Nordic World Ski Championships 1978

Nordic World Ski Championships 1978
	Men's	Ladies
winner
Cross-country skiing 5 km	---	Helena Takalo
Cross-country skiing 10 km	---	Zinaida Amosova
Cross-country skiing	Józef Łuszczek - 15 km	Sinaida Amosova - 20 km
Cross-country skiing 30 km	Sergei Savelyev	---
Cross-country skiing 50 km	Sven-Åke Lundbäck	---
Cross-country relay	Sweden - 4 × 10 km	Finland - 4 × 5 km
Ski jumping normal hill	Matthias Buse	---
Ski jumping large hill	Tapio Räisänen	---
Nordic combination	Konrad Winkler	---
← Innsbruck 1976 Lake Placid 1980 →

The 32nd Nordic World Ski Championships took place in the Finnish city ​​of Lahti from February 18 to 26, 1978 , for the fourth time after 1926, 1938 and 1958.

A new addition to the program was the women's 20 km cross-country skiing. The women now had the same number of cross-country disciplines as the men. Only the route lengths were different.

The medal table was more balanced than in some previous World Cups. The leaders were the Soviet Union , Finland and the GDR with three gold medals each and numerous other medals each. Norway disappointed with only two bronze medals.

Nomination from Lahti

This took place at the end of May 1975 at the 30th FIS Congress in San Francisco .

other remarks

• The FIS board, which met here in Lahti, set the first signs that after 1982 the other world championships (both alpine and nordic) should be held in odd years and thus separately from the Winter Olympics. The exact decisions were to be taken in 1979 at the FIS Congress in Nice .
• There were financial problems because of the television broadcast. The Finnish government stepped in with a subsidy, and the organizers also took some advertising posters off the slopes, which also met the requirements of the European Broadcasting Corporation .
• There was a spelling mistake on the white pointed hats with which the ÖSV starters appeared: The organizer's location was sewn on incorrectly: instead of “Lahti” it was called “Lathi”.

Cross-country men

• Detailed results

15 km

space	athlete	Time [min]
1	Józef Łuszczek	49: 09.37
2	Yevgeny Belyayev	49: 11.62
3	Juha Mieto	49: 14.37
4th	Matti Pitkänen	49: 23.85
5	Nikolai Simjatov	49: 33.33
6th	Sven-Åke Lundbäck	49: 50.86

World champion 1974 : Magne Myrmo / Olympic champion 1976 : Nikolai Baschukow  

Date: February 21, 1978

30 km

space	athlete	Time [h]
1	Sergei Savelyev	1: 32: 52.00
2	Nikolai Simjatov	1: 33: 48.23
3	Józef Łuszczek	1: 33: 52.21
4th	Matti Pitkänen	1: 34: 16.23
5	Yevgeny Belyayev	1: 34: 46.66
6th	Sven-Åke Lundbäck	1: 34: 56.08

World Champion 1974 : Thomas Magnusson / Olympic Champion 1976 : Sergei Saweljew  

Date: February 19, 1978

50 km

space	athlete	time
1	Sven-Åke Lundbäck	2: 46: 43.06
2	Yevgeny Belyayev	2: 47: 34.48
3	Jean-Paul Pierrat	2: 47: 52.27
4th	Matti Pitkänen	2: 49: 46.28
5	Lars Erik Eriksen	2: 50: 44.82
6th	Jiří Beran	2: 51: 17.86
7th	Józef Łuszczek	2: 51: 33.75
8th	Tommy Lundberg	2: 51: 43.10

World Champion 1974 : Gerhard Grimmer / Olympic Champion 1976 : Ivar Formo  

Date: February 26, 1978

4x10 km relay

space	country	athlete	Time [h]
1	Sweden	Sven-Åke Lundbäck Christer Johansson Tommy Limby Thomas Magnusson	2: 05: 17.63
2	Finland	Esko Länkevänoja Juha Mieto Pertti Teurajärvi Matti Pitkänen	2:05:28.95
3	Norway	Lars Erik Eriksen Ove Aunli Ivar Formo Oddvar Brå	2: 06: 48.37
4th	Soviet Union	Evgeni Belyayev Nikolai Simjatow Sergei Saweljew Wassili Rotschew	2: 07: 56.54
5	Switzerland	Hansueli cruiser Franz Renggli Eduard Hauser Gaudenz Ambühl	2: 08: 40.42
6th	BR Germany	Peter Zipfel Georg Zipfel Wolfgang Müller Dieter Notz	2: 08: 46.47

World Champion 1974 : GDR ( Gerd Heßler , Dieter Meinel , Gerhard Grimmer , Gert-Dietmar Klause ) Olympic Champion 1976 : Finland ( Matti Pitkänen , Juha Mieto , Pertti Teurajärvi , Arto Koivisto )  
 

Date: February 23, 1978

Cross-country women

• Detailed results

5 km

space	sportswoman	Time [min]
1	Helena Takalo	18: 53.50
2	Hilkka Riihivuori	18: 58.49
3	Raissa Smetanina	19: 01.30
4th	Galina Kulakova	19: 08.83
5	Christel Meinel	19: 14.38
6th	Zinaida Amosova	19: 17.14

World champion 1974 : Galina Kulakowa / Olympic champion 1976 : Helena Takalo  

Date: February 20, 1978

10 km

space	sportswoman	Time [min]
1	Zinaida Amosova	37: 01.72
2	Raissa Smetanina	37: 13.37
3	Hilkka Riihivuori	37: 23.43
4th	Galina Kulakova	37: 30.09
5	Taina Impio	37: 32.47
6th	Berit Aunli	37: 40.77

World champion 1974 : Galina Kulakowa / Olympic champion 1976 : Raissa Smetanina  

Date: February 18, 1978

20 km

space	sportswoman	Time [h]
1	Zinaida Amosova	1: 13: 00.85
2	Galina Kulakova	1: 13: 08.11
3	Helena Takalo	1: 13: 57.95
4th	Hilkka Riihivuori	1: 14: 00.26
5	Raissa Smetanina	1: 14: 38.83
6th	Berit Aunli	1: 15: 10.62

no defending champion / no previous Olympic champion, discipline in the World Cup program for the first time

Date: February 25, 1978

4x5 km relay

space	country	Sportswomen	Time [h]
1	Finland	Taina Impiö Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen Hilkka Riihivuori Helena Takalo	1: 13: 25.08
2	GDR	Marlies Rostock Birgit Schreiber Barbara Petzold Christel Meinel	1: 13: 29.74
3	Soviet Union	Nina Rotschewa Sinaida Amossowa Raissa Smetanina Galina Kulakowa	1: 13: 39.88
4th	Sweden	Marie Johansson Eva Olsson Meeri Bodelid Lena Carlzon-Lundbäck	1: 14: 56.96
5	Norway	Berit Johannessen Vigdis Rønning Marit Myrmæl Berit Aunli	1: 15: 03.86
6th	Czechoslovakia	Anna Pasiarová Blanka Paulů Dagmar Palečkova Kvĕtoslava Jeriová	1: 16: 25.38

World champions 1974 : Soviet Union ( Nina Baldytschewa , Nina Seljunina , Raissa Smetanina , Galina Kulakowa ) Olympic champions 1976 : Soviet Union ( Nina Baldytschewa , Sinaida Amossowa , Raissa Smetanina , Galina Kulakowa )  
 

Date: February 22, 1978

Ski jumping men

• Detailed results

Normal hill K70

space	athlete	Points
1	Matthias Buse	253.2
2	Henry Glass	251.7
3	Alexei Borowitin	250.0
4th	Karl Schnabl	249.4
5	Pentti Kokkonen	248.7
6th	Tapio Räisänen	246.5

1974 World Champion : Hans-Georg Aschenbach / 1976 Olympic Champion : Hans-Georg Aschenbach  

Date: February 18, 1978

Large hill K90

space	athlete	Widths [m]	Points
1	Tapio Räisänen	111.5 / 108.0	256.6
2	Alois Lipburger	112.5 / 107.5	256.3
3	Falko Weißpflog	108.0 / 114.5	255.8
4th	Matthias Buse	110.0 / 109.5	251.1
5	Tauno Käyhkö	108.5 / 103.5	242.1
6th	Jouko Törmänen	101.5 / 107.5	241.9
7th	Valery Sawin	105.5 / 105.5	241.2
8th	Jochen Danneberg	107.5 / 104.0	238.9
9	Alexei Borowitin	103.5 / 100.0	231.5
10	Walter Steiner	101.0 / 101.0	230.8

World Champion 1974 : Hans-Georg Aschenbach / Olympic Champion 1976 : Karl Schnabl (not at the start due to injury)   

Date: February 26, 1978
Defending champion (and fourth on the normal hill) Karl Schnabl suffered a ligament tear in training on February 23 and could not compete.

Team jumping (unofficial)

space	country	athlete	Points
1	GDR	Harald Duschk Jochen Danneberg Henry Glaß Matthias Buse	443.8
2	Finland	Jari Puikkonen Jouko Törmänen Pentti Kokkonen Tapio Räisänen	401.0
3	Norway	Rune Hauge Roger Ruud Tom Levorstad Per Bergerud	396.6

Date: February 22, 1978

For the first time, a team competition in ski jumping was held at the Nordic World Ski Championships. This served as a demonstration competition for the team competition on the large hill, which was introduced at world championships from 1982. Due to the unofficial nature of the competition, no medals were awarded.

Nordic combined men

Detailed results

Individual (normal hill / 15 km)

space	athlete	Points
1	Konrad Winkler	435.24
2	Rauno Miettinen	431.66
3	Ulrich Wehling	430.83
4th	Andreas Langer	427.25
5	Gunther Schmieder	423.48
6th	Yuri Voronin	418.40

World Champion 1974 : Ulrich Wehling / Olympic Champion 1976 : Ulrich Wehling  

Date: February 19-20, 1978

The superiority of the athletes from the GDR was striking. All four starters made it into the top five. Only the Finn Rauno Miettinen, who had led after jumping, was able to penetrate the GDR phalanx in second place. Double Olympic champion Ulrich Wehling had to be content with bronze. He was then two years later at the Olympic Games in Lake Placid with his third Olympic victory in a row again.

Medal table

Nations
final after 11 competitions

space	nation
01	Soviet Union	3	5	3	11
02	Finland	3	4th	3	10
03	GDR	3	2	2	7th
04th	Sweden	2	0	0	2
05	Poland	1	0	1	2
06th	Austria	0	1	0	1
07th	Norway	0	0	2	2
08th	France	0	0	1	1

Men
final score after 7 competitions

space	athlete
01	Sven-Åke Lundbäck	2	0	0	2
02	Józef Łuszczek	1	0	1	2
03	Matthias Buse	1	0	0	1
	Sergei Savelyev	1	0	0	1
	Konrad Winkler	1	0	0	1
	Tapio Räisänen	1	0	0	1
	Christer Johansson	1	0	0	1
	Tommy Limby	1	0	0	1
	Thomas Magnusson	1	0	0	1
010	Yevgeny Belyayev	0	2	0	2
011	Juha Mieto	0	1	1	2
012	Henry Glass	0	1	0	1
	Nikolai Simjatov	0	1	0	1
	Rauno Miettinen	0	1	0	1
	Alois Lipburger	0	1	0	1
	Esko Länkevanoja	0	1	0	1
	Pertti Teurajärvi	0	1	0	1
	Matti Pitkänen	0	1	0	1
019th	Alexei Borowitin	0	0	1	1
	Ulrich Wehling	0	0	1	1
	Falko Weißpflog	0	0	1	1
	Jean-Paul Pierrat	0	0	1	1
	Lars Erik Eriksen	0	0	1	1
	Ove Aunli	0	0	1	1
	Ivar Formo	0	0	1	1
	Oddvar Brå	0	0	1	1

Women
final after 4 competitions

space	sportswoman
01	Zinaida Amosova	2	0	1	3
	Helena Takalo	2	0	1	3
03	Hilkka Riihivuori	1	1	1	3
04th	Taina Impio	1	0	0	1
	Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen	1	0	0	1
06th	Raissa Smetanina	0	1	2	3
07th	Galina Kulakova	0	1	1	2
08th	Marlies Rostock	0	1	0	1
	Birgit Schreiber	0	1	0	1
	Barbara Petzold	0	1	0	1
	Christel Meinel	0	1	0	1
013	Nina Rotschewa	0	0	1	1

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

• 32nd Nordic World Ski Championships 1978 in Lahti, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on May 14, 2017
• The top three winners at the Olympic Winter Games & World Ski Championships , pages 42/43 on deutscherskiverband.de (PDF), accessed on May 14, 2017
• Matthias Buse from Klingenthal is the winner of the 1978 World Cup in Lathi, Finland. Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 27, 2015 at sueddeutsche.de/sport, accessed on May 14, 2017
• Mourning the coach , report on the death of the Austrian head coach Alois Lipburger in February 2001, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 2, 2001 on faz.net, accessed on May 14, 2017
• Helena Takalo vs Raisa Smetanina Women's 5km at World Championship Nordic Ski 1978 Lahti , video on the 5 km cross-country skiing at the 1978 World Cup in Lahti, published on September 27, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed on May 14, 2017
• Tapio Räisänen Maailmanmestari Lahti 1978. , Video about the large hill ski jumping at the 1978 World Cup in Lahti, published on July 1, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed on May 14, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Column 3, below: “Sport in short”, second article . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna June 1, 1975, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ↑ bottom right: "World Cup only in odd years" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 22, 1978, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
3. ↑ «Preiml: Only stay with the Springerdebakel» and also the gloss «Too far back» in the box on the left . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 18, 1978, p. 9 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
4. ↑ FIS World Championships - Men 15k on fis-ski.com
5. ↑ FIS World Championships - Men 30k on fis-ski.com
6. ↑ Vogel great - result box . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 27, 1978, p. 08 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
7. ↑ FIS World Championships - Men's Team on fis-ski.com
8. ↑ FIS World Championships - Ladies 5k on fis-ski.com
9. ↑ FIS World Championships - Ladies 10k on fis-ski.com
10. ↑ FIS World Championships - Ladies 20k on fis-ski.com
11. ↑ FIS World Championships - Ladies Team on fis-ski.com
12. ↑ FIS World Championships - MenSki-Jumping on fis-ski.com
13. ↑ Lipburger cheated of gold - result box . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 27, 1978, p. 08 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
14. ↑ "Torn ligament!" In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 24, 1978, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
15. ↑ World Championships: February 22, 1978 - Lahti (FIN), in: Jens Jahn, Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping . Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, s. 169. ISBN 3-89784-099-5
16. ↑ FIS World Championships - Nordic Combined on fis-ski.com