FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1970

The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1970 took place 14–22 February 1970 in Vysoké Tatry, Czechoslovakia (present-day Slovakia). This was the second time this city hosted the event having done so in 1935. It was the first time an event was televised in colour from Czechoslovakia though broadcasting there remained in black and white. This was the first championships that timed the results in hundredths of a second, a practice that continued until the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid when Sweden's Thomas Wassberg edged out Finland's Juha Mieto by 0.01 seconds in the men's 15 km event.

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1970
Host cityVysoké Tatry
CountryCzechoslovakia
Events10
Opening ceremony14 February 1970 (1970-02-14)
Closing ceremony22 February 1970 (1970-02-22)

Men's cross-country

15 km

17 February 1970

Medal Athlete Time
Gold  Lars-Göran Åslund (SWE) 47:04.71
Silver  Odd Martinsen (NOR) 47:38.19
Bronze  Fyodor Simashev (URS) 47:49.00

30 km

16 February 1970

Medal Athlete Time
Gold  Vyacheslav Vedenin (URS) 1:39:48.01
Silver  Gerhard Grimmer (GDR) 1:40:25.58
Bronze  Odd Martinsen (NOR) 1:41:04.42

50 km

20 February 1970

Medal Athlete Time
Gold  Kalevi Oikarainen (FIN) 2:49:34.70
Silver  Vyacheslav Vedenin (URS) 2:50:04.82
Bronze  Gerhard Grimmer (GDR) 2:50:12.88

4 × 10 km relay

22 February 1970

Medal Team Time
Gold  Soviet Union (Vladimir Voronkov, Valery Tarakanov, Fyodor Simashev, Vyacheslav Vedenin) 2:06:36.47
Silver  East Germany (Gerd Hessler, Axel Lesser, Gerhard Grimmer, Gert-Dietmar Klause) 2:06:50.59
Bronze  Sweden (Ove Lestander, Jan Halvarsson, Ingvar Sandström, Lars-Göran Åslund) 2:06:56.80

Women's cross-country

5 km

17 February 1970

Medal Athlete Time
Gold  Galina Kulakova (URS) 18:07.89
Silver  Galina Pilyushenko (URS) 18:27.91
Bronze  Nina Fyodorova (URS) 18:28.51

10 km

16 February 1970

Medal Athlete Time
Gold  Alevtina Olyunina (URS) 36:19.00
Silver  Marjatta Kajosmaa (FIN) 36:40.05
Bronze  Galina Kulakova (URS) 37:06.04

3 × 5 km relay

22 February 1970

Medal Team Time
Gold  Soviet Union (Nina Fyodorova, Galina Kulakova, Alevtina Olyunina) 54:32.18
Silver  East Germany (Gabriele Haupt, Renate Fischer, Anna Unger) 55:09.65
Bronze  Finland (Senja Pusula, Helena Takalo, Marjatta Kajosmaa) 55:33.76

Men's Nordic combined

Individual

15/16 February 1970

Medal Athlete Points
Gold  Ladislav Rygl (TCH)
Silver  Nikolay Nogovitsyn (URS)
Bronze  Vyacheslav Dryagin (URS)

Men's ski jumping

Individual normal hill

14 February 1970

Medal Athlete Points
Gold  Gariy Napalkov (URS) 240.6
Silver  Yukio Kasaya (JPN) 237.7
Bronze  Lars Grini (NOR) 234.6

Individual large hill

21 February 1970

Medal Athlete Points
Gold  Gariy Napalkov (URS) 226.0
Silver  Jiří Raška (TCH) 212.3
Bronze  Stanisław Gąsienica Daniel (POL) 211.8

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Soviet Union (URS)73414
2 Finland (FIN)1113
3 Czechoslovakia (TCH)1102
4 Sweden (SWE)1012
5 East Germany (GDR)0314
6 Norway (NOR)0123
7 Japan (JPN)0101
8 Poland (POL)0011
Totals (8 nations)10101030


References

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