Emil Iversen

	Emil Iversen
nation	Norway
birthday	12th August 1991 (age 29)
place of birth	Norway
Career
society	Il Varden Meraaker
status	active
Medal table
Nordic World Ski Championships
Nordic Junior Ski World Championships
Norwegian championships
	Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup	December 7, 2013
World Cup victories in individual	2 ( details )
World Cup victories in the team	2 ( details )
World Cup victories in stages	5 ( details )
Overall World Cup	6. ( 2018/19 )
Sprint World Cup	4. ( 2017/18 )
Distance World Cup	7. ( 2019/20 )
Tour de Ski	10. ( 2016 )
	last change: March 16, 2020

Emil Iversen (born August 12, 1991 ) is a Norwegian cross-country skier .

Career

Iversen, who starts for Il Varden Meraaker, competed in junior races from 2009 to 2011. At the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in 2011 in Otepää , he won gold with the relay. From 2011 to 2015 he took part in FIS races and the Scandinavian Cup. He scored two victories in the 2013/14 season and took third place in the overall standings. He ran his first World Cup race in December 2013 in Lillehammer , which he finished classically in 37th place over 15 km. At the beginning of the 2014/15 season he reached 27th place in the overall ranking at the Nordic Opening and thus also got his first World Cup points. Participation in the Scandinavian Cup followed. In January 2015 he took sixth place in the World Cup sprint race in Rybinsk, his first top ten finish in the World Cup. In the same month he won bronze in the sprint at the Norwegian championship. At the beginning of the 2015/16 season he reached his first podium finish in Lillehammer with third place in the relay. At the following Scandinavian Cup in Vuokatti , he achieved third place in the sprint and won over 15 km classic. He finished the 2016 Tour de Ski in tenth place. He won his first World Cup victory in the sprint stage in Oberstdorf . In February 2016 he won the World Cup sprint in Lahti . He finished seventh at the Ski Tour Canada . He came three times under the top ten and won in Montreal in the 17.5 km mass start race. He finished the season in 15th place in the Distance World Cup, ninth place in the Sprint World Cup and eighth place in the overall World Cup. In March 2016 he won the Storlirennet in Meråker over 36 km freestyle. and finished second at the Norwegian Championships in the 10 km freestyle in early April 2016. After finishing second in the first World Cup of the 2016/17 season in Ruka over 15 km classic, he came fourth in the World Cup mini tour in Lillehammer. He took second place in the sprint stage. In January 2017, he won the 30 km mass start race in Falun and finished second in the sprint. At the season highlight of the Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 in Lahti, he was tenth in the sprint and fourth together with Johannes Høsflot Klæbo in the team sprint. At the end of the season he came in 32nd place in the World Cup finals in Québec and reached 14th place in the Distance World Cup, 11th place in the overall World Cup and seventh place in the Sprint World Cup. In April 2017 he won the Svalbard skimaraton over 42 km classic.

In the 2017/18 season Iversen finished 15th in the Ruka Triple and 14th in the Tour de Ski 2017/18 . He won his fifth World Cup victory in the 15 km mass start race in Oberstdorf . At the World Cup in Planica , he took second place in the sprint. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , he finished tenth in the 50 km mass start race and eighth in the sprint. At the end of the season he came in 31st place at the World Cup finals in Falun and finally reached 19th place in the Distance World Cup, ninth place in the overall World Cup and fourth place in the Sprint World Cup. At the beginning of the 2018/19 season he came in second place over 15 km classic in Ruka and achieved second place in the sprint in Lillehammer , third place in the Lillehammer triple overall classification. At the following World Cup in Beitostølen , he won the relay. At the Tour de Ski 2018/19 , which he ended prematurely, he won the 15 km mass start race in Oberstdorf and at the Norwegian championships in Meråker in the skiathlon and over 15 km classic. In February 2019 he won the team sprint in Lahti together with Johannes Høsflot Klæbo . At the season highlight of the Nordic World Ski Championships 2019 in Seefeld in Tirol , he won the gold medal with the relay and together with Johannes Høsflot Klæbo in the team sprint. In March 2019, he finished second in the Falun sprint and fifth in the Québec World Cup final. He finished tenth in the Distance World Cup, eighth in the Sprint World Cup and sixth in the overall World Cup. At the end of March 2019, he and Jørgen Sæternes Ulvang became Norwegian champions in the team sprint in Lygna .

After two third places in the Ruka Triple and third overall at the beginning of the 2019/20 season, Iversen came third in the skiathlon in Lillehammer . In the 2020 ski tour, which he finished in fourth place, he won the pursuit in Trondheim and came third in the 34 km mass start race in Meråker . At the end of the season he came in third place in the 50 km mass start race in Oslo and finished ninth in the overall World Cup and seventh in the Distance World Cup.

successes

Victories in world cup races

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	20th February 2016	Finland Lahti	1 mile sprint freestyle
2.	29th January 2017	Sweden Falun	30 km classic mass start

Stage victories in world cup races

No.	date	place	discipline	series
1.	5th January 2016	Germany Oberstdorf	1.2 km sprint classic	Tour de Ski 2016
2.	March 2, 2016	Canada Montreal	17.5 km classic mass start	Ski Tour Canada 2016
3.	4th January 2018	Germany Oberstdorf	15 km freestyle mass start	Tour de Ski 2017/18
4th	2nd January 2019	Germany Oberstdorf	15 km classic mass start	Tour de Ski 2018/19
5.	February 23, 2020	Norway Trondheim	30 km pursuit classic ¹	Ski Tour 2020

¹ Counted as the winner due to the fastest running time.

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	December 9, 2018	Norway Beitostølen	4 × 7.5 km relay ²
2	February 10, 2019	Finland Lahti	6 × 1.6 km team sprint classic ³

²With Martin Johnsrud Sundby , Sjur Røthe and Finn Hågen Krogh .

³With Johannes Høsflot Klæbo .

Victories in Continental Cup races

No.	date	place	discipline	series
1.	December 13, 2013	Finland Vuokatti	Classic sprint	Scandinavian Cup
2.	December 15, 2013	Finland Vuokatti	15 km freestyle	Scandinavian Cup
3.	December 11, 2015	Finland Vuokatti	15 km classic	Scandinavian Cup

Participation in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games

Olympic games

2018 Pyeongchang : 8th place sprint classic, 10th place 50 km classic mass start

Nordic World Ski Championships

2017 Lahti : 4th place team sprint classic, 10th place sprint freestyle
2019 Seefeld in Tirol : 1st place team sprint classic, 1st place relay, 5th place sprint freestyle, 10th place 15 km classic, 31st place 30 km skiathlon

Placements in the World Cup

World Cup Statistics

The table shows the placements achieved in detail.

1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
Top 10: Number of places in the top ten
Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks
Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
Note: In the distance races, the classification is based on the FIS.

placement	Distance races ^a					Skiathlon pursuit	sprint	Stage race ^b	total	team
placement	≤ 5 km	≤ 10 km	≤ 15 km	≤ 30 km	> 30 km	Skiathlon pursuit	sprint	Stage race ^b	total	sprint	Season
1st place			2	2		1	2		7th	1	1
2nd place			2				5	1	8th
3rd place			1		2	3		1	7th		1
Top 10		2	14th	2	2	7th	24	7th	58	1	3
Scoring		4th	23	3	3	16	37	10	96	1	3
Starts		5	26th	3	4th	24	45	12	119	1	3
Status: end of season 2019/20

^a including individual starts and mass starts according to FIS classification

^bEntire race, not individual stages, e.g. B. Tour de Ski, Nordic Opening, season finale

World Cup overall placements

season	total		distance		sprint
season	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
2014/15	107	60.	25th	65.	74	31.
2015/16	874	8th.	382	15th	244	9.
2016/17	653	11.	316	14th	237	7th
2017/18	635	9.	221	19th	310	4th
2018/19	825	6th	316	10.	299	8th.
2019/20	875	9.	443	7th	122	15th

Web links

Emil Iversen in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Iversen, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Norwegian cross-country skier
DATE OF BIRTH	August 12, 1991

[1] Result Storlirennet 2016

[2] result Svalbard skimaraton