Nordic World Ski Championships 1997

Nordic World Ski Championships 1997
	Men's	Ladies
winner
Classic cross-country skiing	Bjørn Dæhlie - 10 km	Jelena Välbe - 5 km
Cross-country skiing pursuit	Bjørn Dæhlie - 10k + 15F	Jelena Välbe - 5k + 10F
Cross-country skiing freestyle	Alexei Prokurorov - 30 km	Jelena Välbe - 15 km
Classic cross-country skiing	Mika Myllylä - 50 km	Jelena Välbe - 30 km
Cross-country relay	Norway - 4 × 10 km	Russia - 4 × 5 km
Ski jumping normal hill	Janne Ahonen	---
Ski jumping large hill	Masahiko Harada	---
Ski jumping large hill team	Finland	---
Nordic combination	Kenji Ogiwara	---
Nordic combined team	Norway	---
Individual competitions	7th	4th
Team competitions	3	1
← Thunder Bay 1995 Ramsau 1999 →

The 41st Nordic World Ski Championships were held from February 21st to March 1st, 1997 in the Norwegian city ​​of Trondheim .

As at the last World Cup in Thunder Bay, the most successful nation was the team from Russia with six World Cup titles this time. Host country Norway followed with four gold medals and Finland with three gold medals.

Russia's cross-country skier Jelena Välbe stood out in particular , who managed to clear all five world championships that were possible. The Italian Stefania Belmondo finished second in all four individual races . The Norwegian Bjørn Dæhlie was also very successful again with two individual wins and the relay gold medal. Janne Ahonen won two world titles in ski jumping. He won on the normal hill in front of the Japanese Masahiko Harada and also won team gold from the large hill with his Finnish team. Harada won the competition on the large hill and also won silver in team jumping.

Surcharge

The award took place on June 12, 1992 at the 38th FIS Congress in Budapest .

Cross-country men

• Detailed results

10 km classic

space	athlete	Time [min]
1	Bjørn Dæhlie	23: 41.8
2	Alexei Prokurorov	24: 09.7
3	Mika Myllyl	24: 14.2
4th	Vladimir Smirnov	24: 18.8
5	Stubborn Sivertsen	24: 29.9
6th	Fulvio Valbusa	24: 37.5
7th	Erling Jevne
8th	Harri Kirvesniemi
9	Alois Stadlober
10	Henrik Forsberg

World Champion 1995 : Vladimir Smirnov 

Date: February 24, 1997

Pursuit race (10 km classic + 15 km skating technique ) 

space	athlete	Time [h]
1	Bjørn Dæhlie	1: 00: 11.1
2	Mika Myllyl	1: 01: 01.2
3	Alexei Prokurorov	1: 01: 01.8
4th	Thomas Alsgaard	1: 01: 22.0
5	Fulvio Valbusa	1: 01: 24.4
6th	Jari Isometsä	1: 01: 30.0
7th	Bergström is different
8th	Vladimir Smirnov
9	Alois Stadlober
10	Silvio Fauner

World Champion 1995 : Vladimir Smirnov 

Date: February 25, 1997

30 km freestyle

space	athlete	Time [h]
1	Alexei Prokurorov	1: 06: 28.2
2	Bjørn Dæhlie	1: 06: 45.6
3	Thomas Alsgaard	1: 06: 49.2
4th	Pietro Piller Cottrer	1: 07: 12.8
5	Fulvio Valbusa	1: 07: 35.7
6th	Johann Mühlegg	1: 07: 41.4
7th	Mathias Fredriksson
8th	Kristen Skjeldal
9	Bergström is different
10	Mika Myllyl

World Champion 1995 (classic): Vladimir Smirnow 

Date: February 21, 1997

50 km classic

space	athlete	Time [h]
1	Mika Myllyl	2: 16: 37.5
2	Erling Jevne	2: 17: 32.4
3	Bjørn Dæhlie	2: 18: 36.0
4th	Alexei Prokurorov	2: 19: 50.1
5	Stubborn Sivertsen	2: 20: 31.4
6th	Bergström is different	2: 21: 02.8
7th	Mathias Fredriksson
8th	Torgny Mogren
9	Henrik Forsberg
10	Ivan Bátory

World Champion 1995 (freestyle): Silvio Fauner 

Date: March 2, 1997

4x10 km relay

space	country	athlete	Time [h]
1	Norway	Sture Sivertsen Erling Jevne Bjørn Dæhlie Thomas Alsgaard	1: 37: 06.1
2	Finland	Harri Kirvesniemi Mika Myllylä Jari Räsänen Jari Isometsä	1: 39: 17.3
3	Italy	Giorgio Di Centa Silvio Fauner Pietro Piller Cottrer Fulvio Valbusa	1: 39: 56.9
4th	Russia	Sergei Tschepikow Sergei Tschernych Maxim Pitschugin Alexei Prokurorow	1: 39: 57.1
5	Sweden	Mathias Fredriksson Anders Bergström Torgny Mogren Henrik Forsberg	1: 40: 43.1
6th	Germany	Uwe Bellmann Jochen Behle René Sommerfeldt Johann Mühlegg	1: 40: 43.2

World Champion 1995 : Norway ( Sture Sivertsen , Erling Jevne , Bjørn Dæhlie , Thomas Alsgaard )  

Date: February 28, 1997

Cross-country women

• Detailed results

5 km classic

space	sportswoman	Time [min]
1	Jelena Välbe	13: 32.7
2	Stefania Belmondo	13: 35.0
3	Olga Danilova	13: 37.7
4th	Nina Gavriljuk	13: 40.8
	Larissa Lasutina	13: 40.8
6th	Kateřina Neumannová	13: 42.2
7th	Antonina Ordina
8th	Bente Martinsen
9	Trude Hartz-Dybendahl
10	Riikka Sirviö

World Champion 1995 : Larissa Lasutina 

Date: February 23, 1997

The original winner Lyubov Jegorowa was disqualified three days after the race for a positive doping test.

Pursuit race (5 km classic + 10 km freestyle)

space	sportswoman	Time [min]
1	Jelena Välbe	39: 13.5
2	Stefania Belmondo	39: 13.5
3	Nina Gavriljuk	39: 32.1
4th	Kateřina Neumannová	39: 33.2
5	Olga Danilova	39: 43.1
6th	Larissa Lasutina	40: 47.0
7th	Anke Reschwamm-Schulze
8th	Antonina Ordina
9	Kristina Šmigun
10	Marit Mikkelsplass

World Champion 1995 : Larissa Lasutina 

Date: February 24, 1997

15 km freestyle

space	sportswoman	Time [min]
1	Jelena Välbe	36: 28.2
2	Stefania Belmondo	36: 39.1
3	Kateřina Neumannová	36: 42.0
4th	Olga Danilova	37: 13.2
5	Nina Gavriljuk	37: 19.5
6th	Lyubov Egorova	37: 34.2
7th	Elin Nilsen
8th	Kristina Šmigun
9	Sophie Villeneuve
10	Larissa Lasutina

World Champion 1995 (classic): Larissa Lasutina 

Date: February 21, 1997

30 km classic

space	sportswoman	Time [h]
1	Jelena Välbe	1: 23: 04.9
2	Stefania Belmondo	1: 23: 33.2
3	Marit Mikkelsplass	1: 24: 55.7
4th	Larissa Lasutina	1: 24: 56.1
5	Anita Møen	1: 24: 57.7
6th	Olga Danilova	1: 25: 40.5
7th	Trude Hartz-Dybendahl
8th	Bente Martinsen
9	Gabriella Paruzzi
10	Svetlana Nageikina

World Champion 1995 (freestyle): Jelena Välbe 

Date: March 1, 1997

4x5 km relay

space	country	Sportswomen	Time [min]
1	Russia	Olga Danilowa Larissa Lasutina Nina Gawriljuk Jelena Välbe	56: 40.2
2	Norway	Bente Martinsen Marit Mikkelsplass Elin Nilsen Trude Hartz-Dybendahl	56: 56.2
3	Finland	Riikka Sirviö Tuulikki Pyykkönen Kati Pulkkinen Satu Salonen	57: 38.0
4th	Italy	Gabriella Paruzzi Stefania Belmondo Sabina Valbusa Manuela Di Centa	57: 41.4
5	Czech Republic	Jana Saldová Iveta Zelingerová Zuzana Kocumová Kateřina Neumannová	58: 16.6
6th	Germany	Manuela Henkel Anke Reschwamm-Schulze Constanze Blum Kati Wilhelm	58: 43.6
...	...	...	...
8th	Switzerland	Sylvia Honegger Andrea Huber Natascia Leonardi-Cortesi Brigitte Albrecht-Loretan	59: 07.4

World champions 1995 : Russia ( Olga Danilowa , Larissa Lasutina , Jelena Välbe , Nina Gawriljuk )  

Date: February 28, 1997

Ski jumping men

Detailed results

Normal hill K90

space	athlete	Widths [m]	Points
1	Janne Ahonen	095.0 / 098.5	263.5
2	Masahiko Harada	099.0 / 098.0	258.5
3	Andreas Goldberger	096.0 / 094.0	257.0
4th	Kazuyoshi Funaki	095.5 / 094.0	256.0
5	Robert Mateja	094.5 / 098.5	254.0
6th	Didier Mollard	096.5 / 093.0	253.5
7th	Sylvain Freiholz	095.0 / 095.0	253.0
8th	Hiroya Saitō	094.0 / 096.0	252.5
9	Andreas Widhölzl	096.0 / 094.0	252.0
	Nicolas Dessum	095.0 / 093.0	252.0
12	Martin Höllwarth	094.5 / 092.5	247.0
17th	Marco Steinauer	095.0 / 088.5	242.5
19th	Stefan Horngacher	093.5 / 090.0	236.0
	Bruno Reuteler	092.0 / 089.5	236.0
21st	Andreas Kuettel	090.5 / 090.5	234.5
22nd	Dieter Thoma	100.0 / 099.0	233.0
26th	Hansjörg Jäkle	096.0 / 084.5	229.5
33	Martin Schmitt	088.5 / -	112.5
36	Frank Reichel	088.0 / -	111.5

World Champion 1995 : Takanobu Okabe 

Date: February 22, 1997

Large hill K120

space	athlete	Widths [m]	Points
1	Masahiko Harada	124.0 / 128.0	252.1
2	Dieter Thoma	121.5 / 124.0	244.9
3	Sylvain Freiholz	117.5 / 123.5	237.3
4th	Ari-Pekka Nikkola	120.0 / 120.0	235.5
5	Nicolas Dessum	117.5 / 122.5	234.5
6th	Roar Ljøkelsøy	119.0 / 119.5	234.3
7th	Jani Soininen	114.5 / 125.0	233.1
8th	Janne Ahonen	111.5 / 126.5	231.9
9	Håvard Lie	125.5 / 115.5	231.3
10	Kazuyoshi Funaki	117.5 / 119.0	230.2
14th	Stefan Horngacher	119.5 / 112.0	218.2
15th	Martin Schmitt	107.5 / 119.5	208.6
17th	Bruno Reuteler	114.0 / 110.5	202.1
19th	Martin Höllwarth	105.0 / 114.0	194.7
22nd	Hansjörg Jäkle	109.0 / 107.5	189.2
25th	Christof Duffner	107.0 / 106.0	180.9
31	Andreas Widhölzl	105.0 / -	088.0
32	Marco Steinauer	105.0 / -	087.5
47	Andreas Goldberger	090.5 / -	058.4
50	Andreas Kuettel	089.0 / -	057.2

World Champion 1995 : Tommy Ingebrigtsen 

Date: March 1, 1997

Team large hill K120

space	country	athlete	Points
1	Finland	Ari-Pekka Nikkola Jani Soininen Mika Laitinen Janne Ahonen	955.3
2	Japan	Kazuyoshi Funaki Takanobu Okabe Masahiko Harada Hiroya Saitō	905.0
3	Germany	Christof Duffner Martin Schmitt Hansjörg Jäkle Dieter Thoma	845.6
4th	Austria	Stefan Horngacher Martin Höllwarth Andreas Widhölzl Andreas Goldberger	840.9
5	Norway	Håvard Lie Roar Ljøkelsøy Espen Bredesen Lasse Ottesen	799.0
6th	Slovenia	Robert Meglič Blaž Vrhovnik Peter Žonta Primož Peterka	791.1
7th	France	Nicolas Dessum Didier Mollard Jérôme Gay Lucas Chevalier-Girod	750.7
8th	Switzerland	Bruno Reuteler Andreas Küttel Marco Steinauer Sylvain Freiholz	733.2

World Champion 1995 : Finland ( Jani Soininen , Janne Ahonen , Mika Antero Laitinen , Ari-Pekka Nikkola )  

Date: February 27, 1997

Nordic combined men

• Detailed results

Individual (normal hill K90 / 15 km)

space	athlete
1	Kenji Ogiwara
2	Bjarte Engen Vik
3	Fabrice Guy
4th	Ago Markvardt
5	Roman Perko
6th	Hannu Manninen

World Champion 1995 : Fred Børre Lundberg 

Date: February 22nd - jump / February 23rd, 1997 - run

Team (normal hill K90 / 4x5 km)

space	country	athlete	Time [min]
1	Norway	Halldor Skard Bjarte Engen Vik Knut Tore Apeland Fred Børre Lundberg	52: 18.0
2	Finland	Jari Mantila Tapio Nurmela Samppa Lajunen Hannu Manninen	53: 03.6
3	Austria	Christoph Eugen Felix Gottwald Mario Stecher Robert Stadelmann	53: 30.9
4th	Czech Republic	Ladislav Rygl Jan Matura Milan Kučera František Maka	54: 57.1
5	United States	Dave Jarrett Ryan Heckman Tim Tetreault Todd Lodwick	55: 05.7
6th	Germany	Jens Gaiser Georg Hettich Matthias Looß Jens Deimel	55: 42.2

World Champion 1995 : Japan ( Masashi Abe , Tsugiharu Ogiwara , Kenji Ogiwara , Takanori Kōno )  

Date: February 26, 1997

From the first time in the Olympic Games and World Championships, both disciplines took place on one day.

Medal table

Nations
final after 15 competitions

space	nation
01	Russia	6th	1	3	10
02	Norway	4th	4th	3	11
03	Finland	3	3	2	8th
04th	Japan	2	2	0	4th
05	Italy	0	4th	1	5
06th	Germany	0	1	1	2
07th	Austria	0	0	2	2
08th	France	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1

Men
final score after 10 competitions

space	athlete
01	Bjørn Dæhlie	3	1	1	5
02	Janne Ahonen	2	0	0	2
03	Mika Myllyl	1	2	1	4th
04th	Masahiko Harada	1	2	0	3
05	Alexei Prokurorov	1	1	1	3
06th	Bjarte Engen Vik	1	1	0	2
	Erling Jevne	1	1	0	2
08th	Thomas Alsgaard	1	0	1	2
09	Kenji Ogiwara	1	0	0	1
	Stubborn Sivertsen	1	0	0	1
	Halldor Skard	1	0	0	1
	Knut Tore Apeland	1	0	0	1
	Fred Børre Lundberg	1	0	0	1
	Ari-Pekka Nikkola	1	0	0	1
	Jani Soininen	1	0	0	1
	Mika Laitinen	1	0	0	1
017th	Dieter Thoma	0	1	1	2
018th	Kazuyoshi Funaki	0	1	0	1
	Takanobu Okabe	0	1	0	1
	Hiroya Saitō	0	1	0	1
	Harri Kirvesniemi	0	1	0	1
	Jari Räsänen	0	1	0	1
	Jari Isometsä	0	1	0	1
	Jari Mantila	0	1	0	1
	Tapio Nurmela	0	1	0	1
	Samppa Lajunen	0	1	0	1
	Hannu Manninen	0	1	0	1
028	Fabrice Guy	0	0	1	1
	Andreas Goldberger	0	0	1	1
	Sylvain Freiholz	0	0	1	1
	Giorgio Di Centa	0	0	1	1
	Silvio Fauner	0	0	1	1
	Pietro Piller Cottrer	0	0	1	1
	Fulvio Valbusa	0	0	1	1
	Christoph Eugen	0	0	1	1
	Felix Gottwald	0	0	1	1
	Mario Stecher	0	0	1	1
	Robert Stadelmann	0	0	1	1
	Christof Duffner	0	0	1	1
	Martin Schmitt	0	0	1	1
	Hansjörg Jäkle	0	0	1	1

Women
final result after 5 competitions

space	sportswoman
01	Jelena Välbe	5	0	0	5
02	Olga Danilova	1	0	1	2
	Nina Gavriljuk	1	0	1	2
04th	Larissa Lasutina	1	0	0	1
05	Stefania Belmondo	0	4th	0	4th
06th	Marit Mikkelsplass	0	1	1	2
07th	Bente Skari	0	1	0	1
	Elin Nilsen	0	1	0	1
	Trude Hartz-Dybendahl	0	1	0	1
010	Kateřina Neumannová	0	0	1	1
	Riikka Sirviö	0	0	1	1
	Tuulikki Pyykkönen	0	0	1	1
	Kati Pulkkinen	0	0	1	1
	Satu salons	0	0	1	1

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Briefly noted" in "Kronenzeitung" of June 13, 1992, page 12 from the back; POS .: last post, right
2. ↑ FIS World Championships - Men 10k on fis-ski.com
3. ↑ FIS World Championships - Men Pursuit on fis-ski.com
4. ↑ FIS World Championships - Men 30k on fis-ski.com
5. ↑ FIS World Championships - Men 50k on fis-ski.com
6. ↑ FIS World Championships - Men Team on fis-ski.com
7. ↑ FIS World Championships - Ladies 5k on fis-ski.com
8. ↑ FIS World Championships - Ladies Pursuit on fis-ski.com
9. ↑ FIS World Championships - Ladies 15k on fis-ski.com
10. ↑ FIS World Championships - Ladies 30k on fis-ski.com
11. ↑ FIS World Championships - Ladies Team on fis-ski.com
12. ↑ FIS World Championships - Men Ski-Jumping NH on fis-ski.com
13. ↑ Result normal hill , in the database of wyniki-skoki.hostingasp.pl , accessed on March 22, 2020 (Polish).
14. ↑ FIS World Championships - Men Ski-Jumping LH on fis-ski.com
15. ↑ Result Large hill , in the database of wyniki-skoki.hostingasp.pl , accessed on March 22, 2020 (Polish).
16. ↑ FIS World Championships - Men Ski Jumping Team on fis-ski.com
17. ^ Result of team jumping , in the database of wyniki-skoki.hostingasp.pl , accessed on March 22, 2020 (Polish).
18. ↑ FIS World Championships - Nordic Combined on fis-ski.com
19. ↑ KJell-Ivar Pettersson, Historien om OL og VM på ski: 1924 - 2014 (Norwegian), Dreyers forlag, Oslo, 2014, s. 352. ISBN 978-82-8265-113-4

literature

• Hermann Hansen, Knut Sveen: VM på ski '97. Alt om ski-VM 1925-1997. Adresseavisens Forlag, Trondheim 1996, ISBN 82-7164-044-5 .

Web links

• 41st Nordic World Ski Championships 1997 in Trondheim, Norway from ifosta.de, accessed on May 25, 2017
• The top three winners at the Olympic Winter Games & World Ski Championships , pages 56/57 on deutscherskiverband.de (PDF), accessed on May 25, 2017
• Nordic World Ski Championships , several smaller reports on events at the 1997 Nordic World Ski Championships at archiv.rhein-zeitung.de, accessed on May 25, 2017
• Kenji Ogiwara , biography of the Nordic Combined Kenji Ogiwara on munzinger.de, accessed on May 25, 2017
• Trondheim - Nordic World Ski Championships 1997 , on skisprungfan.de, accessed on May 25, 2017
• Only Schanzenjäger Thoma hopeful , preliminary report on the Nordic World Ski Championships 1997 on neue-deutschland.de, accessed on May 25, 2017
• Yelena Välbe vs Stefania Belmondo Women's 10km Pursuit at World Championship 1997 Trondheim , video published February 15, 2017 on youtube.com, accessed May 25, 2017
• Mika Myllylä vs Bjørn Dæhlie Men's 10km at World Championship 1997 Trondheim , video published on February 16, 2017 on youtube.com, accessed on May 25, 2017
• Janne Ahonen - 98.5 m - Trondheim 1997 , video published on February 4, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed on May 25, 2017
• Ski Jumping WCH Trondheim 1997 (II) , video published January 7, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed May 25, 2017