The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1993 took place 19–28 February 1993 in Falun, Sweden, for the third time (1954, 1974). This event saw the creation of the combined pursuit where competitors would skate one distance in the classical interval style (10 km: men, 5 km: women) one day, then follow the next day in the freestyle pursuit (15 km: men, 10 km: women) with the first distance winner going first in the pursuit. Additionally it was the first competition since the breakup of the Soviet Union in late 1991 and the first competition with Czechoslovakia having been split up as the Czech Republic and Slovakia, however, the two nations competed as combined teams in women's relay in cross-country skiing and team large hill in ski jumping.
Men's cross-country 10 km classical 22 February 1993
Medal Athlete Time Gold 24:51.6 Silver 24:55.5 Bronze 24:58.1
10 km + 15 km combined pursuit 24 February 1993
Medal Athlete Time Gold 1:01:45.0 Silver 1:01:45.0 Bronze 1:02:55.5
Dæhlie edged Smirnov at the finish line to earn the gold medal. Smirnov later stated that he lost out to Dæhlie by "only 16 centimeters".
30 km classical 20 February 1993
Medal Athlete Time Gold 1:17:33.6 Silver 1:17:55.0 Bronze 1:17:55.3
50 km freestyle 28 February 1993
Medal Athlete Time Gold 2:03:36.8 Silver 2:04:30.9 Bronze 2:05:10.3
4 × 10 km relay 26 February 1993
Medal Team Time Gold (Sture Sivertsen, Vegard Ulvang, Terje Langli, Bjørn Dæhlie) 1:44:14.9 Silver (Maurilio De Zolt, Marco Albarello, Giorgio Vanzetta, Silvio Fauner) 1:44:24.5 Bronze (Andrey Kirilov, Igor Badamshin, Alexey Prokourorov, Mikhail Botvinov) 1:44:27.2
Women's cross-country 5 km classical 21 February 1993
Medal Athlete Time Gold 14:07.6 Silver 14:12.1 Bronze 14:18.3
5 km + 10 km combined pursuit 23 February 1993
Medal Athlete Time Gold 40:19.0 Silver 40:19.4 Bronze 40:19.7
15 km classical 19 February 1993
Medal Athlete Time Gold 44:49.0 Silver 45:39.0 Bronze 45:41.9
Välbe was the first Russian to win a gold medal in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's breakup in late 1991.
30 km freestyle 27 February 1993
Medal Athlete Time Gold 1:22:41.3 Silver 1:22:55.0 Bronze 1:23:48.3
4 × 5 km relay 25 February 1993
Medal Team Time Gold (Yelena Välbe, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrylyuk, Lyubov Yegorova) 54:15.7 Silver (Gabriella Paruzzi, Bice Vanzetta, Manuela Di Centa, Stefania Belmondo) 54:35.1 Bronze (Trude Dybendahl, Inger Helene Nybråten, Anita Moen, Elin Nilsen) 55:09.0
Men's Nordic combined 15 km individual Gundersen 18 February 1993
Medal Athlete Time Gold 46.47.5 Silver + 1.34.5 Bronze + 2.32.6
3 × 10 km team 25 February 1993
Medal Team Time Gold (Takanori Kono, Masashi Abe, Kenji Ogiwara) 1:19:25.7 Silver (Trond Einar Elden, Knut Tore Apeland, Fred Børre Lundberg) +3:46.3 Bronze (Thomas Dufter, Jens Deimel, Hans-Peter Pohl) +8:30.5
Japan's four-minute victory margin at this event, followed by their nearly five-minute victory at the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer the following year, would lead the FIS to change the Nordic combined team event from a 3 x 10 km relay to a 4 x 5 km relay that would become effective at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1995 in Thunder Bay and the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. This was in an effort to lessen the emphasis on the ski jumping part of the competition.
Men's ski jumping Individual normal hill 27 February 1993
Medal Athlete Points Gold 237.8 Silver 231.3 Bronze 228.2
Individual large hill 21 February 1993
Medal Athlete Points Gold 241.4 Silver 239.1 Bronze 237.6
Sakala was the first Czech to medal following Czechoslovakia's breakup earlier that year into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Team large hill 23 February 1993
Medal Team Points Gold (Bjørn Myrbakken, Helge Brendryen, Øyvind Berg, Espen Bredesen) 821.5 Silver (František Jež, Jiří Parma, Jaroslav Sakala) (Martin Švagerko) (combined team)772.1 Bronze (Ernst Vettori, Heinz Kuttin, Stefan Horngacher, Andreas Goldberger)745.4
The Czech Republic and Slovakia competed as a combined team despite their countries' agreement to split from Czechoslovakia on 25 November 1992. The country's split was made after the team had been selected prior to the championships.
Medal table Medal winners by nation.
References FIS 1993 cross country results FIS 1993 Nordic combined results FIS 1993 ski jumping results
External links
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships at SVT's open archive