Laurien van der Graaff

Laurien van der Graaff
Laurien van der Graaff (2018)
Full name	Laurien van der Graaff
nation	Switzerland , Netherlands
birthday	14th October 1987 (age 32)
place of birth	Nieuwkoop , Netherlands
Career
society	TG huts
National squad	since 2006
status	active
Medal table
National medals 7 × 4 × 3 ×
Swiss championships gold 2006 Ulrichen Season gold 2007 bridge Season gold 2008 Feutersoey sprint gold 2008 Feutersoey Season bronze 2009 Trun sprint bronze 2010 Marbach sprint silver 2011 Les Mosses Season gold 2012 Campra sprint silver 2012 Campra 30 km freestyle gold 2015 Kandersteg sprint gold 2015 Kandersteg Team sprint silver 2015 Kandersteg 30 km classic silver 2017 Val Müstair sprint bronze 2017 Val Müstair 30 km classic
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup March 1, 2008  World Cup victories in individual 1 ( details )  World Cup victories in stages 1 ( details )  Overall World Cup 21. ( 2017/18 )  Sprint World Cup 5. (2017/18)  Distance World Cup 60th ( 2016/17 )  Tour de Ski 25. ( 2019/20 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Sprint races 1 1 2  Stage race 1 0 0  Team sprint 0 1 1
last change: January 12, 2020

Laurien van der Graaff (born October 14, 1987 in Nieuwkoop , Netherlands ) is a Swiss cross-country skier .

Career

Already at the age of 16, the Davos native and daughter of a Dutchman competed in the cross-country Continental Cup for the first time, where she was 15th out of 30 starters in La Thomasette . In 2005 Laurien van der Graaff took part in a junior world championship for the first time. In Rovaniemi , her best placement was 19th in the sprint competition. In 2006 she was at the Junior World Championships in Kranj 19th over 5 kilometers classic. She celebrated her first victory in a sprint competition of the Alpine Cup (Continental Cup) two years later in Olten .

She was then nominated for a World Cup competition for the first time in March 2008 . In Lahti she missed the qualification as 39th but the entry into the finals. In 2008 and 2009 Laurien van der Graaff started at the U23 World Championship, where she was able to take 20th place in the sprint competition. In 2010 she reached ninth place at the U23 World Cup in Hinterzarten after she had fought for second place in qualifying. At the World Cup in Düsseldorf she just missed qualifying for the finals in 32nd place. She won her first World Cup points in Rybinsk , where she finished 28th.

In the 2010/11 season she qualified several times for the finals in World Cup competitions. Her best result was 21st place in Rybinsk and Liberec . These results secured her a start at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo , Norway , where she failed in qualification as 40th. On her first appearance in the 2011/12 season , Laurien van der Graaff surprised with a third place in the sprint in Düsseldorf. She is only the second Swiss cross-country skier to achieve a podium placement in a World Cup competition. Only Evi Kratzer had managed this before . In 1987, Kratzer won the classic 10 km in Calgary - the year Laurien van der Graaff was born . She also impressed in the team sprint together with her partner Bettina Gruber . As the fourth team, the duo just missed the podium.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme , she reached 30th place in the sprint and 11th place in the team sprint. At her first Olympic participation in Sochi in 2014 , she finished 21st in the sprint.

At the beginning of the 2016/17 season she took second place in the sprint at the Alpine Cup in Goms. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 2017 , she finished 30th in the sprint and seventh in the relay and together with Nadine Fähndrich in the team sprint. At the end of the season she came in 39th place at the World Cup finals in Québec and reached 34th place in the overall World Cup and 14th place in the Sprint World Cup. At the 2017 Swiss Championships in Val Müstair , she came second in the sprint and third over 30 km classic.

At the start of the Tour de Ski 2017/18 in Lenzerheide , Switzerland , Laurien van der Graaff won the sprint competition. It was her first World Cup success and at the same time the second victory for a Swiss woman since Evi Kratzer , who won the classic 10 km World Cup competition in Calgary , Canada in January 1987 . Van der Graaff attributed the success to mental training , which she focused on in the summer of 2017. According to her own statements, she used to be afraid of winning. In January 2018 she won again in the sprint in Seefeld in Tirol . At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , she took tenth place in the sprint, seventh place with the relay and fourth place together with Nadine Fähndrich in the team sprint. At the end of the season she came in 40th place at the World Cup finals in Falun and finally reached 21st place in the overall World Cup and fifth place in the Sprint World Cup. The following year she ran at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Seefeld in Tyrol on 16th place in the sprint, tenth place with the relay and eighth place together with Nadine Fähndrich in the team sprint. After 36th place in the Ruka Triple at the beginning of the 2019/20 season, she and Nadine Fähndrich finished third in the team sprint in Planica and second in Dresden . At the Tour de Ski 2019/20 she came in 25th place and at the end of the season she achieved 31st place in the overall World Cup and 13th place in the Sprint World Cup.

successes

Victories in world cup races

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	January 27, 2018	Seefeld in Tyrol	1.1 km sprint freestyle

Stage victories in world cup races

No.	date	place	discipline	run
1.	December 30, 2017	Lenzerheide	1.5 km sprint freestyle	Tour de Ski 2017/18

Victories in Continental Cup races

No.	date	place	discipline	series
1.	January 10, 2008	Olten	Sprint freestyle	Alpine Cup
2.	December 18, 2009	Hochfilzen	Sprint freestyle	Alpine Cup
3.	February 19, 2010	Welsberg Taisten	Sprint freestyle	Slavic Cup
4th	December 17, 2010	St. Ulrich am Pillersee	Sprint freestyle	Alpine Cup
5.	December 21, 2018	Valdidentro	Sprint freestyle	Alpine Cup

Participation in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games

Olympic games

• 2014 Sochi : 21st place sprint freestyle
• 2018 Pyeongchang : 4th place team sprint freestyle, 7th place relay, 10th place sprint classic

Nordic World Ski Championships

• 2011 Oslo : 40th place sprint freestyle
• 2013 Val di Fiemme : 11th place team sprint freestyle, 30th place sprint classic
• 2015 Falun : 7th place team sprint freestyle, 27th place sprint classic
• 2017 Lahti : 7th place team sprint classic, 7th place relay, 30th place sprint freestyle
• 2019 Seefeld in Tirol : 8th place team sprint classic, 10th place relay, 16th place sprint freestyle

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							2		2
2nd place							1		1	1
3rd place							2		2	1
Top 10	1						27		28	12	1
Scoring	1	4th				2	77	1	85	16	1
Starts	9	22nd			1	10	101	6th	149	16	1
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
2009/10	3	121.	-	-	3	86.
2010/11	22nd	82.	-	-	22nd	56.
2011/12	212	36.	-	-	212	14th
2012/13	126	47.	-	-	126	19th
2013/14	275	24.	-	-	275	7th
2014/15	174	38.	-	-	174	10.
2015/16	122	40.	-	-	122	21st
2016/17	195	34.	26th	60.	169	14th
2017/18	303	21st	8th	71.	295	5.
2018/19	126	51.	8th	73.	118	25th
2019/20	227	31.	14th	62.	189	13.

Web links

Commons : Laurien van der Graaff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Laurien van der Graaff in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Laurien van der Graaff in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile of Laurien van der Graaff on swiss-ski.ch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Nederland geen optie Van der Graaff. www.nos.nl, January 6, 2014, accessed January 11, 2014 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} cross-country skiing: Van der Graaff wins the sprint in Lenzerheide! . In: blick.ch . Accessed December 31, 2017.
3. ↑ Incredible: Van der Graaff on the podium! . www.sport1.ch. December 3, 2010. Archived from the original on January 11, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 9, 2010. 
4. ↑ Van der Graaff celebrates her first World Cup victory! ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: bluewin.ch . Accessed December 31, 2017.