Cross-country skiing world cup 2003/04

World Cup 2003/04
	Men's	Ladies
winner
Overall World Cup	René Sommerfeldt	Gabriella Paruzzi
Distance World Cup	René Sommerfeldt	Valentyna Shevchenko
Sprint World Cup	Thobias Fredriksson	Marit Bjørgen
Nations ranking	Norway	Norway
Competitions
Venues	19th	19th
Individual competitions	22nd	22nd
Relay competitions	7th	7th
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The cross-country skiing world cup 2003/04 began on October 25, 2003 in Düsseldorf and ended on March 14, 2004 in Pragelato .

The overall women's World Cup was won by the Italian Gabriella Paruzzi , who, after Manuela Di Centa's victories in 1994 and 1996, was the second Italian athlete to win the overall World Cup. Paruzzi secured victory with consistent top ten results throughout the season, including three wins and three second places. Second place went to the Norwegian sprint specialist Marit Bjørgen , who was able to push Ukrainian Walentyna Shevchenko to third place with five victories in the last ten races of the season . Shevchenko, however, secured the small crystal ball for the overall ranking of the distance competitions ahead of Paruzzi and the Estonian Kristina Šmigun . The sprint competitions were dominated by Marit Bjørgen, who won seven out of eight competitions. She won the overall ranking of the sprint competitions ahead of Gabriella Paruzzi, who could show less than 50 percent of the points won by Bjørgen. Third place went to Anna Dahlberg from Sweden .

In the men's race, the overall victory went to René Sommerfeldt and for the first time in the history of the cross-country skiing world cup to a German athlete. Sommerfeldt, who won two races of the season and was able to fight for another five podium positions, won by a clear 350 points ahead of last year's winner Mathias Fredriksson . Third place went to the Norwegian Jens Arne Svartedal . The victory in the ranking of the distance competitions also went to René Sommerfeldt. Second and third place went to Mathias Fredriksson and the Norwegian athlete Frode Estil . Last year's winner Thobias Fredriksson received the small crystal ball for overall victory in the sprint competitions . With two wins of the season he prevailed over the Norwegians Jens Arne Svartedal and Håvard Bjerkeli .

Both the Norwegian men and the Norwegian women confidently secured the nation ranking, so that the Nations Cup was again won by Norway with a clear lead of over 2000 points over Germany and Italy .

Men

Podium places

date	venue	discipline	winner	Second	Third
October 25, 2003	Dusseldorf	Sprint freestyle	Peter Larsson	Martin Koukal	Thobias Fredriksson
October 26, 2003		Team sprint freestyle	Sweden I. Peter Larsson Thobias Fredriksson	Germany I. Axel Teichmann Tobias Angerer	Norway II Gate Arne Hetland Håvard Bjerkeli
November 22, 2003	Beitostølen	15 km freestyle	Pietro Piller Cottrer	Tore Ruud Hofstad	Axel Teichmann
November 23, 2003		4 × 10 km relay	Germany Jens Filbrich Axel Teichmann René Sommerfeldt Tobias Angerer	Norway I. Jens Arne Svartedal Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset Lars Berger Tore Ruud Hofstad	Norway II Frode Estil Tore Bjonviken Frode Andresen Ole Einar Bjørndalen
November 28, 2003	Kuusamo	15 km classic	Aukland is different	Jens Arne Svartedal	Södergren is different
November 30, 2003		30 km pursuit	Axel Teichmann	Södergren is different	René Sommerfeldt
December 6, 2003	Toblach	30 km freestyle mass start	Mathias Fredriksson	René Sommerfeldt	Kristen Skjeldal
December 7, 2003		Team sprint freestyle	Norway I. Gate Arne Hetland Håvard Bjerkeli	Sweden I. Peter Larsson Thobias Fredriksson	Norway II Håvard Solbakken John Kristian Dahl
December 13, 2003	Davos	15 km classic	Andrus Veerpalu	Nikolai Pankratov	Södergren is different
December 14, 2003		4 × 10 km relay	Norway I. Anders Aukland Frode Estil Kristen Skjeldal Tor Arne Hetland	Germany Jens Filbrich Andreas Schlütter René Sommerfeldt Tobias Angerer	Sweden Martin Larsson Mats Larsson Johan Olsson Anders Högberg
December 16, 2003	Val di Fiemme	Classic sprint	Jens Arne Svartedal	John Kristian Dahl	Andrus Veerpalu
December 20, 2003	Ramsau	30 km pursuit	Mathias Fredriksson	René Sommerfeldt	Södergren is different
December 21, 2003		10 km freestyle	Christian Hoffmann	Tobias Angerer	Axel Teichmann
January 6, 2004	Falun	30 km pursuit	Tobias Angerer	Pietro Piller Cottrer	René Sommerfeldt
January 10, 2004	Otepää	30 km classic (mass start)	Frode Estil	Aukland is different	Ivan Alypov
January 11, 2004		4 × 10 km relay	Germany Andreas Schlütter Jens Filbrich Axel Teichmann Tobias Angerer	Italy Bruno Carrara Valerio Checchi Pietro Piller Cottrer Fulvio Valbusa	Russia Nikolai Pankratow Mikhail Ivanov Ivan Alypov Vladimir Wilissow
January 17, 2004	Nové Město	15 km classic	Andrus Veerpalu	Frode Estil	Jaak Mae
January 19, 2004		Sprint freestyle	Thobias Fredriksson	Peter Larsson	Håvard Bjerkeli
January 25, 2004	Val di Fiemme	70 km classic (mass start)	Aukland is different	Giorgio Di Centa	Jørgen Aukland
February 6, 2004	La Clusaz	15 kilometers of freestyle	Fulvio Valbusa	Vincent Vittoz	Christian Hoffmann
February 7, 2004		4 × 10 km relay	France Alexandre Rousselet Christophe Perrillat Vincent Vittoz Emmanuel Jonnier	Germany Jens Filbrich Axel Teichmann René Sommerfeldt Tobias Angerer	Russia Nikolai Pankratow Mikhail Ivanov Evgeni Dementjew Sergei Novikow
February 13, 2004	Oberstdorf	30 km pursuit	René Sommerfeldt	Reto mayor	Lukáš Bauer
February 15, 2004		Team sprint freestyle	Germany II Jens Filbrich Axel Teichmann	Russia I. Ivan Alypow Vasily Rotschew	Germany I. René Sommerfeldt Tobias Angerer
February 18, 2004	Stockholm	Classic sprint	Jens Arne Svartedal	John Kristian Dahl	Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset
February 21, 2004	Umeå	15 km classic	Mathias Fredriksson	Yevgeny Dementiev	Jaak Mae
February 22, 2004		4 × 10 km relay	Germany Franz Göring Andreas Schlütter Jens Filbrich Axel Teichmann	Norway I. Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset Frode Estil Kristen Skjeldal Tore Ruud Hofstad	Sweden Mats Larsson Jörgen Brink Anders Högberg Mathias Fredriksson
February 24, 2004	Trondheim	Sprint freestyle	Janusz Krężelok	Thobias Fredriksson	Not so Högberg
February 26, 2004	Drammen	Classic sprint	Håvard Bjerkeli	Gate Arne Hetland	Not so Högberg
February 28, 2004	Oslo	50 km freestyle	René Sommerfeldt	Fulvio Valbusa	Lukáš Bauer
March 5, 2004	Lahti	Sprint freestyle	Thobias Fredriksson	Mikael Ostberg	Jörgen Brink
March 6, 2004		Team sprint freestyle	Russia I. Nikolai Pankratow Vasily Rotschew	Sweden I. Mats Larsson Björn Lind	Norway II Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset Jens Arne Svartedal
March 7, 2004		15 km classic	Frode Estil	Jaak Mae	Andrus Veerpalu
March 12, 2004	Pragelato	Sprint freestyle	Freddy Schwienbacher	Jens Arne Svartedal	Børre Næss
March 14, 2004		30 km freestyle	Christian Hoffmann	René Sommerfeldt	Thomas Moriggl

Ratings

Overall World Cup
Final result after 25 races
rank Surname Points 1  René Sommerfeldt 956 2  Mathias Fredriksson 606 3  Jens Arne Svartedal 592 4th  Tobias Angerer 582 5  Axel Teichmann 575 6th  Frode Estil 558 7th  Andrus Veerpalu 539 8th  Fulvio Valbusa 462 9  Thobias Fredriksson 436 10  Södergren is different 434 11.  Lukáš Bauer 420 12.  Pietro Piller Cottrer 411 13.  Aukland is different 404 14th  Gate Arne Hetland 372 15th  Kristen Skjeldal 367 16.  Jens Filbrich 358 17th  Jaak Mae 339 18th  Håvard Bjerkeli 337 19th  Vincent Vittoz 337 20th  Nikolai Pankratov 288 21st  Peter Larsson 270 22nd  Jörgen Brink 270 23.  Giorgio Di Centa 266 24.  Christian Hoffmann 260 25th  Andreas Schluetter 243 26th  John Kristian Dahl 237 27.  Janusz Krężelok 226 28.  Fabio Santus 215 29  Bjorn Lind 211 30th  Not so Högberg 207 31.  Reto mayor 205 32.  Vasily Rotschew 200 33.  Yevgeny Dementiev 184 34.  Freddy Schwienbacher 173 35.  Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset 172 36.  Tore Ruud Hofstad 169 37.  Mikhail Botvinov 164 38.  Renato Pasini 161 39.  Mikael Ostberg 159 40.  Trond Iversen 147 41.  Ivan Alypov 144 42.  Martin Bajcicak 144 43.  Sergey Novikov 142 44.  Kris Freeman 141 45.  Mikhail Ivanov 140 46.  Valerio Checchi 137 47.  Vladimir Wilissov 132 48.  Martin Koukal 116 49.  Trond Einar Elden 109 50.  Jiří Magál 108 51.  Markus Hasler 105	rank Surname Points 52.  Børre Næss 104 53.  Eldar Rønning 102 54.  Bruno Debertolis 100 55.  Mats Larsson 94 56.  Emmanuel Jonnier 81 57.  Cristian Zorzi 74 58.  Yūichi Onda 72 59.  Nikolai Chebotko 71 60.  Roman Leybyuk 70 61.  Lauri Pyykönen 70 62.  Andrei Golovko 69 63.  Cristian Saracco 67 64.  Carl Swenson 64 65.  Syarhej Dalidowitsch 62 66.  Thomas Moriggl 60 67.  Jørgen Aukland 60 68.  Dirk Klessen 60 69.  Florian Kostner 58 70.  Gianantonio Zanetel 57 71.  Erkki Jallai 57 72.  Bruno Carrara 56 73.  Ari Palolahti 50 74.  Roman Virolainen 49 75.  Tore Bjonviken 49 76.  Johannes Bredl 45 77.  Krister Trondsen 44 78.  Johan Olsson 41 79.  Peter von Allmen 40 80.  Christophe Perrillat 38 81.  Lars Berger 36 82.  Martin Tauber 35 83.  Alexander Legkov 33 84.  Raul Olle 32 85.  Artem Norin 32 86.  Keijo Kurttila 32 87.  Maciej Kreczmer 31 88  Loris Frasnelli 29 89.  Fredrik Östberg 29 90.  Jirka Ilomäki 29 91.  Priit Narusk 29 92.  Toni Lang 26th 93.  Mattias Svahn 26th 94.  Håvard Solbakken 26th 95.  Peter Eden 24 96.  Silvio Fauner 24 97.  Andreas Domeij 23 98  Andrey Noutrikhin 23 99  Olli Ohtonen 23 100.  Torin Koos 23 101.  Egon Hofmann 22nd 102.  Andrew Newell 22nd	rank Surname Points 103.  Ivan Batory 22nd 104.  Pierluigi Costantin 22nd 105.  Arve Skaaren 22nd 106.  Maxim Odnodvorzew 22nd 107.  Jan Egil Andresen 21st 108.  Ole Einar Bjørndalen 20th 109.  Katsuhito Ebisawa 19th 110.  Frode Andresen 18th 110.  Daniel Tynell 18th 112.  Juan Jesús Gutiérrez 17th 113.  Petr Michl 17th 114.  Petter Myhlback 17th 115.  Jerry Ahrlin 16 116.  Arnstein Finstad 16 117.  Gion Andrea Bundi 16 118.  Mitsuo Horigome 15th 119.  Jari Isometsä 15th 120.  Roberto De Zolt Ponte 15th 121.  Martin Larsson 15th 122.  Hallingstad is different 14th 123.  Wilhelm Aschwanden 13 124.  Dmitriy Liashenko 13 125.  Geir Ludvig Aasen Ouren 13 126.  Stanislav Řezáč 12 127.  Alexandre Rousselet 11 128.  Karri Hietamäki 11 129.  Christoph Schnider 10 130.  Ivan Margaroli 10 131.  Franz Goering 8th 132.  Nejc Brodar 8th 133.  Andrey Schlyundikov 8th 134.  Mirko Rigoni 7th 135.  Jean-Marc Gaillard 7th 136.  Dmitry Eremenko 7th 137.  Karl Gunnar Skjønsfjell 7th 138.  Sami Jauhojärvi 7th 139.  Christian Stebler 7th 140  Dmitriy Osinkin 6th 141.  Øystein Pettersen 6th 142.  Teemu Kattilakoski 5 143.  Juha Lallukka 5 144.  Aivar Rehemaa 4th 145.  Fabio Pasini 3 145.  Oskar Svärd 3 147.  Hiroyuki Imai 2 148.  Tero Similä 2 149.  Valerio Theodule 2 150.  Diego Ruiz 2 151  Sami Repo 1 152.  Roddy Darragon 1

Sprint World Cup	Distance World Cup
Final result after 17 races	Final result after 8 races
rank Surname Points 1  Thobias Fredriksson 410 2  Jens Arne Svartedal 381 3  Håvard Bjerkeli 337 4th  Gate Arne Hetland 296 5  Peter Larsson 270 6th  John Kristian Dahl 237 7th  Janusz Krężelok 226 8th  Jörgen Brink 212 9  Bjorn Lind 211 10  Not so Högberg 191	rank Surname Points 1  René Sommerfeldt 902 2  Mathias Fredriksson 569 3  Frode Estil 558 4th  Axel Teichmann 495 5  Tobias Angerer 488 6th  Andrus Veerpalu 465 7th  Fulvio Valbusa 439 8th  Södergren is different 434 9  Lukáš Bauer 420 10  Pietro Piller Cottrer 411

Women

Podium places

date	venue	discipline	winner	Second	Third
October 25, 2003	Dusseldorf	Sprint freestyle	Gabriella Paruzzi	Alyona Sidko	Yevgenia Khachina
October 26, 2003		Team sprint freestyle	Norway I. Hilde G. Pedersen Marit Bjørgen	Germany I. Uschi Disl Claudia Künzel	Russia I. Aljona Sidko Yevgenia Chachina
November 22, 2003	Beitostølen	10 km freestyle	Kristina Šmigun	Valentyna Shevchenko	Claudia Künzel
November 23, 2003		4 × 5 km relay	Norway Vibeke Skofterud Hilde G. Pedersen Kristin Størmer Steira Marit Bjørgen	Germany Manuela Henkel Stefanie Böhler Claudia Künzel Evi Sachsenbacher	Russia Yevgenia Chachina Aljona Sidko Jekatarina Voronzowa Olga Zavyalova
November 28, 2003	Kuusamo	10 km classic	Valentyna Shevchenko	Vibeke Skofterud	Kristina Šmigun
November 30, 2003		15 km pursuit	Kristina Šmigun	Olga Zavyalova	Evi Sachsenbacher
December 6, 2003	Toblach	15 km freestyle mass start	Kristina Šmigun	Valentyna Shevchenko	Claudia Künzel
December 7, 2003		Team sprint freestyle	Norway I. Hilde G. Pedersen Marit Bjørgen	Germany I. Evi Sachsenbacher Claudia Künzel	Italy II Karin Moroder Christina Kelder
December 13, 2003	Davos	10 km classic	Valentyna Shevchenko	Virpi Kuitunen	Gabriella Paruzzi
December 14, 2003		4 × 5 km relay	Norway Vibeke Skofterud Marit Bjørgen Kristin Mürer Stemland Hilde G. Pedersen	Germany Stefanie Böhler Manuela Henkel Claudia Künzel Evi Sachsenbacher	Russia Larissa Nikolajewna Kurkina Lilija Wassiljewa Jekatarina Voronzowa Olga Sawjalowa
December 16, 2003	Val di Fiemme	Classic sprint	Marit Bjørgen	Anna Dahlberg	Manuela Henkel
December 20, 2003	Ramsau	10 km freestyle	Katerina Neumannova	Kristina Šmigun	Gabriella Paruzzi
December 21, 2003		15 km pursuit	Kristina Šmigun	Valentyna Shevchenko	Claudia Künzel
January 6, 2004	Falun	15 km pursuit	Katerina Neumannova	Gabriella Paruzzi	Kristina Šmigun
January 10, 2004	Otepää	15 km classic (mass start)	Claudia Künzel	Kristina Šmigun	Hilde G. Pedersen
January 11, 2004		4 × 5 km relay	Norway Vibeke Skofterud Hilde G. Pedersen Kristin Størmer Steira Marit Bjørgen	Germany Manuela Henkel Viola Bauer Evi Sachsenbacher Claudia Künzel	Finland Kirsi Välimaa Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Riikka Sarasoja Virpi Kuitunen
January 17, 2004	Nové Město	10 km classic	Gabriella Paruzzi	Claudia Künzel	Katerina Neumannova
January 19, 2004		Sprint freestyle	Marit Bjørgen	Virpi Kuitunen	Pirjo Manninen
January 25, 2004	Val di Fiemme	70 km classic (mass start)	Gabriella Paruzzi	Valentyna Shevchenko	Manuela Henkel
February 6, 2004	La Clusaz	10 kilometers freestyle	Katerina Neumannova	Yulia Chepalova	Sabina Valbusa
February 7, 2004		4 × 5 km relay	Russia Larissa Nikolajewna Kurkina Lilija Wassiljewa Jekatarina Voronzowa Olga Sawjalowa	Germany Manuela Henkel Viola Bauer Anke Reschwamm Schulze Claudia Künzel	Italy Marianna Longa Gabriella Paruzzi Antonella Confortola Sabina Valbusa
February 14, 2004	Oberstdorf	15 km pursuit	Yulia Chepalova	Hilde G. Pedersen	Olga Zavyalova
February 15, 2004		Team sprint freestyle	Norway I. Hilde G. Pedersen Marit Bjørgen	Germany I. Evi Sachsenbacher Claudia Künzel	Germany II Manuela Henkel Isabel Klaus
February 18, 2004	Stockholm	Classic sprint	Marit Bjørgen	Anna Dahlberg	Ella Gjømle
February 21, 2004	Umeå	10 km classic	Katerina Neumannova	Hilde G. Pedersen	Marit Bjørgen
February 22, 2004		4 × 5 km relay	Norway Vibeke Skofterud Marit Bjørgen Kristin Størmer Steira Hilde G. Pedersen	Russia Larissa Kurkina Olga Sawjalowa Jekatarina Voronzowa Julija Tschepalowa	Finland Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Satu Salonen Riikka Sarasoja Kati Venäläinen
February 24, 2004	Trondheim	Sprint freestyle	Marit Bjørgen	Evi Sachsenbacher	Claudia Künzel
February 26, 2004	Drammen	Classic sprint	Marit Bjørgen	Virpi Kuitunen	Elina Hietamäki
February 28, 2004	Oslo	30 km freestyle	Yulia Chepalova	Sabina Valbusa	Valentyna Shevchenko
March 5, 2004	Lahti	Sprint freestyle	Marit Bjørgen	Gabriella Paruzzi	Anna Dahlberg
March 6, 2004		Classic team sprint	Norway I. Ella Gjømle Hilde G. Pedersen	Finland I Elina Hietamäki Pirjo Manninen	Russia Larissa Kurkina Olga Zavyalova
March 7, 2004		10 km classic	Virpi Kuitunen	Gabriella Paruzzi	Olga Zavyalova
March 12, 2004	Pragelato	Sprint freestyle	Marit Bjørgen	Beckie Scott	Elina Hietamäki
March 14, 2004		15 km freestyle	Sabina Valbusa	Yulia Chepalova	Katerina Neumannova

Ratings

Overall World Cup	Sprint World Cup	Distance World Cup
rank Surname Points 1  Gabriella Paruzzi 1228 2  Marit Bjørgen 1139 3  Valentyna Shevchenko 983 4th  Hilde G. Pedersen 856 5  Kristina Šmigun 853 6th  Virpi Kuitunen 848 7th  Claudia Künzel 762 8th  Olga Zavyalova 664 9  Katerina Neumannova 629 10  Sabina Valbusa 554	rank Surname Points 1  Marit Bjørgen 745 2  Gabriella Paruzzi 358 3  Anna Dahlberg 330 4th  Virpi Kuitunen 305 5  Elina Hietamäki 268 6th  Beckie Scott 229 7th  Aino-Kaisa Saarinen 205 8th  Hilde G. Pedersen 200 9  Manuela Henkel 189 10  Claudia Künzel 175	rank Surname Points 1  Valentyna Shevchenko 983 2  Gabriella Paruzzi 870 3  Kristina Šmigun 839 4th  Hilde G. Pedersen 656 5  Olga Zavyalova 625 6th  Claudia Künzel 587 7th  Virpi Kuitunen 543 8th  Katerina Neumannova 542 9  Sabina Valbusa 527 10  Yulia Chepalova 460

Nations Cup

total	Men	Women
rank country Points 1  Norway 9915 2  Germany 7452 3  Italy 6552 4th  Russia 5572 5  Sweden 5347 6th  Finland 3889 7th  Estonia 2228 8th  Czech Republic 1576 9  Kazakhstan 1284 10  France 1172	rank country Points 1  Norway 5130 2  Germany 4146 3  Sweden 3840 4th  Italy 3263 5  Russia 2245 6th  Estonia 1311 7th  Czech Republic 892 8th  France 855 9  Finland 668 10  Kazakhstan 638	rank country Points 1  Norway 4785 2  Russia 3327 3  Germany 3306 4th  Italy 3289 5  Finland 3221 6th  Sweden 1507 7th  Ukraine 993 8th  Estonia 917 9  Czech Republic 684 10  Kazakhstan 646

Web links

World Cup men

• FIS database - results
• FIS database - tables

World Cup women

• FIS database - results
• FIS database - tables