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The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 took place in Val di Fiemme. Ski jumping competitions took place on 21 February - 2 March in Predazzo at Trampolino Dal Ben.
It was the second time, together with the Championships 2011, that 5 ski jumping competitions were held. There were three individual competitions (one for men and one for women at the normal hill, HS 106, and one for men at the large hill, HS 134) and two team competitions (one for men at the large hill and one mixed at the normal hill). It was the first time for the mixed competition to be held at the World Championships. Each team consisted of two men and two women.
The winners from Oslo were defending the champion's titles: Thomas Morgenstern (individual men competition, normal hill), Gregor Schlierenzauer (individual men competition, large hill), Daniela Iraschko (individual women competition, normal hill) and the Austria team (team men competition, large hill).
At the individual women competition at the normal hill, the gold medal won Sarah Hendrickson, silver - Sara Takanashi, and bronze - Jacqueline Seifriedsberger.
In the first men competition, the winner was Anders Bardal. The second was Gregor Schlierenzauer, and the third - Peter Prevc.
In the mixed competition won the team of Japan (Yūki Itō, Daiki Itō, Sara Takanashi and Taku Takeuchi). The silver medal went to Austria (Chiara Hölzl, Thomas Morgenstern, Jacqueline Seifriedsberger, Gregor Schlierenzauer), and the bronze one – to Germany (Ulrike Gräßler, Richard Freitag, Carina Vogt, Severin Freund).
In individual men competition at large hill won Kamil Stoch, in front of Prevc and Anders Jacobsen.
Austria managed to defend the champion's title in the team men competition. The team consisted of Wolfgang Loitzl, Manuel Fettner, Thomas Morgenstern and Gregor Schlierenzauer. The silver medal won the Germany team (Andreas Wank, Severin Freund, Michael Neumayer, Richard Freitag), and the bronze one – the Poland team (Maciej Kot, Piotr Żyła, Dawid Kubacki, Kamil Stoch).
It were the 36. World Championships in ski jumping for men and the 3. for women.