Tour de Ski 2007/08

Tour de Ski 2007/08
	Men's	Ladies
winner
Tour winner	Lukáš Bauer	Charlotte Kalla
prolog	Lukáš Bauer	Virpi Kuitunen
1. Persecution	Emmanuel Jonnier	Charlotte Kalla
1st sprint	Nikolai Morilov	Arianna Follis
2. Persecution	Pietro Piller Cottrer	Charlotte Kalla
1. Distance race	Lukáš Bauer	Aino-Kaisa Saarinen
2nd sprint	Petter Northug	Charlotte Kalla
2. Distance race	Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset	Virpi Kuitunen
Mountain pursuit	René Sommerfeldt	Valentyna Shevchenko
Competitions
Venues	4th	4th
Individual competitions	8th	8th
Attendees
Nations	17th	16
athlete	74	54
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The Tour de Ski 2007/08 is a stage race organized as part of the 2007/08 Cross-Country World Cup . The tour was scheduled to take place between December 28, 2007 and January 6, 2008 at five different locations in three countries. After Oberstdorf was canceled , there were only four venues.

Venues and races

Nové Město Prague Oberstdorf Val di Fiemme Asiago

Location of the venues Venue Originally planned venue

 Nové Město na Moravě :

• December 28th: ​​prologue, classic, individual start, 3.3 km (women) and 4.5 km (men).
• December 29th: Pursuit, free technique , handicap start *, 10 km (women) and 15 km (men).

 Prague :

• December 30th: Sprint, free technique, 1 km (women and men).

 Nové Město na Moravě :

• January 1: Pursuit, free technique, handicap start *, 10 km (women) and 15 km (men).
• January 2nd: Endurance race, classic, individual start, 10 km (women) and 15 km (men).

The originally planned staging of the races in Oberstdorf was canceled by the FIS, as the DSV had the races on the 2nd / 3rd. January wanted to move.

 Asiago :

• January 4th: Sprint, free technique, 1.2 km (women and men).

 Val di Fiemme :

• January 5th: Endurance race, classic, mass start, 10 km (women) and 20 km (men).
• January 6: Mountain pursuit, free technique, handicap start *, 9 km (women) and 10 km (men).

(*) Handicap start: This race will start in the order of the current overall classification, i. H. the leader first. The starting distance is the result of the difference in the total times between the starters of all races completed up to then.

Results

total

The overall ranking is based on the cumulative times of all eight tour stages. In sprint competitions, the qualification time was counted. Furthermore, the bonus seconds were deducted from the end time before this was added to the total time. Bonus seconds were awarded for both sprint stages and distance stages.

For the overall ranking of the Tour de Ski four times the number of points according to the FIS point system were awarded to the best 30 athletes. These points were only counted for the overall World Cup.

space	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24	25th	26th	27	28	29	30th
Tour de Ski	400	320	240	200	180	160	144	128	116	104	96	88	80	72	64	60	56	52	48	44	40	36	32	28	24	20th	16	12	8th	4th

Overall status after eight stages:

Women space Surname time 1  Charlotte Kalla 2: 43: 01.0 h 2  Virpi Kuitunen + 36.4 s 3  Arianna Follis + 53.3 s 4th  Valentyna Shevchenko +1: 09.2 min 5  Olga Rotschewa +1: 14.8 min 6th  Claudia Nystad + 2: 07.8 min ... ... ... 8th  Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle + 2: 23.8 min 9  Katrin Zeller + 2: 29.8 min 12  Seraina Mischol + 2: 58.7 min 23  Stefanie Boehler + 5: 30.6 min 27  Kateřina Smutná + 8: 21.2 min

Men space Surname time 1  Lukáš Bauer 3: 38: 07.4 h 2  René Sommerfeldt + 2: 47.3 min 3  Giorgio Di Centa + 2: 47.6 min 4th  Tord Asle Gjerdalen + 2: 53.9 min 5  Gate Arne Hetland + 3: 04.0 min 6th  Franz Goering + 3: 39.9 min ... ... ... 13  Axel Teichmann + 4: 36.5 min 14th  Tobias Angerer + 4: 37.3 min 17th  Christian Hoffmann + 5: 17.3 min 24  Jens Filbrich + 6: 28.0 min 30th  Dario Cologna + 7: 48.3 min 49  Benjamin Seifert + 14: 30.1 min 58  Harald Wurm + 20: 57.1 min

Sprint standings overall

All bonus seconds awarded were counted for the sprint evaluation.

Women space Surname time 1  Virpi Kuitunen 2:36 min 2  Arianna Follis 1:49 min 3  Pirjo Murans 1:46 min 4th  Justyna Kowalczyk 1:39 min 5  Natalia Korosteljowa 1:30 min 6th  Charlotte Kalla 1:25 min ... ... ... 12  Claudia Nystad 0:59 min 14th  Seraina Mischol 0:55 min 17th  Katrin Zeller 0:33 min 18th  Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle 0:30 min 19th  Kateřina Smutná 0:22 min 24  Stefanie Boehler 0:13 min

Men space Surname time 1  Petter Northug 1:44 min 2  Gate Arne Hetland 1:44 min 3  Giorgio Di Centa 1:36 min 4th  Nikolai Morilov 1:30 min 5  Tord Asle Gjerdalen 1:28 min 6th  Lukáš Bauer 1:25 min ... ... ... 21st  Dario Cologna 0:31 min 27  Axel Teichmann 0:13 min 28  René Sommerfeldt 0:13 min 30th  Franz Goering 0:11 min 34  Tobias Angerer 0:08 min 35  Harald Wurm 0:08 min

Overall stand nation ranking

For the nation ranking, the two best male and female athletes of a nation were evaluated per stage.

women and men
space	nation	time
1	Norway	12:43: 44.1 h
2	Russia	+ 4: 21.2 min
3	Italy	+ 6: 07.0 min
4th	Germany	+ 6: 17.4 min
5	Sweden	+ 10: 59.6 min
6th	Finland	+ 12: 20.5 min
7th	Czech Republic	+ 22: 17.7 min

Stages

In pursuit competitions with a handicap start, the pure running time was used to determine the stage result, so that the finish line was not identical to the stage result. World Cup points were awarded to the best 15 participants at each stage. These points went into both the overall World Cup ranking and the discipline rankings.

space	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th
Tour de Ski stage	50	40	30th	25th	23	20th	18th	16	14th	13	12	11	10	9	8th

Nové Město na Moravě (Prologue)

In the women's race, all 54 participants reached the finish, because the time limit was exceeded, the last placed was taken out of the race. Of the 76 registered participants in the men's race, 75 started and reached the finish.

The top three finishers in both races received time credits of 15, 10 and 5 seconds.

Women space Surname time 1  Virpi Kuitunen 9: 22.8 min 2  Aino-Kaisa Saarinen + 0.7 s 3  Justyna Kowalczyk + 1.9 s 4th  Marit Bjørgen + 6.1 s 5  Seraina Mischol + 13.0 s ... ... ... 13  Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle + 18.8 s 15th  Kateřina Smutná + 20.4 s 17th  Katrin Zeller + 21.3 s 21st  Stefanie Boehler + 24.6 s 22nd  Claudia Nystad + 26.0 s 27  Manuela Henkel + 34.8 s

Men space Surname time 1  Lukáš Bauer 11: 15.6 min 2  Axel Teichmann + 1.0 s 3  Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset + 3.3 s 4th  Sami Jauhojärvi + 3.5 s 5  Mats Larsson + 4.9 s ... ... ... 15th  Franz Goering + 15.6 s 20th  Jens Filbrich + 21.5 s 23  René Sommerfeldt + 23.1 s 26th  Dario Cologna + 26.2 s 34  Benjamin Seifert + 28.9 s 38  Tobias Angerer + 31.4 s 62  Jürgen Pinter + 54.8 s 64  Christian Hoffmann + 57.6 s 66  Gion Andrea Bundi +1: 07.2 min 67  Remo Fischer +1: 10.0 min 72  Harald Wurm +1: 26.3 min

Nové Město na Moravě (persecution)

In the women's race, last year's runner-up Marit Bjørgen crossed the finish line first and was therefore able to take the lead in the overall standings. The stage classification was won by Charlotte Kalla . In front of his home crowd, Lukáš Bauer extended his lead in the overall standings. However, he was beaten in the daily standings by Frenchman Emmanuel Jonnier , who completed the distance 10 seconds faster. All 53 starters and 75 starters respectively reached the finish.

Women space Surname time 1  Charlotte Kalla 25: 47.9 min 2  Sabina Valbusa + 2.1 s 3  Marit Bjørgen + 8.2 s 4th  Riitta-Liisa Roponen + 9.3 s 5  Anna Hansson + 12.7 s 6th  Katrin Zeller + 13.5 s ... ... ... 9  Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle + 15.1 s 12  Seraina Mischol + 19.2 s 17th  Claudia Nystad + 35.6 s 20th  Stefanie Boehler + 38.7 s 36  Kateřina Smutná +1: 44.1 min 40  Manuela Henkel +1: 53.0 min

Men space Surname time 1  Emmanuel Jonnier 34: 43.9 min 2  Lukáš Bauer + 9.6 s 3  Valerio Checchi + 11.2 s 4th  Tord Asle Gjerdalen + 11.6 s 5  Pietro Piller Cottrer + 16.2 s ... ... ... 10  Tobias Angerer + 20.4 s 12  René Sommerfeldt + 21.2 s 19th  Dario Cologna + 30.7 s 20th  Christian Hoffmann + 31.7 s 22nd  Jens Filbrich + 32.8 s 24  Franz Goering + 35.4 s 29  Remo Fischer + 42.6 s 32  Axel Teichmann + 57.0 s 47  Benjamin Seifert +1: 45.8 min 59  Jürgen Pinter + 2: 21.2 min 60  Gion Andrea Bundi + 2: 27.4 min 68  Harald Wurm + 3: 04.5 min

Prague (Sprint)

In the sprint race in downtown Prague, the time that was counted towards the overall ranking was determined in qualifying races among the 53 and 72 remaining participants. The 30 best in each case qualified for the next round, in which time bonuses were fought. In the women's race, Arianna Follis won the final and secured 60 bonus seconds; Marit Bjørgen maintained the lead in the overall standings with her third place. Last year's third Simen Østensen took the lead in the overall standings with his second place behind Nikolai Morilow .

Women space Surname Qualification time Bonus seconds 1  Arianna Follis 1: 52.6 min 60 2  Pirjo Murans 1: 53.5 min 56 3  Marit Bjørgen 1: 52.6 min 52 4th  Magda Genuin 1: 53.4 min 49 5  Virpi Kuitunen 1: 53.1 min 44 ... ... ... ... 7th  Seraina Mischol 1: 54.2 min 40 9  Claudia Nystad 1: 53.9 min 36 15th  Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle 1: 57.3 min 16 19th  Katrin Zeller 1: 57.3 min 12 21st  Kateřina Smutná 1: 54.7 min 10 30th  Manuela Henkel 1: 56.4 min 1 34  Stefanie Boehler 1: 58.4 min

Men space Surname Qualification time Bonus seconds 1  Nikolai Morilov 1: 41.3 min 60 2  Simen Østensen 1: 40.2 min 56 3  Gate Arne Hetland 1: 39.5 min 52 4th  Andrei Parfionov 1: 40.5 min 49 5  Petter Northug 1: 40.8 min 44 ... ... ... ... 14th  Dario Cologna 1: 42.7 min 17th 23  Harald Wurm 1: 42.0 min 8th 33  Franz Goering 1: 43.8 min 34  Tobias Angerer 1: 43.9 min 38  Axel Teichmann 1: 44.4 min 39  René Sommerfeldt 1: 44.4 min 43  Benjamin Seifert 1: 45.0 min 55  Remo Fischer 1: 46.8 min 57  Christian Hoffmann 1: 47.0 min 58  Jens Filbrich 1: 47.2 min 62  Jürgen Pinter 1: 48.5 min 65  Gion Andrea Bundi 1: 49.0 min

Nové Město na Moravě (persecution)

The women's race was won by Charlotte Kalla , who also took the lead in the overall standings. In the men's category, the Italian Pietro Piller Cottrer secured the victory of the day ahead of his compatriot Valerio Checchi . Lukáš Bauer regained the top position in the overall standings. 51 runners and 68 runners took part in the race.

Women space Surname time 1  Charlotte Kalla 26: 21.9 min 2  Kristin Størmer Steira + 3.2 s 3  Claudia Nystad + 4.2 s 4th  Natalia Korosteljowa + 5.0 s 5  Stefanie Boehler + 8.7 s 6th  Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle + 11.7 s ... ... ... 16  Katrin Zeller + 42.2 s 19th  Seraina Mischol + 52.3 s 34  Kateřina Smutná + 2: 03.1 min 37  Manuela Henkel + 2: 13.7 min

Men space Surname time 1  Pietro Piller Cottrer 35: 30.4 min 2  Valerio Checchi + 4.5 s 3  Emmanuel Jonnier + 15.3 s 4th  Martin Koukal + 18.2 s 5  Fabio Santus + 30.7 s ... ... ... 7th  Axel Teichmann + 35.3 s 8th  Franz Goering + 35.6 s 10  René Sommerfeldt + 42.5 s 12  Christian Hoffmann + 50.6 s 17th  Tobias Angerer + 56.1 s 20th  Jens Filbrich +1: 15.9 min 24  Dario Cologna +1: 35.7 min 37  Benjamin Seifert + 2: 14.5 min 49  Remo Fischer + 3: 20.5 min 55  Gion Andrea Bundi + 3: 34.7 min 65  Harald Wurm + 5: 28.3 min

Nové Město na Moravě (endurance race)

Her second place was enough for Virpi Kuitunen to regain the lead in the overall standings. Lukáš Bauer also won the fourth race in Nové Město na Moravě and thus underpinned his gold jersey of the overall leader. 51 and 65 participants respectively finished the race.

Women space Surname time 1  Aino-Kaisa Saarinen 28: 55.7 min 2  Virpi Kuitunen + 2.6 s 3  Therese Johaug + 13.3 s 4th  Olga Rotschewa + 14.3 s 5  Valentyna Shevchenko + 23.0 s ... ... ... 11  Seraina Mischol + 53.0 s 13  Katrin Zeller + 55.9 s 21st  Kateřina Smutná +1: 10.8 min 23  Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle +1: 15.3 min 27  Claudia Nystad +1: 36.2 min 37  Stefanie Boehler + 2: 25.5 min 45  Manuela Henkel + 3: 08.9 min

Men space Surname time 1  Lukáš Bauer 38: 26.9 min 2  Jens Arne Svartedal + 27.8 s 3  Nikolai Pankratov + 28.5 s 4th  Mats Larsson + 40.0 s 5  Eldar Rønning + 49.9 s ... ... ... 17th  René Sommerfeldt +1: 35.3 min 21st  Christian Hoffmann +1: 46.5 min 24  Dario Cologna +1: 57.3 min 29  Axel Teichmann + 2: 03.5 min 36  Franz Goering + 2: 15.8 min 37  Tobias Angerer + 2: 17.8 min 38  Benjamin Seifert + 2: 22.0 min 41  Jens Filbrich + 2: 45.0 min 63  Harald Wurm + 4: 50.0 min

Asiago (sprint)

Virpi Kuitunen was able to defend her lead in the tour standings with eleventh place in the sprint in Asiago. Charlotte Kalla was able to work her way up to second place with her victory. Lukáš Bauer was able to maintain his lead among the men despite a 43rd place. The day's victory went to Petter Northug , who secured victory in the sprint classification of the Tour de Ski.

Women space Surname time 1  Charlotte Kalla - 2  Natalia Korosteljowa - 3  Justyna Kowalczyk - 4th  Arianna Follis - 5  Olga Rotschewa - ... ... ... 13  Claudia Nystad - 16  Seraina Mischol - 17th  Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle - 18th  Stefanie Boehler - 19th  Kateřina Smutná - 20th  Katrin Zeller -

Men space Surname time 1  Petter Northug - 2  Nikolai Chebotko - 3  Gate Arne Hetland - 4th  Cristian Zorzi - 5  Pietro Piller Cottrer - ... ... ... 17th  Dario Cologna - 18th  René Sommerfeldt - 23  Tobias Angerer - 25th  Franz Goering - 28  Axel Teichmann - 40  Harald Wurm - 43  Jens Filbrich - 49  Benjamin Seifert - 57  Christian Hoffmann -

Val di Fiemme (endurance race)

With her second stage win and 45 bonus seconds, Virpi Kuitunen extended her lead over second-placed Charlotte Kalla to 40 seconds before the last stage. Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset won the men's competition in the photo finish in front of his compatriot Jens Arne Svartedal . Lukáš Bauer maintained his lead and started the last stage with a lead of almost two minutes over Tord Asle Gjerdalen .

Women space Surname time 1  Virpi Kuitunen 32: 48.1 2  Charlotte Kalla + 4.5 s 3  Claudia Nystad + 5.0 s 4th  Olga Rotschewa + 5.1 s 5  Katrin Zeller + 5.5 s 6th  Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle + 5.6 s ... ... ... 12  Kateřina Smutná + 20.5 s 13  Seraina Mischol + 28.3 s 34  Stefanie Boehler +1: 30.6 min

Men space Surname time 1  Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset 1: 00: 17.8 h 2  Jens Arne Svartedal +0.0 s 3  Franz Goering +3.2 s 4th  Tord Asle Gjerdalen +5.2 s 5  Axel Teichmann +5.5 s ... ... ... 9  Tobias Angerer + 10.2 s 19th  Jens Filbrich + 25.2 s 21st  René Sommerfeldt + 34.2 s 31  Christian Hoffmann 1: 15.6 min 40  Harald Wurm + 3: 54.5 min 44  Dario Cologna + 2: 50.0 min 59  Benjamin Seifert + 6: 37.8 min

Val di Fiemme (mountain pursuit)

Virpi Kuitunen managed to extend her lead to 55 seconds at the start of the race. In the climb, however, she lost a minute and a half to Charlotte Kalla , who with the ninth fastest time could confidently celebrate her first victory at the Tour de Ski. Arianna Follis completed the podium in third place. The fastest runner of the day was by a large margin Walentyna Shevchenko , who was able to work her way up from twelfth to fourth. The Russian Olga Rotschewa , who entered the race as third , dropped to fifth place. Claudia Nystad was able to improve from eighth to sixth place with the third-best time of the day.

Lukáš Bauer was able to celebrate the expected sovereign triumph for the men . Almost three minutes after Bauer crossed the finish line, René Sommerfeldt , who started ninth and won the day's standings with a strong performance, won the sprint to the finish against Giorgio Di Centa . The Norwegian Tord Asle Gjerdalen , who started second in the race, fell back to fourth place.

Women space Surname time 1  Valentyna Shevchenko 34: 06.2 h 2  Kristin Størmer Steira + 55.3 s 3  Claudia Nystad +1: 10.8 min 4th  Therese Johaug +1: 16.5 min 5  Stefanie Boehler +1: 17.3 min 6th  Katrin Zeller +1: 25.0 min ... ... ... 10  Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle +1: 32.8 min 13  Seraina Mischol +1: 52.3 min 34  Kateřina Smutná + 3: 49.4 min

Men space Surname time 1  René Sommerfeldt 32: 59.0 h 2  Christian Hoffmann + 19.3 s 3  Martin Bajčičák + 19.8 s 4th  Giorgio Di Centa + 35.4 s 5  Franz Goering + 39.5 s ... ... ... 10  Tobias Angerer +1: 04.1 min 21st  Dario Cologna +1: 28.2 min 22nd  Benjamin Seifert +1: 30.7 min 24  Jens Filbrich +1: 36.0 min 27  Axel Teichmann +1: 41.9 min 47  Harald Wurm + 2: 55.8 min

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TOUR DE SKI OVERALL STANDING (LADIES) (PDF; 75 kB)
2. ↑ TOUR DE SKI OVERALL STANDING (MEN) (PDF; 80 kB)
3. ↑ TOUR DE SKI SPRINT STANDING LADIES (PDF; 66 kB)
4. ↑ TOUR DE SKI SPRINT STANDING MEN (PDF; 67 kB)
5. ↑ TOUR DE SKI TEAM STANDING AFTER STAGE 8 (PDF; 79 kB)
6. ↑ Prologue Ladies 3.3 km Classic Individual Results (PDF; 112 kB)
7. ↑ Prologue Men 4.5 km Classic Individual Results (PDF; 129 kB)
8. ↑ Ladies 10 km Free Pursuit 'Handicap' Start Result (PDF; 165 kB)
9. ↑ Men 15 km Free Pursuit 'Handicap' Start Result (PDF; 124 kB)
10. ↑ Ladies 1.0 km Free Sprint Results (PDF; 101 kB)
11. ↑ Men 1.0 km Free Sprint Results (PDF; 107 kB)
12. ↑ Ladies 10 km Free Pursuit 'Handicap' Start Result (PDF; 165 kB)
13. ↑ Men 15 km Free Pursuit 'Handicap' Start Result (PDF; 125 kB)
14. ↑ Ladies 10 km Classic Individual Results (PDF; 111 kB)
15. ↑ Men 15 km Classic Individual Results (PDF; 116 kB)
16. ↑ Ladies 1.2 km Sprint Free Results (PDF; 75 kB)
17. ↑ Men 1.2 km Sprint Free Results (PDF; 78 kB)
18. ↑ Ladies 10 km Classic Mass Start Results (PDF; 112 kB)
19. ↑ Men 20 km Classic Mass Start Results (PDF; 118 kB)
20. ↑ Ladies 9 km Free Final Climb Pursuit 'Handicap' Start Result (PDF; 165 kB)
21. ↑ Men 10 km Free Final Climb Pursuit 'Handicap' Start Result (PDF; 167 kB)