Marcus Hellner

	Marcus Hellner
	Marcus Hellner (2013)
Full name	Carl Marcus Joakim Hellner
nation	Sweden
birthday	25th November 1985 (age 34)
place of birth	Lerdala , Sweden
size	183 cm
Weight	75 kg
Career
society	Gellivare Skidallians
National squad	since 2005
status	resigned
End of career	2018
Medal table
winter Olympics
Nordic World Ski Championships
	Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup	March 7, 2006
World Cup victories in individual	2 ( details )
World Cup victories in the team	1 ( details )
World Cup victories in stages	3 ( details )
Overall World Cup	3rd ( 2009/10 )
Sprint World Cup	15th ( 2009/10 , 2010/11 )
Distance World Cup	3rd ( 2009/10 )
Tour de Ski	2. ( 2011/12 )
	Placements in the Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the Continental Cup	December 16, 2005
SCAN overall rating	15th ( 2005/06 )
	last change: March 26, 2017

Carl Marcus Joakim Hellner (born November 25, 1985 in Lerdala , Skövde municipality , Skaraborgs län ) is a former Swedish cross-country skier .

Career

Marcus Hellner lives in Gällivare and started for the local association Gellivare skidallians . He gained his first international experience in junior and FIS races . In 2004 he appeared in Stryn for the first time, but without any significant results, at the Junior World Championships. In the following years he mainly ran junior races, later also FIS and U23 races, in some cases he reached very good positions, but without assuming a decisive role in the competitions. At the end of the 2005/06 season he was allowed to compete in the World Cup for the first time after good placements in FIS races in Borlänge . He finished 32nd in the sprint. He celebrated his first major success as fifth in the sprint race in the first Tour de Ski in 2006/2007 . The nomination for the Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo brought him further good placements . Here it was used over the 15-kilometer route, which is rather unusual for the sprinter, and came in ninth.

At the beginning of the 2007/08 season he achieved his first podium finish in the World Cup together with Emil Jönsson in the team world cup race in Düsseldorf . A year later he won his first World Cup victory in front of his home crowd at the opening race of the 2008/09 season in Gällivare over the distance of 15 kilometers freestyle. At the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver , he won the gold medal in the 30 km skiathlon and with the relay. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 2011 he won his first world title in the sprint and was able to win silver in the 4x10 km relay behind Norway. He ended the 2010/11 season with a 29th place at the Sprint World Cup in Stockholm .

At the beginning of the 2011/12 season , after finishing ninth in the individual in Sjusjøen on the same route , he was able to reach the podium again as third in the relay. A short time later, however, there were no good placements again in Kuusamo . After winning the FIS 15 km race in Gällivare at the beginning of December 2011 , he finished fourth in Davos a week later and for the first time in the World Cup again achieved a top position since the World Championship in Oslo. Hellner was also able to convince at the Tour de Ski 2011/2012 , which he finished second overall after good individual results.

At the Swedish Championships in 2012 in Östersund , he won the titles in the individual over 15 km and in the skiathlon over 30 km. A short time later he was in Nové Město na Moravě with the relay as third again on the podium. In the individual disciplines, top placements were rahr. At the end of the season in Falun he was ninth again. Despite a lack of victories, he finished fourth in the overall World Cup ranking of the 2011/12 season .

Hellner started the 2012/13 season with a third place at the Individual World Cup in Gällivare. Just one day later, he was also second with the season. The team won this placement again in January in La Clusaz , after Hellner had previously finished fifth in the 2012/2013 Tour de Ski . Only three days later he defended his Swedish championship in skiathlon at the National Championships in Falun.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme , he won the silver medal in the team sprint after finishing eighth in the skiathlon. He also won silver with the team in the 4 × 10 km relay competition. In the World Cup, after the World Cup, he was only able to place himself in the midfield with rather poor performance and was only ninth in the overall World Cup ranking. At the beginning of the 2013/14 season he took seventh place at the Nordic Opening in Kuusamo . In January 2014 he became Swedish champion over 15 km and in the skiathlon. At the World Cup race in Toblach he achieved third place over 15 km classic. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , he won silver in the skiathlon and gold in the relay. He finished the Tour de Ski 2015 in 11th place overall. In February 2015 he came third in the 15 km freestyle in Östersund . In the same month he won silver with the relay at the 2015 Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun . At the end of January 2016 he became Swedish champion in skiathlon and second in the 15 km classic. At the Ski Tour Canada 2016, he finished tenth. He took third place over 15 km freestyle in Canmore and ran the third fastest time in the pursuit stage in Québec . At the beginning of April 2016 he became Swedish champion over 50 km. At the beginning of the 2016/17 season he finished sixth in the World Cup mini tour in Lillehammer . He finished second in the 10 km freestyle stage. At the Tour de Ski 2016/17 he came in sixth place with six top ten placements. At the following World Cup in Ulricehamn he achieved third place over 15 km freestyle and second place with the relay. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 in Lahti , he won the bronze medal with the relay. He also finished 12th in the 50 km mass start race and seventh in the skiathlon. At the end of the season he was sixth in the World Cup final in Québec . He ran the fastest time in the final pursuit stage over 15 km and reached eighth place in the Distance World Cup and sixth place in the overall World Cup. At the Swedish championships in 2017 he won the skiathlon and came second over 50 km freestyle. In the 2017/18 season he took 19th place in the Ruka Triple and 13th place in the World Cup finals in Falun and thus reached 26th place in the overall World Cup. His best placings at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang were eighth place over 15 km freestyle and fourth place together with Calle Halfvarsson in the team sprint. At the end of March 2018, he became the Swedish champion in the 15 km freestyle and 30 km mass start race in Skellefteå .

In May 2018 Hellner announced the end of his career.

Victories in world cup races

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	November 22, 2008	Sweden Gällivare	15 km freestyle individual start
2.	November 20, 2011	Sweden Gällivare	15 km freestyle individual start

Stage victories in world cup races

No.	date	place	discipline	run
1.	December 31, 2010	Germany Oberhof	3.75 km prologue freestyle	Tour de Ski 2010/11
2.	January 6, 2013	Italy Val di Fiemme	9 km freestyle mountain pursuit ¹	Tour de Ski 2012/13
3.	19th March 2017	Canada Quebec	15 km freestyle pursuit ¹	World Cup Final 2017

¹ Counted as the winner due to the fastest running time.

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	November 21, 2010	Sweden Gällivare	4 × 10 km relay ¹

¹ With Mats Larsson , Johan Olsson and Daniel Richardsson .

Participation in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games

Olympic games

2010 Vancouver : 1st place relay, 1st place 30 km skiathlon, 4th place 15 km freestyle, 15th place team sprint freestyle, 22nd place 50 km classic mass start
2014 Sochi : 1st place relay, 2nd place 30 km skiathlon, 6th place sprint freestyle, 10th place 15 km classic
2018 Pyeongchang : 4th place team sprint freestyle, 5th place relay, 8th place 15 km freestyle, 12th place 30 km skiathlon

Nordic World Ski Championships

2007 Sapporo : 3rd place relay, 8th place 15 km freestyle
2009 Liberec : 5th place sprint freestyle, 6th place relay, 19th place 30 km skiathlon, 27th place 50 km freestyle mass start
2011 Oslo : 1st place sprint freestyle, 2nd place relay, 6th place 30 km skiathlon, 15th place 50 km freestyle mass start, 34th place 15 km classic
2013 Val di Fiemme : 2nd place relay, 2nd place team sprint freestyle, 8th place 30 km skiathlon, 17th place 15 km freestyle, 29th place 50 km classic mass start
2015 Falun : 2nd place relay, 4th place 15 km freestyle, 10th place 30 km skiathlon
2017 Lahti : 3rd place relay, 7th place 30 km skiathlon, 12th place 50 km freestyle mass start

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		2			2			5		1
2nd place	2	1	1			4th	1	1	10		5
3rd place			5			4th	1	1	11	1	3
Top 10	9	6th	18th	1	2	27	15th	14th	92	2	15th
Scoring	12	10	45	6th	4th	47	35	20th	179	2	16
Starts	13	11	57	9	5	52	60	22nd	229	2	16
Status: end of season 2014/15

^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
2006/07	18th	114.	12	81.	6th	73.
2007/08	123	53.	62	45.	61	41.
2008/09	354	21st	217	17th	73	35.
2009/10	985	3.	483	3.	182	15th
2010/11	695	7th	365	7th	158	15th
2011/12	1058	4th	536	8th.	64	34.
2012/13	630	9.	358	11.	32	53.
2013/14	350	17th	187	15th	11	82.
2014/15	352	19th	256	14th	-	-
2015/16	251	30th	129	27.	18th	64.
2016/17	815	6th	453	8th.	42	40.
2017/18	283	26th	182	22nd	37	40.

Web links

Marcus Hellner in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
Marcus Hellner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ Olympic champion Marcus Hellner retires - xc-ski.de cross-country skiing. In: xc-ski.de. May 7, 2018, accessed on January 4, 2019 (German).

personal data
SURNAME	Hellner, Marcus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hellner, Carl Marcus Joakim (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish cross-country skier
DATE OF BIRTH	November 25, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lerdala , Sweden

[1] Olympic champion Marcus Hellner retires - xc-ski.de cross-country skiing. In: xc-ski.de. May 7, 2018, accessed on January 4, 2019 (German).