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Lahti 2017 Local Honorary Organization Committee Board FIS Nordic World Ski Championships Lahti 22.2.-5.3.2017 Debrief - Sport 1. MAJOR MILESTONES Major milestones - 2012 Bid won in FIS Kongress Kangwonland, Korea - 2014 spring, CEO hired - 2014 fall, first draft budgets and strategy work commenced - 2015 Lahti Events Ltd was established and staff grew to 15 persons - 2015 january, marketing rights agreement with EBU - 2015 approval of strategy and master plan by the board of directors Major milestones - 2015 Lahti Ski Games as first rehearsal - 2016 HB contract with YLE - 2016 Pre – World Championships - 2015-2017 main construction projects finished - 2016 fall, 2017 staff grew to 20 hired, 10 outsourced, 10 short term and 30 trainees HIIHDONCentenary Championships MM-ETKOT LAHTI2017 SERVICE PROMISE: ”The Centenary Championships where everyone will feel at home” CORE VALUES Customer focus Cooperation Openness Winning mentality 3. GENERAL ORGANISATION LAHTI 2017 LOCAL HONORARY ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE BOARD LAHTI EVENTS Ltd. Board of Directors FIS CEO, SECRETARY GENERAL EBU Janne Leskinen CITY OF LAHTI YLE STEERING GROUP FINLAND 100 EVENT & CUSTOMER ORGANIZATION BUSINESS EXPERIENCE SUPPORT OPERY & Work Groups UPDATED LAHTI SPORTS CENTRE Construction work for Lahti 2017 Permanent construction Grand stand building renovation and new video screen New Stadium Gate New infrastructure for snow production New ski bridge Widening the downhill approaching the stadium Track widenings Ski Jumping - Complete renovation of HS130 - Installation of new inrun / ice track for HS100 (new product) - New judges tower - New wind net for large hill. Temporary wind protection for HS100 Ski Jumping Replacing the fences to improve visibility New lightning to the stadium area SPORT ORGANISATION Number of Teams and Athletes Total Nations in all disciplines 60 Cross –Country Men and Ladies 58 Ski Jumping Men 22 Ski Jumping Ladies 16 Nordic Combined 18 Number of Athletes 665 Number of Officials 807 Total 1,472 Number of Teams and Athletes Cross –Country athletes 453 Men 264 Ladies 189 Officials 450 Total 903 Ski Jumping athletes 139 Men 84 Ladies 55 Officials 192 Total 331 Nordic Combined athletes 73 Officials 165 Total 238 Competition Management Suvi Kainulainen Tyt t i Kirvesmies Cross-Country Technical Officials Chief of competition Raiko Pousi Technical advisor Assistant chief of competition Competition secretary Medical service Annmari Viljanmaa Jussi Prykäri Niklas Turku (16) Aarre Salonen & Pasi Rosendahl Chief of course Chief of stadium(25) Competition office Mikko Rantanen Erkki Laakso & Juhani Vepsäläinen (18) Manual Timing Aija Tiilikainen (24) Markus Hervola Grooming (3) Assistant chief of Start/Finish area Starters (5) & Ilmo Hervola Arto Manninen (City course Arto Pulkkanen Olli Vilppunen Ski control(32) of Lahti) Sami Maunonen Ahti Laaksonen Clothes drop Access control (24) Finish referees(17) Course Course control (62) off/pick up (18) Kari Ahonen Service Area (9) Henri Rauhamäki preparation group Juhani Laaksonen Pia Pulkkanen & Heikki Laaksonen Olavi Nurmi + & Pertti Nyberg (35) Vilma Pekkala & Forest Sandra Jutila Transponders (25) intermediate Forerunners (57) Joni Nurminen times (12) Markus Salo Pekka Levola & Petri Louko & Tapio Aho Refreshments (7) Aila Rantala Sport Officials Total number of volunteers for all disciplines 718 • Cross –Country volunteers 422 • Ski Jumping volunteers 296 FIS Officials 45 Swiss Timing 25 Tridem – Ad implementation 16 Equipment & crew – City of Lahti Two separate snow making systems ( one for SJ, another for CC) • 20 snow cannons • CC system takes water from the lake via pipelines - reduces transport • 100 000 m3 snow produced CROSS-COUNTRY SKI JUMPING Equipment: Equipment: • PB 400 , 2X PB 100, PB Paana • PB100 • 2X Ginzu & ATV • Snow roller for landing on both hills • Salt spreader machine (500l) & ATV • Snow plane for landing • Wheel loader (Wille ) • Inrun track plane • V-boards: 1200 (60cm) + 400 (100cm) • 30+ blowing machines • Fence net: 7800m • Safety fence net: 400m Hill crew: • Paddings etc. • 9 persons + Mana crew taking care of the inrun track CC course & stadium area crew: • 9 persons (4 grooming machine drivers) Cross-Country course system Wax cabins + trucks Teams & SRS Wax Cabin Total Cross Country Ski Jumping Trucks Grinding machines 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 Grinding machines Trucks Ski Jumping Cross Country Wax Cabin Total 2016 9 36 55 91 2017 7 12 48 133 181 Weather Services Wind & weather statistics used for planning Meteorologist assisted on site during the WSC Overall summary • Good co-operation and information flow in advance and during the WSC with FIS and Jury • Experienced Lahti Ski Club Chief of Competitions & management team (In Cross-Country reinforced by the high-level national recources) • All competitions carried out according to official programme- high-quality level and fair competitions • Many different weather conditions during the WSC. Advance preparationimportant- fields of play were in good condition • FIS Whatsappgroup a good source of informationto teams + LOC daily morning info package well received Overall summary • FIS online entry system used for entries - stricter rules needed for deadlines and quota • The flow of transportationand the response to rushhours is very important • It is important to shareinformation and cooperatein scheduling between each dicsiplines during the WSC • It is important to agree on responsibilitiesbetween the various organizing parties early at the planning stage • Test competitions are importantevents to improvethe organization and finishing the venue and field of play for the main event Cross-Country • New course system • Overall Lahti courses are technically and physically demanding highest level courses • Course preparation and marking received good feedback • Complicated training, warm-up and testing schedules. Warm-up and testing mostly on the competition course. • Pre-prepared timetable in use. Final decisions the previous night -> adaptation sometimes tricky for OC • Course opening times & bibs a good system, though a bit complicated • A heavy period for the Chief of Course and his team - greater sharing of responsibilities TEST EVENTS Test Events Lahti Ski Games / Pre WSC 19.-21.2.2016 Nordic Combined World Cup 7.-8.1.2017 Cross-Country Scandinavian Cup 6.-8.1.2017 HB & STS Cross-Country test comp 21.2.2017.
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