1989 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1989
Host cityLahti
Country Finland
Events15
Opening17 February 1989
Closing26 February 1989
Main venueSalpausselkä
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Official poster for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1989.

The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1989 took place 17–26 February 1989 in Lahti, Finland, for a record fifth time (1926, 1938, 1958, 1978). The women's 5 km was not held after being reintroduced in the previous championships. These championships featured separate races of men's 15 km and women's 10 km both in the classical technique and in the freestyle technique. Additionally, the women's 15 km event debuted and the women's 20 km event was lengthened to 30 km.

Men's cross-country

15 km classical

22 February 1989

Medal Athlete Time
Gold  Harri Kirvesniemi (FIN) 42:40.7
Silver  Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass (NOR) 42:44.0
Bronze  Vegard Ulvang (NOR) 43:08.4

15 km freestyle

20 February 1989

Medal Athlete Time
Gold  Gunde Svan (SWE) 40:39.6
Silver  Torgny Mogren (SWE) 41:02.9
Bronze  Lars Håland (SWE) 41:10.3

30 km classical

18 February 1989

Medal Athlete Time
Gold  Vladimir Smirnov (URS) 1:24:56.9
Silver  Vegard Ulvang (NOR) 1:25:03,6
Bronze  Christer Majbäck (SWE) 1:25:09,8

50 km freestyle

26 February 1989

Medal Athlete Time
Gold  Gunde Svan (SWE) 2:15:24.9
Silver  Torgny Mogren (SWE) 2:16:09.2
Bronze  Alexey Prokurorov (URS) 2:16:18.8

4 × 10 km relay

24 February 1989

Medal Team Time
Gold  Sweden (Christer Majbäck, Gunde Svan, Lars Håland, Torgny Mogren) 1:40:12.3
Silver  Finland (Aki Karvonen, Harri Kirvesniemi, Kari Ristanen, Jari Räsänen) 1:40:13.6
Bronze  Czechoslovakia (Ladislav Švanda, Martin Petrásek, Radim Nyč, Václav Korunka) 1:40:13.7

Among the 19 relay teams competing were Australia, Denmark, Greece, and the Netherlands.

Women's cross-country

10 km classical

19 February 1989

Medal Athlete Time
Gold  Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi (FIN) 29:19.0
Silver  Pirkko Määttä (FIN) 30:12.2
Bronze  Marjo Matikainen (FIN) 30:12.9

10 km freestyle

17 February 1989

Medal Athlete Time
Gold  Yelena Välbe (URS) 27:04.5
Silver  Marjo Matikainen (FIN) 27:36.7
Bronze  Tamara Tikhonova (URS) 27:58.8

15 km classical

21 February 1989

Medal Athlete Time
Gold  Marjo Matikainen (FIN) 47:46.6
Silver  Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi (FIN) 47:48.6
Bronze  Pirkko Määttä (FIN) 48:20.8

30 km freestyle

25 February 1989

Medal Athlete Time
Gold  Yelena Välbe (URS) 1:29:59.7
Silver  Larisa Lazutina (URS) 1:30:07.7
Bronze  Marjo Matikainen (FIN) 1:30:30.6

4 × 5 km relay

24 February 1989

Medal Team Time
Gold  Finland (Pirkko Määttä, Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi, Jaana Savolainen, Marjo Matikainen) 54:49.8
Silver  Soviet Union (Yuliya Shamshurina, Raisa Smetanina, Tamara Tikhonova, Yelena Välbe) 54:56.9
Bronze  Norway (Inger Helene Nybråten, Anne Jahren, Nina Skeime, Marianne Dahlmo) 55:52.3

Men's Nordic combined

15 km individual Gundersen

18/19 February 1989

Medal Athlete Time
Gold  Trond Einar Elden (NOR) 37.10.7
Silver  Andrey Dundukov (URS) + 2.39.9
Bronze  Trond-Arne Bredesen (NOR) + 3.04.3

3 × 10 km team

23/24 February 1989

Medal Team Time
Gold  Norway (Trond Einar Elden, Trond-Arne Bredesen, Bård Jørgen Elden) 1:24.21.7
Silver   Switzerland (Andreas Schaad, Hippolyt Kempf, Fredy Glanzmann) + 1.44.3
Bronze  East Germany (Ralph Leonhardt, Bernd Blechschmidt, Thomas Abratis) + 1.48.4

Men's ski jumping

Individual normal hill

26 February 1989

Medal Athlete Points
Gold  Jens Weißflog (GDR) 114.5
Silver  Ari-Pekka Nikkola (FIN) 110.5
Bronze  Heinz Kuttin (AUT) 108.5

The event was originally scheduled for 25 February, however, due to adverse weather conditions it was postponed to the following day. Due to strong winds no second round took place and results were taken from the first round.

Individual large hill

20 February 1989

Medal Athlete Points
Gold  Jari Puikkonen (FIN) 218.5
Silver  Jens Weißflog (GDR) 212.5
Bronze  Matti Nykänen (FIN) 205.0

Team large hill

22 February 1989

Medal Team Points
Gold  Finland (Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Jari Puikkonen, Matti Nykänen, Risto Laakkonen) 645.0
Silver  Norway (Magne Johansen, Clas Brede Bråthen, Ole Gunnar Fidjestøl, Jon Inge Kjørum) 626.0
Bronze  Czechoslovakia (Jiří Parma, Martin Švagerko, Ladislav Dluhoš, Pavel Ploc) 595.5

Medal table

Medal winners by nation.

  *   Host nation (Finland)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Finland (FIN)*65415
2 Soviet Union (URS)3328
3 Sweden (SWE)3227
4 Norway (NOR)2338
5 East Germany (GDR)1113
6  Switzerland (SUI)0101
7 Czechoslovakia (TCH)0022
8 Austria (AUT)0011
Totals (8 entries)15151545

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