Cross-Country World Cup 2005/06 / Kuusamo

Cross-country World Cup 2005/06
World Cup stations
Oct./Nov.	Düsseldorf | Beitostølen | Kuusamo
Dec	Vernon | Canmore | Nové Město
Jan.	Otepää | Val di Fiemme | Oberstdorf
Feb./Mar.	Davos | Mora | Boron length | Falun | Drammen | Oslo | Changchun | Sapporo
Olympic games

World Cup station 3
	Men	Women
winner
Classic races	T. Angerer	M. Bjørgen
Freestyle racing	T. R. Hofstad	K. Neumannová
Attendees
Nations	24	21st
athlete	117	83
<<< Beitostølen		Vernon >>>

The third station of the cross-country skiing world cup 2005/06 took place in Kuusamo, Finland on 26./27. November 2005. Of the four competitions - two men and two women each - the Norwegians won two, as well as a German and a Czech woman.

Apron

Just one week after the races in Beitostølen, Norway, the next competitions took place in Scandinavia. At the same time as the other Nordic Ski World Cups - those of the ski jumpers and Nordic combiners - the cross-country skiers were also in Ruka , Finland , a winter sports center in the Kuusamos area . For the fourth time, these three disciplines formed the Ruka Nordic Opening , which has been held in the World Cup location since 2002 . After a long warm period, there were already concerns about whether the route would have to be prepared with artificial snow, but two weeks before the event, ten centimeters of snow fell. In addition, the long-term weather forecast promised a cold phase during the competitions. The organizers expected 20,000 spectators and 350 press representatives for the eight Nordic competitions. In fact, the races could take place as planned without any restrictions, and unlike in Beitostølen, the athletes were also allowed to train on the five-kilometer course during the week, which was in good condition. The Swedish trainer Inge Bråten praised the Rukas tracks as perhaps the best in the world, and both Sweden and Norway are happy with the warmer weather.

program

Time schedule

The first training sessions took place on the Thursday before the competitions, and the athletes had nine hours of training time available over three days. From Thursday to Saturday, the team captains always met for a meeting at 5 p.m. In the competitions the women always started first before the men started.

• November 24, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm: Official training
• November 24th, 5:00 p.m .: Team captains meeting
• November 25, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Official training
• November 25th, 5:00 p.m .: Team captains' meeting
• November 26, 9:00 am – 10:30 am: Official training
• November 26th, 10:30 am – 11:32 am: women, classic technique, single start (interval of 30 seconds), 10 km
• November 26th, 12:30 pm – 1:50 pm: men, classic technique, single start (interval of 30 seconds), 15 km
• November 26, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Official training
• November 26, 5:00 p.m .: Team captains' meeting
• November 27, 11:00 am –12: 03 pm: women, free technique, individual start (interval of 30 seconds), 10 km
• November 27, 12:25 pm – 1:46 pm: Men, free technique, individual start (interval of 30 seconds), 15 km

Supporting program

On the Wednesday before the races, November 23, Kuusamo's Christmas Street opened. In keeping with this, the organizers chose Santa Claus (Finnish: joulupukki) as their mascot. At the opening, City Council Chairman Markku Heikkilä emphasized the importance of the Nordic Opening for Kuusamo, both financially and in terms of publicity; the evening ended with fireworks. The Nordic Opening began on Friday with a celebration, the program of which was kept secret in advance. The bands and singers PMMP and Maija Vilkkumaa , popular in Finland, also performed in Rukas Ski Bistro at the weekend ; in addition to DJs, there was also traditional Finnish music.

Race course

Men

Tobias Angerer reached the podium in Kuusamo twice

With Tor Arne Hetland and Jens Arne Svartedal , the two best of the first 15-kilometer race, the leaders of the Distance World Cup also took part in the competitions, with Svartedal initially only contesting the classic race, but later also starting in the freestyle competition. From a German point of view, Axel Teichmann dropped out again - this time due to bronchitis - so that five of his compatriots were still at the start on the demanding route. The young Benjamin Seifert replaced Franz Göring, who was weakened by the flu, for the second time . While the Finns had the largest line-up in terms of numbers thanks to their national group, the Norwegians provided seven athletes per race. 86 runners took part in the classic competition, 83 of them reached the finish line, 88 of 92 registered athletes finished the freestyle race. The races were started in the reverse order of the current Distance World Cup.

In contrast to the first 15-kilometer race, the first runners from the national group made few accents in the classic competition in Kuusamo, the best Finn was initially Olli Ohtonen with starting number 10, who was briefly in the lead. He was replaced by the American Carl Swenson , who started the race as 28th and stayed at the top for a long time. As 59th of 81 starters, René Sommerfeldt undercut Swenson's time by just under a second, before Jens Filbrich was more than half a minute faster two start numbers later. Vincent Vittoz from France and the Estonian Andrus Veerpalu narrowly failed because of the German's submission, which was only improved by his compatriot Tobias Angerer and Jens Arne Svartedal from Norway. These two athletes were close together in the interim times; but after Angerer had beaten Filbrich's best time by eight seconds and Svartedal was 1.7 seconds behind him despite the final sprint, Angerer's second individual World Cup victory was certain. Overall, the German winner on sixth, the best-placed Finn Sami Jauhojärvi , only had a small lead of a good 13 seconds. After the race, Svartedal was a bit disappointed because he still believed in victory, while Angerer said that he was "surprisingly strong" for himself. However, he had already suspected the week before that he was in good shape. In addition, it is currently stronger in classical technology than in free technology. Nevertheless, Angerer was "very happy" about the victory, because he knew that even two meters could make a difference. It is now his aim to "get into the top ten in every race".

Jens Filbrich, who was third the day before, was not allowed to participate in the freestyle competition because his measured hemoglobin value was 17.0, which was the highest tolerable value according to the FIS regulations. Nevertheless, the German was given a five-day ban because he did not have a special permit, although he had been found to have elevated, genetically caused hemoglobin levels in previous years. A second doping control took place in Kuusamo, which turned out negative, so that Filbrich was allowed to start again at the next World Cup. The first time under 35 minutes ran in the 15-kilometer freestyle race of the Finn Teemu Kattilakoski with starting number 45. The only Liechtenstein starter Markus Hasler undercut this, but Emmanuel Jonnier from France and the Czech Jiří Magál quickly improved his new record . Tore Ruud Hofstad crossed the finish line as the 67th athlete, who had taken the lead at every split time and was 18 seconds ahead of Magál at the finish. Journalists received the Norwegian at the finish line with congratulations that he had won his first individual race, although 25 cross-country skiers had started after him. However, the leader himself was not sure of victory, which, according to Hofstad, proved to be right in retrospect. Because although the French Vincent Vittoz with the starting number 85 had a bigger deficit in the intermediate times - 2.5 kilometers from the finish it was six seconds - he almost made up the time in the last part of the race; Last year's winner was only eight tenths of a second behind Hofstad at the finish. Nevertheless, Vittoz was satisfied with his results, including fourth place in the classic competition, and the preparation of the French team. The next goal is to stay at this level. Even after Vittoz, Tobias Angerer crossed the finish line with a very good time; he had benefited from running several kilometers with the winner Hofstad; at the finish he moved up just ahead of Pietro Piller Cottrer to third place. Angerer, who was often unlucky in the pre-season, was very satisfied with the weekend in Kuusamo and said that it could go on like this.

In the overall World Cup, Tor Arne Hetland remained at the top, the sprinter had done well with a ninth and a tenth place in the two 15-kilometer races. However, his lead over the new runner-up Tobias Angerer had shrunk to 39 points, so that the German had the chance to overtake Hetland in the next races. With Jens Arne Svartedal and Vincent Vittoz as well as Tore Ruud Hofstad followed in the ranking athletes who also stood on the podium in Kuusamo. In the Distance World Cup, Tobias Angerer took the lead with 189 points from Jens Arne Svartedal, here Hetland fell back to third place. In the Nations Cup, Norway remained clearly at the top, Germany had overtaken Sweden, which was again unsuccessful, and took second place. Austria and Switzerland were close together in places ten and eleven.

Women

In the fifth race of the season, the Norwegian Marit Bjørgen won for the fifth time

As in Düsseldorf and Beitostølen, Beckie Scott and Sara Renner, the two best Canadians , did not compete ; they were preparing - like their entire team this time - for their home World Cups in Vernon and Canmore. Otherwise, almost all of the top teams remained without failures and mostly ran with the same line-up as in Beitostølen. Most of the athletes came from Norway (eight starters) and Finland (seven runners, plus eleven from the national group), but Germany and Sweden also sent contingents of five and four athletes to Kuusamo, respectively. Sweden had to do without Anna Dahlberg , who was not at the start for private reasons. The Swede Lina Andersson also missed the classical competition because of Achilles tendon problems; she feels sad because she had even higher hopes for the competition. But she was able to start in the freestyle race, which was also uncertain at first. Of the 72 registered athletes in the classic competition and the 74 athletes in the freestyle race, 70 each crossed the finish line.

The classic race on Saturday was opened by Kaisa Varis from the Finnish national group. For the former World Cup winner it was the first World Cup race of the winter and only the second after the two-year doping ban in 2003. Like her teammates, however, she did not achieve a convincing result; only Elina Hietamäki-Pienimäki , who started in tenth place , achieved World Cup points with 21st place. Hietamäki-Pienimäki also stayed in the lead for a longer period of time before the first better female runner came with the German Viola Bauer , who pushed her to second place by almost forty seconds. Even Laurence Rochat from Switzerland, started 46th and ran a good time and sat at second place. Only three starting numbers later, however, Claudia Künzel , who was only 26th in Beitostølen , undercut her teammate Bauer's time by around half a minute and set the first clear benchmark. The long leader said: “My cold is gone, the ski ran sensationally, and the route with a lot of up and down suits me. So I can also win an Olympic medal. ”She is also delighted with the results of her compatriots, four of whom were among the top 15. The ten athletes who started after Künzel came neither close to their nor to Bauer's time; by Stefanie Böhler's third place was even in the short term a triple leadership for Germany. Böhler had even better split times than Künzel, but fell behind over the last few kilometers. Something similar happened to the Norwegian Ella Gjømle , who finished seventeen in the end. Starting with starting number 61, the twelve best athletes of the first distance race followed. The Slovenian Petra Majdič , who started at this position, then broke the German triple lead, with just one second ahead of Viola Bauer she was now in second place. Shortly thereafter, Kristina Šmigun just missed the leap to the top, the Estonian - nine months earlier still double Olympic champion - said she had trained too much and therefore still felt a bit tired. Neither the two Russians, Olga Rotschewa and Julia Tschepalowa, nor the last German Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle succeeded in pushing Viola Bauer out of third place; all three athletes finally classified themselves between ninth and 15th. Then, with starting number 67, Aino-Kaisa Saarinen followed , who was faster than the leaders in both intermediate times. But she also lost 24 seconds to Künzel in the last four kilometers, so that she was only temporarily third. From this she ousted Kateřina Neumannová, although she too remained behind Künzel and Šmigun despite a good interim time. Hilde G. Pedersen and Natalja Baranowa did not reach the best times and finally classified themselves in tenth and 14th place. Baranowa was even overtaken by the two runners who started at the end, Virpi Kuitunen and Marit Bjørgen . Bjørgen in particular ran furiously again and was 34 seconds faster than Künzel at the finish. However, Kuitunen also impressed and placed second, just under five seconds ahead of the German. Marit Bjørgen achieved her fifth victory in the fifth World Cup race, which is why she has already been dubbed unbeatable by the media . The serial winner attributed this success to her well-groomed skis as well as her own physical condition, although she emphasized that racing would have been harder for her than it appeared to be. Her goal is to get even better before the Olympics. Bjørgen also joked that she only "played" with Virpi Kuitunen so as not to demotivate her on her home track. Kuitunen herself stated that she thought the time difference between her and Bjørgen was smaller than it actually was. Then her running felt surprisingly stiff, which didn't get any better during the competition. Nevertheless, she was generally satisfied with the result.

The Czech Kateřina Neumannová was the first athlete to beat Marit Bjørgen ; she succeeded in winning the freestyle race

In the freestyle race, only one starter from the national group could achieve World Cup points, Kati Venäläinen . The Italian Arianna Follis with the starting number 34 was the first to undercut her time . Four athletes later, Irina Artemowa from Russia crossed the finish line, just ahead of Follis. But Artemowa's best time didn't last long either, because Karine Philippot was faster in the last corner despite inattentiveness and a subsequent fall. Again a few runners later, Yevgenia Medvedeva pushed herself to the top, she was the first athlete to run faster than 26 minutes and distanced Philippot by about 20 seconds. Of the following athletes, Gabriella Paruzzi was closest to Medvedeva; she was now second, 18 seconds behind. The Ukrainian Walentyna Shevchenko , who started in 60th position , only missed the lead by 1.9 seconds, Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle took it three seconds ahead, although she said she was not feeling well. Even the Slovenian Petra Majdič, who started immediately after Sachsenbacher, was six seconds faster, which she said herself that she had coped better on the “extremely difficult” routes of Kuusamo than in previous years. A few seconds after Majdič, Julia Tschepalowa crossed the finish line, who had caught up with the Slovenian for almost half a minute. The Russian was happy that she had succeeded in the freestyle race; she would have considered the classic competition the day before as a warming up anyway . Tschepalowa's lead also lasted when Claudia Künzel and Kristina Šmigun, the two athletes who came closest to her in the last split, crossed the finish line. In contrast to the previous day, when Künzel still reached the podium in the final kilometers, this time she lost a lot of time in the final phase, including 20 seconds on Šmigun. The Estonian was very happy with the race, in which everything went as planned. If she was in good shape, the results would also be good, added the third-placed woman. While Hilde G. Pedersen showed a decent race in seventh place, Natalja Baranova fell back to ninth place with an 18th place in the Distance World Cup. The Finns Aino-Kaisa Saarinen and Virpi Kuitunen presented themselves poorly in the freestyle race. While Saarinen did not even reach World Cup points in 42nd place, Virpi Kuitunen even fell behind Kati Venäläinen from the national group, who was the best Finn in this competition, in 23rd place. In contrast, last year's winner Kateřina Neumannová ran a very good race, who was also ahead at the finish after all the best times, more than 20 seconds ahead of Tschepalowa. Marit Bjørgen was also the last runner to fail due to Neumannová's time; she finally finished fourth behind the Czech, Russian and Estonian. This was the first race of the season that did not end with a Norwegian victory and the first that Marit Bjørgen did not win. The victorious Neumannová was surprised that she could beat the serial winner. She herself expected that Bjørgen would still triumph in the final phase thanks to her strong run. The Norwegian, on the other hand, admitted that she had not trained enough in the skating technique and was therefore not surprised by her defeat.

Results

The top fifteen athletes are listed in all races.

Classic single

Men (15 kilometers) space Surname time 1  Tobias Angerer 36: 32.8 min 2  Jens Arne Svartedal + 1.7 s 3  Jens Filbrich + 8.0 s 4th  Vincent Vittoz + 8.4 s 5  Andrus Veerpalu + 11.8 s 6th  Sami Jauhojärvi + 13.3 s 7th  Eldar Rønning + 35.0 s 8th  Vasily Rotschew + 36.6 s 9  Gate Arne Hetland + 36.9 s 10  René Sommerfeldt + 39.9 s 11  Carl Swenson + 40.9 s 12  Frode Estil + 42.1 s 13  Giorgio Di Centa + 45.6 s 14th  Aukland is different + 46.0 s 15th  Benjamin Seifert + 47.2 s

Women (10 kilometers) space Surname time 1  Marit Bjørgen 26: 33.0 min 2  Virpi Kuitunen + 29.0 s 3  Claudia Künzel + 33.7 s 4th  Kristina Šmigun + 36.2 s 5  Kateřina Neumannová + 40.4 s 6th  Aino-Kaisa Saarinen + 44.1 s 7th  Petra Majdič + 54.3 s 8th  Viola Bauer + 55.5 s 9  Julia Chevalova + 57.1 s 10  Hilde G. Pedersen + 57.4 s 11  Olga Rotschewa +1: 01.2 min 12  Stefanie Boehler +1: 05.5 min 13  Laurence Rochat +1: 06.1 min 14th  Natalia Baranova +1: 08.0 min 15th  Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle +1: 08.5 min

Freestyle singles

Men (15 kilometers) space Surname time 1  Tore Ruud Hofstad 34: 16.7 min 2  Vincent Vittoz + 0.8 s 3  Tobias Angerer + 11.4 s 4th  Pietro Piller Cottrer + 12.3 s 5  Jiří Magál + 17.5 s 6th  Emmanuel Jonnier + 21.6 s 7th  Markus Hasler + 23.0 s 8th  Teemu Kattilakoski + 23.7 s 9  John Anders Gaustad + 25.0 s 10  Gate Arne Hetland + 27.8 s 11  Vasily Rotschew + 31.9 s 12  Carl Swenson + 36.0 s 13  Geir Ludvig Aasen + 39.7 s 14th  Andreas Schluetter + 41.8 s 15th  Syarhej Dalidowitsch + 42.5 s

Women (10 kilometers) space Surname time 1  Kateřina Neumannová 24: 49.4 min 2  Julia Chevalova + 21.3 s 3  Kristina Šmigun + 26.3 s 4th  Marit Bjørgen + 30.8 s 5  Claudia Künzel + 46.8 s 6th  Petra Majdič + 49.9 s 7th  Hilde G. Pedersen + 52.2 s 8th  Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle + 55.7 s 9  Yevgenia Medvedeva + 59.0 s 10  Valentyna Shevchenko +1: 00.9 min 11  Gabriella Paruzzi +1: 17.0 min 12  Karine Philippot +1: 19.4 min 13  Irina Artemova +1: 22.2 min 14th  Vibeke Skofterud +1: 25.4 min 15th  Svetlana Malahowa +1: 26.4 min

Overall ratings

These tables show the overall results after the third World Cup station. The ten best athletes in the distance and sprint World Cups as well as the twenty best in the overall World Cup are shown. In the Change column, the tendency is displayed as to whether the athlete, in contrast to the World Cup status, has improved or deteriorated by ranks after the last station.

If the number of points is equal, the FIS rules stipulate that the athlete who has achieved the better top result is better placed in the overall classification.

Men

Overall World Cup
Top 20 after 4 of 24 races
rank Surname Points Victories Verän- alteration 1  Gate Arne Hetland 235 1 2  Tobias Angerer 196 1 3  Jens Arne Svartedal 160 4th  Vincent Vittoz 130 5  Tore Ruud Hofstad 100 1  Peter Larsson 100 1 7th  Eldar Rønning 99 8th  Vasily Rotschew 96 9  Sami Jauhojärvi 90 10  Andrus Veerpalu 67	rank Surname Points Victories Verän- alteration 11  Jens Filbrich 60  Ivan Bátory 60  Thobias Fredriksson 60 14th  Geir Ludvig Aasen 56 15th  Jiří Magál 52 16  Pietro Piller Cottrer 50  Fredrik Östberg 50 18th  Carl Swenson 46 19th  Janusz Krężelok 45  Bjorn Lind 45

Distance World Cup	Sprint World Cup
Top 10 after 3 of 15 races	Top 10 after 1 of 9 races
rank Surname Points Victories Verän- alteration 1  Tobias Angerer 189 1 2  Jens Arne Svartedal 160 3  Gate Arne Hetland 155 1 4th  Vincent Vittoz 130 5  Tore Ruud Hofstad 100 1 6th  Sami Jauhojärvi 90 7th  Eldar Rønning 81 8th  Vasily Rotschew 72 9  Andrus Veerpalu 67 10  Jens Filbrich 60  Ivan Bátory 60	rank Surname Points Victories Verän- alteration 1  Peter Larsson 100 1 2  Gate Arne Hetland 80 3  Thobias Fredriksson 60 4th  Fredrik Östberg 50 5  Bjorn Lind 45 6th  Roddy Darragon 40 7th  Harald Wurm 36 8th  Mikael Ostberg 32 9  Børre Næss 29 10  Jörgen Brink 26th

Women

Overall World Cup
Top 20 after 4 of 24 races
rank Surname Points Victories Verän- alteration 1  Marit Bjørgen 350 3 2  Virpi Kuitunen 208 3  Kateřina Neumannová 190 1 4th  Aino-Kaisa Saarinen 160 5  Claudia Künzel 155 6th  Julia Chevalova 141 7th  Kristina Šmigun 134 8th  Hilde G. Pedersen 132 9  Petra Majdič 113 10  Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle 95	rank Surname Points Victories Verän- alteration 11  Natalia Baranova 91 12  Anna Dahlberg 63 13  Natalia Matveeva 60  Olga Rotschewa 60 15th  Valentyna Shevchenko 56 16  Lina Andersson 55 17th  Arianna Follis 51 18th  Stefanie Boehler 51 19th  Laurence Rochat 45 20th  Vibeke Skofterud 41

Distance World Cup	Sprint World Cup
Top 10 after 3 of 15 races	Top 10 after 1 of 9 races
rank Surname Points Victories Verän- alteration 1  Marit Bjørgen 250 2 2  Kateřina Neumannová 190 1 3  Virpi Kuitunen 168 4th  Julia Chevalova 141 5  Kristina Šmigun 134 6th  Hilde G. Pedersen 112 7th  Claudia Künzel 110 8th  Petra Majdič 98 9  Natalia Baranova 91 10  Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle 84	rank Surname Points Victories Verän- alteration 1  Marit Bjørgen 100 1 2  Aino-Kaisa Saarinen 80 3  Natalia Matveeva 60 4th  Anna Dahlberg 50 5  Claudia Künzel 45 6th  Virpi Kuitunen 40 7th  Arianna Follis 36 8th  Mona-Liisa Malvalehto 32 9  Guro Strøm Solli 29 10  Lina Andersson 26th

Nations Cup

Overall nation cup
Top 10 after 12 of 58 races
rank Surname Points Victories Verän- alteration 1  Norway 2144 8th 2  Germany 1255 2 3  Russia 923 4th  Finland 920 5  Sweden 848 1	rank Surname Points Victories Verän- alteration 6th  France 619 7th  Italy 536 8th  Czech Republic 473 1 9  Estonia 370 10  Switzerland 273

Men	Women
Top 10 after 6 of 29 races	Top 10 after 6 of 29 races
rank nation Points Victories Verän- alteration 1  Norway 1150 3 2  Germany 670 2 3  Sweden 569 1 4th  France 457 5  Russia 312 6th  Italy 294 7th  Finland 223 8th  Czech Republic 202 9  Estonia 184 10  Austria 137	rank Surname Points Victories Verän- alteration 1  Norway 994 5 2  Finland 697 3  Russia 611 4th  Germany 585 5  Sweden 279 6th  Czech Republic 271 1 7th  Italy 242 8th  Estonia 186 9  Switzerland 165 10  France 162

Web links

• Cross-Country World Cup 2005/06 / Kuusamo in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Organizer's website ( Memento from November 27, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (Finnish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Good weather conditions for Ruka Nordic Opening 2005 ( English ) In: nordicopening.com . November 16, 2005. Archived from the original on May 12, 2006. Retrieved April 8, 2009.
2. ↑ The Ruka Nordic Opening will be fullfilled as planed ( English ) In: nordicopening.com . November 24, 2005. Archived from the original on May 12, 2006. Retrieved on April 9, 2009.
3. ↑ Sweden and Norway in good form ( English ) In: nordicopening.com . November 25, 2005. Archived from the original on May 12, 2006. Retrieved April 9, 2009.
4. ↑ Ruka Nordic Opening - invitation to tender (PDF file; 267 kB) on fis-ski.com.
5. ↑ ^{a b} The opening week of the World Cup was started with the Ski jumping training ( English ) In: nordicopening.com . November 22, 2005. Archived from the original on May 12, 2006. Retrieved on April 9, 2009.
6. ↑ Joulumaa avattiin Kuusamossa ( Finnish ) In: nordicopening.com . November 23, 2005. Archived from the original on May 12, 2006. Retrieved on April 9, 2009.
7. ↑ The opening ceremony at Friday ( English ) In: nordicopening.com . November 23, 2005. Archived from the original on May 12, 2006. Retrieved on April 9, 2009.
8. ↑ Teichmann fails with bronchitis ( Memento from November 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
9. ^ German team unchanged after Kuusamo ( Memento from November 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ The nominations of the Scandinavians for Kuusamo ( memento of October 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ ^{a b c} Men 15 km Classical Individual Results (PDF file; 148 kB)
12. ↑ ^{a b} Men 15 km Free Individual Results (PDF file; 126 kB)
13. ↑ ^{a b} DREAM weekend in Kuusamo !!! ( Memento from November 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
14. ↑ ^{a b} Comments on the World Cup in Kuusamo ( Memento from November 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
15. ↑ Tough race in men's classical ( English ) In: nordicopening.com . November 26, 2005. Archived from the original on May 12, 2006. Retrieved on April 9, 2009.
16. ↑ Angerer wins the World Cup in Kuusamo . In: netzeitung.de . November 26, 2005. Archived from the original on September 4, 2012. Retrieved on April 9, 2009.
17. ^ Filbrich case: DSV calls CAS . In: n-tv.de . December 13, 2005. Retrieved April 9, 2009.
18. ↑ Hofstad tviler på OL-gull ( Norwegian ) In: nettavisen.no . December 2, 2005. Retrieved April 9, 2009.
19. ↑ Vittoz échoue d'un rien ( French ) In: eurosport.fr . November 27, 2005. Retrieved April 9, 2009.
20. ↑ Poirée, Defrasne, Vittoz têtes d'affiche ( French ) In: pekin.franceolympique.fr . November 28, 2005. Retrieved April 9, 2009.
21. ↑ With all my heart ( Memento of November 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
22. ↑ ^{a b} WORLD CUP STANDING MEN OVERALL (PDF file; 74 kB)
23. ↑ ^{a b} WORLD CUP STANDING MEN DISTANCE (PDF file; 64 kB)
24. ↑ ^{a b c d} NATION CUP STANDING OVERALL (PDF file; 42 kB)
25. ^ Dahlberg och Olsson åker inte i Kuusamo - ”privata orsaker” ( Swedish ) In: aftonbladet.se . November 26, 2005. Retrieved April 9, 2009.
26. ↑ Künzel runs on the podium in Kuusamo . In: handelsblatt.com . November 26, 2005. Retrieved April 9, 2009.
27. ↑ ^{a b c} Happy top three women ( English ) In: nordicopening.com . November 26, 2005. Archived from the original on May 12, 2006. Retrieved on April 9, 2009.
28. ↑ Karine Philippot : Dimanche 27/11 ( French ) In: karinephilippot.com . November 27, 2005. Archived from the original on April 22, 2009. Retrieved on April 9, 2009.
29. ↑ World Cup Beitostölen and Kuusamo ( Memento from September 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
30. ↑ Majdičeva iz tekme v tekmo višje ( Slovenian ) In: rtvslo.si . November 27, 2005. Retrieved April 9, 2009.
31. ↑ ^{a b} Neumonnova queen of the freestyle at Ruka ( English ) In: nordicopening.com . November 27, 2005. Archived from the original on May 12, 2006. Retrieved on April 9, 2009.
32. ↑ Neumannova Fastest In Kuusamo ( English ) In: fasterskier.com . November 27, 2005. Archived from the original on October 20, 2006. Retrieved on August 5, 2009.
33. ↑ Women 10 km Classical Individual Results (PDF file; 122 kB)
34. ↑ Women 10 km Free Individual Results (PDF file; 125 kB)
35. ↑ SPRINT CUP STANDING MEN (PDF file; 46 kB)
36. ↑ WORLD CUP STANDING WOMEN OVERALL (PDF file; 67 kB)
37. ↑ WORLD CUP STANDING WOMEN DISTANCE (PDF file; 59 kB)
38. ↑ SPRINT CUP STANDING WOMEN (PDF file; 46 kB)