It was a hard fought battle between the usual suspects with one new comer placing her claim on the title hopes for the future.

More than 1,600 volunteers and officials are supporting the Falun 2015 Organisers to make the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships a true success. On 19th February 2015, the Swedish Royal Family paid a visit to the volunteer centre.

For Austrian Andreas Kofler the World Championships in Falun are over already before the events on the large hill.

It is now official who will get the chance to compete in the qualification for the normal hill competition on Friday, and who won't. Austrian Andreas Kofler and, surprisingly, also Germany's Markus Eisenbichler are among those who will not take part in the first competition of the WSC.

Vasaloppet's Winter Week February 27 – March 8 2015 will be a ski festival on par with a world championship. 7,615 foreign skiers from 51 nations, and all continents, are registered for the Winter Week! That is a record number of international participants.

In our interview series "FIS Ski Jumping-Talk" we present talks with ski jumping athletes and officials.

Besides the records in Vikersund, another premiere in ski jumping happened last weekend. It was not as spectacular as the world record flights of Peter Prevc and Anders Fannemel and it got less media attention, but it's still remarkable

She’s already won all the races she’s skied during the winter in her native Iran. And Wednesday’s WSC qualifying round will be the first competition outside her home country for 23 year-old Samueh Beramie Baher. “It’s really exciting,” says Teheran’s first female national team skier.

With an amazing jump on 246 m Anders Fannemel won the qualification on the huge hill in Vikersund. Fannemel landed only 0.5 m short of the world record held by his fellow countryman Johan Remen Evensen. With 223.4 points the Norwegian came in ahead of his teammate Andreas Stjernen and Japanese Daiki Ito.

German raceboarder Isabella Laboeck has been forced to an early season end after an injury suffered in the World Cup race at Sudelfeld, Germany, last weekend turned out worth than expected at first.