The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1958 took place February 4-9 (cross country skiing only) and March 1 (nordic combined

Nordic combined

The Nordic combined is a winter sport in which athletes compete in both cross-country skiing and ski jumping.- History :While Norwegian soldiers are known to have been competing in Nordic skiing since the 19th century, the first major competition in Nordic combined was held in 1892 in Oslo at the...

 and ski jumping

Ski jumping

Ski jumping is a sport in which skiers go down a take-off ramp, jump and attempt to land as far as possible down the hill below. In addition to the length of the jump, judges give points for style. The skis used for ski jumping are wide and long...

), 1958 in Lahti

Lahti

Lahti is a city and municipality in Finland.Lahti is the capital of the Päijänne Tavastia region. It is situated on a bay at the southern end of lake Vesijärvi about north-east of the capital Helsinki...

, Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

. This marked the third time the city hosted this event having done so in 1926 and 1938. Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 returned to the FIS Nordic Ski Championships for the first time officially since 1939, albeit as East Germany and West Germany

West Germany

West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

. Additionally, it was the first championships to electronic timekeeping

Timekeeper

A timekeeper is an instrument or person that measures the passage of time; in the case of the latter, often with the assistance of a clock or stopwatch...

 where results were timed to the tenth of a second

Second

The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock....

 rather than the full second.

15 km

February 6, 1958

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold		48:58.3
Silver		49:11.8
Bronze		49:29.4

30 km

February 4, 1958

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold		1:40:03.0
Silver		1:40:15.2
Bronze		1:40:44.4

50 km

February 8, 1958

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold		2:56:21.9
Silver		2:57:39.7
Bronze		2:58:49.5

4 x 10 km relay

February 9, 1958

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	(Sixten Jernberg Sixten Jernberg Eddy Sixten Jernberg is a retired Swedish cross country skier.... , Lennart Larsson, Sture Grahn Sture Grahn Bror Sture Ragnvald Grahn was a former Swedish cross country skier who competed during the 1950s and 1960's. He earned two gold medals in the 4 x 10 km at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships .-External links:*... , Per-Erik Larsson Per-Erik Larsson Per-Erik Larsson , was a former Swedish cross-country skier who competed in the 1950's. He won a bronze medal in the 4 x 10 km relay at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo.... )	2:18:15.0
Silver	Soviet Union (Fyodor Terentyev Fyodor Terentyev Fyodor Mikhaylovich Terentyev was a former Soviet cross-country skier who competed during the 1950s, training at the Armed Forces sports society in Moscow... , Nikolay Anikin, Anatoly Shelyukhin, Pavel Kolchin Pavel Kolchin Pavel Konstantinovich Kolchin was a Soviet cross-country skier who competed during the 1950s and 1960s, training at Dynamo in Moscow. He was born in Yaroslavl.... )	2:18:44.4
Bronze	Kalevi Hämäläinen Kalevi Hämäläinen Kalevi Hämäläinen is a former Finnish cross country skier who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He won the 50 km event at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley... , Arto Tiainen Arto Tiainen Arto Tiainen was a Finnish cross country skier.-Champion:He won two medals at the 1964 Winter Olympics, a silver in the 4 x 10 km relay and a bronze in the 50 km... , Arvo Viitanen Arvo Viitanen Arvo Albert Viitanen was a Finnish cross-country skier who competed in the 1950s. He won a silver medal in the 4 x 10 km relay at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo... , Veikko Hakulinen Veikko Hakulinen Veikko Johannes Hakulinen was a Finnish forestry technician and cross country skier, triple champion in both the olympics and world championship competition in cross country skiing... )	2:19:23.2

10 km

February 5, 1958

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold		44:49.0
Silver		45:28.2
Bronze		46:02.8

3 x 5 km relay

February 9, 1958

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	(Radya Yeroshina, Alevtina Kolchina Alevtina Kolchina Alevtina Pavlovna Kolchina was a Soviet cross country skier who competed during the 1950s and 1960s for Burevestnik and later for Dynamo sports societies. She competed in four Winter Olympics, earning a total of five medals. Kolchina also competed several times at the Holmenkollen ski festival,... , Lyubov Kozyreva)	58:32.4
Silver	(Toini Mikkola-Pöysti, Pirkko Korkee Pirkko Korkee Pirkko Korkee was a former Finnish cross country skier who competed in the 1950s. She earned a silver medal in the 3 x 5 km at the 1958 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti.-External links:*... , Siiri Rantanen Siiri Rantanen Siiri Johanna "Äitee" Rantanen is a former cross-country skier from Finland who competed during the 1950s and early 1960s.She was born in Tohmajärvi.... )	1:00:14.0
Bronze	(Märtha Nordberg, Irma Johansson Irma Johansson Irma Johansson is a former Swedish cross country skier who competed in the 1950s and 1960s. She won two Winter Olympic medals in the 3 x 5 km with a gold in 1960 and a bronze in 1956.... , Sonja Edström Sonja Edström Sonja Edström was a former Swedish cross country skier who competed in the 1950s and 1960s... )	1:01:58.5

Individual

March 1, 1958

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold
Silver
Bronze

Individual large hill

March 1, 1958

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold
Silver
Bronze

Medal table

1		4	3	3	10
2	Soviet Union	2	4	1	7
3		2	0	2	4
4		0	1	1	2
5		0	0	1	1