Cross-country skiing world cup 2007/08

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Cross-country skiing

World Cup 2007/08

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Men's Ladies
winner
Overall World Cup Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lukáš Bauer FinlandFinland Virpi Kuitunen
Distance World Cup Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lukáš Bauer FinlandFinland Virpi Kuitunen
Sprint World Cup NorwayNorway Ola Vigen Hattestad SloveniaSlovenia Petra Majdič
Nations ranking NorwayNorway Norway NorwayNorway Norway
Competitions
Venues 18th 18th
Individual competitions 31 31
Relay competitions 5 5
2006/07
2008/09

The 2007/08 cross-country skiing world cup began on October 27, 2007 in Düsseldorf and ended on March 16, 2008 in Bormio . The World Cup final , a stage race similar to the Tour de Ski , was held for the first time this season .

Overall victory in the men went to the Czech Lukáš Bauer with a clear lead of over 600 points . This makes Bauer the first overall World Cup winner in his home country. Above all, he dominated the Tour de Ski 2007/2008 with three stage wins, so that he was able to win the overall standings with just under three minutes ahead. During the season he secured four more World Cup victories. The battle for second place in the overall World Cup ranking was only decided in the last race of the season. The German René Sommerfeldt secured second place in front of the Italian distance specialist Pietro Piller Cottrer . The victory in the ranking of all distance competitions also went to Lukáš Bauer, ahead of Pietro Piller Cottrer and René Sommerfeldt. In the sprint competition, the Norwegian Ola Vigen Hattestad won for the first time . He won by just two points over the Swede Emil Jönsson . Third place in this ranking went to Hattestad's Norwegian compatriot John Kristian Dahl .

From the middle of the season, the women's competitions were dominated by the Finn Virpi Kuitunen . Kuitunen won five races of the season and the cross-country skiing world cup final in 2007/2008 and secured second place in the Tour de Ski. Second place in the overall World Cup ranking went to the Norwegian Astrid Jacobsen ahead of the Polish athlete Justyna Kowalczyk . Kuitunen also won the overall standings in the distance competitions ahead of Ukrainian Walentyna Shevchenko and Justyna Kowalczyk. The small crystal ball for victory in the sprint competition was won by the Slovenian Petra Majdič for the first time in her career, ahead of Astrid Jacobsen and Virpi Kuitunen. Majdič, who won three World Cup races, is the first Slovenian athlete to win an overall ranking in the cross-country skiing World Cup.

The victory in the Nations Cup went well to Norway with over 5000 points ahead of the Finnish and German teams. The ranking of the women's competitions was won by Norway, ahead of Finland and Germany. In the men's category, too, victory went to the Norwegian athletes. Italy secured second place ahead of Germany.

Men

World Cup overview and podium places

date venue discipline winner Second Third
October 27, 2007 GermanyGermany Dusseldorf Sprint freestyle GermanyGermany Josef Wenzl SwedenSweden Bjorn Lind NorwayNorway John Kristian Dahl
October 28, 2007 Team sprint SwedenSweden Sweden I.
Thobias Fredriksson
Peter Larsson
NorwayNorway Norway II
Johan Kjølstad
Gate Arne Hetland
SwedenSweden Sweden II
Marcus Hellner
Emil Jönsson
November 24, 2007 NorwayNorway Beitostølen 15 km freestyle GermanyGermany Axel Teichmann Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lukáš Bauer SwedenSweden Södergren is different
November 25, 2007 4x10 km relay NorwayNorway Norway II
Martin Johnsrud Sundby
Jens Arne Svartedal
Tore Ruud Hofstad
Tor Arne Hetland
NorwayNorway Norway I.
Eldar Rønning
Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset
Morten Eilifsen
Tord Asle Gjerdalen
RussiaRussia Russia I.
Wassili Rotschew
Nikolai Pankratow
Alexander Legkow
Evgeni Dementjew
December 1, 2007 FinlandFinland Kuusamo Classic sprint NorwayNorway Johan Kjølstad SwedenSweden Emil Jonsson SwedenSweden Mats Larsson
December 2, 2007 15 km classic Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lukáš Bauer NorwayNorway Eldar Rønning GermanyGermany Axel Teichmann
December 8, 2007 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Davos 15 km classic GermanyGermany Axel Teichmann NorwayNorway Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset FinlandFinland Sami Jauhojärvi
December 9, 2007 4x10 km relay Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Martin Jakš
Lukáš farmer
Milan Šperl
Martin Koukal
ItalyItaly Italy I
Giorgio Di Centa
Valerio Checchi
Pietro Piller Cottrer
Cristian Zorzi
SwedenSweden Sweden
Mats Larsson
Johan Olsson
Anders Södergren
Marcus Hellner
December 15, 2007 RussiaRussia Rybinsk 30 km freestyle NorwayNorway Gate Arne Hetland FinlandFinland Ville Nousiainen ItalyItaly Pietro Piller Cottrer
December 16, 2007 Sprint freestyle NorwayNorway Not so Gløersen NorwayNorway Ola Vigen Hattestad NorwayNorway Øystein Pettersen
Fédération Internationale de Ski Logo.svg 2. Tour de Ski (half World Cup points for the individual stages):
December 28, 2007 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Nové Město na Moravě
(replacement for Oberstdorf )GermanyGermany 
4.5 km classic prologue Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lukáš Bauer GermanyGermany Axel Teichmann NorwayNorway Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset
December 29, 2007 15 km freestyle handicap start FranceFrance Emmanuel Jonnier Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lukáš Bauer ItalyItaly Valerio Checchi
December 30, 2007 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Prague Sprint freestyle RussiaRussia Nikolai Morilov NorwayNorway Simen Østensen NorwayNorway Gate Arne Hetland
January 1, 2008 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Nové Město na Moravě 15 km freestyle handicap start ItalyItaly Pietro Piller Cottrer ItalyItaly Valerio Checchi FranceFrance Emmanuel Jonnier
January 2, 2008 15 km classic Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lukáš Bauer NorwayNorway Jens Arne Svartedal RussiaRussia Nikolai Pankratov
January 4, 2008 ItalyItaly Asiago Sprint freestyle NorwayNorway Petter Northug KazakhstanKazakhstan Nikolai Chebotko NorwayNorway Gate Arne Hetland
January 5, 2008 ItalyItaly Val di Fiemme 20 km classic mass start NorwayNorway Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset NorwayNorway Jens Arne Svartedal GermanyGermany Franz Goering
January 6, 2008 10 km freestyle mountain pursuit GermanyGermany René Sommerfeldt AustriaAustria Christian Hoffmann SlovakiaSlovakia Martin Bajčičák
Tour de Ski overall ranking (4 times World Cup points) : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lukáš Bauer GermanyGermany René Sommerfeldt ItalyItaly Giorgio Di Centa
January 22, 2008 CanadaCanada Canmore Chase races RussiaRussia Nikolai Pankratov ItalyItaly Giorgio Di Centa GermanyGermany Axel Teichmann
January 23, 2008 Classic sprint NorwayNorway Børre Næss NorwayNorway Ola Vigen Hattestad NorwayNorway Eldar Rønning
January 25, 2008 15 km freestyle ItalyItaly Valerio Checchi GermanyGermany René Sommerfeldt ItalyItaly Pietro Piller Cottrer
January 26, 2008 Sprint freestyle SwedenSweden Emil Jonsson RussiaRussia Ivan Ivanov FinlandFinland Matias Strandvall
February 9, 2008 EstoniaEstonia Otepää 15 km classic Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lukáš Bauer EstoniaEstonia Jaak Mae FinlandFinland Ville Nousiainen
February 10, 2008 Classic sprint NorwayNorway Eldar Rønning NorwayNorway John Kristian Dahl NorwayNorway Ola Vigen Hattestad
February 16, 2008 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Liberec 11.4 km freestyle
(replacement race for skiathlon)
FranceFrance Jean-Marc Gaillard Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lukáš Bauer AustriaAustria Christian Hoffmann
February 17, 2008 Team sprint NorwayNorway Norway II
Martin Johnsrud Sundby
Simen Østensen
FinlandFinland Finland I
Sami Jauhojärvi
Ville Nousiainen
NorwayNorway Norway I.
John Kristian Dahl
Eldar Rønning
February 23, 2008 SwedenSweden Falun 30 km pursuit Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lukáš Bauer NorwayNorway Tord Asle Gjerdalen SwedenSweden Södergren is different
February 24, 2008 4x10 km relay NorwayNorway Norway II
Martin Johnsrud Sundby
Chris Jespersen
Morten Eilifsen
Petter Northug
NorwayNorway Norway I.
Jens Arne Svartedal
Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset
Simen Østensen
Tord Asle Gjerdalen
Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Martin Jakš
Lukáš farmer
Jiří Magál
Martin Koukal
February 27, 2008 SwedenSweden Stockholm Classic sprint NorwayNorway Jens Arne Svartedal NorwayNorway Børre Næss SwedenSweden Emil Jonsson
March 1, 2008 FinlandFinland Lahti Sprint freestyle NorwayNorway Not so Gløersen United StatesUnited States Andrew Newell NorwayNorway Ola Vigen Hattestad
March 2, 2008 15 km classic Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lukáš Bauer GermanyGermany René Sommerfeldt KazakhstanKazakhstan Sergei Cherepanov
March 5, 2008 NorwayNorway Drammen Classic sprint NorwayNorway Ola Vigen Hattestad NorwayNorway Jens Arne Svartedal SwedenSweden Emil Jonsson
March 8, 2008 NorwayNorway Oslo 50 km freestyle SwedenSweden Södergren is different Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lukáš Bauer SwitzerlandSwitzerland Remo Fischer
Fédération Internationale de Ski Logo.svg World Cup Finals (full World Cup points for the first stage; no World Cup points for the last two stages):
March 14, 2008 ItalyItaly Bormio 3.3 km freestyle prologue ItalyItaly Pietro Piller Cottrer NorwayNorway Tord Asle Gjerdalen Czech RepublicCzech Republic Martin Jakš
March 15, 2008 20 km classic mass start FranceFrance Vincent Vittoz Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lukáš Bauer NorwayNorway Tord Asle Gjerdalen
March 16, 2008 15 km freestyle handicap start FinlandFinland Matti Heikkinen FinlandFinland Sami Jauhojärvi ItalyItaly Roland Clara
World Cup final overall ranking (2 times World Cup points) : FranceFrance Vincent Vittoz Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lukáš Bauer ItalyItaly Giorgio Di Centa

Ratings

Overall World Cup
Final result after 31 races
rank Surname Points
1 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lukáš Bauer 1462
2. GermanyGermany René Sommerfeldt 829
3. ItalyItaly Pietro Piller Cottrer 783
4th NorwayNorway Tord Asle Gjerdalen 692
5. ItalyItaly Giorgio Di Centa 692
6th NorwayNorway Gate Arne Hetland 656
7th SwedenSweden Södergren is different 551
8th. GermanyGermany Axel Teichmann 543
9. NorwayNorway Jens Arne Svartedal 527
10. ItalyItaly Valerio Checchi 510
11. FranceFrance Vincent Vittoz 492
12. NorwayNorway Petter Northug 475
13. NorwayNorway Eldar Rønning 463
14th NorwayNorway Ola Vigen Hattestad 450
15th SwedenSweden Emil Jonsson 448
16. GermanyGermany Tobias Angerer 401
17th FinlandFinland Ville Nousiainen 373
18th NorwayNorway Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset 337
19th NorwayNorway John Kristian Dahl 333
20th FinlandFinland Sami Jauhojärvi 322
21st NorwayNorway Not so Gløersen 315
22nd GermanyGermany Franz Goering 311
23. Czech RepublicCzech Republic Martin Jakš 311
24. RussiaRussia Nikolai Pankratov 278
25th NorwayNorway Johan Kjølstad 278
26th RussiaRussia Alexander Legkov 273
27. NorwayNorway Simen Østensen 266
28. SwedenSweden Bjorn Lind 261
29 RussiaRussia Yevgeny Dementiev 251
30th NorwayNorway Børre Næss 244
31. GermanyGermany Jens Filbrich 243
32. AustriaAustria Christian Hoffmann 236
33. Czech RepublicCzech Republic Martin Koukal 230
34. FranceFrance Emmanuel Jonnier 227
35. SlovakiaSlovakia Martin Bajcicak 225
36. United StatesUnited States Andrew Newell 219
37. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Dario Cologna 193
38. CanadaCanada Devon Kershaw 191
39. FinlandFinland Matias Strandvall 189
40. NorwayNorway Øystein Pettersen 185
41. RussiaRussia Vasily Rotschew 175
42. RussiaRussia Nikolai Morilov 173
43. GermanyGermany Josef Wenzl 163
44. SwedenSweden Mats Larsson 158
45. SwedenSweden Johan Olsson 158
46. FranceFrance Jean-Marc Gaillard 148
47. RussiaRussia Mikhail Devyatyarov 147
48. ItalyItaly Roland Clara 137
49. Belarus 1995Belarus Syarhej Dalidowitsch 135
50. EstoniaEstonia Andrus Veerpalu 131
51. RussiaRussia Maxim Wylegschanin 127
52. EstoniaEstonia Jaak Mae 125
53. SwedenSweden Marcus Hellner 123
rank Surname Points
54. RussiaRussia Ivan Ivanov 120
55. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Toni Livers 120
56. RussiaRussia Nikita Kryukov 114
57. ItalyItaly Fabio Santus 112
58. Czech RepublicCzech Republic Dušan Kožíšek 108
59. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Christoph Eigenmann 107
60. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Remo Fischer 106
61. SwedenSweden Robin Bryntesson 103
62. FranceFrance Cyril Miranda 99
63. KazakhstanKazakhstan Nikolai Chebotko 94
64. SwedenSweden Thobias Fredriksson 88
65. FinlandFinland Matti Heikkinen 85
66. United StatesUnited States Kris Freeman 84
67. FinlandFinland Kalle Lassila 84
68. NorwayNorway Martin Johnsrud Sundby 76
69. KazakhstanKazakhstan Sergei Cherepanov 69
70. ItalyItaly Thomas Moriggl 64
71. FranceFrance Roddy Darragon 63
72. NorwayNorway Morten Eilifsen 62
73. FinlandFinland Jesse Väänänen 55
74. JapanJapan Yūichi Onda 54
75. United StatesUnited States Torin Koos 54
76. ItalyItaly Cristian Zorzi 51
77. FinlandFinland Teemu Kattilakoski 50
78. FinlandFinland Martti Jylhä 49
79. EstoniaEstonia Peeter Caraway 47
80. NorwayNorway Hans Petter Lykkja 46
81. NorwayNorway Ole Einar Bjørndalen 45
82. SlovakiaSlovakia Ivan Batory 45
83. SwedenSweden Mathias Fredriksson 44
85. Czech RepublicCzech Republic Milan Šperl 41
86. NorwayNorway Trond Iversen 36
87. PolandPoland Janusz Krężelok 34
88 RussiaRussia Ilya Chernousov 33
89. FinlandFinland Olli-Pekka Tolvanen 33
90. NorwayNorway Frode Andresen 32
91. EstoniaEstonia Priit Narusk 31
92. United StatesUnited States Garrott Kuzzy 29
93. Czech RepublicCzech Republic Jiří Magál 29
94. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Curdin Perl 29
95. EstoniaEstonia Timo Simonlatser 28
96. CanadaCanada Philip Widmer 27
97. RussiaRussia Dmitriy Liashenko 26th
98 RussiaRussia Ivan Alypov 26th
99 RussiaRussia Andrei Parfionov 25th
100. NorwayNorway Eirik Brandsdal 24
101. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Peter von Allmen 24
102. CanadaCanada George Gray 23
103. FranceFrance Christophe Perrillat 23
104. CanadaCanada Drew Goldsack 22nd
105. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Eligius Tambornino 22nd
106. RussiaRussia Sergei Novikov 22nd
107. KazakhstanKazakhstan Alexei Poltoranin 21st
rank Surname Points
108. NorwayNorway Stone Vidar Thun 21st
109. SwedenSweden Mikael Ostberg 20th
110. FinlandFinland Kusti Kittilä 20th
111. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Thomas Diezig 20th
112. SwedenSweden Daniel Richardsson 19th
113. CanadaCanada Sean Crooks 19th
114. RussiaRussia Igor Rysin 18th
115. ItalyItaly Renato Pasini 16
116. SwedenSweden Peter Larsson 16
117. AustriaAustria Harald Wurm 16
118. RussiaRussia Dmitriy Osinkin 16
NorwayNorway Kristen Skjeldal 16
120. FranceFrance Alexandre Rousselet 16
121. EstoniaEstonia Anti Saarepuu 15th
122. FinlandFinland Jari Joutsen 14th
123. NorwayNorway Erlend Hoff 13
FinlandFinland Juha Lallukka 13
RussiaRussia Alexei Petukhov 13
126. RussiaRussia Anton Gafarov 13
127. NorwayNorway Geir Ludvig Aasen Ouren 12
128. EstoniaEstonia Vahur teppan 12
129. ItalyItaly Marco Fiorentini 12
130. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Valerio Leccardi 12
131. EstoniaEstonia Aivar Rehemaa 12
132. United StatesUnited States Chris Cook 11
133. UkraineUkraine Vitaly Martsyv 11
134. NorwayNorway Tore Ruud Hofstad 11
135. RussiaRussia Stanislav Wolschenzew 10
136. FranceFrance Robin Duvillard 10
137. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Reto mayor 9
138. GermanyGermany Benjamin Seifert 9
139. ItalyItaly Freddy Schwienbacher 8th
140 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Aleš Razým 8th
141. NorwayNorway John Anders Gaustad 7th
142. FranceFrance Maurice Manificat 7th
143. NorwayNorway Asgeir Årdal 7th
144. NorwayNorway Lars Berger 7th
145. KazakhstanKazakhstan Maxim Odnodvorzew 6th
146. SwedenSweden Fredrik Byström 6th
147. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Gion Andrea Bundi 5
148. EstoniaEstonia Kaspar Kokk 5
149. FranceFrance Damien Ambrosetti 5
150. ItalyItaly Andrea Zattoni 4th
151 ItalyItaly Fulvio Scola 4th
152. NorwayNorway Halvor Bjørnstad gate 4th
153. ItalyItaly Florian Kostner 4th
154. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Andreas Waldmeier 3
155. AustriaAustria Martin Stockinger 2
GermanyGermany Johannes Bredl 2
157. RussiaRussia Dmitri Chvanov 1
NorwayNorway Espen Harald Bjerke 1
Distance World Cup Sprint World Cup
Final result after 13 races Final result after 12 races
rank Surname Points
1 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lukáš Bauer 986
2 ItalyItaly Pietro Piller Cottrer 516
3 GermanyGermany René Sommerfeldt 494
4th FranceFrance Vincent Vittoz 456
5 SwedenSweden Södergren is different 433
6th ItalyItaly Valerio Checchi 424
7th ItalyItaly Giorgio Di Centa 382
8th GermanyGermany Axel Teichmann 374
9 NorwayNorway Tord Asle Gjerdalen 353
10 FinlandFinland Ville Nousiainen 291
rank Surname Points
1 NorwayNorway Ola Vigen Hattestad 450
2 SwedenSweden Emil Jonsson 448
3 NorwayNorway John Kristian Dahl 321
4th NorwayNorway Not so Gløersen 315
5 NorwayNorway Gate Arne Hetland 291
6th NorwayNorway Johan Kjølstad 278
7th NorwayNorway Eldar Rønning 266
8th SwedenSweden Bjorn Lind 261
9 NorwayNorway Børre Næss 244
10 United StatesUnited States Andrew Newell 219

Women

World Cup results

date venue discipline winner Second Third
October 27, 2007 GermanyGermany Dusseldorf Sprint freestyle RussiaRussia Natalia Matveeva NorwayNorway Marit Bjørgen SwedenSweden Anna Dahlberg
October 28, 2007 Team sprint SwedenSweden Sweden II
Charlotte Kalla
Britta Norgren
RussiaRussia Russia I.
Natalja Korosteljowa
Natalja Matwejewa
FinlandFinland Finland I
Pirjo Muranen
Virpi Kuitunen
November 24, 2007 NorwayNorway Beitostølen 10 km freestyle NorwayNorway Marit Bjørgen NorwayNorway Vibeke Skofterud SwedenSweden Charlotte Kalla
November 25, 2007 4x5 km relay NorwayNorway Norway I.
Astrid Jacobsen
Therese Johaug
Vibeke Skofterud
Marit Bjørgen
GermanyGermany Germany I.
Stefanie Böhler
Katrin Zeller
Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle
Claudia Nystad
FinlandFinland Finland
Riikka Sarasoja
Aino-Kaisa Saarinen
Riitta-Liisa Roponen
Pirjo Muranen
December 1, 2007 FinlandFinland Kuusamo Classic sprint SloveniaSlovenia Petra Majdič NorwayNorway Astrid Jacobsen SlovakiaSlovakia Alena Procházková
December 2, 2007 10 km classic NorwayNorway Marit Bjørgen NorwayNorway Astrid Jacobsen PolandPoland Justyna Kowalczyk
December 8, 2007 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Davos 10 km classic FinlandFinland Virpi Kuitunen NorwayNorway Vibeke Skofterud NorwayNorway Kristin Størmer Steira
December 9, 2007 4x5 km relay NorwayNorway Norway
Kristin Mürer Stemland
Therese Johaug
Kristin Størmer Steira
Vibeke Skofterud
GermanyGermany Germany
Manuela Henkel
Katrin Zeller
Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle
Stefanie Böhler
RussiaRussia Russia I.
Larissa Kurkina
Olga Rotschewa
Julija Tschekaljowa
Natalja Korosteljowa
December 15, 2007 RussiaRussia Rybinsk 15 km freestyle NorwayNorway Astrid Jacobsen RussiaRussia Natalia Korosteljowa FinlandFinland Riitta-Liisa Roponen
December 16, 2007 Sprint freestyle United StatesUnited States Kikkan Randall NorwayNorway Astrid Jacobsen RussiaRussia Natalia Korosteljowa
Fédération Internationale de Ski Logo.svg 2. Tour de Ski (half World Cup points for the individual stages):
December 28, 2007 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Nové Město na Moravě
(replacement for Oberstdorf )GermanyGermany 
3.3 km classic prologue FinlandFinland Virpi Kuitunen FinlandFinland Aino-Kaisa Saarinen PolandPoland Justyna Kowalczyk
December 29, 2007 10 km freestyle handicap start SwedenSweden Charlotte Kalla ItalyItaly Sabina Valbusa NorwayNorway Marit Bjørgen
December 30, 2007 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Prague Sprint freestyle ItalyItaly Arianna Follis FinlandFinland Pirjo Murans NorwayNorway Marit Bjørgen
January 1, 2008 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Nové Město na Moravě 10 km freestyle handicap start SwedenSweden Charlotte Kalla NorwayNorway Kristin Størmer Steira GermanyGermany Claudia Nystad
January 2, 2008 10 km classic FinlandFinland Aino-Kaisa Saarinen FinlandFinland Virpi Kuitunen NorwayNorway Therese Johaug
January 4, 2008 ItalyItaly Asiago Sprint freestyle SwedenSweden Charlotte Kalla RussiaRussia Natalia Korosteljowa PolandPoland Justyna Kowalczyk
January 5, 2008 ItalyItaly Val di Fiemme 10 km classic mass start FinlandFinland Virpi Kuitunen SwedenSweden Charlotte Kalla GermanyGermany Claudia Nystad
January 6, 2008 9 km freestyle mountain pursuit UkraineUkraine Valentyna Shevchenko NorwayNorway Kristin Størmer Steira GermanyGermany Claudia Nystad
Tour de Ski overall ranking (4 times World Cup points) : SwedenSweden Charlotte Kalla FinlandFinland Virpi Kuitunen ItalyItaly Arianna Follis
January 22, 2008 CanadaCanada Canmore Chase races PolandPoland Justyna Kowalczyk RussiaRussia Yevgenia Medvedeva RussiaRussia Olga Rotschewa
January 23, 2008 CanadaCanada Canmore Classic sprint SloveniaSlovenia Petra Majdič NorwayNorway Astrid Jacobsen PolandPoland Justyna Kowalczyk
January 25, 2008 CanadaCanada Canmore 10 km freestyle UkraineUkraine Valentyna Shevchenko RussiaRussia Yevgenia Medvedeva PolandPoland Justyna Kowalczyk
January 26, 2008 CanadaCanada Canmore Sprint freestyle CanadaCanada Chandra Crawford FinlandFinland Pirjo Murans ItalyItaly Magda Genuin
February 9, 2008 EstoniaEstonia Otepää 10 km classic FinlandFinland Virpi Kuitunen FinlandFinland Aino-Kaisa Saarinen NorwayNorway Therese Johaug
February 10, 2008 EstoniaEstonia Otepää Classic sprint SloveniaSlovenia Petra Majdič NorwayNorway Astrid Jacobsen FinlandFinland Virpi Kuitunen
February 16, 2008 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Liberec 7.6 km freestyle
(replacement race for skiathlon)
NorwayNorway Astrid Jacobsen PolandPoland Justyna Kowalczyk SwedenSweden Charlotte Kalla
February 17, 2008 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Liberec Team sprint NorwayNorway Norway I.
Marit Bjørgen
Astrid Jacobsen
FinlandFinland Finland I
Aino-Kaisa Saarinen
Pirjo Muranen
RussiaRussia Russia I.
Yevgenia Shapovalova
Natalia Matwejewa
February 23, 2008 SwedenSweden Falun 15 km pursuit NorwayNorway Astrid Jacobsen NorwayNorway Marit Bjørgen FinlandFinland Aino-Kaisa Saarinen
February 24, 2008 SwedenSweden Falun 4x5 km relay NorwayNorway Norway I.
Ingri Aunet Tyldum
Astrid Jacobsen
Kristin Størmer Steira
Marit Bjørgen
FinlandFinland Finland
Virpi Kuitunen
Aino-Kaisa Saarinen
Riitta-Liisa Roponen
Riikka Sarasoja
GermanyGermany Germany
Stefanie Böhler
Katrin Zeller
Claudia Nystad
Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle
February 27, 2008 SwedenSweden Stockholm Classic sprint FinlandFinland Virpi Kuitunen SloveniaSlovenia Petra Majdič JapanJapan Madoka Natsumi
March 1, 2008 FinlandFinland Lahti Sprint freestyle CanadaCanada Chandra Crawford RussiaRussia Natalia Matveeva GermanyGermany Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle
March 2, 2008 FinlandFinland Lahti 10 km classic FinlandFinland Virpi Kuitunen UkraineUkraine Valentyna Shevchenko GermanyGermany Katrin Zeller
March 5, 2008 NorwayNorway Drammen Classic sprint FinlandFinland Virpi Kuitunen SloveniaSlovenia Petra Majdič NorwayNorway Astrid Jacobsen
March 8, 2008 NorwayNorway Oslo 30 km freestyle UkraineUkraine Valentyna Shevchenko SwedenSweden Charlotte Kalla GermanyGermany Claudia Nystad
Fédération Internationale de Ski Logo.svg World Cup Finals (full World Cup points for the first stage; no World Cup points for the last two stages):
March 14, 2008 ItalyItaly Bormio 2.5 km freestyle prologue GermanyGermany Claudia Nystad NorwayNorway Astrid Jacobsen FinlandFinland Riitta-Liisa Roponen
March 15, 2008 10 km classic mass start FinlandFinland Virpi Kuitunen PolandPoland Justyna Kowalczyk NorwayNorway Marit Bjørgen
March 16, 2008 10 km freestyle handicap start UkraineUkraine Valentyna Shevchenko FinlandFinland Riitta-Liisa Roponen PolandPoland Justyna Kowalczyk
World Cup final overall ranking (2 times World Cup points) : FinlandFinland Virpi Kuitunen PolandPoland Justyna Kowalczyk GermanyGermany Claudia Nystad

Ratings

Overall World Cup
Final result after 31 races
rank Surname Points
1 FinlandFinland Virpi Kuitunen 1552
2 NorwayNorway Astrid Jacobsen 1255
3 PolandPoland Justyna Kowalczyk 1096
4th SwedenSweden Charlotte Kalla 1046
5 SloveniaSlovenia Petra Majdič 969
6th UkraineUkraine Valentyna Shevchenko 957
7th ItalyItaly Arianna Follis 934
8th GermanyGermany Claudia Nystad 921
9 FinlandFinland Aino-Kaisa Saarinen 826
10 GermanyGermany Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle 736
11. NorwayNorway Marit Bjørgen 690
12. RussiaRussia Olga Rotschewa 641
13. FinlandFinland Riitta-Liisa Roponen 637
14th FinlandFinland Pirjo Murans 523
15th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Seraina Mischol 502
16. NorwayNorway Kristin Størmer Steira 465
17th GermanyGermany Katrin Zeller 447
18th NorwayNorway Therese Johaug 403
19th SwedenSweden Anna Hansson 394
20th RussiaRussia Natalia Korosteljowa 390
21st RussiaRussia Natalia Matveeva 365
22nd ItalyItaly Sabina Valbusa 361
23. CanadaCanada Chandra Crawford 319
24. RussiaRussia Yevgenia Medvedeva 309
25th GermanyGermany Stefanie Boehler 296
26th RussiaRussia Larissa Kurkina 242
27. JapanJapan Madoka Natsumi 238
28. ItalyItaly Antonella Confortola 236
29 ItalyItaly Magda Genuin 235
30th NorwayNorway Vibeke Skofterud 234
31. SlovakiaSlovakia Alena Procházková 225
32. United StatesUnited States Kikkan Randall 198
33. NorwayNorway Kristin Mürer Stemland 166
34. ItalyItaly Marianna Longa 155
35. GermanyGermany Manuela Henkel 123
36. NorwayNorway Ingri Aunet Tyldum 115
rank Surname Points
37. SloveniaSlovenia Vesna Fabjan 112
38. FinlandFinland Mona-Liisa Malvalehto 112
39. AustriaAustria Kateřina Smutná 110
40. RussiaRussia Yevgenia Shapovalova 109
41. SwedenSweden Ida Ingemarsdotter 108
42. SwedenSweden Anna Olsson 100
43. RussiaRussia Julia Ivanova 85
44. GermanyGermany Nicole Fessel 80
45. SwedenSweden Lina Andersson 79
46. CanadaCanada Sara Renner 79
47. NorwayNorway Marthe Kristoffersen 76
48. RussiaRussia Yulia Chekaleva 74
49. NorwayNorway Kari Vikhagen Gjeitnes 70
50. FinlandFinland Riikka Sarasoja 69
51. FinlandFinland Kirsi Perälä 61
52. NorwayNorway Karianne Bjellaanes 55
53. NorwayNorway Marte Elden 54
54. RussiaRussia Natalia Naryshkina 53
55. SloveniaSlovenia Katja Višnar 47
56. JapanJapan Nobuko Fukuda 47
57. RussiaRussia Jelena Buruchina 44
58. NorwayNorway Ella Gjømle 43
59. NorwayNorway Sara Svendsen 43
60. FranceFrance Coraline Hugue 43
61. FranceFrance Caroline Weibel 41
62. FranceFrance Karine Laurent Philippot 40
63. NorwayNorway Celine Brun-Lie 39
64. SwedenSweden Maria Rydqvist 32
65. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Silvana Bucher 31
66. RussiaRussia Diana Sapronova 27
67. RussiaRussia Natalia Ilyina 25th
68. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Laurence Rochat 24
69. NorwayNorway Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen 20th
70. Belarus 1995Belarus Alena Sannikawa 20th
71. Czech RepublicCzech Republic Helena Erbenova 17th
72. JapanJapan Masako Ishida 16
rank Surname Points
73. Belarus 1995Belarus Viktoria Lapazina 16
74. UkraineUkraine Maryna Anzybor 15th
75. RussiaRussia Olga Kuziukova 15th
76. CanadaCanada Sarah Daitch 12
77. RussiaRussia Olga Tiagay 12
78. PolandPoland Sylwia Jaśkowiec 12
79. FranceFrance Elodie Bourgeois Pin 12
80. FranceFrance Emilie Vina 11
81. NorwayNorway Ingrid Urdahl 11
82. NorwayNorway Agnetha Aasheim 10
83. RussiaRussia Yulia Chepalova 9
84. NorwayNorway Sigrid Aas 9
85. RussiaRussia Svetlana Nikolayeva 8th
86. FinlandFinland Mari Laukkanen 8th
87. SwedenSweden Sofia Bleckur 8th
88 UkraineUkraine Lada Nesterenko 8th
89. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Karin Camenisch 7th
90. United StatesUnited States Morgan Arritola 7th
91. PolandPoland Kornelia Marek 6th
92. RussiaRussia Olga Mikhailova 6th
93. SwedenSweden Annika Loefstroem 6th
94. ItalyItaly Marina Piller 6th
95. RussiaRussia Olga Nutrikhina 5
96. RussiaRussia Svetlana Zubenko 4th
96. SwedenSweden Britta Norgren 4th
98 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Seraina Boner 4th
99 ItalyItaly Karin Moroder 3
100. FranceFrance Aurore Cuinet 3
101. FranceFrance Celia Bourgeois 2
102. NorwayNorway Hilde Lauvhaug 2
103. Czech RepublicCzech Republic Ivana Janečková 1
104. CanadaCanada Perianne Jones 1
105. SwedenSweden Anna Simberg 1
106. SpainSpain Laura Orgué 1
107. KazakhstanKazakhstan Elena Antonova 1
108. ItalyItaly Elisa Brocard 1
Distance World Cup Sprint World Cup
Final result after 13 races Final result after 12 races
rank Surname Points
1 FinlandFinland Virpi Kuitunen 729
2 UkraineUkraine Valentyna Shevchenko 707
3 PolandPoland Justyna Kowalczyk 661
4th NorwayNorway Astrid Jacobsen 644
5 GermanyGermany Claudia Nystad 535
6th NorwayNorway Marit Bjørgen 502
7th SwedenSweden Charlotte Kalla 485
8th FinlandFinland Aino-Kaisa Saarinen 456
9 ItalyItaly Arianna Follis 439
10 GermanyGermany Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle 396
rank Surname Points
1 SloveniaSlovenia Petra Majdič 609
2 NorwayNorway Astrid Jacobsen 570
3 FinlandFinland Virpi Kuitunen 538
4th RussiaRussia Natalia Matveeva 365
5 FinlandFinland Pirjo Murans 365
6th FinlandFinland Aino-Kaisa Saarinen 330
7th CanadaCanada Chandra Crawford 319
8th PolandPoland Justyna Kowalczyk 301
9 ItalyItaly Arianna Follis 264
10 JapanJapan Madoka Natsumi 238

Nations Cup

total Men Women
rank country Points
1 NorwayNorway Norway 11017
2 FinlandFinland Finland 6067
3 GermanyGermany Germany 6067
4th RussiaRussia Russia 5238
5 ItalyItaly Italy 5049
6th SwedenSweden Sweden 4758
7th Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 2886
8th FranceFrance France 1702
9 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 1580
10 SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia 1238
rank country Points
1 NorwayNorway Norway 6448
2 ItalyItaly Italy 2844
3 GermanyGermany Germany 2838
4th Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 2764
5 SwedenSweden Sweden 2502
6th RussiaRussia Russia 2304
7th FinlandFinland Finland 1641
8th FranceFrance France 1383
9 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 807
10 United StatesUnited States United States 550
rank country Points
1 NorwayNorway Norway 4569
2 FinlandFinland Finland 4426
3 GermanyGermany Germany 3189
4th RussiaRussia Russia 2934
5 SwedenSweden Sweden 2256
6th ItalyItaly Italy 2205
7th SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia 1238
8th PolandPoland Poland 1156
9 UkraineUkraine Ukraine 993
10 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 773

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