FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1997

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1997
	Official logo for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1997.
Host city	Trondheim, Norway
Events	15
Opening	21 February 1997
Closing	2 March 1997
Main venue	Granåsen Ski Centre
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The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1997 took place from February 21 to March 2 at Granåsen Ski Centre in Trondheim, Norway. This event was the first time in consecutive championships that the number or type of events did not change since 1966 and 1970. It also was historical with Russia's Yelena Välbe winning gold in all five women's cross country events, the first person of either sex to do that honor. Norway's Bjørn Dæhlie became the first man to win five medals in five cross country events.

Men's cross country

10 km classical

February 24, 1997

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Bjørn Dæhlie (NOR)	23:41.8
Silver	Alexey Prokurorov (RUS)	24:09.7
Bronze	Mika Myllylä (FIN)	24:14.2

10 km + 15 km combined pursuit

February 25, 1997

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Bjørn Dæhlie (NOR)	1:00:11.1
Silver	Mika Myllylä (FIN)	1:01:01.2
Bronze	Alexey Prokurorov (RUS)	1:01:01.8

30 km freestyle

February 21, 1997

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Alexey Prokurorov (RUS)	1:06:28.2
Silver	Bjørn Dæhlie (NOR)	1:06:45.6
Bronze	Thomas Alsgaard (NOR)	1:06:49.2

50 km classical

March 2, 1997

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Mika Myllylä (FIN)	2:16:37.5
Silver	Erling Jevne (NOR)	2:17:32.4
Bronze	Bjørn Dæhlie (NOR)	2:18:36.0

4 × 10 km relay

February 28, 1997

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	Norway (Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, Thomas Alsgaard)	1:37:06.1
Silver	Finland (Harri Kirvesniemi, Mika Myllylä, Jari Räsänen, Jari Isometsä)	1:39:17.3
Bronze	Italy (Giorgio Di Centa, Silvio Fauner, Pietro Piller Cottrer, Fulvio Valbusa)	1:39:56.9

Women's cross country

5 km classical

February 23, 1997

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Yelena Välbe (RUS)	13:32.7
Silver	Stefania Belmondo (ITA)	13:35.0
Bronze	Olga Danilova (RUS)	13:37.7

Lyubov Yegorova of Russia finished first in this event, but was disqualified three days later for doping violation of bromotan. The three finishers behind her were subsequently awarded the medals shown.

5 km + 10 km combined pursuit

February 24, 1997

The winner had to be determined by photo finish. The gold medal was won by Välbe by a 2 cm difference.

^[1] both athletes were still credited with the same time.^[2]

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Yelena Välbe (RUS)	39:13.5
Silver	Stefania Belmondo (ITA)	39:13.5
Bronze	Nina Gavrylyuk (RUS)	39:32.1

15 km freestyle

February 21, 1997

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Yelena Välbe (RUS)	36:28.2
Silver	Stefania Belmondo (ITA)	36:39.1
Bronze	Kateřina Neumannová (CZE)	36:42.0

30 km classical

March 1, 1997

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Yelena Välbe (RUS)	1:23:04.9
Silver	Stefania Belmondo (ITA)	1:23:33.2
Bronze	Marit Mikkelsplass (NOR)	1:24:55.7

4 × 5 km relay

February 28, 1997

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	Russia (Olga Danilova, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrylyuk, Yelena Välbe)	56:40.2
Silver	Norway (Bente Martinsen, Marit Mikkelsplass, Elin Nilsen, Trude Dybendahl Hartz)	56:56.2
Bronze	Finland (Riikka Sirviö, Tuulikki Pyykkönen, Kati Pulkkinen, Satu Salonen)	57:38.4

Men's Nordic combined

15 km Individual Gundersen

February 22, 1997

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Kenji Ogiwara (JPN)	43.58.1
Silver	Bjarte Engen Vik (NOR)	+ 30.8
Bronze	Fabrice Guy (FRA)	+ 1.19.4

4 × 5 km team

February 23, 1997

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	Norway (Halldor Skard, Bjarte Engen Vik, Knut Tore Apeland, Fred Børre Lundberg)	52:18.0
Silver	Finland (Jari Mantila, Tapio Nurmela, Samppa Lajunen, Hannu Manninen)	53:03.6
Bronze	Austria (Christoph Eugen, Felix Gottwald, Mario Stecher, Robert Stadelmann)	53:30.9

Men's ski jumping

Individual normal hill

February 22, 1997

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Janne Ahonen (FIN)	263.5
Silver	Masahiko Harada (JPN)	258.5
Bronze	Andreas Goldberger (AUT)	257.0

Individual large hill