The 41st
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships is a biennial nordic skiing event organized by the International Ski Federation (FIS). The World Championships was started in 1925 for men and opened for women's participation in 1954. World Championship e ...
were held from 20 February to 3 March 2019 in
Seefeld in Tirol
Seefeld in Tirol is an old farming village, now a major tourist resort, in Innsbruck-Land District in the Austrian state of Tyrol with a local population of 3,312 (as of 1 January 2013). The village is located about northwest of Innsbruck on a pl ...
,
Tyrol
Tyrol (; historically the Tyrole; de-AT, Tirol ; it, Tirolo) is a historical region in the Alps - in Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Emp ...
, Austria. It was the second time Seefeld in Tirol hosted the world championships, the event having been hosted there previously in 1985.
Host selection
Championships was awarded to
Seefeld in Tirol
Seefeld in Tirol is an old farming village, now a major tourist resort, in Innsbruck-Land District in the Austrian state of Tyrol with a local population of 3,312 (as of 1 January 2013). The village is located about northwest of Innsbruck on a pl ...
in
Tyrol
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in
Austria
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during the
FIS
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Congress from 1–6 June 2014 in
Barcelona
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,
Spain
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, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
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, i ...
.
Finalist applicants were
Seefeld in Tirol
Seefeld in Tirol is an old farming village, now a major tourist resort, in Innsbruck-Land District in the Austrian state of Tyrol with a local population of 3,312 (as of 1 January 2013). The village is located about northwest of Innsbruck on a pl ...
(
Austria
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),
Oberstdorf
Oberstdorf ( Low Alemannic: ''Oberschdorf'') is a municipality and skiing and hiking town in Germany, located in the Allgäu region of the Bavarian Alps. It is the southernmost settlement in Germany and one of its highest towns.
At the&nb ...
(
Germany
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),
Planica
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(
Slovenia
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) and
Almaty
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(
Kazakhstan
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). Oberstdorf had already applied for 2013, 2015 and 2017, Planica for 2017. Seefeld submitted its candidacy shortly before the deadline.
The Austrian
winter sports resort
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had hosted the Championships in
1985, the German resort of Oberstdorf in
1987 and
2005
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.
Detailed application concepts were to be submitted by 1 September 2013.
Schedule
''All times are local (
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).''
;Cross-country
;Nordic combined
;Ski jumping
Medal summary
Medal table
Cross-country skiing
Men
Women
Nordic combined
Ski jumping
Men
Women
Mixed
Venues
The cross-country skiing events took place at the
Seefeld Nordic Competence Centre. The ski jumping large hill events were held in the
Bergisel Ski Jump
The Bergisel Ski Jump (german: Bergiselschanze), whose stadium has a capacity of 26,000, is a ski jumping hill located in Bergisel in Innsbruck, Austria. It is one of the more important venues in the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, annually hosting the ...
in
Innsbruck
Innsbruck (; bar, Innschbruck, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian ) is the capital of Tyrol (state), Tyrol and the List of cities and towns in Austria, fifth-largest city in Austria. On the Inn (river), River Inn, at its junction with the ...
. The Bergisel Ski Jump is a large ski jumping hill with a
hill size
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of 130 and a
construction point
The construction point ( ger, Konstruktionspunkt), also known as the K-point or K-spot and formerly critical point, is a line across a ski jumping hill. It is used to calculate the number of points granted for a given jump. It is therefore also ca ...
(K-spot) of 120. It has a spectator capacity of 26,000. The current structure dates from 2003. The normal hill competitions were held in the
Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze
Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze is a ski jumping hill in Seefeld, Tirol, Seefeld outside of Innsbruck, Austria. It is a part of the Seefeld Nordic Competence Centre consists of two hills, a normal hill with a hill size of HS109 (construction point, K- ...
normal hill with a hill size of 109 and a K-point of 99.
Medal ceremonies were held at the Medal Plaza, a square in the town center.
Doping
Five cross-country skiers (
Max Hauke and
Dominik Baldauf from Austria,
Andreas Veerpalu
Andreas Veerpalu (born 24 May 1994) is an Estonian cross-country skier who competes internationally.
He represented Estonia at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
On 27 February 2019, during the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2019, Veerpalu was a ...
and
Karel Tammjärv
Karel Tammjärv (born 25 May 1989 in Tartu) is an Estonian cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skier who has competed since 2007. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished 46th in the 30 km mixed pursuit and 67th in the 15 ...
from Estonia, as well as
Alexey Poltoranin
Alexey Yurevich Poltoranin ( kk, Алексей Юрьевич Полтаранин, born April 29, 1987) is a Kazakh cross-country skier who has competed at the international senior level since 2004. He has three World Cup wins, one in 2010 an ...
from Kazakhstan.
) were caught during
Operation Aderlass.
References
External links
Official website
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FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
2019 in cross-country skiing
2019 in ski jumping
2019 in Nordic combined
2019 in Austrian sport
International sports competitions hosted by Austria
Nordic skiing competitions in Austria
Seefeld in Tirol
Sport in Tyrol (state)
February 2019 sports events in Austria
March 2019 sports events in Austria