# FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2021

The 42nd FIS Nordic World Ski Championships were held from 24 February to 7 March 2021 in Oberstdorf, Germany. It was the third time that the World Championships have been held in Oberstdorf, having previously hosted the event in 1987 and 2005.

## Russia doping ban

On 9 December 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) banned Russia from all international sport for a period of four years, after the Russian government was found to have tampered with laboratory data that it provided to WADA in January 2019 as a condition of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency being reinstated. As a result of the ban, WADA plans to allow individually cleared Russian athletes to take part in the 2021–2022 World Championships and 2022 Winter Olympics under a neutral banner, as instigated at the 2018 Winter Olympics, but they will not be permitted to compete in team sports. The title of the neutral banner has yet to be determined; WADA Compliance Review Committee head Jonathan Taylor stated that the IOC would not be able to use "Olympic Athletes from Russia" (OAR) as it did in 2018, emphasizing that neutral athletes cannot be portrayed as representing a specific country. Russia later filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the WADA decision. The Court of Arbitration for Sport, on review of Russia's appeal of its case from WADA, ruled on 17 December 2020 to reduce the penalty that WADA had placed. Instead of banning Russia from sporting events, the ruling allowed Russia to participate at the Olympics and other international events, but for a period of two years, the team cannot use the Russian name, flag, or anthem and must present themselves as "Neutral Athlete" or "Neutral Team". The ruling does allow for team uniforms to display "Russia" on the uniform as well as the use of the Russian flag colors within the uniform's design, although the name should be up to equal predominance as the "Neutral Athlete/Team" designation.

## Schedule

All times are local (UTC+1).
| Date | Time | Event |
| 24 February | 09:00 | Women's 5 km freestyle qualification |
| 24 February | 10:30 | Men's 10 km freestyle qualification |
| 25 February | 11:30 | Women's sprint |
| 25 February | 11:30 | Men's sprint |
| 27 February | 11:45 | Women's 2 × 7.5 km skiathlon |
| 27 February | 13:30 | Men's 2 × 15 km skiathlon |
| 28 February | 13:00 | Women's team sprint |
| 28 February | 13:00 | Men's team sprint |
| 2 March | 13:15 | Women's 10 km freestyle |
| 3 March | 13:15 | Men's 15 km freestyle |
| 4 March | 13:15 | Women's 4 × 5 km relay |
| 5 March | 13:15 | Men's 4 × 10 km relay |
| 6 March | 12:30 | Women's 30 km classical |
| 7 March | 13:00 | Men's 50 km classical |
| Date | Time | Event |
| 26 February | 10:15/16:00 | Men's HS106 / 10 km |
| 27 February | 10:00/15:30 | Women's HS106 / 5 km |
| 28 February | 10:00/15:00 | Men's team HS106 / 4 × 5 km |
| 4 March | 11:00/15:15 | Men's HS137 / 10 km |
| 6 March | 10:00/15:00 | Men's team sprint HS137 / 2 × 7.5 km |
| Date | Time | Event |
| 24 February | 18:00 | Women's HS106 qualification |
| 25 February | 17:00 | Women's HS106 |
| 26 February | 17:15 | Women's team HS106 |
| 26 February | 20:30 | Men's HS106 qualification |
| 27 February | 16:30 | Men's HS106 |
| 28 February | 17:00 | Team mixed HS106 |
| 2 March | 18:00 | Women's HS137 qualification |
| 3 March | 17:15 | Women's HS137 |
| 4 March | 17:30 | Men's HS137 qualification |
| 5 March | 17:00 | Men's HS137 |
| 6 March | 17:00 | Men's team HS137 |

## Medal summary
### Medal table

* Host nation (Germany)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Norway | 13 | 11 | 7 | 31 |
| 2 | Austria | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 3 | Sweden | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | Germany* | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 5 | Russian Ski Federation | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 6 | Slovenia | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 7 | Poland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Finland | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Japan | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 10 | Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (11 entries) | Totals (11 entries) | 24 | 24 | 24 | 72 |

### Cross-country skiing
#### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Sprint classical details | Johannes Høsflot Klæbo Norway | 3:01.30 | Erik Valnes Norway | 3:01.96 | Håvard Solås Taugbøl Norway | 3:02.10 |
| 30 kilometre skiathlon details | Alexander Bolshunov Russian Ski Federation | 1:11:33.9 | Simen Hegstad Krüger Norway | 1:11:35.0 | Hans Christer Holund Norway | 1:11:35.6 |
| Team sprint freestyle details | Norway Erik Valnes Johannes Høsflot Klæbo | 15:01.74 | Finland Ristomatti Hakola Joni Mäki | 15:03.42 | Russian Ski Federation Alexander Bolshunov Gleb Retivykh | 15:03.83 |
| 15 kilometre freestyle individual details | Hans Christer Holund Norway | 33:48.7 | Simen Hegstad Krüger Norway | 34:08.9 | Harald Østberg Amundsen Norway | 34:24.3 |
| 4 × 10 kilometre relay details | Norway Pål Golberg Emil Iversen Hans Christer Holund Johannes Høsflot Klæbo | 1:52:39.0 | Russian Ski Federation Aleksey Chervotkin Ivan Yakimushkin Artem Maltsev Alexander Bolshunov | 1:52:51.0 | France Hugo Lapalus Maurice Manificat Clément Parisse Jules Lapierre | 1:53:51.6 |
| 50 kilometre classical mass start details | Emil Iversen Norway | 2:10:52.9 | Alexander Bolshunov Russian Ski Federation | 2:10:53.6 | Simen Hegstad Krüger Norway | 2:11:01.1 |

#### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Sprint classical details | Jonna Sundling Sweden | 2:36.76 | Maiken Caspersen Falla Norway | 2:39.08 | Anamarija Lampič Slovenia | 2:39.11 |
| 15 kilometre skiathlon details | Therese Johaug Norway | 38:35.5 | Frida Karlsson Sweden | 39:05.5 | Ebba Andersson Sweden | 39.05.7 |
| Team sprint freestyle details | Sweden Maja Dahlqvist Jonna Sundling | 16:27.94 | Switzerland Laurien van der Graaff Nadine Fähndrich | 16:28.89 | Slovenia Eva Urevc Anamarija Lampič | 16:31.40 |
| 10 kilometre freestyle individual details | Therese Johaug Norway | 23:09.8 | Frida Karlsson Sweden | 24:04.0 | Ebba Andersson Sweden | 24:16.7 |
| 4 × 5 kilometre relay details | Norway Tiril Udnes Weng Heidi Weng Therese Johaug Helene Marie Fossesholm | 53:43.2 | Russian Ski Federation Yana Kirpichenko Yuliya Stupak Tatiana Sorina Natalya Nepryayeva | 54:09.8 | Finland Jasmi Joensuu Johanna Matintalo Riitta-Liisa Roponen Krista Pärmäkoski | 54:29.4 |
| 30 kilometre classical mass start details | Therese Johaug Norway | 1:24:56.3 | Heidi Weng Norway | 1:27:30.5 | Frida Karlsson Sweden | 1:27:31.1 |

### Nordic combined
#### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Individual large hill/10 km details | Johannes Lamparter Austria | 23:11.1 | Jarl Magnus Riiber Norway | 23:48.2 | Akito Watabe Japan | 23:56.9 |
| Team normal hill/4 × 5 km details | Norway Espen Bjørnstad Jørgen Graabak Jens Lurås Oftebro Jarl Magnus Riiber | 43:57.7 | Germany Terence Weber Fabian Rießle Eric Frenzel Vinzenz Geiger | 44:40.4 | Austria Johannes Lamparter Lukas Klapfer Mario Seidl Lukas Greiderer | 44:46.8 |
| Individual normal hill/10 km details | Jarl Magnus Riiber Norway | 23:01.2 | Ilkka Herola Finland | 23:01.6 | Jens Lurås Oftebro Norway | 23:02.1 |
| Team sprint large hill/2 × 7,5 km details | Austria Johannes Lamparter Lukas Greiderer | 29:29.7 | Norway Espen Andersen Jarl Magnus Riiber | 30:09.3 | Germany Fabian Rießle Eric Frenzel | 30:37.1 |

#### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Individual normal hill/5 km details | Gyda Westvold Hansen Norway | 13:10.4 | Mari Leinan Lund Norway | 13:24.2 | Marte Leinan Lund Norway | 13:39.2 |

### Ski jumping
#### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Men's individual normal hill details | Piotr Żyła Poland | 268.8 | Karl Geiger Germany | 265.2 | Anže Lanišek Slovenia | 261.5 |
| Men's individual large hill details | Stefan Kraft Austria | 276.5 | Robert Johansson Norway | 272.1 | Karl Geiger Germany | 267.4 |
| Men's team large hill details | Germany Pius Paschke Severin Freund Markus Eisenbichler Karl Geiger | 1046.6 | Austria Philipp Aschenwald Jan Hörl Daniel Huber Stefan Kraft | 1035.5 | Poland Piotr Żyła Andrzej Stękała Kamil Stoch Dawid Kubacki | 1031.2 |

#### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Women's individual normal hill details | Ema Klinec Slovenia | 279.6 | Maren Lundby Norway | 276.5 | Sara Takanashi Japan | 276.3 |
| Women's individual large hill details | Maren Lundby Norway | 296.6 | Sara Takanashi Japan | 287.9 | Nika Križnar Slovenia | 287.1 |
| Women's team normal hill details | Austria Daniela Iraschko-Stolz Sophie Sorschag Chiara Hölzl Marita Kramer | 959.3 | Slovenia Nika Križnar Špela Rogelj Urša Bogataj Ema Klinec | 957.9 | Norway Silje Opseth Anna Odine Strøm Thea Minyan Bjørseth Maren Lundby | 942.1 |

#### Mixed

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Mixed team normal hill details | Germany Katharina Althaus Markus Eisenbichler Anna Rupprecht Karl Geiger | 1000.8 | Norway Silje Opseth Robert Johansson Maren Lundby Halvor Egner Granerud | 995.6 | Austria Marita Kramer Michael Hayböck Daniela Iraschko-Stolz Stefan Kraft | 986.5 |