Sjur Røthe

	Sjur Røthe
	Sjur Røthe (2019)
nation	Norway
birthday	2nd July 1988 (age 32)
place of birth	Voss , Norway
Career
job	National athlete
discipline	Cross-country skiing
society	Voss IL
status	active
Medal table
Nordic World Ski Championships
Nordic Junior Ski World Championships
	Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup	March 14, 2009
World Cup victories in individual	2 ( details )
World Cup victories in the team	6 ( details )
World Cup victories in stages	3 ( details )
Overall World Cup	3. ( 2018/19 )
Sprint World Cup	43rd ( 2019/20 )
Distance World Cup	2. (2018/19, 2019/20)
Tour de Ski	4. ( 2013/14 , 2018/19 , 2019/20 )
	Placements in the Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the Continental Cup	January 7, 2007
SCAN overall rating	3rd ( 2009/10 )
	last change: March 15, 2020

Sjur Røthe (born July 2, 1988 in Voss ) is a Norwegian cross-country skier .

Career

Sjur Røthe started in the 2006/07 season for the first time in FIS races and won the silver medal in the 20 km pursuit at the 2007 Junior World Championships. He made his World Cup debut in March 2009 in Trondheim , where he did not finish the race. He won his first World Cup points in November 2009 in Beitostølen . In the same season he won his first World Cup victory with the relay over 4 × 10 km in Lahti in his fourth World Cup start . The next season in November in Gällivare he made it into the top ten for the first time. At his first World Ski Championships, the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo , he reached fourth place in the 50 km freestyle. His best individual result so far and at the same time also his first podium finish in the World Cup was a second place over 15 km classic in Canmore in December 2012. The 2012/13 season he finished with the 13th overall World Cup position. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme , Røthe won the world title with the Norwegian relay team and the bronze medal in the skiathlon .

After a weak start to the 2013/14 season at the Nordic Opening, Røthe reached second place with the relay in Lillehammer . He finished the Tour de Ski 2013/14 in fourth place after a strong final stage. In January 2014 he finished second in the skiathlon at the Norwegian championship. When he first participated in the Olympics in Sochi , he came in 19th place in the skiathlon. He finished the season in seventh place in the overall World Cup ranking and seventh place in the distance ranking. At the beginning of the 2014/15 season he took third place at the Nordic Opening and third place in Davos over 15 km classic. At the 2015 Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun , he finished ninth in the 15 km freestyle. At the last World Cup race of the 2014/15 season, he won the 50 km mass start race in Oslo and reached 13th place in the overall World Cup and eleventh place in the Distance World Cup. After finishing tenth at the Nordic Opening in Ruka at the beginning of the 2015/16 season, he finished third in the relay in Lillehammer and third over 15 km classic in Toblach . He finished the 2016 Tour de Ski in sixth place. At the following World Cup in Nové Město he won together with the relay and won second place in the skiathlon and over 50 km freestyle at the Norwegian championships in Tromsø and Beitostølen . At the end of the season he came in 14th place in the overall World Cup and twelfth place in the Distance World Cup. In April 2016 he won the 32 km Haukelirennet . In the 2016/17 season he finished 13th in the World Cup mini tour in Lillehammer and twelfth place in the Tour de Ski 2016/17 . At the season highlight of the Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 in Lahti , he finished sixth in the 50 km mass start race and fourth in the skiathlon. At the end of the season he achieved seventh place in the World Cup finals in Québec , ninth place in the overall World Cup and sixth place in the Distance World Cup. In March 2017, as in the previous year, he won the Haukelirennet over 32 km freestyle.

At the beginning of the 2018/19 season, Røthe won the Lillehammer Triple over 15 km freestyle and thus achieved second place in the tour standings. At the following World Cup in Beitostølen triumphed over 30 km freestyle and with the relay. At the Tour de Ski 2018/19 he won the final stage in Fiemme Valley and thus achieved fourth place in the tour ranking. At the beginning of February 2019 he finished second in the skiathlon at the Norwegian Championships in Meråker . At the season highlight, the Nordic World Ski Championships 2019 in Seefeld in Tyrol , he prevailed over 30 kilometers in 1: 10: 21.8 hours with a tenth of a second ahead of Russian Alexander Bolschunow . He also won the bronze medal in the 50 km mass start race and the gold medal with the relay. At the end of the season he was tenth at the World Cup finals in Québec and finally achieved third place in the overall World Cup and second place in the Distance World Cup. After eighth place in the Ruka Triple and third place in the relay in Lillehammer at the beginning of the 2019/20 season, he finished fourth in the 2019/20 Tour de Ski . He achieved second place in the final stage over 10 km. This was followed by third place in the 15 km freestyle in Nové Město and in the skiathlon in Oberstdorf and second in the 15 km mass start race in Falun . He finished the 2020 ski tour with a win in Östersund , in ninth place. At the end of the season he won the relay in Lahti and reached fifth place in the overall World Cup and second place in the Distance World Cup.

Sjur Røthe starts for Voss IL .

successes

Medals at world championships

2013 in Val di Fiemme : gold with the relay, bronze in the skiathlon
2019 in Seefeld : Gold in the skiathlon, gold with the relay, bronze over 50 km freestyle

Victories in world cup races

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	March 14, 2015	Norway Oslo	50 km freestyle mass start
2.	December 8, 2018	Norway Beitostølen	30 km freestyle individual start

Stage victories in world cup races

No.	date	place	discipline	run
1.	1st December 2018	Norway Lillehammer	15 km freestyle	Lillehammer Triple 2018
2.	January 6, 2019	Italy Val di Fiemme	9 km mountain pursuit freestyle ¹	Tour de Ski 2018/19
3.	February 15, 2020	Sweden Ostersund	15 km freestyle individual start	Ski Tour 2020

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

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	March 7, 2010	Finland Lahti	4 × 10 km relay ²
2.	November 25, 2012	Sweden Gällivare	4 × 7.5 km relay ³
3.	20th January 2013	France La Clusaz	4 × 7.5 km relay ⁴
4th	January 24, 2016	Czech Republic Nové Město	4 × 7.5 km relay ⁵
5.	December 9, 2018	Norway Beitostølen	4 × 7.5 km relay ⁶
6th	March 1, 2020	Finland Lahti	4 × 7.5 km relay ⁷

²With Simen Østensen , Roger Aa Djupvik and Kristian Tettli Rennemo .

³With Eldar Rønning , Martin Johnsrud Sundby and Petter Northug .

^4thWith Eldar Rønning, Martin Johnsrud Sundby and Didrik Tønseth .

⁵With Martin Johnsrud Sundby, Mathias Rundgreen and Finn Hågen Krogh .

^6thWith Emil Iversen , Martin Johnsrud Sundby and Finn Hågen Krogh.

^7thWith Pål Golberg , Hans Christer Holund and Johannes Høsflot Klæbo .

Medals at national championships

2010 : Bronze over 15 km
2012 : Bronze in the skiathlon
2013 : Bronze over 15 km
2014 : Silver in the skiathlon
2015 : Bronze over 15 km
2016 : Silver in the skiathlon, silver over 50 km
2018 : Gold over 10 km, gold over 50 km
2019 : Silver in the skiathlon, bronze in the team sprint

statistics

Participation in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games

Olympic games

2014 Sochi : 19th place 30 km skiathlon

Nordic World Ski Championships

2011 Oslo : 4th place 50 km freestyle mass start, 14th place 30 km skiathlon, 21st place 15 km classic
2013 Val di Fiemme : 1st place relay, 3rd place 30 km skiathlon, 5th place 15 km freestyle, 17th place 50 km classic mass start
2015 Falun : 9th place, 15 km freestyle
2017 Lahti : 4th place 30 km skiathlon, 6th place 50 km freestyle mass start
2019 Seefeld : 1st place 30 km skiathlon, 1st place relay, 3rd place 50 km freestyle mass start, 7th place 15 km 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
placement	≤ 5 km	≤ 10 km	≤ 15 km	≤ 30 km	> 30 km	Skiathlon pursuit	sprint	Stage race ^b	total	sprint	Season
1st place			2	1	1	1			5		6th
2nd place		1	2			2		1	6th		2
3rd place		1	3			4th		1	9		4th
Top 10	1	5	25th	4th	8th	23		13	79		13
Scoring	3	11	46	7th	10	38	8th	21st	144		15th
Starts	6th	11	56	7th	12	45	30th	21st	188		15th
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
season	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
2009/10	27	124.	27	79.	-	-
2010/11	71	73.	71	41.	-	-
2011/12	319	30th	210	25th	13	78.
2012/13	480	13.	390	8th.	22nd	67.
2013/14	563	7th	267	7th	-	-
2014/15	400	13.	271	11.	9	76.
2015/16	650	14th	436	12.	2	97.
2016/17	673	9.	465	6th	-	-
2017/18	251	28.	187	21st	-	-
2018/19	974	3.	558	2.	4th	89.
2019/20	1257	5.	864	2.	42	43.

Web links

Sjur Røthe in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)

Sjur Røthe in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Røthe, Sjur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Norwegian cross-country skier
DATE OF BIRTH	July 2nd, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH	Voss

[1] Result Haukelirennet 2016

[2] Result Haukelirennet 2017

[3] Norwegian victories at the World Ski Championships - Røthe is world champion skiathlon, Johaug dominates the women