Maiken Caspersen Falla

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Maiken Caspersen Falla Cross-country skiing
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nation NorwayNorway Norway
birthday 13th August 1990 (age 30)
place of birth Lørenskog , Norway
size 161 cm
Career
society Gjerdrum IL
Trainer Micke Pålsson
Roar Hjelmeset
status active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
World Cup medals 5 × gold 0 × silver 4 × bronze
JWM medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
National medals 5 × gold 3 × silver 4 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold 2014 Sochi sprint
silver 2018 Pyeongchang sprint
bronze 2018 Pyeongchang Team sprint
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
bronze 2011 Oslo Team sprint
bronze 2013 Val di Fiemme sprint
bronze 2015 Falun sprint
gold 2015 Falun Team sprint
gold 2017 Lahti sprint
gold 2017 Lahti Team sprint
gold 2017 Lahti Season
gold 2019 Seefeld sprint
bronze 2019 Seefeld Team sprint
FIS Nordic Junior Ski World Championships
bronze 2009 Praz-de-Lys sprint
gold 2009 Praz-de-Lys Season
Norwegian Ski Association Norwegian championships
silver 2009 Gjøvik sprint
bronze 2010 Stokke sprint
silver 2011 Steinkjer sprint
gold 2012 Voss sprint
gold 2013 Gåsbu sprint
gold 2014 Molde sprint
bronze 2015 Røros sprint
bronze 2015 Røros Skiathlon
gold 2017 Lygna sprint
silver 2017 Lygna Skiathlon
bronze 2019 Meråker sprint
gold 2020 Drammen sprint
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
 Debut in the World Cup November 29, 2008
 World Cup victories in individual 15 ( details )
 World Cup victories in the team 6 ( details )
 World Cup victories in stages 6 ( details )
 Overall World Cup 6. ( 2014/15 , 2015/16 )
 Sprint World Cup 1. (2015/16, 2016/17 , 2017/18 )
 Distance World Cup 20. (2015/16)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Sprint races 15th 13 9
 Distance races 0 0 1
 Stage race 6th 6th 3
 Season 2 0 0
 Team sprint 4th 5 4th
Placements in the Continental Cup (COC)
 Debut in the Continental Cup January 5, 2007
 Continental Cup victories 1 ( details )
 SCAN overall rating 6. ( 2010/11 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 SCAN individual race 1 1 0
last change: February 22nd, 2020

Maiken Caspersen Falla (born August 13, 1990 in Lørenskog ) is a Norwegian cross-country skier .

Career

Falla started cross-country skiing at the age of four and starts for the Gjerdrum IL association . She is a specialist in sprint and short distance races. Occasionally, however, she also competes in double pursuit races.

She contested her first international race in January 2007 in Sjusjøen as part of the Scandinavian Cup . In November 2008 she was able to start at the pre-season race in Beitostølen . With her fourth place in the sprint competition, she qualified there for the Norwegian World Cup team. Two weeks later, Falla made his debut in Kuusamo in the cross-country skiing world cup . Already on her first outing she won first points as 22nd in the sprint competition. A week later she took part in an FIS race in Gålå . She finally made her international breakthrough at the following World Cup shortly before Christmas 2008 in Düsseldorf . In the sprint race, Falla was first third and one day later, together with Celine Brun-Lie, second in the team sprint. In mid-January 2009 she won the silver medal in the sprint at the Norwegian championship in Gjøvik . The next day she also competed in the double pursuit, but only finished 16th. At the following Sprint World Cup in Otepää , she finished eighth. In early February 2009 she took part in the Junior World Championships in Praz-de-Lys . At the start she won the bronze medal in the sprint. In the following double pursuit, she finished fifth, in the 5 km freestyle race she was only 24. In the final 4 × 3.3 km relay she won the gold medal together with Marthe Kristoffersen , Hilde Lauvhaug and Ingvild Flugstad Østberg . Following the Junior World Championships, she paused two weeks from international competitions in order to then take part in the sprint competition of the Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec , where she failed to qualify. Until the end of the season she took part in the Sprint World Cups in Lahti and Trondheim , where she was able to collect further World Cup points as 19th and 11th.

During the summer of 2009, she took part in several FIS races held in China . At the pre-season races in Beitostølen in November, she was able to achieve second place in the sprint race. The following day, she also took part in the 10 km freestyle race, but only finished 34th. She competed in the opening race of the 2009/10 World Cup held at the same location as the starting runner of the only junior season, Norway IV . This finished only in 18th place, with Falla running one of the weakest lap times. Nevertheless, she was able to reach the final at the Sprint World Cup taking place in Kuusamo a week later and achieve sixth place. At the beginning of December, the Sprint World Cup in Düsseldorf, she failed because of the qualification. On the following day, however, as in the previous year, she was able to finish third in the team sprint with Celine Brun-Lie . After taking part in a national junior race, she was able to take tenth place in the World Cup sprint held in Rogla, Slovenia, just before Christmas. At the beginning of 2010, she took a break from international competitions to prepare for the upcoming season highlights. It was not until the end of January that she took part in an FIS race in Stokke , where she took third place. From there she traveled to the 2010 Junior World Championships in Hinterzarten , where she fell short of expectations as twelfth in the sprint competition. Nevertheless, she was in the Norwegian squad for the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver , where she only started in the sprint and finished in 20th place. After the Olympics, she took part in the World Cup sprints in Drammen and Oslo until the end of the season, in addition to some junior competitions, where she was able to run into the points again as 10th and 14th.

At the beginning of the 2010/11 season , she managed to finish second in the team sprint in Düsseldorf, again on the podium. At the start of the Scandinavian Cup, she won the sprint race in Savalen and came second in the 10 km race in Torsby . Back in the World Cup, she won the team sprint race in Liberec with her partner Marit Bjørgen . Just a week later, she was third again on the podium in Otepää in the sprint . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 2011 , she won bronze in the team sprint. Caspersen Falla also started the 2011/12 season with a team sprint victory in Düsseldorf. In the sprint in Davos she came in third. In Rogla , Slovenia , she finally celebrated her first individual sprint World Cup victory. At the Norwegian Championships in Voss in 2012 , she won the sprint title.

At the beginning of the 2012/13 season Caspersen Falla achieved the second victory in an individual sprint World Cup in Canmore . In January 2013, she again managed to win the Liberec team sprint. At the Norwegian Championships 2013 in Gåsbu , she defended her sprint title. A little later she secured the bronze medal in this discipline at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2013 in Val di Fiemme . She missed a medal in the team sprint and came fourth with Ingvild Flugstad Østberg . In the 2013/14 season Caspersen Falla started weak, but was able to secure victory in the team sprint again with her partner in Nové Město na Moravě . She also secured the sprint title again at the Norwegian Championships in Molde in 2014 . At the following World Cup in Toblach , she finished fourth in the sprint. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , she became Olympic champion in the free style sprint after she had already won the qualification. In March 2014 she won the sprint in Drammen and finished 18th at the World Cup finals in Falun . She finished the season in fifth place in the Sprint World Cup.

At the beginning of the 2014/15 season she took third place in the sprint in Ruka . At the Nordic Opening in Lillehammer , she reached seventh place overall. This was followed by second places in sprint races in Davos and Östersund and in the team sprint in Otepää . At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 in Falun , she won the bronze medal in the sprint and, together with Ingvild Flugstad Østberg, the gold medal in the team sprint. In March 2015 she won the sprint in Drammen and thus achieved sixth place in the overall World Cup and third place in the Sprint World Cup. At the beginning of the 2015/16 season , she won the sprint stage at the Nordic Opening in Ruka, where she finished tenth and won the relay in Lillehammer. Later in the season she won seven World Cup sprints and came second twice. At the end of the season she came tenth in the Ski Tour Canada and finished the season in sixth place in the overall World Cup and first place in the Sprint World Cup.

Maiken Caspersen Falla 2017

After finishing second in the sprint at the start of the 2016/17 season in Ruka, she finished seventh on the World Cup mini tour in Lillehammer. She achieved second place in the sprint stage. In the further course of the season she came in second place five times in World Cup sprints. At the beginning of February 2017 she became Norwegian champion in sprint and second in skiathlon in Lygna . At the season highlight, the Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 in Lahti , she won the gold medal in the sprint, with the relay and together with Heidi Weng in the team sprint. At the end of the season she came in seventh place at the World Cup final in Québec . She achieved second place in the sprint stage and finally won the sprint world cup. In addition, she finished 24th in the Distance World Cup and seventh in the overall World Cup. At the beginning of the 2017/18 season, she finished 21st in the Ruka Triple . This was followed by a first place in the sprint in Lillehammer and a second place in Davos. At the Tour de Ski 2017/18 , which she ended prematurely, she achieved third place in the sprint in Lenzerheide and second place in the 10 km mass start race in Oberstdorf . This was followed by third places in the sprint in Planica and Seefeld in Tyrol and first places in Lahti and Drammen. At the highlight of the season, the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , she won bronze together with Marit Bjørgen in the team sprint and silver in the sprint. At the end of the season she achieved 15th place at the World Cup finals in Falun and finally won the Sprint World Cup for the third time in a row.

Falla took three sprint World Cup victories in the 2018/19 season. In addition, she came second in the sprint in Falun and in Lahti took second place together with Tiril Udnes Weng in the team sprint and in Dresden third place together with Mari Eide in the team sprint. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2019 in Seefeld in Tirol , she won the bronze medal in the team sprint and the gold medal in the sprint together with Ingvild Flugstad Østberg . At the World Cup final in Québec , she came in 13th place and finally reached tenth place in the overall World Cup and second place in the Sprint World Cup. At the beginning of the 2019/20 season, she won the sprint in Ruka and the relay in Lillehammer and came second in the sprint in Davos and Lenzerheide . At the end of the season she won the sprint in Trondheim and reached fifth place in the sprint world cup.

successes

Victories in world cup races

World Cup victories in individual

No. date place discipline
1. December 18, 2011 SloveniaSlovenia Rogla 1 km sprint freestyle
2. December 15, 2012 CanadaCanada Canmore 1.3 km sprint freestyle
3. 5th March 2014 NorwayNorway Drammen 1.3 km sprint classic
4th March 11, 2015 NorwayNorway Drammen 1.3 km sprint classic
5. 19th December 2015 ItalyItaly Toblach 1.3 km sprint freestyle
6th 3rd February 2016 NorwayNorway Drammen 1.2 km sprint classic
7th February 11, 2016 SwedenSweden Stockholm 1.2 km sprint classic
8th. 20th February 2016 FinlandFinland Lahti 1 mile sprint freestyle
9. December 11, 2016 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Davos 1 mile sprint freestyle
10. 2nd December 2017 NorwayNorway Lillehammer 1.3 km sprint classic
11. March 3, 2018 FinlandFinland Lahti 1.4 km sprint freestyle
12. March 7, 2018 NorwayNorway Drammen 1.2 km sprint classic
13. 19th January 2019 EstoniaEstonia Otepää 1.3 km sprint classic
14th February 9, 2019 FinlandFinland Lahti 1.4 km sprint freestyle
15th March 12, 2019 NorwayNorway Drammen 1.2 km sprint classic

Stage victories in world cup races

No. date place discipline run
1. November 27, 2015 FinlandFinland Ruka 1.4 km sprint classic Nordic Opening 2015
2. January 1, 2016 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lenzerheide 1.5 km sprint freestyle Tour de Ski 2016
3. March 1, 2016 CanadaCanada Gatineau 1.7 km sprint freestyle Ski Tour Canada 2016
4th March 8, 2016 CanadaCanada Canmore 1.5 km sprint classic Ski Tour Canada 2016
5. 29th November 2019 FinlandFinland Ruka 1.4 km sprint classic Ruka Triple 2019
6th February 22, 2020 NorwayNorway Trondheim 1.5 km sprint classic Ski Tour 2020

World Cup victories in the team

No. date place discipline
1. January 16, 2011 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Liberec 6 × 1.3 km team sprint classic 1
2. 4th December 2011 GermanyGermany Dusseldorf 6 × 0.9 km team sprint freestyle 2
3. January 13, 2013 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Liberec 6 × 0.85 km team sprint freestyle 3
4th January 12, 2014 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Nové Město na Moravě 6 × 1.3 km team sprint classic 3
5. December 6, 2015 NorwayNorway Lillehammer 4 × 5 km relay 4
6th December 8, 2019 NorwayNorway Lillehammer 4 × 5 km relay 5

2With Mari Eide .
4thWith Ingvild Flugstad Østberg, Therese Johaug and Heidi Weng .
5With Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen , Therese Johaug and Heidi Weng.

Victories in Continental Cup races

No. date place discipline series
1. December 18, 2010 NorwayNorway Savalen Classic sprint Scandinavian Cup

Participation in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games

Olympic games

Nordic World Ski Championships

  • 2009 Liberec : 39th place sprint freestyle
  • 2011 Oslo : 3rd place team sprint classic, 13th place sprint freestyle
  • 2013 Val di Fiemme : 3rd place sprint classic, 4th place team sprint freestyle
  • 2015 Falun : 1st place team sprint freestyle, 3rd place sprint classic
  • 2017 Lahti : 1st place sprint freestyle, 1st place team sprint classic, 1st place relay
  • 2019 Seefeld in Tirol : 1st place sprint freestyle, 3rd place team sprint 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
≤ 5 km ≤ 10 km ≤ 15 km ≤ 30 km > 30 km sprint Season
1st place 21st 21st 4th 2
2nd place 1 18th 19th 5
3rd place 1 12 13 4th
Top 10 1 5 7th 80 4th 97 16 4th
Scoring 9 13 1 3 21st 93 12 152 16 5
Starts 11 21st 1 3 1 25th 100 12 174 16 5
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

World Cup overall placements

season total distance sprint
Points space Points space Points space
2008/09 137 39. - - 137 15th
2009/10 110 55. - - 110 25th
2010/11 305 24. - - 305 6th
2011/12 703 12. 89 35. 536 2.
2012/13 417 19th 98 35. 283 4th
2013/14 433 16. 57 37. 320 5.
2014/15 661 6th 77 37. 512 3.
2015/16 1151 6th 269 20th 726 1.
2016/17 866 7th 164 24. 558 1.
2017/18 708 11. 83 32. 573 1.
2018/19 657 10. 34 52. 583 2.
2019/20 351 24. - - 351 5.

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personal data
SURNAME Falla, Maiken Caspersen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian cross-country skier
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Lørenskog , Norway