Len Valjas

	Len Valjas
	Len Väljas (2013)
Full name	Lennard Len Valjas
nation	Canada
birthday	21st November 1988 (age 31)
place of birth	Toronto , Canada
Career
society	Team Hardwood
status	active
Medal table
Canadian Championships
	Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup	January 16, 2009
World Cup victories in the team	1 ( details )
Overall World Cup	23. ( 2012/13 )
Sprint World Cup	8. ( 2012/13 )
	last change: May 1st, 2019

Lennard "Len" Väljas (born November 21, 1988 in Toronto ) is a Canadian cross-country skier . His ancestors all come from Estonia .

Career

Väljas mainly participated in the Nor-Am Cup until 2010. The sixth place in the overall ranking was his best result in the 2008/09 season. He ran his first World Cup race in Vancouver in 2009 , which he finished in 46th place in the sprint. At the Canadian Cross Country Ski Championships 2010 in Whitehorse , he won gold in the sprint. Since the 2010/11 season, Väljas has been running in the cross-country skiing world cup . He finished the 2010/11 season in 90th place overall. His best placement was ninth in the sprint. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo , 15th place in the sprint and 12th place with the relay were his best placements. At the Canadian Cross Country Ski Championships 2011 in Canmore , he again won gold in the sprint.

In the 2011/12 season , Väljas in Drammen took his first podium with second place in the sprint. He finished the season in 28th place in the overall standings and 12th place in the sprint standings. At the Tour de Ski 2012/2013 he was able to take 20th place. He was able to take two podium places in the tour with second place over 15 km classic and third place in the sprint. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2013 in Val di Fiemme , he was twelfth with the relay and reached 40th place in the sprint. He finished the World Cup in 23rd place in the overall ranking and eighth in the sprint ranking. At the Canadian Cross Country Ski Championships 2013 in Whistler , he won gold in the sprint. In the 2013/14 season , 34th place was his best result and did not get any World Cup points during the season. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , he reached 36th place in the sprint and 12th place in the relay. In February 2015, at the 2015 Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun, he took 14th place in the sprint, 13th place in the team sprint and tenth place in the relay. In the 2015/16 season he made it into the points four times in the World Cup. His best placement was tenth place in the sprint in Oberstdorf . In March 2016 he came in at the Canadian cross-country skiing championships in Whitehorse over 10 km classic and second in the sprint. At the start of the 2016/17 season, he finished 48th in the World Cup mini tour in Lillehammer . In the further course of the season he won his first World Cup victory in Toblach together with Alex Harvey in the team sprint and achieved third place with the relay in Ulricehamn . At the season highlight of the Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 in Lahti , he came in 48th place in the sprint and sixth place together with Alex Harvey in the team sprint. At the end of the season he finished 54th in the World Cup final in Québec and reached 41st place in the overall World Cup and 16th place in the Sprint World Cup. The following year he finished ninth in the relay at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , eighth in the team sprint with Alex Harvey and seventh in the sprint.

In the 2018/19 season, Väljas was Canadian champion over 10 km classic and in pursuit in Gatineau and took 50th place in the sprint, 47th place over 15 km classic, 12th place at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2019 in Seefeld in Tyrol . Place with the relay and tenth place together with Evan Palmer-Charrette in the team sprint.

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	15th January 2017	Italy Toblach	Team sprint freestyle ¹

¹With Alex Harvey .

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
placement	≤ 5 km	≤ 10 km	≤ 15 km	≤ 30 km	> 30 km	Skiathlon pursuit	sprint	Stage race ^b	total	sprint	Season
1st place										1
2nd place			1				1		2
3rd place			1				2		3		1
Top 10			2				12		14th	4th	4th
Scoring	3		3			2	37	3	48	10	5
Starts	5	8th	22nd	2	1	17th	75	9	139	10	5
Status: end of season 2018/19

^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
season	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
2010/11	45	90.	-	-	45	48.
2011/12	343	28.	65	49.	238	12.
2012/13	335	23.	89	43.	214	8th.
2013/14	-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	74	74.	-	-	74	33.
2015/16	62	73.	-	-	62	35.
2016/17	156	41.	-	-	156	16.
2017/18	-	-	-	-	-	-

Private

Välja's sister Kristina is a Canadian beach volleyball player.

Web links

Commons : Len Väljas - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Len Väljas in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
Len Väljas in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

personal data
SURNAME	Väljas, Len
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Väljas, Lennard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian cross-country skier
DATE OF BIRTH	November 21, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH	Toronto