Roman Furger

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Roman Furger Cross-country skiing
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nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday 10th February 1990 (age 30)
place of birth Altdorf , Switzerland
size 173 cm
Weight 68 kg
Career
job Merchant
discipline Cross-country skiing
society SSC Schattdorf
status active
Medal table
U23 medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
National medals 0 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Cross-country skiing U23 world championships
bronze 2012 Erzurum sprint
Logo of the Swiss Ski Association Swiss championships
silver 2015 Kandersteg 15 km freestyle
silver 2018 footbridge 50 km freestyle
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
 Debut in the World Cup December 12, 2009
 Overall World Cup 40th ( 2019/20 )
 Sprint World Cup 29. ( 2016/17 )
 Distance World Cup 39th (2019/20)
 Tour de Ski 27. ( 2019/20 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Season 0 1 0
last change: March 22, 2020

Roman Furger (born February 10, 1990 in Altdorf ) is a Swiss cross-country skier .

Career

Furger made his debut in the cross-country skiing world cup in December 2009 in Davos , where he finished 84th over 15 km freestyle. In the cross-country Alpine Cup , Furger achieved his first top 10 place with fifth place in the 15 km freestyle mass start race in Ortisei am Pillersee in December 2011 and then competed in the 2011/12 Tour de Ski , where he competed in the fifth stage but no longer at the start and thus did not end the stage race. Furger won the Engadin Skimarathon in March 2012 , achieved his first World Cup points on November 24, 2012 in Gällivare with a 17th place over 15 km freestyle and one day later finished fourth in the Swiss relay team. The Tour de Ski 2012/13 ended Furger after three stages, having previously as the best stage result of 79th place in the sprint in Val Müstair reached. In December 2014, he finished 21st in the sprint at the World Cup in Davos. At the Tour de Ski 2015 , Furger contested this stage race for the third time, but did not finish the tour again; on the sprint stage in Val Müstair, however, he once reached the points with 21st place. At the World Cup in Rybinsk in January 2015, he again achieved World Cup points with 16th place in the sprint and achieved another top 10 placement in the Alpine Cup with seventh place in the Campra sprint in February 2015. Furger finished 26th in the 50 km freestyle mass start race in Oslo in March 2015 . In March 2016 he won the Engadin Skimarathon for the second time. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 2017 , he finished 25th in the sprint, 17th in the 50 km mass start race and ninth place together with Jovian Hediger in the team sprint. The following year he ran at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang on 12th place over 15 km freestyle and 11th place with the relay and together with Dario Cologna in the team sprint. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2019 in Seefeld in Tirol , he came in 53rd place in the 50 km mass start race and 38th in the sprint. In the 2019/20 season he finished 27th in the Tour de Ski 2019/20 and 15th in the ski tour, 40th place in the overall World Cup. He also achieved his first podium finish in the World Cup with second place in the relay in Lahti.

successes

Victories in Continental Cup races

No. date place discipline series
1. February 6, 2016 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Campra 15 km freestyle individual start Alpine Cup

Victories in Worldloppet Cup races

Note: Before the 2015/16 season, the Worldloppet Cup was still called the Marathon Cup .

No. date place run discipline
1. March 11, 2012 SwitzerlandSwitzerlandMaloja - S-chanf Engadin ski marathon 42 km freestyle mass start
2. March 13, 2016 SwitzerlandSwitzerlandMaloja - S-chanf Engadin ski marathon 42 km freestyle mass start
3. March 11, 2018 SwitzerlandSwitzerlandMaloja - S-chanf Engadin ski marathon 42 km freestyle mass start

World Cup placements

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  
2nd place   1
3rd place  
Top 10 1 1 2 3 4th
Scoring 2 10 1 2 3 14th 3 35 5 4th
Starts 3 7th 26th 5 2 21st 42 8th 114 5 4th
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
2012/13 14th 136. 14th 86. - -
2013/14 - - - - - -
2014/15 40 97. 5 88 35 50.
2015/16 29 99 4th 88 25th 56.
2016/17 127 48. 32 64. 73 29
2017/18 36 87. 16 76. 20th 55.
2018/19 58 71. 24 67. 34 48.
2019/20 178 40. 90 39. 20th 64.

Personal

Furger is a trained businessman with a high school diploma and lives in Schattdorf .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Master's title for Baumann and Von Siebenthal. (No longer available online.) Swiss-ski.ch, January 17, 2015, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 19, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.swiss-ski.ch
  2. Twice gold for Jonas Baumann! nordic-online.ch, January 19, 2015, accessed on March 16, 2016 .
  3. Portrait on romanfurger.ch, accessed on March 15, 2016.