FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2023

The 43rd FIS Nordic World Ski Championships were held from 21 February to 5 March 2023 in Planica, Slovenia.

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2023

Host city	Planica
Country	Slovenia
Nations	66
Athletes	2,000+
Events	24
Opening	21 February 2023 (2023-02-21)
Closing	5 March 2023 (2023-03-05)
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Championships

Slovenia hosted the Nordic World Championships for the first time. All competitions took place at the Planica Nordic Centre, located in the Planica monument valley.

Host selection

The World Championships were awarded at the 51st FIS Congress, held between 13 and 19 May 2018 in Costa Navarino, Greece.^[1] Planica's bids to host the championships had been unsuccessful on three previous occasions.^[2]

The detailed application had to be submitted by 1 September 2017. On 17 May 2018, Planica was announced as the host, beating Norwegian Trondheim.^[3][4]

Place	1st ballot
Slovenia	9
Norway	6

Venues

• Bloudkova velikanka is a large hill (HS138), completely rebuilt in 2012 after the previous hill collapsed. A total of ten world records were set on the hill.
• Srednja skakalnica is a normal hill (HS102) standing right next to Bloudkova velikanka, and hosted events in ski jumping and nordic combined.
• Rateče Planica track is a cross-country skiing track that stretches across the entire valley between Rateče and Planica.

Planica Nordic Centre
Planica

Schedule

All times are local (UTC+1).^[5]

		February								March					Events
		21st Tue	22nd Wed	23rd Thu	24th Fri	25th Sat	26th Sun	27th Mon	28th Tue	1st Wed	2nd Thu	3rd Fri	4th Sat	5th Sun
Ceremonies		OC						D A Y O F F						CC	—
Ski jumping	Normal hill Individual		Q^W	W	Q^M	M									7
	Large hill Individual								Q^W	W	Q^M	M
	Team normal hill					W
	Team large hill												M
	Mixed team normal						M / W
Nordic combined	Normal hill Individual				W	M									5
	Mixed team normal						M / W
	Team large hill									M
	Large hill Individual												M
Cross-country	Free		Q^W, M												12
	Sprint Classic			M, W
	Skiathlon				M	W
	Team Sprint Free						M, W
	Individual Free								W	M
	Relay										W	M
	Mass start Classic												W	M

Ski jumping Date Time Event 22 February 16:30 HS102 Individual, q (Women) 23 February 17:00 HS102 Individual (Women) 24 February 17:45 HS102 Individual, q (Men) 25 February 12:15 HS102 Team (Women) 17:30 HS102 Individual (Men) 26 February 17:30 HS102 Mixed team (M / W) 28 February 18:30 HS138 Individual, q (Women) 1 March 17:30 HS138 Individual (Women) 2 March 17:30 HS138 Individual, q (Men) 3 March 17:30 HS138 Individual (Men) 4 March 16:30 HS138 Team (Men) Nordic combined Date Time Event 24 February 11:30 14:15 HS102 / 5 km Individual (Women) 25 February 10:00 15:15 HS102 / 10 km Individual (Men) 26 February 10:30 15:00 HS102 / 2×2.5 + 2×5 km (Mixed team) 1 March 11:00 15:00 HS138 / 4 × 5  km Team (Men) 4 March 10:30 15:00 HS138 / 10 km Individual (Men)

Cross-country Date Time Event 22 February 12:30 Free 5 km, qualification (W) 13:30 Free 10 km, qualification (M) 23 February 12:00 Sprint Classic, qualification (M, W) 14:30 Sprint Classic, Final (M, W) 24 February 15:30 Skiathlon 2 × 15 km (M) 25 February 14:00 Skiathlon 2 × 7.5 km (W) 26 February 11:30 Team Sprint Free, qualification (M, W) 13:30 Team Sprint Free, Final (M, W) 28 February 12:30 10 km Free Individual (W) 1 March 12:30 15 km Free Individual (M) 2 March 12:30 4 × 5 km Classic/Free Relay (W) 3 March 12:30 4 × 10 km Classic/Free Relay (M) 4 March 12:00 30 km Mass start Classic (W) 5 March 12:00 50 km Mass start Classic (M)

Participating nations

Over 2,000 athletes from 66 countries participated at the Championships.^[6]

•   Andorra
•   Argentina
•   Armenia
•   Australia
•   Austria
•   Belgium
•   Bolivia
•   Bosnia and Herzegovina
•   Brazil
•   Bulgaria
•   Canada
•   Chile
•   China
•   Chinese Taipei
•   Colombia
•   Croatia
•   Czech Republic
•   Dominica
•   Ecuador
•   Estonia
•   Finland
•   France
•   Georgia
•   Germany
•   Great Britain
•   Greece
•   Haiti
•   Hungary
•   Iceland
•   India
•   Iran
•   Ireland
•   Israel
•   Italy
•   Japan
•   Kazakhstan
•   Kyrgyzstan
•   Latvia
•   Lebanon
•   Liechtenstein
•   Lithuania
•   Mexico
•   Mongolia
•   Montenegro
•   Morocco
•   Nigeria
•   North Macedonia
•   Norway
•   Panama
•   Peru
•   Poland
•   Portugal
•   Romania
•   Saudi Arabia
•   Serbia
•   Slovakia
•   Slovenia
•   Spain
•   Sweden
•   Switzerland
•   Thailand
•   Trinidad and Tobago
•   Turkey
•   Ukraine
•   United States
•   Venezuela

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Slovenia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway	12	10	5	27
2	Sweden	4	3	5	12
3	Germany	3	6	3	12
4	Slovenia*	2	0	1	3
5	Poland	1	0	1	2
	United States	1	0	1	2
7	Canada	1	0	0	1
8	Austria	0	2	5	7
9	Japan	0	1	1	2
10	Finland	0	1	0	1
	Italy	0	1	0	1
12	France	0	0	2	2
Totals (12 entries)		24	24	24	72

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Sprint classical details	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo   Norway	2:56.07	Pål Golberg   Norway	2:58.29	Jules Chappaz   France	2:58.31
30 kilometre skiathlon details	Simen Hegstad Krüger   Norway	1:09:40.3	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo   Norway	1:09:52.5	Sjur Røthe   Norway	1:09:54.4
Team sprint freestyle details	Norway Pål Golberg Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	17:28.14	Italy Francesco De Fabiani Federico Pellegrino	17:30.62	France Renaud Jay Richard Jouve	17:44.62
15 kilometre freestyle individual details	Simen Hegstad Krüger   Norway	32:17.4	Harald Østberg Amundsen   Norway	32:22.7	Hans Christer Holund   Norway	32:42.0
4 × 10 kilometre relay details	Norway Hans Christer Holund Pål Golberg Simen Hegstad Krüger Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	1:32:54.7	Finland Ristomatti Hakola Iivo Niskanen Perttu Hyvärinen Niko Anttola	1:33:41.6	Germany Albert Kuchler Janosch Brugger Jonas Dobler Friedrich Moch	1:33:54.5
50 kilometre classical mass start details	Pål Golberg   Norway	2:01:30.2	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo   Norway	2:01:31.2	William Poromaa   Sweden	2:01:31.4

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Sprint classical details	Jonna Sundling   Sweden	3:21.67	Emma Ribom   Sweden	3:22.54	Maja Dahlqvist   Sweden	3:26.12
15 kilometre skiathlon details	Ebba Andersson   Sweden	38:11.8	Frida Karlsson   Sweden	38:33.8	Astrid Øyre Slind   Norway	38:59.8
Team sprint freestyle details	Sweden Emma Ribom Jonna Sundling	19:40.73	Norway Anne Kjersti Kalvå Tiril Udnes Weng	19:43.15	United States Jessie Diggins Julia Kern	19:46.06
10 kilometre freestyle individual details	Jessie Diggins   United States	23:40.8	Frida Karlsson   Sweden	23:54.8	Ebba Andersson   Sweden	24:00.3
4 × 5 kilometre relay details	Norway Tiril Udnes Weng Astrid Øyre Slind Ingvild Flugstad Østberg Anne Kjersti Kalvå	50:33.3	Germany Laura Gimmler Katharina Hennig Pia Fink Victoria Carl	50:53.8	Sweden Emma Ribom Ebba Andersson Frida Karlsson Maja Dahlqvist	51:02.0
30 kilometre classical mass start details	Ebba Andersson   Sweden	1:22:18.0	Anne Kjersti Kalvå   Norway	1:23:11.0	Frida Karlsson   Sweden	1:23:12.2

Nordic combined

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual large hill/10 km details	Jarl Magnus Riiber   Norway	23:42.6	Jens Lurås Oftebro   Norway	24:44.0	Johannes Lamparter   Austria	24:47.3
Team large hill/4 × 5 km details	Norway Espen Andersen Jens Lurås Oftebro Jørgen Graabak Jarl Magnus Riiber	47:20.4	Germany Eric Frenzel Vinzenz Geiger Johannes Rydzek Julian Schmid	47:29.4	Austria Martin Fritz Lukas Greiderer Stefan Rettenegger Johannes Lamparter	47:29.7
Individual normal hill/10 km details	Jarl Magnus Riiber   Norway	24:36.3	Julian Schmid   Germany	24:55.7	Franz-Josef Rehrl   Austria	24:57.3

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual normal hill/5 km details	Gyda Westvold Hansen   Norway	14:27.1	Nathalie Armbruster   Germany	14:38.6	Haruka Kasai   Japan	14:42.8

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Mixed team normal hill details	Norway Jens Lurås Oftebro Ida Marie Hagen Gyda Westvold Hansen Jarl Magnus Riiber	37:38.2	Germany Vinzenz Geiger Jenny Nowak Nathalie Armbruster Julian Schmid	38:26.0	Austria Stefan Rettenegger Annalena Slamik Lisa Hirner Johannes Lamparter	38:38.2

Ski jumping

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's individual normal hill details	Piotr Żyła   Poland	261.8	Andreas Wellinger   Germany	259.2	Karl Geiger   Germany	257.7
Men's individual large hill details	Timi Zajc   Slovenia	287.5	Ryōyū Kobayashi   Japan	276.8	Dawid Kubacki   Poland	276.2
Men's team large hill details	Slovenia Lovro Kos Žiga Jelar Timi Zajc Anže Lanišek	1178.9	Norway Johann André Forfang Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal Marius Lindvik Halvor Egner Granerud	1166.0	Austria Daniel Tschofenig Michael Hayböck Jan Hörl Stefan Kraft	1139.4

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Women's individual normal hill details	Katharina Althaus   Germany	249.1	Eva Pinkelnig   Austria	246.9	Anna Odine Strøm   Norway	246.0
Women's individual large hill details	Alexandria Loutitt   Canada	264.4	Maren Lundby   Norway	254.0	Katharina Althaus   Germany	245.9
Women's team normal hill details	Germany Anna Rupprecht Luisa Görlich Selina Freitag Katharina Althaus	843.8	Austria Chiara Kreuzer Julia Mühlbacher Jacqueline Seifriedsberger Eva Pinkelnig	831.1	Norway Maren Lundby Eirin Maria Kvandal Thea Minyan Bjørseth Anna Odine Strøm	828.6

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Mixed team normal hill details	Germany Selina Freitag Karl Geiger Katharina Althaus Andreas Wellinger	1017.2	Norway Anna Odine Strøm Johann André Forfang Thea Minyan Bjørseth Halvor Egner Granerud	1004.5	Slovenia Nika Križnar Timi Zajc Ema Klinec Anže Lanišek	1000.4

References

1. . International Ski Federation. 4 May 2017. Archived from the original on 28 August 2017. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
2. "Planica 2023: V četrto gre rado?". Dnevnik (in Slovenian). 15 May 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
3. "FIS vergibt Nordische Ski-WM 2023 nach Planica". skispringen.com (in German). 17 May 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
4. "V četrtem poskusu le uspelo: Planici svetovno prvenstvo 2023". rtvslo.si (in Slovenian). 17 May 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
5. "Programme" (PDF). planica2023.si. 20 February 2023. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
6. "Svetovno prvenstvo v Planici tudi uradno odprto" (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenija. 21 February 2023. Retrieved 22 February 2023.

External links

• Official website