The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2003 took place February 18 – March 1, 2003 in Val di Fiemme, Italy for a second time (1991). The ski jumping team normal hill held in 2001 was not held at this championships while the women's 30 km returned after being cancelled in the previous championships due to extremely cold weather. Additionally the pursuit races went from separate races run on the same day (combined) to Skiathlon races.
Men's cross-country 1.5 km individual sprint February 26, 2003
Medal Athlete Time Gold 3:12.1 Silver 3:12.9 Bronze 3:13.5
15 km classical February 21, 2003
Medal Athlete Time Gold 35:47.5 Silver 35:54.4 Bronze 35:56.0
10 km + 10 km double pursuit February 23, 2003
Medal Athlete Time Gold 47:42.3 Silver 47:42.6 Bronze 47:42.7
30 km classical mass start February 19, 2003
Medal Athlete Time Gold 1:12:29.3 Silver 1:12:29.9 Bronze 1:12:30.4
50 km freestyle March 1, 2003
Medal Athlete Time Gold 1:54:25.3 Silver 1:54:40.3 Bronze 1:55:09.0
4 × 10 km relay February 25, 2003
Medal Team Time Gold (Anders Aukland, Frode Estil, Tore Ruud Hofstad, Thomas Alsgaard) 1:31:56.4 Silver (Jens Filbrich, Andreas Schlütter, René Sommerfeldt, Axel Teichmann) 1:31:56.6 Bronze (Anders Södergren, Mathias Fredriksson, Per Elofsson, Jörgen Brink) 1:32:12.8
Women's cross-country 1.5 km individual sprint February 26, 2003
Medal Athlete Time Gold 3:28.8 Silver 3:29.9 Bronze 3:30.6
10 km classical February 20. 2003
Medal Athlete Time Gold 25:47.0 Silver 26:08.0 Bronze 26:16.7
5 km + 5 km double pursuit February 22, 2003
Medal Athlete Time Gold 26:38.4 Silver 26:39.0 Bronze 26:39.0
Sachenbacher beat Zavyalova in a photo finish to earn the silver medal.
15 km classical mass start February 18, 2003
Medal Athlete Time Gold 39:40.9 Silver 39:53.7 Bronze 40:36.7
30 km freestyle February 28, 2003
Medal Athlete Time Gold 1:14:29.8 Silver 1:14:45.1 Bronze 1:14:56.7
4 × 5 km relay February 24, 2003
Medal Team Time Gold (Manuela Henkel, Viola Bauer, Claudia Künzel, Evi Sachenbacher) 50:54.7 Silver (Anita Moen, Marit Bjørgen, Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen, Vibeke Skofterud) 51:26.3 Bronze (Natalya Korostelyova, Olga Zavyalova, Yelena Burukhina, Nina Gavrylyuk) 52:06.3
The Finnish relay team finished second, but was disqualified when Kaisa Varis tested positive for doping.
Men's Nordic combined 7.5 km sprint February 28, 2003
Medal Athlete Time Gold 18:47.8 Silver 18:49.1 Bronze 18:49.1
Spillane is the first American to win a gold medal in the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. Ackermann beat Gottwald at the line to earn the silver medal.
15 km Individual Gundersen February 21, 2003
Medal Athlete Time Gold 37:54.2 Silver 38:46.3 Bronze 39:10.1
4 × 5 km team February 24, 2003
Medal Team Time Gold (Michael Gruber, Wilhelm Denifl, Christoph Bieler, Felix Gottwald) 47:23.9 Silver (Thorsten Schmitt, Georg Hettich, Björn Kircheisen, Ronny Ackermann) + 12.6 Bronze (Hannu Manninen, Jouni Kaitainen, Jaakko Tallus, Samppa Lajunen) + 1:15.5
Men's ski jumping Individual normal hill February 28, 2003
Medal Athlete Points Gold 279.0 Silver 263.0 Bronze 259.5
Individual large hill February 22, 2003
Medal Athlete Points Gold 289.0 Silver 286.5 Bronze 273.2
Team large hill February 23, 2003
Medal Team Points Gold (Janne Ahonen, Tami Kiuru, Arttu Lappi, Matti Hautamäki) 1046.6 Silver (Kazuyoshi Funaki, Akira Higashi, Hideharu Miyahira, Noriaki Kasai) 1010.1 Bronze (Tommy Ingebrigtsen, Lars Bystøl, Sigurd Pettersen, Bjørn Einar Romøren) 991.9
Medal table Medal winners by nation. The host country, Italy, did not get any medals.
References FIS 2003 Cross country results FIS 2003 Nordic combined results FIS 2003 Ski jumping results 2003 FIS Nordic Ski World Championships official website