List of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in men's cross-country skiing

This is a list of medalists from the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in men's cross-country skiing. Bold numbers in brackets denotes record number of victories in corresponding disciplines.

18 km, 17 km and 15 km
Debuted: 1925.

Classic style: 1925, 1927–1987, 1989, 2001, 2003, 2009, 2011, 2017, 2019. Free style: 1989, 1991, 2005, 2007, 2013, 2015, 2021, 2023. Interval start: 1925, 1927–1991, 2001–2023.

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50 km
Debuted: 1925.

50 km is one of only three events that has been contested at every FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.

Classic style: 1925–1985, 1997, 1999, 2005, 2007, 2013, 2015, 2021, 2023. Free style: 1987–1995, 2001, 2003, 2009, 2011, 2017, 2019. Interval start: 1925–2003. Mass start: 2005–2023.

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30 km (discontinued)
Debuted: 1926. Discontinued: 2003.

Classic style: 1926, 1954–1995, 2001, 2003. Free style: 1997, 1999. Interval start: 1926, 1954–2001. Mass start: 2003.

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4 × 10 km relay
Debuted: 1933

4×10 km classic style: 1933–1985. 4×10 km free style: 1987. 2×10 km classic style + 2×10 km free style: 1989–2023.

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10 km (discontinued)
Debuted: 1991. Discontinued: 1999.

Classic style: 1991–1999. Interval start: 1991–1999.

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Combined/double pursuit/Skiathlon
Debuted: 1993.

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Individual sprint
Debuted: 2001.

Classic style: 2005, 2007, 2013, 2015, 2021, 2023. Free style: 2001, 2003, 2009, 2011, 2017, 2019.

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Team sprint
Debuted: 2005

Classic style: 2009, 2011, 2017, 2019. Free style: 2005, 2007, 2013, 2015, 2021, 2023.

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Medal table
Table updated after the 2023 Championships.

Multiple medalists
Boldface denotes active cross-country skiers and highest medal count among all cross-country skiers (including these who not included in these tables) per type.

Best performers by country
Here are listed most successful cross-country skiers in the history of each medal-winning national team – according to the gold-first ranking system and by total number of World Championships medals (one skier if he holds national records in both categories or few skiers if these national records belongs to different persons). If the total number of medals is identical, the gold, silver and bronze medals are used as tie-breakers (in that order). If all numbers are the same, the skiers get the same placement and are sorted by the alphabetic order.

An asterisk (*) marks athletes who are the only representatives of their respective countries to win a medal.

Multiple medals at one championship

 * 5 medals:
 * out of 5 possible:
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg]] 1997 Bjørn Dæhlie 🇳🇴
 * out of 6 possible:
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] 2011 Petter Northug 🇳🇴
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] 2023 Johannes Høsflot Klæbo 🇳🇴
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] 2017 Sergey Ustiugov 🇷🇺
 * 4 medals:
 * out of 4 possible:
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] 1954 Veikko Hakulinen 🇫🇮
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] 1987 Thomas Wassberg 🇸🇪
 * out of 5 possible:
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] 1999 Mika Myllylä 🇫🇮
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg]] 1993 Bjørn Dæhlie 🇳🇴
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg]] 1995 Vladimir Smirnov 🇰🇿 (all four individual)
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] 1991 Gunde Svan 🇸🇪
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] 1995 Bjørn Dæhlie 🇳🇴
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg]] 1997 Mika Myllylä 🇫🇮
 * out of 6 possible:
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] 2015 Petter Northug 🇳🇴
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] 2023 Pål Golberg 🇳🇴
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg]] 2021 Alexander Bolshunov 🇷🇺
 * [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] 2019 Alexander Bolshunov 🇷🇺
 * 3 medals:
 * out of 3 possible:
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] 1935 Klaes Karppinen 🇫🇮
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] 1941 Jussi Kurikkala 🇫🇮 (1941 Championship subsequently cancelled)
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] 1933 Hjalmar Bergström 🇸🇪
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] 1939 Klaes Karppinen 🇫🇮
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] 1950 Enar Josefsson 🇸🇪
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg]] 1937 Pekka Niemi 🇫🇮
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg]] 1941 Alfred Dahlqvist 🇸🇪 (1941 Championship subsequently cancelled)
 * out of 4 possible:
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] 1966 Gjermund Eggen 🇳🇴
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] 1954 Vladimir Kuzin
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] 1962 Assar Rönnlund 🇸🇪
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] 1970 Vyacheslav Vedenin
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] 1974 Gerhard Grimmer
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg]] 1958 Sixten Jernberg 🇸🇪
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg]] 1985 Gunde Svan 🇸🇪
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] 1935 Oddbjørn Hagen 🇳🇴 (2 of 3 medals in cross country + one in Nordic Combined)
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg]] 1954 Arvo Viitanen 🇫🇮
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg]] 1958 Veikko Hakulinen 🇫🇮
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg]] 1966 Eero Mäntyranta 🇫🇮
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg]] 1982 Lars Erik Eriksen 🇳🇴
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg]] 1985 Ove Aunli 🇳🇴
 * [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] 1958 Pavel Kolchin
 * [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg]] 1970 Gerhard Grimmer
 * [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg]] 1985 Maurilio De Zolt 🇮🇹
 * 2 medals out of 2 possible:
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] 1925 Otakar Německý 🇨🇿 (one medal of two possible in cross country + one in Nordic Combined)
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] 1926 Matti Raivio 🇫🇮
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] 1927 John Lindgren 🇸🇪
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] 1931 Johan Grøttumsbråten 🇳🇴 (one medal of two possible in cross country + one in Nordic Combined)
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] 1925 František Donth 🇨🇿
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] 1929 Veli Saarinen 🇫🇮
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] 1929 Anselm Knuuttila 🇫🇮
 * [[File:Gold medal icon (G initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] 1930 Arne Rustadstuen 🇳🇴
 * [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] 1926 Tauno Lappalainen 🇫🇮
 * [[File:Silver medal icon (S initial).svg]] [[File:Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg]] 1927 František Donth 🇨🇿

External links and references

 * https://archive.today/20120731171641/http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/majorevents/fisworldskichampionships/nordicwsc.html
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20050305075135/http://www.sports123.com/cco/index.html