Tour de Ski 2008/09
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Mountain pursuit |
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Venues | 4th | 4th |
Individual competitions | 7th | 7th |
Attendees | ||
Nations | 19th | 16 |
athlete | 66 | 51 |
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The Tour de Ski 2008/09 (sponsor name: Viessmann FIS Tour de Ski performance by Craft Sportswear ) was a stage race organized as part of the 2008/09 Cross-Country World Cup . It took place between December 27, 2008 and January 4, 2009 at four different locations in three countries.
In the women's category, the Finn Virpi Kuitunen , who had already won the first Tour de Ski, won ahead of her compatriot Aino-Kaisa Saarinen and the Slovenian Petra Majdič . In the men's race, the Swiss Dario Cologna won without a single stage win - with the exception of handicap starts - ahead of Petter Northug from Norway and Axel Teichmann , who won three individual stages .
For the first time, the Tour de Ski actually took place in three countries. At the first two events, Nové Město na Moravě and Oberstdorf had to cancel the organization at short notice. During the entire Tour de Ski, the women covered a distance of 60 kilometers, the men ran a total of 102 kilometers.
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Right after the 2007/08 event , Swedish coaches criticized the Tour de Ski's unfavorable schedule a year later. Only a few days after this, the test runs for the 2010 Winter Olympics were to take place in Vancouver , leaving the athletes with little time to relax.
In December 2008, the number of rejections from some prominent cross-country skiers increased. Johan Olsson , who had already won a World Cup race, wanted to prepare more intensively for the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2009 , Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset did not start for health reasons. Simen Østensen , who had successfully participated in the first two events, was not nominated, as was Betty-Ann Bjerkreim Nilsen . The Austrian Christian Hoffmann was also unable to start because of a flu-like infection and was replaced by Martin Stockinger .
In contrast to Tobias Angerer , who recovered from his flu in time, the Swiss Laurence Rochat had to cancel because of a virus. Sprint specialist Ola Vigen Hattestad , who had been overall World Cup leader until then, voluntarily decided not to take part, as he considered the Tour de Ski to be too strenuous. The last prominent failure was last year's winner Charlotte Kalla , who finally canceled the Tour de Ski shortly before the start because of a cold.
Forecasts
Since seven World Cup races had already taken place before the Tour de Ski, the FIS treated these athletes as favorites before the tour. The selected top favorites are marked with an asterisk (*), the favorites with a superscript one ( 1 ). All unmarked athletes were considered challengers. In addition, the last column shows what position the runner actually achieved.
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While most of the predictions for women came true, many of the men's pre-favorites did not match the top 10 athletes. Defending champion Lukáš Bauer in particular did not meet the expectations placed in him, but he also focused particularly on the Nordic World Ski Championships , which took place in 2009 with Liberec in his home country. The later Tour winner Dario Cologna was also considered a possible favorite before the stage race, as he had already distinguished himself as an all-rounder in the first World Cup competitions and was second in the overall World Cup. Axel Teichmann did not see himself as a favorite before the Tour de Ski, but took on this role after good results in the first races.
World cup
In the seven World Cup races before the Tour de Ski, some athletes had stood out for both women and men, including some who had barely appeared before.
In the women's category , Aino-Kaisa Saarinen was already the relay world champion in 2007, but she had only celebrated one individual World Cup victory. In November and December 2008, however, she performed more strongly than in previous years and secured the lead in the overall World Cup with four podium finishes in the first five races and two other top ten results. Just eight points behind was the Slovenian Petra Majdič , who had been strong in previous years, but more as a sprint specialist. This season, too, she had won all three sprints that had taken place up to the start of the tour, which made her the favorite, especially for the sprint standings. In third and fourth place were two established athletes, Marit Bjørgen and Virpi Kuitunen .
The men's overall classification was led by a cross-country skier, Ola Vigen Hattestad , who scored his points exclusively in sprints, where he had won all three races. As a pure sprint specialist, Hattestad did not take part in the Tour de Ski, so the young Swiss Dario Cologna had the chance to take the lead in the overall World Cup. The U23 world champion had only collected a few points in the previous season and was therefore considered a surprise. His all-rounder qualities in particular helped him to his good position in the overall World Cup; although he had only reached one podium, there were already 208 points on his account. Another sprinter followed with Tor Arne Hetland in third place, while distance runner and fourth-placed Johan Olsson decided not to start the tour. Petter Northug in fifth place had shown himself particularly strong in the endurance races that season, but in the previous winters he had also been successful in the sprint.
Overall World Cup results before the Tour de Ski
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Venues and races
Location of the venues |
Oberhof :
- December 27th: Prologue, free technique , individual start, 2.5 km (women) and 3.75 km (men).
- December 28: Pursuit, classic, handicap start *, 10 km (women) and 15 km (men).
Prague :
- December 29th: Sprint, free technique, 1 km (women and men).
- December 31: Endurance race, classic, 10 km (women) and 15 km (men).
- January 1st: Sprint, free technique, 1 km (women and men) ..
- January 3: Endurance race, classic, mass start, 10 km (women) and 20 km (men).
- January 4th: 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.e. 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
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The overall ranking is based on the cumulative times of all seven tour stages. In sprint competitions, the qualification time is counted. Furthermore, bonus seconds will be deducted from the end time before this was added to the total time. Bonus seconds are 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 will be awarded to the best 30 athletes. These points are only counted for the overall World Cup.
space | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14th | 15th |
Tour de Ski | 400 | 320 | 240 | 200 | 180 | 160 | 144 | 128 | 116 | 104 | 96 | 88 | 80 | 72 | 64 |
space | 16 | 17th | 18th | 19th | 20th | 21st | 22nd | 23 | 24 | 25th | 26th | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30th |
Tour de Ski | 60 | 56 | 52 | 48 | 44 | 40 | 36 | 32 | 28 | 24 | 20th | 16 | 12 | 8th | 4th |
First, the Germans Axel Teichmann and Claudia Nystad won the leadership jersey as prologue winners. Nystad lost this on the second stage, a pursuit race after the prologue, on the first kilometers. From the six-strong leading group of favorites, the Finn Virpi Kuitunen was able to take the lead in the overall ranking. In the men's race, Dario Cologna from Switzerland took the lead a few seconds ahead of Teichmann. While Cologna, as a good sprinter, also defended the jersey in the first sprint race in Prague , Kuitunen fell far behind and left the overall lead to the Italian Arianna Follis . This in turn lost a lot of time to Kuitunen in the endurance race in Nové Město na Moravě , so that the Finn and winner of the Tour de Ski 2006/07 took the lead again. Cologna, on the other hand, managed to maintain its lead this time, although he lost half a minute to Axel Teichmann.
In the second sprint, Aino-Kaisa Saarinen won the women's jersey because she was better than Kuitunen. Cologna defended the top again by reaching the final in this competition. In the mass start race in Val di Fiemme , the Swiss also retained the overall lead, but was only half a minute ahead of his closest rival Axel Teichmann. For the third time, Virpi Kuitunen took the lead again in the women’s race after securing a few bonus seconds. On the last stage, both leaders held their own at the top, with Cologna clearly winning and Kuitunen narrowly.
Overall standings after seven races:
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Sprint standings overall
All bonus seconds awarded were counted for the sprint evaluation. Since these could also be achieved in intermediate sprints during the mass start race, not only pure sprinters had the chance of winning this classification. In total, a maximum of 225 bonus seconds could be achieved in four races. See also the following table:
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prolog | 15th | 10 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sprints (twice) | 60 | 56 | 52 | 48 | 44 | 42 | 40 | 38 | 36 | 34 | 32 | 30th | 18th | 17th | 16 | 15th | 14th | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8th | 7th | 6th | 5 | 4th | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Intermediate sprints at mass start (six times) |
15th | 10 | 5 |
In the prologue, Claudia Nystad and Axel Teichmann, the winners of their respective races, took the lead. Since Petra Majdič and Justyna Kowalczyk finished third at the same time in the women's competition , they both received five bonus seconds. After the first sprint in Prague , the jerseys of the leaders went to the two winners Arianna Follis and Tor Arne Hetland , who were each credited with 60 seconds. While Hetland was still further behind in the overall classification, Follis took the lead there too, so Claudia Nystad, who had collected the second-most with a total of 57 bonus seconds, was allowed to wear the jersey on the fourth stage.
Follis also won the second sprint in Nové Město na Moravě and clearly defended the lead, as did Hetland with his second place. Despite the double success in the sprints, the Italian did not manage to win the sprint standings because Petra Majdič secured 35 bonus seconds in the intermediate sprints on the penultimate stage and kept Follis 18 seconds behind in the classification. Hetland, on the other hand, managed to defend his jersey on the last stage with time bonuses by gaining fifteen seconds. Second was the Swiss Dario Cologna .
Overall standings after four races:
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Nations ranking
For the nation ranking, the two best male and female athletes of a nation will be evaluated per stage.
Overall standings after seven races:
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+ 8: 55.5 min |
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+ 10: 18.1 min |
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+ 11: 38.1 min |
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+ 40: 24.9 min |
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Stages
In pursuit competitions with a handicap start, the pure running time is used to determine the stage result, so that the finish line does not have to be identical to the stage result. World Cup points were awarded for the best 30 participants at each stage. These points were included in both the overall World Cup ranking and the discipline rankings. The prerequisite for receiving the World Cup points was the completion of all stages of the Tour de Ski.
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Tour de Ski stage | 50 | 46 | 43 | 40 | 37 | 34 | 32 | 30th | 28 | 26th | 24 | 22nd | 20th | 18th | 16 | 15th | 14th | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8th | 7th | 6th | 5 | 4th | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Oberhof (prologue)
The start of the Tour de Ski 2008/2009 was shaped by the German starters in front of a home crowd. Claudia Nystad achieved her third victory in a World Cup competition after a slow start to the season. She relegated the Italian sprint specialist Arianna Follis to second place. Third place was shared by the co-favorites for this year's overall victory Petra Majdič and Justyna Kowalczyk .
The men's race was dominated by Axel Teichmann . The Oberhofer relegated the Swiss Dario Cologna to second place with a lead of eight seconds . The Norwegian Petter Northug , who like Cologna was one of the contenders for victory on this tour, came in third.
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Oberhof (pursuit)
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The race was started at the intervals that arose in the prologue (handicap start), whereby the bonus seconds were also taken into account. There were several groups among the women, with most of the favorites in the front. Claudia Nystad quickly fell back from the lead and couldn't keep up with the group of favorites. At the front, the group of six around Virpi Kuitunen , Marit Bjørgen , Justyna Kowalczyk , Arianna Follis , Aino-Kaisa Saarinen and Petra Majdič remained fairly compact for a long time before Majdič had to tear off a few kilometers from the finish. Shortly before the finish line, Kowalczyk, Follis and Saarinen were also slightly behind by a few seconds. Virpi Kuitunen just took the lead in the overall standings ahead of Marit Bjørgen, less than ten seconds behind the three fallen athletes. Only Majdič got a bigger deficit, which was almost half a minute.
In the men's race, Dario Cologna was 13 seconds behind Axel Teichmann just a few kilometers after the start. These two cross-country skiers now formed a leading group that always kept the gap to the very large field of pursuers at around 25 seconds. Before the finish line, Cologna pulled away from Teichmann by just under five seconds, taking the top of the overall standings. Behind them were Sami Jauhojärvi and Devon Kershaw in third and fourth.
Note: In this table only the time that the respective athlete achieved on the pursuit route is given, not the times of the finish line. However, since the results in the prologue were quite close together, the difference between these two results is not very clear.
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Prague (Sprint)
As with World Cup sprints, all runners started in an individually run prologue. The thirty athletes who needed the shortest time there qualified for five quarter-finals with six starters each. So it went on in the knockout system until the finals, where six cross-country skiers each competed for women and men. Places 7 to 12 were determined in the B final. After that, the athletes received bonus seconds according to their final results, which were deducted from the total time.
Already in the men's prologue, Axel Teichmann, who was second in the overall standings , was eliminated by then. With the women, too, with the wearer of the red jersey, Virpi Kuitunen , a favorite failed early in the quarter-finals. After Dario Cologna was eliminated from the men’s finals, no athletes from Germany, Austria or Switzerland qualified for the men’s final. In the women's category , the German Claudia Nystad managed to do this , but she fell there and was unable to defend the lead in the sprint classification, which was taken over by the winner Arianna Follis . In the men's category, too, the sprint winner, Tor Arne Hetland, took the lead. In the overall standings for women, Kuitunen fell far behind, with Follis taking the lead here too. Despite losing out in the semi-finals, Dario Cologna asserted himself against the men.
Note: The list is sorted according to the end result in the sprint, i.e. the bonus seconds achieved. In addition, the prologue time is included in the overall ranking, this is noted in the time column .
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Note: BS = bonus seconds
Nové Město na Moravě (endurance race)
The distance race was the only one besides the prologue that was run individually, that is, at fixed intervals of half a minute or one minute.
For women, there were frequent changes in the fastest times before the favorites came. Virpi Kuitunen , who fell behind in the overall classification due to the sprint, set a new best time at every intermediate measurement point, which was ultimately more than a minute below the previous one. Her rivals also lost a lot of time on the Finn, but also kept the rest of the field at a distance. Kuitunen's compatriot Aino-Kaisa Saarinen , overall World Cup leader, was almost 40 seconds behind at the finish line, while the previously leading Italian Arianna Follis was even more than a minute and 45 seconds behind . Despite being behind before the race, Kuitunen clearly took back the overall lead.
In contrast to the women's competition, the men's race was tighter. Surprisingly, the internationally less successful Kazakhs Nikolai Chebotko took the lead, which he held for a long time. Only Axel Teichmann , who had already won the prologue and like Kuitunen had fallen behind in the sprint, was the first favorite to undercut Chebotko's target. Martin Johnsrud Sundby had already improved Chebotko's time before that, but the Norwegian fell five seconds behind Teichmann. After further favorites had fallen behind, the Russian Wassili Rotschew was able to set an interim best time at the last measuring point. Rotschew, who had been on the road with Teichmann for a long time, lost over half a minute to the German on the last three-kilometer lap. Also Dario Cologna not approached at the time, but defended the overall lead. For the Kazakhs Chebotko, the third place ultimately achieved was his best ever successful World Cup result.
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Nové Město na Moravě (Sprint)
In the second sprint, the rules of the first applied. Since the course in Nové Město was rated much more difficult than the city route in Prague and the distance race between the two sprints was 9 and 15 kilometers respectively, the distance runners also figured they had a chance of a top placement. In fact, all of the favorites for both women and men qualified for the quarter-finals. With the exception of Justyna Kowalczyk, this also took place without favorites for the women , while Axel Teichmann had to finish his race for the men , as did the Finn Sami Jauhojärvi .
In the semi-finals, the overall leader Virpi Kuitunen failed in the women , so that her compatriot Aino-Kaisa Saarinen in particular had the opportunity to take the lead. In the men's category, Wassili Rotschew and Eldar Rønning failed in the semifinals, while Dario Cologna made it to the final so that he was able to extend his lead. The Swedes Anna Haag and Rotschew won the B final . The women's final began with Magda Genuin taking the lead with her skis, which had been declared particularly good. At the finish line she was finally passed by her teammate Arianna Follis , who also triumphed in the second sprint. Genuin also fell behind the new overall leader Saarinen and the Slovenian Petra Majdič and came in fourth.
In the men's final three of the six starters were Norwegians. Petter Northug , otherwise known for attacking on the home straight in most races, drove the sprint from the front as well as the previous laps. Nikolai Tschebotko , who had qualified again for the final after his first place on the podium the day before, fell back a little, as did Dario Cologna. Only Cristian Zorzi , who placed third in Northug's victory, prevented the Norwegians from triumphing three times . Tor Arne Hetland retained the lead in the sprint standings thanks to his second place, as did Arianna Follis.
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Val di Fiemme (endurance race)
This competition was the only mass start of the entire Tour de Ski, that is, all participants started at the same time and the distances at the finish were added to the total time. There were also three or six points at which the first three athletes received 15, 10 and 5 bonus seconds. These were also included in the sprint rating.
In the women's race over 10 kilometers, Virpi Kuitunen managed to win, the Finnish woman was again at the top of the overall standings for the third time. In addition, Kuitunen secured an additional 40 bonus seconds with which she extended the lead over her toughest pursuer Aino-Kaisa Saarinen to 32 seconds. Petra Majdič , who finished second in this race and third in the overall standings, also collected 35 bonus seconds. With that she won the sprint standings ahead of Arianna Follis , who had triumphed in both special sprints, but came away empty-handed on the penultimate stage.
The first laps in the 20-kilometer men's race were characterized by constant attacks, so that the bonus seconds were distributed among many athletes, some of whom were even further behind in the overall standings. After these attacks had been fended off by the large main field, the two front runners Dario Cologna and Axel Teichmann in particular sprinted for time credits. On the last lap, Cologna tried again to break away from Teichmann, but the German was brought back to the front group by his team-mate Jens Filbrich and finally took his third day's win in the sprint to the finish. Behind them were the Finn Sami Jauhojärvi and the Kazakh Nikolai Tschebotko , who already achieved his second podium result at the Tour de Ski. Cologna was fourth two seconds behind Teichmann, losing twenty bonus seconds to the German through the intermediate sprints, but retained the lead in the overall standings. Nothing at the top changed in the sprint classification either, which Tor Arne Hetland defended .
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Val di Fiemme (mountain pursuit)
As in previous years, the decision of the Tour de Ski was made on the Final Climb in Val di Fiemme . The handicap women's race over nine kilometers began on the initially flatter terrain with Virpi Kuitunen increasing her lead over pursuer Aino-Kaisa Saarinen to over 50 seconds up to six kilometers. Third placed Petra Majdič initially lost time on Kuitunen, but then teamed up with Saarinen. Together, the two pursuers caught up with the Finn in the lead for more than half a minute, before Majdič Saarinen's pace again could not keep up and fell away from her. Nevertheless, Kuitunen's compatriot managed to overtake and overtake the leaders; in the last intermediate time 900 meters from the finish, Saarinen was 3.4 seconds ahead of last year's runner-up. Unlike last year, when Kuitunen had to let her rival Charlotte Kalla win, this time she managed to return to the top. Now Saarinen was no longer able to keep Kuitunen, so she triumphed in the Tour de Ski for the second time. More than half a minute after the winner, Petra Majdič crossed the finish line, followed by Justyna Kowalczyk from Poland, the Italian Marianna Longa and the Norwegian Therese Johaug , who moved up from 11th to sixth place with the best running time of the day. On the other hand, Johaug's team mate Marit Bjørgen had a bad day, losing six places and dropping from fourth to tenth place. In total she lost almost four minutes on Johaug over the nine kilometers. Kristin Størmer Steira also completed a strong race , which, like Johaug, placed herself in the top 10.
In the men's race, the leader Dario Cologna, like Kuitunen, tackled the race quickly, the gap to Axel Teichmann increased from 35 seconds to one minute at the beginning of the climb. Behind it, a group of three had come together, consisting of the Russian Wassili Rotschew and the two Norwegians Eldar Rønning and Petter Northug . This group, in turn, was more than a minute ahead of a large group of ten athletes. During the first 500 meters of the climb, Rønning fell away from Rotschew and Northug and was overtaken by the group behind. From this Giorgio Di Centa , who had run a strong race up to then and had also lost Cologna a few seconds, pulled away. Teichmann was 1.5 kilometers from the finish on the Alpe Cermis one and a half minutes behind Cologna and ten seconds ahead of Rotschew and Northug. While the leading Swiss had a reassuring lead on the last kilometer, Teichmann kept his tight time cushion of ten seconds on the two pursuers. The two Italians di Centa and Pietro Piller Cottrer as well as the French Jean-Marc Gaillard followed with only ten to twenty seconds behind them . Shortly after the last timing point, Rotschew Northug no longer stopped, although the latter started more successfully as a sprinter. While Rotschew was quickly overtaken by Giorgio Di Centa, Northug approached Axel Teichmann and sprinted over him on the home straight. The Norwegian was 59 seconds behind Dario Cologna, who won the Tour de Ski with ease without being fastest in a single stage. Di Centa finished fourth, followed by Rotschew, Gaillard and Piller Cottrer. Last year's winner Lukáš Bauer from the Czech Republic advanced from 19th to eleventh place, but still missed the top 10, more than two minutes behind Cologna. The fastest of the day, however, was surprisingly the Canadian Ivan Babikov , who hardly benefited from this in the overall standings and was a good seven minutes behind in 36th place. Tom Reichelt , who finished the Tour de Ski in 29th place, was only 1.5 seconds slower than Babikov .
Note: In this table only the time that the respective athlete achieved on the pursuit route is given, not the times of the finish line. The finish line is based on the final result of the Tour de Ski.
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World Cup points
This list shows the athletes who were in the first ten places in the overall classification after the Tour de Ski 2008/2009. The points before and after the Tour de Ski as well as the placements at the individual stages are named. For the latter, points were awarded according to the following pattern.
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Points | 50 | 46 | 43 | 40 | 37 | 34 | 32 | 30th | 28 | 26th | 24 | 22nd | 20th | 18th | 16 | 15th | 14th | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8th | 7th | 6th | 5 | 4th | 3 | 2 | 1 |
In the overall ranking of the Tour de Ski, the best 30 athletes also received four times the number of normal World Cup points of the FIS point system , the winner received 400, the second 320, etc.
Explanation
- Place: The ranking of the runner in the overall World Cup after the Tour de Ski
- Name: The name of the athlete
- 1-7: The number of points achieved in the first seven normal World Cup races
- 8-14: The placements and points in the Tour-de-Ski competitions with links to the individual competitions
- Total : The placement in the overall ranking and the associated number of points
- Points: The total number of points in the World Cup after the Tour de Ski
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Remarks
- In the second stage, World Cup points were awarded after the finish, not the race result.
- The list can be sorted : by clicking on a column header, the list is sorted according to this column; clicking twice reverses the sorting. Any combination can be achieved by clicking on several columns in a row.
Women
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397 P. |
(30 p.) |
8.
(37 p.) |
5.
(46 P.) |
2.
(46 P.) |
2.
(43 P.) |
3.
(43 P.) |
3.
(16 p.) |
15.
(320 P.) |
2. 978 P. |
2. |
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271 P. |
(32 p.) |
7.
(50 p.) |
1.
(14 p.) |
17.
(50 p.) |
1.
(30 p.) |
8.
(50 p.) |
1.
(10 p.) |
21.
(400 p.) |
1. 907 P. |
3. |
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389 P. |
(43 P.) |
3.
(34 p.) |
6.
(43 P.) |
3.
(37 p.) |
5.
(46 P.) |
2.
(46 P.) |
2.
(15 p.) |
16.
(240 p.) |
3. 893 P. |
4th |
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263 P. |
(43 P.) |
3.
(43 P.) |
3.
(24 p.) |
11.
(40 p.) |
4.
(5 p.) |
26.
(16 p.) |
15.
(40 p.) |
4.
(200 p.) |
4. 674 P. |
5. |
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280 p. |
(37 p.) |
5.
(46 P.) |
2.
(32 p.) |
7.
(43 P.) |
3.
(26 p.) |
10.
(37 p.) |
5.
(2 p.) |
29.
(104 P.) |
10. 607 P. |
6th |
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202 P. |
(46 P.) |
2.
(40 p.) |
4.
(50 p.) |
1.
(15 p.) |
16.
(50 p.) |
1.
(7 p.) |
24.
(18 p.) |
14.
(128 P.) |
8. 556 P. |
7th |
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149 P. |
(14 p.) |
17.
(30 p.) |
8.
(22 p.) |
12.
(34 p.) |
6.
(34 p.) |
6.
(40 p.) |
4.
(28 p.) |
9.
(80 p.) |
5. 531 P. |
8th. |
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200 p. |
(2 p.) |
29.
(14 p.) |
17.
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38.
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8.
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31.
(26 p.) |
10.
(46 P.) |
2.
(116 P.) |
9. 434 P. |
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130 p. |
(5 p.) |
26.
(18 p.) |
14.
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32.
(32 p.) |
7.
(1 P.) |
30.
(28 p.) |
9.
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1.
(160 p.) |
6. 424 P. |
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118 P. |
(34 p.) |
6.
(32 p.) |
7.
(40 p.) |
4.
(13 p.) |
18.
(20 p.) |
13.
(34 p.) |
6.
(8 p.) |
23.
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12. 387 P. |
Men
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208 P. |
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8.
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15.
(37 p.) |
5.
(40 p.) |
4.
(8 p.) |
23.
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1. 835 p. |
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172 P. |
(43 P.) |
3.
(28 p.) |
9.
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7.
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8.
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13.
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2. 698 P. |
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(8 p.) |
23.
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34.
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3. 581 P. |
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160 p. |
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40.
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19.
(46 P.) |
2.
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19.
(104 P.) |
10. 416 P. |
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16.
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10.
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26.
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16.
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12.
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7. 408 P. |
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70 p. |
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8.
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20.
(46 P.) |
2.
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7.
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17.
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29.
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5. 400 p. |
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56 P. |
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8.
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11.
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12.
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22.
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3.
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4. 394 P. |
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28.
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8. 387 P. |
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29.
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18.
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6.
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6. 341 P. |
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28.
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11. 336 P. |
Ratings in the course of the tour
The table shows the leader in the respective classification after the respective stage.
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Prize money
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Overall rating | 131,250 CHF | 87,750 CHF | 43,750 CHF | ... | CHF 2,187.50 | CHF 2,500 | 300,000 CHF |
Sprint scoring | 10,000 CHF | 5,000 CHF | CHF 2,500 | - | 20,000 CHF | ||
Team evaluation | 10,000 CHF | 6,000 CHF | 4,000 CHF | - | 20,000 CHF | ||
stage | 5,000 CHF | 3,000 CHF | CHF 2,000 | - | 10,000 CHF |
reporting
The sports broadcaster Eurosport took over the live broadcast of the Tour de Ski in 59 countries, including Germany . Commentator Stéphane Franke and expert Viola Bauer commented for the German-speaking audience. In addition to Eurosport, the public broadcasters ARD and ZDF alternately broadcast partly live reports and partly recordings from the Tour de Ski. Yorck Polus moderated the ZDF (without experts), the reporter was Peter Leissl , and Jens-Jörg Rieck reported on the stages as a reporter on ARD . Due to the good performance of athletes from Switzerland like Dario Cologna before the Tour de Ski, the Swiss broadcaster SF Zwei also decided to report on the Tour de Ski. Some races should be broadcast live, others in recordings. Overall, the final on the final ascent to Alpe Cermis was shown live by twelve television stations.
Review
Tour itinerary
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In the end, the results of the women came as little surprise, as Virpi Kuitunen had already finished first and second in the first two events. The Finn herself said that this success was nicer for her than the previous ones because she had to fight harder for victory. Her compatriot Aino-Kaisa Saarinen was overall satisfied with second place behind Kuitunen, even though she was "a bit disappointed" right after the tour.
In the men's race, Dario Cologna's victory was unexpected, but ultimately safe. The national media recorded the success of a Swiss in the cross-country skiing discipline, which is viewed more as a marginal sport, as the greatest success in more than 20 years; In 1988 Andreas Grünenfelder won the Olympic bronze medal over 50 kilometers. The tour winner himself expressed satisfaction, but his bigger goal was the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Petter Northug, who, like Cologna, was only 22 years old, said he and Cologna “will often fight each other in the future”. In the media there was also talk of an eternal duel beginning . The winner of the sprint classification, Tor Arne Hetland, like Axel Teichmann, was delighted with the outcome of the Tour de Ski. The conclusion for the German men's team was drawn by the German national coach Jochen Behle , who was satisfied with the performance of the male athletes, especially those of Axel Teichmann.
Overall, the media and coaches confirmed that the Tour de Ski went well, but Jochen Behle criticized the preference given to runners who were strong in the classic style and in the sprint. The Norwegian Vegard Ulvang , one of the developers of the Tour de Ski, on the other hand, saw the second place of the freestyle runner Petter Northug in the men's category as an indication that the mixture between the races of the different styles was right. On the final day of the Tour de Ski, their future was also announced; Since it had established itself and FIS President Gian-Franco Kasper was also convinced of the stage race, it will continue until at least 2013. During this period, Oberhof will always be the start of the tour and Val di Fiemme including the Final Climb the end of the tour. In addition, cities from Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Germany and the Czech Republic applied for further stages.
Impact on the World Cup
As expected, the award of the maximum achievable 750 World Cup points (400 of which alone for victory) changed the overall ranking of the World Cup significantly. The male leader until then, Ola Vigen Hattestad, fell back to 13th place due to his non-participation, while athletes such as Jean-Marc Gaillard and Vasily Rotschew improved significantly thanks to their good tour results. The women's ranking did not change that much; there Virpi Kuitunen did not manage to take over the top despite her victory, at which Aino-Kaisa Saarinen remained. The best athlete without a tour was initially Charlotte Kalla as 19.
Overall, the 400 points in the Women's World Cup at the top did little, with Justyna Kowalczyk (fourth) winning ahead of Petra Majdič (third). The two Finns Saarinen and Kuitunen fell back to third and fourth place. Things were different for the men, where Dario Cologna held the lead for a long time before Petter Northug took the lead again in the penultimate World Cup. However, Cologna secured victory in the overall World Cup at the World Cup final, so that for the third time in a row after Tobias Angerer and Lukáš Bauer, the Tour de Ski winner also became the overall World Cup winner. Ola Vigen Hattestad was able to collect many World Cup points and win the Sprint World Cup, but in the overall World Cup he was a good third behind Cologna and Northug.
Web links
- Tour de Ski 2008/09 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Tour de Ski website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nadine Gärtner: Tour de Ski 2008/2009 without Charlotte Kalla? (No longer available online.) In: xc-ski.de. January 11, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 11, 2009 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Nadine Gärtner: 18 nations at Tour de Ski: short-term cancellations. (No longer available online.) In: xc-ski.de. December 17, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 11, 2009 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Rejection because of flu-like infection. In: sport.orf.at. Retrieved January 11, 2009 .
- ↑ Green light for Tobias Angerer. In: Rheinische Post. December 23, 2008, accessed January 11, 2009 .
- ↑ Laurence Rochat falls ill - not Tour de Ski. In: live-wintersport.com. December 26, 2008, accessed January 11, 2009 .
- ↑ Dette he sprintkongen! In: Nettavisen. December 20, 2008, accessed March 11, 2009 (Norwegian).
- ↑ Two stars cancel at short notice. (No longer available online.) In: MDR.de. December 27, 2008, archived from the original on December 27, 2008 ; Retrieved January 11, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Favorites on tour-de-ski.com ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Lothar Martin: Tour de Ski: Lukáš Bauer's form curve points upwards. In: radio.cz. January 2, 2009. Retrieved January 11, 2009 .
- ↑ We are looking for the most versatile cross-country skier. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. December 27, 2008, accessed January 11, 2009 .
- ↑ Favorites are others: Axel Teichmann hopes for a good start to the tour. (No longer available online.) In: xc-ski.de. December 22, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 11, 2009 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Teichmann second in prologue. In: Der Tagesspiegel. December 28, 2008, accessed January 11, 2009 .
- ↑ "VIESSMANN" CROSS COUNTRY FIS WORLD CUP World Cup Cross-Country 2008/09 WORLD CUP STANDING LADIES OVERALL (PDF; 83 kB)
- ↑ TOUR DE SKI OVERALL STANDING LADIES ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ TOUR DE SKI OVERALL STANDING MEN
- ↑ TOUR DE SKI SPRINT STANDING LADIES (PDF; 61 kB)
- ↑ TOUR DE SKI SPRINT STANDING MEN (PDF; 64 kB)
- ↑ TOUR DE SKI TEAM STANDING AFTER STAGE 7 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Prologue Ladies 2.8 km Free Individual Results ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Prologue Men 3.7 km Free Individual Results ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ladies 10 km Classic Pursuit 'Handicap' Start Result ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Men 15 km Classic Pursuit 'Handicap' Start Result ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ladies 1.3 km Free Sprint Results ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Men 1.3 km Free Sprint Results ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ladies 9 km Classic Individual Results ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Men 15 km Classic Individual Results ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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- ↑ Men 1.2 km Free Sprint Results ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ladies 10 km Classic Mass Start Results ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Men 20 km Classic Mass Start Results ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ladies 9 km Free Final Climb Pursuit 'Handicap' Start Result ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Men 10 km Free Final Climb Pursuit 'Handicap' Start Result ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ WORLD CUP STANDING LADIES OVERALL ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ WORLD CUP STANDING MEN OVERALL ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ FIS Tour de Ski Prize Money ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Alexander Rösch: Eurosport reports on "FIS Tour de Ski". (No longer available online.) In: magnus.de. December 16, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 14, 2009 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Mario Felgenhauer: Tour de Ski: highlight and challenge at the same time. (No longer available online.) In: xc-ski.de. December 23, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 14, 2009 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Program of the ZDF SPORTextra from January 3, 2009 ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On tv14.de. Retrieved March 14, 2009.
- ↑ Program of the ZDF SPORTextra from December 29, 2008 ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On tv14.de. Retrieved March 14, 2009.
- ↑ Cross-country Tour de Ski from December 27, 2008 ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On tv14.de. Retrieved March 14, 2009.
- ↑ SF two shows Tour de Ski with Dario Cologna. (No longer available online.) In: swiss-ski.ch. December 23, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 14, 2009 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Benedikt Vogt: Cross-country trails. In: swiss-ski.ch. December 27, 2008, accessed March 14, 2009 .
- ↑ a b c Voices after the final stage: "I will certainly fight Cologna often in the future". (No longer available online.) In: xc-ski.de. January 5, 2009, archived from the original on December 17, 2009 ; Retrieved March 22, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Cologna superior Tour de Ski winner. In: swissinfo.org. January 4, 2009, accessed March 22, 2009 .
- ↑ As good as won an epic duel. In: nzz.ch. March 22, 2009. Retrieved March 22, 2009 .
- ↑ a b National coach Behle draws a conclusion on the tour: light and shadow in the German camp. (No longer available online.) In: xc-ski.de. January 5, 2009; archived from the original on December 14, 2009 ; Retrieved March 22, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Tour de Ski continues in Oberhof. In: focus.de. January 4, 2009, accessed March 24, 2009 .