The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1978 took place February 18–26, 1978 in Lahti, Finland. This was Lahti's record fourth time hosting the event after previously doing so in 1926, 1938, and 1958. The women's 20 km event was added.
Men's cross-country 15 km February 21, 1978
Medal Athlete Time Gold 49:09.37 Silver 49:11.62 Bronze 49:14.37
30 km February 19, 1978
Medal Athlete Time Gold 1:32:56.00 Silver 1:33:48.23 Bronze 1:33:52.21
50 km February 26, 1978
Medal Athlete Time Gold 2:46:43.06 Silver 2:47:34.48 Bronze 2:47:52.27
4 × 10 km relay February 23, 1978
Medal Team Time Gold (Sven-Åke Lundbäck, Christer Johansson, Tommy Limby, Thomas Magnuson) 2:05:17.63 Silver (Esko Lähtevänoja, Juha Mieto, Pertti Teurajärvi, Matti Pitkänen) 2:05:28.95 Bronze (Lars-Erik Eriksen, Ove Aunli, Ivar Formo, Oddvar Brå) 2:06:48.37
Women's cross-country 5 km February 20, 1978
Medal Athlete Time Gold 18:53.50 Silver 18:58.49 Bronze 19:01.30
10 km February 18, 1978
Medal Athlete Time Gold 37:01.72 Silver 37:13.37 Bronze 37:23.43
20 km February 25, 1978
Medal Athlete Time Gold 1:13:00.85 Silver 1:13:08.11 Bronze 1:13:57.95
4 × 5 km relay February 22, 1978
Medal Team Time Gold (Taina Impiö, Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen, Hilkka Riihivuori, Helena Takalo) 1:13:25.08 Silver (Marlies Rostock, Birgit Schreiber, Barbara Petzold, Christel Meinel) 1:13:29.74 Bronze (Nina Rocheva, Zinaida Amosova, Raisa Smetanina, Galina Kulakova) 1:13:39.88
Men's Nordic combined Individual February 19–20, 1978
Medal Athlete Points Gold 435.24 Silver 431.66 Bronze 430.83
Men's ski jumping Individual normal hill February 18, 1978
Medal Athlete Points Gold 253.2 Silver 251.7 Bronze 250.0
Individual large hill February 25, 1978
Medal Athlete Points Gold 256.6 Silver 256.3 Bronze 255.8
Team large hill (unofficial) February 22, 1978. No medals awarded.
Rank Team Points 1 (Harald Duschek, Jochen Danneberg, Henry Glaß, Matthias Buse) 443.8 2 (Jari Puikkonen, Jouko Törmänen, Pentti Kokkonen, Tapio Räisänen) 401.0 3 (, Roger Ruud, Tom Levorstad, Per Bergerud) 396.6
Medal table
References FIS 1978 Cross country results FIS 1978 Nordic combined results FIS 1978 Ski jumping results Results from German Wikipedia