Karl-Johan Westberg

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Karl-Johan Westberg Cross-country skiing
nation SwedenSweden Sweden
birthday 9th December 1992 (age 27)
place of birth Sweden
Career
discipline Cross-country skiing
society Borås SK
status active
Medal table
National medals (roller skis) 2 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
National medals (cross-country skiing) 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Swedish Ski Association Swedish championships
gold 2014 Borås Short distance
gold 2015 Sundsvall Short distance
Swedish Ski Association Swedish championships
gold 2016 Piteå sprint
silver 2017 Söderhamn sprint
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
 Debut in the World Cup March 1, 2014
 Overall World Cup 64th ( 2019/20 )
 Sprint World Cup 31. ( 2017/18 )
 Distance World Cup 79th (2019/20)
 Tour de Ski 30. ( 2019/20 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Team sprint 0 1 0
last change: March 25, 2020

Karl-Johan Westberg (born December 9, 1992 ) is a Swedish cross-country skier .

Career

Westberg started in the Scandinavian Cup for the first time in 2009 and achieved his first top 10 placement in the sprint in Jõulumäe in March 2013 with rank ten. In the World Cup , Westberg made his first appearance in March 2014 in Lahti , where he did not qualify for the sprint final as 36th in qualification. In February 2015 he finished 77th in his second World Cup appearance over 15 km freestyle in Östersund , before finishing fourth in the sprint at the Scandinavian Cup in Jõulumäe a few days later. At the beginning of the 2015/16 season , Westberg started at the Nordic Opening in Ruka , which he finished 76th overall. In December 2015 he achieved his first podium finish in the Scandinavian Cup with second place in the sprint in Vuokatti . The following month he became the Swedish sprint champion. At the World Cup in Lahti in February 2016, he scored his first World Cup points with 27th place in the sprint. After second place in the sprint at the Scandinavian Cup in Lahti in the 2016/17 season, he achieved his first podium finish in the World Cup in Toblach with second place in the team sprint together with Oskar Svensson . At the beginning of February 2017 he finished second in the sprint at the Swedish championships. In the 2017/18 season he took 61st place in the Ruka Triple and 53rd place in the World Cup final in Falun . The following season he finished 69th in the Lillehammer Triple, 38th in the Tour de Ski 2018/19 and 33rd in the World Cup final in Québec, and at the end of the season he finished 66th in the overall World Cup. In the 2019/20 season he finished 30th in the Tour de Ski 2019/20 and 27th in the ski tour, and was 64th in the overall World Cup.

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 c
≤ 5 km ≤ 10 km ≤ 15 km ≤ 30 km > 30 km sprint Season
1st place  
2nd place   1
3rd place  
Top 10 3 3 2 1
Scoring 4th 2 12 2 20th 2 2
Starts 3 21st 2 11 31 8th 76 2 2
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
c Possibly incomplete due to a lack of suitable sources before 2001

World Cup overall placements

season total distance sprint
Points space Points space Points space
2015/16 4th 139. - - 4th 91.
2016/17 14th 126. 1 120. 13 65.
2017/18 64 72. - - 64 31.
2018/19 73 66. 7th 89. 66 32.
2019/20 80 64. 11 79. 37 48.

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personal data
SURNAME Westberg, Karl-Johan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish cross-country skier
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1992