1993 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
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The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1993 took place February 19-28, 1993 in Falun, Sweden for the third time (1954, 1974). This event saw the creation of the combined pursuit where competitors would skate one distance in the classical interval style (10 km: men, 5 km: women) one day, then follow the next day in the freestyle pursuit (15 km: men, 10 km: women) with the first distance winner going first in the pursuit. Additionally it was the first competition since the breakup of the Soviet Union in late 1991 and the first competition with Czechoslovakia having been split up as the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Men's cross country

10 km classical

February 22, 1993

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Sture Sivertsen, Norway	24:51.6
Silver	Vladimir Smirnov, Kazakhstan	24:55.5
Bronze	Vegard Ulvang, Norway	24:58.1

10 km + 15 km combined pursuit

February 24, 1993

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Bjørn Dæhlie, Norway	1:01:45.0
Silver	Vladimir Smirnov, Kazakhstan	1:01:45.0
Bronze	Silvio Fauner, Italy	1:02:55.5

Dæhlie edged Smirnov at the finish line to earn the gold medal. Smirnov later stated that he lost out to Dæhlie by "only 16 centimeters".¹

30 km classical

February 20, 1993

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Bjørn Dæhlie, Norway	1:17:33.6
Silver	Vegard Ulvang, Norway	1:17:55.0
Bronze	Vladimir Smirnov, Kazakhstan	1:17:55.3

50 km freestyle

February 28, 1993

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Torgny Mogren, Sweden	2:03:36.8
Silver	Hervé Balland, France	2:04:30.9
Bronze	Bjørn Dæhlie, Norway	2:05:10.3

4×10 km relay

February 26, 1993

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	Norway (Sture Sivertsen, Vegard Ulvang, Terje Langli, Bjørn Dæhlie)	1:44:14.9
Silver	Italy (Maurilio De Zolt, Marco Albarello, Giorgio Vanzetta, Silvio Fauner)	1:44:24.5
Bronze	Russia (Andrey Kirilov, Igor Badamchin, Alexey Prokourorov, Mikhail Botvinov)	1:44:27.2

Women's cross country

5 km classical

February 21, 1993

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Larisa Lazutina, Russia	14:07.6
Silver	Lyubov Yegorova, Russia	14:12.1
Bronze	Trude Dybendahl, Norway	14:18.3

5 km + 10 km combined pursuit

February 23, 1993

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Stefania Belmondo, Italy	40:19.0
Silver	Larisa Lazutina, Russia	40:19.4
Bronze	Lyubov Yegorova, Russia	40:19.7

15 km classical

February 19, 1993

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Yelena Välbe, Russia	44:49.0
Silver	Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi, Finland	45:39.0
Bronze	Marjut Rolig, Finland	45:41.9

Välbe was the first Russian to win a gold medal in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's breakup in late 1991.

30 km freestyle

February 27, 1993

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Stefania Belmondo, Italy	1:22:41.3
Silver	Manuela Di Centa, Italy	1:22:55.0
Bronze	Lyubov Yegorova, Russia	1:23:48.3

4×5 km relay

February 26, 1993

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	Russia (Yelena Välbe, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrilyuk, Lyubov Yegorova)	54:15.7
Silver	Italy (Gabriella Paruzzi, Bice Vanzetta, Manuela Di Centa, Stefania Belmondo)	54:35.1
Bronze	Norway (Trude Dybendahl, Inger Helene Nybråten, Anita Moen, Elin Nilsen)	55:09.0

Men's Nordic combined

15 km Individual Gundersen

February 18, 1993

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Kenji Ogiwara, Japan
Silver	Knut Tore Apeland, Norway
Bronze	Trond Einar Elden, Norway

3 × 10 km team

February 19, 1993

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	Japan (Takanori Kono, Masashi Abe, Kenji Ogiwara)	1:19:25.7
Silver	Norway (Trond Einar Elden, Knut Tore Apeland, Fred Børre Lundberg)	+3:46.3
Bronze	Germany (Thomas Dufter, Jens Deimel, Hans-Peter Pohl)	+8:30.5

Japan's four minute victory margin at this event, followed by their nearly five minute victory at the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer the following year, would lead the FIS to change the Nordic combined team event from a 3 x 10 km relay to a 4 x 5 km relay that would become effective at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1995 in Thunder Bay and the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. This was in an effort to lessen the emphasis on the ski jumping part of the competition.

Men's ski jumping

Individual normal hill

February 27, 1993

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Masahiko Harada, Japan	237.8
Silver	Andreas Goldberger, Austria	231.3
Bronze	Jaroslav Sakala, Czech Republic	228.2

Individual large hill

February 21, 1993

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Espen Bredesen, Norway	241.4
Silver	Jaroslav Sakala, Czech Republic	239.1
Bronze	Andreas Goldberger, Austria	237.6

Sakala was the first Czech to medal following Czechoslovakia's breakup earlier that year into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Team large hill

February 19, 1993

Medal	Team	Points
Gold	Norway (Bjørn Myrbakken, Helge Brendryen, Øyvind Berg, Espen Bredesen)	821.5
Silver	Czech Republic (František Jež, Jiří Parma, Jaroslav Sakala)	772.1
	Slovakia (Martin Švagerko) (combined team)
Bronze	Austria (Ernst Vettori, Heinz Kuttin, Stefan Horngacher, Andreas Goldberger)	745.4

The Czech Republic and Slovakia competed as a combined team despite their countries agreement to split from Czechoslovakia on November 25, 1992. The country's split was made after the team had been selected prior to the championships

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway	6	3	5	14
2	Russia	3	2	3	8
3	Italy	2	3	1	6
4	Japan	3	0	0	3
5	Kazakhstan	0	2	1	3
6	Austria	0	1	2	3
7	Czech Republic	0	1.75	1	2.75
8	Finland	0	1	1	2
9	Sweden	1	0	0	1
10	France	0	1	0	1
11	Germany	0	0	1	1
11	Slovakia	0	0.25	0	0.25

References

• FIS 1993 Cross country results
• FIS 1993 Nordic combined results
• FIS 1993 Ski jumping results

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