2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
Official logo for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007.
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| Host city | Sapporo, Japan | ||
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| Nations participating | 49 | ||
| Events | 18 | ||
| Opening ceremony | 22 February | ||
| Closing ceremony | 4 March | ||
| Main venue | Okurayama Ski Jump Stadium | ||
| Website | Sapporo2007.com | ||
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The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 took place February 22 - March 4, 2007 in Sapporo, Japan. It was the second time this city has hosted these championships, having previously done so in the 1972 Winter Olympics. Sapporo was selected as venue by vote at the 43rd FIS World Congress in Portorož, Slovenia on June 6, 2002. It also marked the third time the championships were hosted outside of Europe in a year that did not coincide with the Winter Olympics; it was the first championship held in Asia. The ski jumping team normal hill event was not held, as it had been in 2005.
The mascot of the championships was Norkey, an Ezo deer (Ezo was the former name of Hokkaidō Island in Japan) named for combining the words "Nordic" and "ski" who wears a scarf in the symbol colors around his neck.
As of February 16, 2007, the top three World Cup positions were as follows:
Cross-country skiing's Tour de Ski winners were Kuitunen for the women and Angerer for the men; both got 400 World Cup points for their respective TdS victories. Jacobsen won Ski jumping's Four Hills Tournament, and Manninen won Nordic combined's Tour of Germany.
The last officially published entry list included 485 athletes from 49 countries. This included 125 women from 33 nations and 197 men from 48 nations in Cross-country skiing, 68 men from 17 nations in Nordic combined, and 93 men from 21 nations in Ski jumping.
49 nations were listed on the preliminary entry list.
The opening ceremony took place on February 22, 2007 at 19:30 Japan Standard Time (JST) (10:30 UTC) at the Sapporo Dome, with 23,602 spectators. Speeches were made by Fumio Ueda, Sapporo Mayor and Organizing Committee President, Ms. Yasuko Ikenobo, Deupty Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Ms. Harumi Takahashi, Governor of Hokkaido, and Prince Akishino. Then the men's and women's individual sprint cross country skiing competitions took place.
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