FIS Nordic Ski World Championships 2011 - Broadcast Opening Sequence

Опубликовано: 26 Март 2024
на канале: ARCHIVE Sport

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The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships were a Nordic skiing event sanctioned by the International Ski Federation (FIS). The event was launched in 1925 as the Rendezvous races, and it was in 1937 that the Nordic Ski World Championships were officially referred to by its present name.

In its early years, the event was initially taken place annually - even in Winter Olympic years, but after World War II, the Championships were held every four years from 1950 to 1982. Ever since 1985, the meet was staged biennially in odd-numbered years.

After been nearly three decades since the last time it staged the event, the Nordic Ski World Championships came back to Holmenkollen in Oslo, Norway.

The host country were the top dogs in much of the cross-country disciplines as Marit Bjørgen collected four world golds and a silver medal - adding them to his haul that included three Olympic gold medals he won at Vancouver a year prior, while double Olympic champ Petter Northug won three golds and two silvers.

Austria, on the other hand, ruled all of the five ski jumping events at Oslo, and while the Austrians dominate in the Nordic combined team relays, France's Jason Lamy Chappuis and Germany's Eric Frenzel came out on the top of their respective individual Nordic combined events.