FIS Nordic World Ski Championships


The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships is a biennial Nordic skiing event organized by the International Ski Federation. The World Championships was started in 1924 for men and opened for women's participation in 1954. World Championship events include Nordic skiing's three disciplines: cross-country skiing, ski jumping, and Nordic combined. The Winter Olympics from 1924 to 1980 were also the Nordic World Ski Championships. This meant that the Olympic champions were also World champions and received an additional medal from the International Ski Federation. Since 1985, the World Championships have been held in odd-numbered years.
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History

The first Nordic Skiing World Championships were held in Chamonix in 1924, as part of the first Winter Olympics, which were only later recognized as such. The competitions took place annually until 1939. From 1925 to 1927, the FIS referred to the events as Rendezvous races, while in the years after that until 1935 they were held as FIS races. Since 1937, the competitions have had the official title of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. Until the 1980 Winter Olympics, the Olympic champions were also World champions.
The 1940 Nordic World Ski Championships were canceled due to the war, but this was also criticized at the time. The Italian winter sports resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo organized the 1941 Nordic World Ski Championships. However, the FIS subsequently declared these invalid at a congress in Pau in 1946, so that the medals awarded lost their official status and were no longer counted.
With the 1984 Winter Olympics, the rule that the Olympic winners were also World champions was finally abandoned. Since 1985, the Nordic World Ski Championships have taken place in odd-numbered years, independently of the Winter Olympics, in order to avoid an overlap with the Olympics.
The 1980 and 1984 World Championships consisted of a total of only three events; women's 20 km cross-country, ski-jumping team event and Nordic combined team event. These events were not held in the 1980 Winter Olympics and 1984 Winter Olympics and therefore got their own World Championships.

Historical notes

The following list shows when new events were added for the first time:
  • 1933, men's relay was added.
  • 1954, women's 10 km and 3 × 5 km relay was added, men's 15 km replaced the 18 km.
  • 1962, men's normal hill and women's 5 km were added.
  • 1978, women's 20 km was added.
  • 1982, men's ski jumping team large hill and Nordic combined team large hill were added.
  • 1989, women's 15 km was added and women's 30 km replaced the 20 km.
  • 1991, men's 10 km was added.
  • 1993, cross-country pursuit were added.
  • 2001, men's ski jumping team normal hill was added and cross-country sprint replaced the 10 km and the 5 km.
  • 2003, women's 30 km and men's 50 km changed from interval start to mass start. Additionally, the Skiathlon format was introduced for pursuit races.
  • 2005, cross-country team sprint were added.
  • 2009, women's normal hill was added.
  • 2011, Nordic combined team normal hill was added.
  • 2013, mixed team was added and team sprint large hill replaced the team large hill.
  • 2019, women's team normal hill was added.
  • 2021, women's Nordic combined with women's large hill were added.
  • 2023, Nordic combined mixed team event replaced men's team sprint large hill.
  • 2025, men's 10 km replaced the 15 km, women's 50 km replaced the 30 km, men's and women's 4x7,5 km replaced the men's 4x10 km and the women's 4x5 km, men's and women's 20 km replaced the men's 30 km and the women's 15 km, men's compact 7,5 km replaced the Gundersen 10 km, women's mass-start 5 km + normal hill and men's and women's Para Sprint were added.

Medalists by sport

Medal table

Table updated after the 2025 Championships.

The medals won at the 13 Winter Olympics are not included into this table.

The medals won at the para cross-country events are also not included.

Multiple medalists

Boldface denotes active athletes and highest medal count among all athletes per type.

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