Host city Oslo Events 13 | Country Norway Main venue Holmenkollen | |
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Opening ceremony February 19, 1982 (1982-02-19) Closing ceremony February 28, 1982 (1982-02-28) | ||
The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1982 took place 19–28 February 1982 in Oslo, Norway at the Holmenkollen ski arena. This was Oslo's record-tying fourth time hosting the event after previously doing so in 1930, the 1952 Winter Olympics, and 1966. The Nordic combined 3 × 10 km team event and the ski jumping team large hill events were added to these championships. It was also the year in which cross country competitions had the freestyle (or skating) technique debuted and that electronic timing returned to scoring the results in tenths of a second after Sweden's Thomas Wassberg edged out Finland's Juha Mieto by 0.01 seconds in the men's 15 km event at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. The timing of the event in tenths of a second has continued as of 2011 in all Nordic skiing events.
Contents
15 km
23 February 1982
30 km
20 February 1982
Bill Koch, who developed the freestyle technique used in cross country skiing, was the first American to medal at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.
50 km
27 February 1982
4 × 10 km relay
25 February 1982
5 km
22 February 1982
10 km
19 February 1982
20 km
26 February 1982
4 × 5 km relay
24 February 1982
15 km Individual
19 February 1982
3 × 10 km team
24 February 1982
Individual normal hill
21 February 1982
Individual large hill
28 February 1982
Team large hill
26 February 1982