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.
| Host city | Vysoké Tatry |
|---|---|
| Country | Czechoslovakia |
| Events | 10 |
| Opening | 14 February 1970 |
| Closing | 22 February 1970 |
Men's cross-country
edit15 km
edit17 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
edit16 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
edit20 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
edit22 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
edit5 km
edit17 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
edit16 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
edit22 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
editIndividual
edit15/16 February 1970
| Medal | Athlete | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Gold |  Ladislav Rygl (TCH)
|
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| Silver | Nikolay Nogovitsyn (URS)
|
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| Bronze | Vyacheslav Dryagin (URS)
|
Men's ski jumping
editIndividual normal hill
edit14 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
edit21 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
edit| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 7 | 3 | 4 | 14 |
| 2 | Finland (FIN) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | East Germany (GDR) | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | Norway (NOR) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (8 entries) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | |