Johannes Høsflot Klæbo

	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo
nation	Norway
birthday	22nd October 1996 (age 25)
place of birth	Trondheim , Norway
Career
society	Byåsen IL
Trainer	Kåre Høsflot
status	active
Medal table
winter Olympics
Nordic World Ski Championships
Nordic Junior Ski World Championships
Norwegian championships
	Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup	3rd February 2016
World Cup victories in individual	26 ( details )
World Cup victories in the team	3 ( details )
World Cup victories in stages	21 ( details )
Overall World Cup	1. ( 2017/18 , 2018/19 )
Sprint World Cup	1. ( 2016/17 , 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20 )
Distance World Cup	6. (2019/20)
U23 World Cup	1. (2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19)
Tour de Ski	1. ( 2018/19 , 2021/22 )
	last change: January 4, 2022

Johannes Høsflot Klæbo (born October 22, 1996 in Trondheim ) is a Norwegian cross-country skier and cyclist .

Career

Until 2016, Klæbo mainly took part in junior races. In March 2014 he was classic over 15 km and in March 2016 over 20 km classic Norwegian junior champion. In January 2015 he won the bronze medal in sprint and relay at the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in Almaty . He ran his first World Cup race in Drammen in February 2016 . He finished 15th and won his first World Cup points. In the same month he won at the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in Râşnov in the sprint, over 10 km classic and with the relay the gold medal. At the beginning of the 2016/17 season he came third in the sprint in Ruka for the first time on the podium in the World Cup. At the following Nordic Opening in Lillehammer , he came in second. In January 2017 in Lahti, when he took part in the Scandinavian Cup for the first time, he achieved fifth place in the sprint and second place over 15 km classic. At the World Cup in Toblach he was third in the sprint. At the beginning of February 2017 he won silver over 15 km classic and gold in sprint at the Norwegian championships in Lygna . In mid-February 2017, he won his first World Cup victory in the sprint in Otepää . At the season highlight of the Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 in Lahti, he won the bronze medal in the sprint. He also achieved 15th place over 15 km classic and fourth place together with Emil Iversen in the team sprint. In March 2017 he came in second place in the sprint in Drammen. He finished the World Cup final in Québec in first place in the overall standings. He won the mass start stage over 15 km and won the Sprint World Cup and the U23 World Cup at the end of the season. He was also fourth in the overall World Cup. At the end of March 2017, he and Didrik Tønseth won gold in the team sprint at the Norwegian championships in Gålå .

Klæbo at the 1.4 km sprint in Seefeld 2018

The 2017/18 Olympic season with the climax of the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang , Korea, began with victories in the sprint races in Lillehammer, Davos, Planica and Seefeld. In December 2017 he was able to assert himself on the long distances at the 30 km skiathlon in Lillehammer and the 15 km pursuit race in classic style in Dobbiaco and set off to Pyeongchang as the leader in the overall World Cup. There he was crowned Olympic champion in the sprint, team sprint and relay. In January 2018 he was again the Norwegian sprint champion in Vang . In March 2018 he was third in the sprint in Lahti and won the sprint in Drammen and the World Cup final in Falun . He won the overall World Cup, the Sprint World Cup and the U23 World Cup and came seventh in the Distance World Cup.

At the beginning of the 2018/19 season, Klæbo took second place in the sprint in Ruka , 14th place in the Lillehammer Triple and first place in the sprint in Davos . At the Tour de Ski 2018/19 he won four stages and thus won the overall standings. This was followed by further victories in the sprint in Otepää and Lahti and in the team sprint in Lahti together with Emil Iversen . At the highlight of the season, the Nordic World Ski Championships 2019 in Seefeld in Tirol , he won the gold medal in the sprint, in the team sprint together with Emil Iversen and with the relay. In March 2019 he won the sprint race in Drammen and Falun and won the World Cup final in Québec with two victories. He won the overall World Cup and the Sprint World Cup again. In the distance world cup he came in ninth place.

After winning the tour in Ruka and the sprint race in Davos at the beginning of the 2019/20 season, he took third place in the 2019/20 Tour de Ski . He got three wins and a second and third place. This was followed by second place in the pursuit in Nové Město and first in the sprint in Oberstdorf . At the beginning of February he broke his finger in a recreational accident and was injured in the following World Cup races in Falun. On the following ski tour in 2020 he was able to start again and finished it with two wins and a second place, in sixth place overall. At the end of the season he won in Lahti with the relay and in Drammen in the sprint and reached 15th place in the 50 km mass start race in Oslo. As a result, all other World Cup races were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic . Klæbo finished second in the overall World Cup and sixth in the Distance World Cup. He also won the Sprint World Cup for the fourth time in a row.

In June 2020 it was announced that Klæbo had signed a five-year contract with the cycling team Uno-X Norwegian Development Team .

In the World Cup season 2020/21 started Klæbo with a second place in the sprint and a victory in the following 15 km classic race. After a solid performance in the 15 km pursuit, he won the overall ranking of the Ruka Triple. One day after the success, Klæbo announced that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he would not take part in any more World Cup races until the end of the year. In January 2021 he became the Norwegian sprint champion and took part in World Cup races again in Falun. He won the sprint and came in second in the 15 km mass start race. At the season highlight, the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf , he won the gold medal in the relay, in the team sprint and in the sprint. At the end of the season he took second place in the 15 km mass start race in the Engadin and fourth place in the pursuit, reaching eighth place in the Sprint and Distance World Cups and third place in the overall World Cup.

successes

Victories in world cup races

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	location	discipline
1.	18th February 2017	Estonia Otepää	1.3 km sprint freestyle
2.	19th March 2017	Canada Quebec	Overall ranking World Cup Final 2017
3.	November 26, 2017	Finland Ruka	Overall ranking Ruka Triple
4th	2nd December 2017	Norway Lillehammer	1.5 km sprint classic
5.	3rd December 2017	Norway Lillehammer	30 km skiathlon
6th	December 9, 2017	Switzerland Davos	1.5 km sprint freestyle
7th	17th December 2017	Italy Dobbiaco	15 km classic pursuit
8th.	20th January 2018	Slovenia Planica	1.6 km sprint classic
9.	January 27, 2018	Austria Seefeld in Tyrol	1.4 km sprint freestyle
10.	March 7, 2018	Norway Dramming	1.2 km sprint classic
11th	15th December 2018	Switzerland Davos	1.5 km sprint freestyle
12th	January 6, 2019	Tour de Ski	Overall rating
13th	19th January 2019	Estonia Otepää	1.6 km sprint classic
14th	February 9, 2019	Finland Lahti	1 mile sprint freestyle
15th	March 12, 2019	Norway Dramming	1.2 km sprint classic
16.	March 16, 2019	Sweden Falun	1.4 km sprint freestyle
17th	March 24, 2019	Canada Quebec	Overall ranking of the 2019 World Cup finals
18th	1st December 2019	Finland Ruka	Overall ranking Ruka Triple
19th	December 14, 2019	Switzerland Davos	1.5 km sprint freestyle
20th	January 26, 2020	Germany Oberstdorf	1.6 km sprint classic
21.	4th March 2020	Norway Dramming	1.5 km sprint freestyle
22nd	November 29, 2020	Finland Ruka	Overall ranking Ruka Triple
23	January 31, 2021	Sweden Falun	1.4 km sprint classic
24	December 3, 2021	Norway Lillehammer	1 mile sprint freestyle
25th	December 11, 2021	Switzerland Davos	1.5 km sprint freestyle
26th	January 4, 2022	Tour de Ski	Overall rating

Stage victories in world cup races

No.	date	location	discipline	run
1.	18th March 2017	Canada Quebec	15 km classic mass start	World Cup Final 2017
2.	November 24, 2017	Finland Ruka	1.4 km sprint classic	Ruka Triple 2017
3.	November 25, 2017	Finland Ruka	15 km classic individual start	Ruka Triple 2017
4th	March 16, 2018	Sweden Falun	1.4 km sprint freestyle	World Cup Final 2018
5.	December 29, 2018	Italy Dobbiaco	1.3 km sprint freestyle	Tour de Ski 2018/19
6th	January 1, 2019	Switzerland Val Müstair	1.4 km sprint freestyle	Tour de Ski 2018/19
7th	January 3, 2019	Germany Oberstdorf	15 km pursuit freestyle ¹	Tour de Ski 2018/19
8th.	5th January 2019	Italy Val di Fiemme	15 km classic mass start	Tour de Ski 2018/19
9.	March 22, 2019	Canada Quebec	1 mile sprint freestyle	World Cup Final 2019
10.	23 March 2019	Canada Quebec	15 km classic mass start	World Cup Final 2019
11th	29th November 2019	Finland Ruka	1.4 km sprint classic	Ruka Triple 2019
12th	29th December 2019	Switzerland Lenzerheide	1.5 km sprint freestyle	Tour de Ski 2019/20
13th	January 3, 2020	Italy Val di Fiemme	15 km classic mass start	Tour de Ski 2019/20
14th	4th January 2020	Italy Val di Fiemme	1.5 km sprint classic	Tour de Ski 2019/20
15th	February 18, 2020	Sweden Are	0.6 km sprint freestyle	Ski Tour 2020
16.	February 22, 2020	Norway Trondheim	1.5 km sprint classic	Ski Tour 2020
17th	November 28, 2020	Finland Ruka	15 km classic individual start	Ruka Triple 2020
18th	December 28, 2021	Switzerland Lenzerheide	1.2 km sprint freestyle	Tour de Ski 2021/22
19th	December 31, 2021	Germany Oberstdorf	15 km freestyle mass start	Tour de Ski 2021/22
20th	January 1, 2022	Germany Oberstdorf	1.5 km sprint classic	Tour de Ski 2021/22
21.	January 3, 2022	Italy Val di Fiemme	15 km classic mass start	Tour de Ski 2021/22

¹ Being the first to cross the finish line counts as the winner.

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	location	discipline
1.	February 10, 2019	Finland Lahti	6 × 1.6 km team sprint classic ²
2.	March 1, 2020	Finland Lahti	4 × 7.5 km relay ³
3.	December 5, 2021	Norway Lillehammer	4 × 7.5 km relay ⁴

²With Emil Iversen .

³With Pål Golberg , Hans Christer Holund and Sjur Røthe .

^4thWith Erik Valnes , Emil Iversen and Simen Hegstad Krüger .

Victories in roller ski world cup races

No.	date	location	discipline
1.	4th July 2019	China People's Republic Beijing	Sprint freestyle
2.	5th July 2019	China People's Republic Beijing	Sprint freestyle

Medals at national championships

2017 : Gold in the sprint, gold in the team sprint, silver over 15 km
2018 : Gold in the sprint

Participation in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games

Olympic games

2018 Pyeongchang : 1st place sprint classic, 1st place team sprint freestyle, 1st place relay, 10th place 30 km skiathlon

Nordic World Ski Championships

2017 Lahti : 3rd place sprint freestyle, 4th place team sprint classic, 16th place 15 km classic
2019 Seefeld in Tirol : 1st place sprint freestyle, 1st place team sprint classic, 1st place relay, 30th place 30 km skiathlon
2021 Oberstdorf : 1st place sprint classic, 1st place team sprint freestyle, 1st place relay, 4th place 30 km skiathlon

Placements in the World Cup

World Cup Statistics

The table shows the individual placements achieved.

1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten
Point 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	series
1st place			6th			3	25th	6th	40	1	1
2nd place			5		1	1	4th	1	12th
3rd place							3	1	4th
Top 10			18th		1	10	34	9	72	3	1
Scoring		2	23		2	15th	37	11th	90	3	1
Starts		2	24		4th	19th	37	11th	97	3	1
Status: end of season 2020/21

^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

Overall World Cup placements

season	total		distance		sprint
season	Points	place	Points	place	Points	place
2015/16	16	110.	-	-	16	68.
2016/17	884	4th	125	29	399	1.
2017/18	1409	1.	457	7th	740	1.
2018/19	1715	1.	325	9.	754	1.
2019/20	1726	2.	616	6th	550	1.
2020/21	663	3.	317	8th.	146	8th.

Web links

Commons : Johannes Høsflot Klæbo - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Johannes Høsflot Klæbo in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)

Johannes Høsflot Klæbo in the ProCyclingStats.com database

John Høsflot Klæbo in the database of Olympedia.org (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Christoph Geiler: Cross-country star Klaebo breaks his finger while boxing. February 4, 2020, accessed November 30, 2020 .
↑ Cycling Archives: 3-time Olympic champion in cross-country skiing becomes professional cyclist in Norway: Johannes Høsflot Klaebo. In: radsportseiten.net. June 5, 2020, accessed June 8, 2020 .
↑ Respect for Corona: Klæbo is suspending. Retrieved November 30, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Klæbo, Johannes Høsflot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Norwegian cross-country skier
BIRTH DATE	October 22, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH	Trondheim

[1] Christoph Geiler: Cross-country star Klaebo breaks his finger while boxing. February 4, 2020, accessed November 30, 2020 .

[radsport-38021-2] Cycling Archives: 3-time Olympic champion in cross-country skiing becomes professional cyclist in Norway: Johannes Høsflot Klaebo. In: radsportseiten.net. June 5, 2020, accessed June 8, 2020 .

[3] Respect for Corona: Klæbo is suspending. Retrieved November 30, 2020 .