.1
Silver	Dieter Thoma, Germany	244.9
Bronze	Sylvain Freiholz, Switzerland	237.3

[edit] Team large hill

February 27, 1997

Medal	Team	Points
Gold	Finland (Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Jani Soininen, Mika Laitinen, Janne Ahonen)	955.3
Silver	Japan (Kazuyoshi Funaki, Takanobu Okabe, Masahiko Harada, Hiroya Saito)	905.0
Bronze	Germany (Christof Duffner, Martin Schmitt, Hansjörg Jäkle, Dieter Thoma)	845.6