Kikkan Randall

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Kikkan Randall Cross-country skiing
Kikkan Randall (2013)

Kikkan Randall (2013)

nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday 31st December 1982 (age 37)
place of birth Salt Lake City , United States
Career
society Apu Nordic Ski Center
Trainer Erik Flora
Frode Lillefjell
status active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World Cup medals 1 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
National medals 6 × gold 3 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold 2018 Pyeongchang Team sprint
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
silver 2009 Liberec sprint
gold 2013 Val di Fiemme Team sprint
bronze 2017 Lahti sprint
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
 Debut in the World Cup January 14, 2001
 World Cup victories in individual 11 ( details )
 World Cup victories in the team 1 ( details )
 World Cup victories in stages 2 ( details )
 Overall World Cup 3rd ( 2012/13 )
 Sprint World Cup 1. ( 2011/12 , 2012/13 , 2013/14 )
 Distance World Cup 10. (2012/13)
 Tour de Ski 10th ( 2011/12 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Sprint races 11 5 5
 Distance races 0 0 1
 Stage race 2 4th 1
 Season 0 0 2
 Team sprint 1 2 0
last change: August 22, 2018

Kikkan Randall (born December 31, 1982 in Salt Lake City ) is an American cross-country skier . With winning the silver medal in the sprint competition of the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec in 2009 and the gold medal in the team sprint of the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme , top ten placings at the Winter Olympics and World Junior Championships and twelve World Cup victories , she is the most successful US American Cross-country skier of all time.

life and career

Randall was an active athlete in her youth . The middle-distance runner began to use cross-country skiing as a training method in winter. The niece of two Olympic participants in cross-country skiing quickly achieved her first successes on a national level, so that she began to specialize in cross-country skiing.

At her second Junior World Championships in 2001 in Karpacz , Poland , the sprint specialist finished sixth when Pirjo Manninen won. This is the best result that an American cross-country skier has ever achieved at the Junior World Championships. In the same year she took part in the Nordic World Ski Championships for the first time . In Lahti , however, she failed in the qualification and was only 34. In January 2001, she ran her first World Cup race in Soldier Hollow , which she finished in 24th place in the sprint. In 2002 she was an Olympian in her native Salt Lake City. But here, too, she missed the finals in the sprint competition as 44th in qualification.

In the 2004/05 season, Randall, who was previously only active in the Continental Cup or American racing series, started in the Cross-Country World Cup. Over the 10 kilometer freestyle , the sprinter took 70th and last place in Reit im Winkl . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf in 2005 , as in previous major events, she missed the finals in the sprint competition. A year later, however, at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , she made it to the semifinals and achieved ninth place, the best result ever for a US cross-country skier at the Winter Olympics. A short time later, with fifth place in the sprint in Borlänge, Sweden, she made it into the top ten of a World Cup competition for the first time.

On January 21, 2007, Randall reached the sprint in Rybinsk, Russia, the first podium finish of a US athlete in the cross-country skiing world cup. A year later she was able to improve this ranking at the same location. After an intermediate sprint on the last mountain, she did not allow her competitors to catch up with her in the freestyle sprint and celebrated her first victory in the World Cup. After placing twelfth place in the overall ranking of all sprint competitions of the Cross-Country Skiing World Cup in 2007, she reached 15th place in 2008. In the 2008/09 season Randall showed after initially moderate results in Otepää , Rybinsk and Valdidentro ascending form. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec in 2009 , she achieved the greatest success of her career up to then. In the final of the sprint competition, she was only beaten by Arianna Follis . This was the first medal win by a US cross-country skier at the Nordic World Ski Championships .

At the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver she was eliminated in the semifinals of the sprint competition and finished eighth. At the sprint competition in Oslo, she won her only podium finish in the 2009/10 season with second place . In the 2010/11 season she won the sprint competitions in Drammen and Liberec. With further podium and top ten placements, she secured third place in the overall sprint world cup. In the overall World Cup, she also achieved the best placement of her career to date with tenth place. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 2011 , she failed in the quarter-finals and took 26th place. The best result of the sprint specialist in Oslo was 18th place over 30 kilometers freestyle (mass start). For the first time she also finished the Tour de Ski , where she reached 21st place. At the beginning of the 2011/12 season , Randall won the fourth World Cup competition of her career in Düsseldorf . At the same place she celebrated her first podium finish in a team sprint together with her partner Sadie Bjornsen . The American duo only had to admit defeat to the team from Norway. A week later, she also won the sprint in Davos . She finished sixth at the Nordic Opening in Kuusamo . In the Tour de Ski 2011/12 , she reached tenth place. She finished second in the sprint stage in Toblach . At the World Cup in Milan , she came in second in the sprint and team sprint. Also in Szklarska Poręba she achieved second place in the sprint and at the end of the season she reached fifth place in the overall World Cup and first place in the Sprint World Cup. In March 2012 she became the US champion over 30 km.

At the beginning of the following season she came in Gällivare with the relay and in the sprint on the third place. At the Nordic Opening in Kuusamo , she finished fifth overall. She achieved second place in the 5 km stage. In the further course of the season she was able to win three sprints and one team sprint and once in the sprint came second. The 2012/13 Tour de Ski finished in 12th place. It won the sprint stage in Val Mustair . At the season highlight, the Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme , she won the gold medal in the team sprint together with Jessica Diggins . At the World Cup finals in Falun , she came seventh and came third in the overall world cup and first in the sprint world cup . At the beginning of the 2013/14 season, she finished fifth at the Nordic Opening in Kuusamo. It came in second place in the sprint stage. In the further course of the season she won three World Cup sprints and once came second. In Lillehammer , she won third place with the relay. Her best results at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi were 18th place in the sprint and seventh place in the team sprint. At the end of the season, she won the Sprint World Cup for the third time in a row. She finished sixth in the overall World Cup.

The following season she finished 58th at the Nordic Opening in Lillehammer . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun in 2015 , she achieved 35th place in the sprint, 31st place in the skiathlon and 15th place over 10 km. In March 2015, she achieved her only podium finish of the season with third place in the sprint in Lahti . In the 2016/17 season she finished in the top ten three times in the World Cup. At the season highlight of the Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 in Lahti, she won the bronze medal in the sprint. She also took 26th place over 10 km classic, 17th place in the skiathlon and fourth place with the relay. The following season she took 25th place in the Ruka Triple and 43rd place in the World Cup finals in Falun. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , she won the gold medal in the team sprint together with Jessica Diggins .

IOC membership

At the 2018 Winter Olympics, she was elected to the IOC Athletes' Commission for 8 years and is therefore also a full IOC member .

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No. date place discipline
1. December 16, 2007 RussiaRussia Rybinsk Sprint freestyle
2. January 15, 2011 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Liberec Sprint freestyle
3. January 20, 2011 NorwayNorway Drammen Sprint freestyle
4th December 3, 2011 GermanyGermany Dusseldorf Sprint freestyle
5. December 11, 2011 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Davos Sprint freestyle
6th December 8, 2012 CanadaCanada Quebec Sprint freestyle
7th 1st February 2013 RussiaRussia Sochi Sprint freestyle
8th. March 9, 2013 FinlandFinland Lahti Sprint freestyle
9 January 11, 2014 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Nové Město Sprint freestyle
10. January 18, 2014 PolandPoland Szklarska Poreba Sprint freestyle
11. March 1, 2014 FinlandFinland Lahti Sprint freestyle

Stage victories in world cup races

No. date place discipline run
1. December 29, 2012 GermanyGermany Oberhof 3 km freestyle prologue Tour de Ski 2012/2013
2. January 1, 2013 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Val Müstair Sprint freestyle Tour de Ski 2012/2013

World Cup victories in the team

No. date place discipline
1. December 7, 2012 CanadaCanada Quebec Team sprint freestyle 1

Participation in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games

Olympic games

  • 2002 Salt Lake City : 44th place sprint freestyle
  • 2006 Turin : 9th place sprint freestyle, 10th place team sprint classic, 14th place relay, 53rd place 10 km classic
  • 2010 Vancouver : 8th place sprint classic, 11th place relay, 23rd place 30 km classic mass start
  • 2014 Sochi : 7th place team sprint classic, 9th place relay, 18th place sprint freestyle, 28th place 30 km freestyle mass start
  • 2018 Pyeongchang : 1st place team sprint freestyle, 5th place relay, 16th place 10 km freestyle, 40th place 15 km skiathlon

Nordic World Ski Championships

  • 2001 Lahti : 12th place relay, 34th place sprint freestyle
  • 2003 Val di Fiemme : 39th place sprint freestyle, 50th place 10 km classic, 54th place 10 km skiathlon
  • 2005 Oberstdorf : 14th place team sprint freestyle, 15th place relay, 29th place sprint classic, 65th place 10 km freestyle
  • 2007 Sapporo : 11th place team sprint freestyle, 14th place relay, 22nd place sprint classic, 41st place 15 km skiathlon
  • 2009 Liberec : 2nd place sprint freestyle, 10th place team sprint classic, 13th place relay, 26th place 10 km classic
  • 2011 Oslo : 9th place team sprint classic, 9th place relay, 18th place 30 km freestyle mass start, 26th place sprint freestyle, 32nd place 10 km classic
  • 2013 Val di Fiemme : 1st place team sprint freestyle, 4th place relay, 19th place sprint classic, 30th place 10 km freestyle
  • 2015 Falun : 15th place 10 km freestyle, 31st place 15 km skiathlon, 35th place sprint classic
  • 2017 Lahti : 3rd place sprint freestyle, 4th place relay, 17th place 15 km skiathlon, 26th place 10 km classic

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 1 12 13 1
2nd place 1 1 7th 9 2
3rd place 1 1 5 7th 2
Top 10 7th 4th 9 52 6th 78 7th 5
Scoring 14th 23 3 4th 34 75 13 166 9 8th
Starts 19th 45 4th 5 40 101 16 230 9 8th
Status: end of season 2017/18
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
2000/01 7th 97. - - 7th 70.
2005/06 48 59. - - 48 34.
2006/07 155 30th - - 155 12.
2007/08 198 32. - - 198 15th
2008/09 107 46. 8th 76. 99 25th
2009/10 238 37. 49 49. 161 18th
2010/11 657 10. 136 23. 427 3.
2011/12 1307 5. 401 14th 658 1.
2012/13 1190 3. 398 10. 542 1.
2013/14 841 6th 153 17th 558 1.
2014/15 156 43. 15th 71. 141 17th
2015/16 - - - - - -
2016/17 168 36. 52 45. 116 20th
2017/18 209 31. 103 27. 94 22nd

Web links

Commons : Kikkan Randall  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.ibsf.org/de/news/20540-olympia-teilnehmer-waehlten-zwei-neue-haben-der-ioc-athleten-kommission accessed on September 4, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Randall, Kikkan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cross-country skier
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Salt Lake City