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2011 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011
Oslo 2011 logo.svg
Official logo for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011.
Host city Oslo, Norway
Nations participating 49
Events 21
Opening ceremony 23 February
Closing ceremony 6 March
Main venue Holmenkollen National Arena
Venues
Website Oslo2011.no
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FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011
Oslo, Norway
Cross country skiing pictogram.svg Cross-country skiing
Individual
Sprint men women
Interval start 15 km men 10 km women
Pursuit 30 km men 15 km women
Mass start 50 km men 30 km women
Team
Team sprint men women
Relay 4×10 km men 4×5 km women
Nordic combined pictogram.svg Nordic combined
Normal hill Individual Team
Large hill Individual Team
Ski jumping pictogram.svg Ski jumping
Men
Normal hill Individual Team
Large hill Individual Team
Women
Normal hill Individual

The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 took place from 23 February to 6 March 2011 in Oslo, Norway, at the Holmenkollen National Arena. It was the fifth time these championships had been hosted in Holmenkollen, having been done previously in 1930, the 1952 Winter Olympics, 1966, and 1982. On 25 May 2006, the 45th FIS Congress in Vilamoura, Portugal, selected the Holmenkollen area over both Val di Fiemme, Italy, and Zakopane, Poland, with a vote of 12 to 4 to 0. These games coincided with the Holmenkollen Ski Festival as they have previously in 1930, 1952, 1966, and 1982.

Cross-country skiing was dominated by Norway; Marit Bjørgen won four gold and one silver, while Petter Northug won 3 gold and two silver. Canada, with Devon Kershaw and Alex Harvey took its first-ever victory with gold in the men's team sprint. Austria dominated the ski jumping, winning all five events: Thomas Morgenstern took three golds and one silver, Gregor Schlierenzauer won three golds, and Daniela Iraschko won the women's event. In the Nordic combined, Germany took four of the six individual medals, but lost both relays to Austria.


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