2020-21_FIS_Cross-Country_World_Cup

2020–21 FIS Cross-Country World Cup
2020–21 FIS Cross-Country World Cup
Discipline	Men
Overall	Alexander Bolshunov (2)
Distance	Alexander Bolshunov (3)
Sprint	Federico Pellegrino (2)
U-23	Hugo Lapalus (2)
Bonus Ranking	Alexander Bolshunov (1)
Nations Cup	Russia (3)
Nations Cup Overall	Russia (3)
Stage events
Nordic Opening	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo (3)
Tour de Ski	Alexander Bolshunov (2)
Competition
Locations	10 venues
Individual	21 events
Relay/Team	3 events
	←2019–20 2021–22→

2020–21 FIS Cross-Country World Cup

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The 2020–21 FIS Cross-Country World Cup was the 40th official World Cup season in cross-country skiing for men and women.

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The season began with the Nordic Opening stage event on 27–29 November 2020 in Ruka, Finland and was planned to conclude with the World Cup Finals on 19–21 March 2021 in Beijing, China.^[1] However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, FIS announced on 4 December 2020 that all events in China, including the Cross-Country World Cup final were cancelled.^[2] World Cup Finals were moved to Lillehammer, where December competitions couldn't be arranged. However, on 12 February 2021, all the events scheduled in Oslo and Lillehammer were cancelled due to ongoing pandemic. The World Cup Final stage event was called off this year and the season ended on 13–14 March in Engadin, Switzerland, where the final pursuit races made a replacement for cancelled 30/50 kilometers annual competition in Oslo. The pandemic also reduced participation, after the opening in Ruka the Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish teams announced that they would not compete in Davos and Dresden as they felt that they could not guarantee a safe environment.^[3] Later, Norway announced they would also not participate in Tour de Ski.^[4]

Achievements

Only individual events.

First World Cup career victory

Men

Erik Valnes, 24, in his 4th season – the WC 1 (Sprint C) in Ruka; first podium was 2018–19 WC 8 (Sprint F) in Dresden
Oskar Svensson, 25, in his 8th season – the WC 5 (Sprint C) in Val di Fiemme; also first podium
Denis Spitsov, 24, in his 4th season – the WC 5 (10 km Mass Start F) in Val di Fiemme; first podium was 2017–18 WC 8 (9 km Pursuit F) in Val di Fiemme

Women

Rosie Brennan, 31, in her 10th season – the WC 2 (Sprint F) in Davos; first podium was 2020–21 WC 1 (10 km Pursuit F) in Ruka
Nadine Fähndrich, 25, in her 6th season – the WC 4 (Sprint F) in Dresden; first podium was 2018–19 WC 14 (10 km C) in Cogne
Ebba Andersson, 23, in her 5th season – the WC 5 (10 km Mass Start F) in Val di Fiemme; first podium was 2018–19 WC 2 (10 km C) in Ruka
Maja Dahlqvist, 26, in her 7th season – the WC 10 (Sprint F) in Ulricehamn; first podium was 2017–18 WC 9 (Sprint F) in Dresden

First World Cup podium

Men

Aleksey Chervotkin, 25, in his 7th season – no. 2 in the WC 1 (15 km C) in Ruka
Artem Maltsev, 27, in his 5th season – no. 3 in the WC 3 (15 km F) in Davos
Oskar Svensson, 25, in his 8th season – no. 1 in the WC 5 (Sprint C) in Val di Fiemme
Jens Burman, 26, in his 7th season – no. 3 in the WC 12 (50 km Pursuit F) in Engadin

Women

Helene Marie Fossesholm, 19, in her 2nd season – no. 2 in the WC 1 (10 km Pursuit F) in Ruka
Rosie Brennan, 31, in her 10th season – no. 3 in the WC 1 (10 km Pursuit F) in Ruka
Tatiana Sorina, 26, in her 4th season – no. 2 in the WC 1 (11th Nordic Opening overall) in Ruka
Hailey Swirbul, 22, in her 3rd season – no. 3 in the WC 3 (10 km F) in Davos
Emma Ribom, 23, in her 3rd season – no. 3 in the WC 5 (Sprint C) in Val di Fiemme
Delphine Claudel, 24, in her 5th season – no. 3 in the WC 5 (10 km Mass Start F) in Val di Fiemme

Victories in this World Cup (all-time number of victories in parentheses)

Men

Alexander Bolshunov, 10 (27) first places
Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, 3 (40) first places
Federico Pellegrino, 3 (16) first places
Oskar Svensson, 2 (2) first places
Emil Iversen, 1 (8) first place
Simen Hegstad Krüger, 1 (4) first place
Hans Christer Holund, 1 (2) first place
Erik Valnes, 1 (1) first place
Denis Spitsov, 1 (1) first place

Women

Linn Svahn, 6 (9) first places
Therese Johaug, 4 (77) first places
Jessie Diggins, 4 (10) first places
Yuliya Stupak, 2 (3) first places
Rosie Brennan, 2 (2) first places
Heidi Weng, 1 (12) first place
Natalya Nepryayeva, 1 (3) first place
Nadine Fähndrich, 1 (1) first place
Ebba Andersson, 1 (1) first place
Maja Dahlqvist, 1 (1) first place

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2020-21_FIS_Cross-Country_World_Cup

2020–21 FIS Cross-Country World Cup

Calendar

Men

Women

Men's standings

Overall

Distance

Sprint

Prize money

U23

Bonus Ranking

Women's standings

Overall

Distance

Sprint

Prize money

U23

Bonus Ranking

Nations Cup

Overall

Men

Women

Points distribution

Achievements

Retirements

References

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2020–21 FIS Cross-Country World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Alexander Bolshunov (2)	Jessie Diggins (1)
Distance	Alexander Bolshunov (3)	Jessie Diggins (1)
Sprint	Federico Pellegrino (2)	Anamarija Lampič (1)
U-23	Hugo Lapalus (2)	Linn Svahn (1)
Bonus Ranking	Alexander Bolshunov (1)	Linn Svahn (1)
Nations Cup	Russia (3)	Sweden (1)
Nations Cup Overall	Russia (3)
Stage events
Nordic Opening	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo (3)	Therese Johaug (4)
Tour de Ski	Alexander Bolshunov (2)	Jessie Diggins (1)
Competition
Locations	10 venues	10 venues
Individual	21 events	21 events
Relay/Team	3 events	3 events
←2019–20 2021–22→

WC	Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib	Ref.

	1	27 November 2020	Ruka	Sprint C	Erik Valnes	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Emil Iversen	Erik Valnes	^[5]
	2	28 November 2020		15 km C	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Aleksey Chervotkin	Alexander Bolshunov	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	^[6]
	3	29 November 2020		15 km F Pursuit	Hans Christer Holund	Andrey Melnichenko	Sjur Røthe	Emil Iversen	^[7]
1	11th Nordic Opening Overall (27–29 November 2020)				Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Alexander Bolshunov	Emil Iversen	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	^[8]

		4 December 2020	Lillehammer	Sprint C	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[9]

		5 December 2020		30 km Skiathlon
6 December 2020	4 × 7.5 km Relay C/F
2	4	12 December 2020	Davos	Sprint F	Federico Pellegrino	Alexander Bolshunov	Andrew Young	Alexander Bolshunov	^[10]
3	5	13 December 2020	Davos	15 km F	Alexander Bolshunov	Andrey Melnichenko	Artem Maltsev		^[11]
4	6	19 December 2020	Dresden	Sprint F	Federico Pellegrino	Andrew Young	Gleb Retivykh		^[12]
		20 December 2020	Dresden	Team Sprint F	Russia I Alexander Bolshunov Gleb Retivykh	France I Richard Jouve Lucas Chanavat	Italy I Francesco de Fabiani Federico Pellegrino		^[13]

	7	1 January 2021	Val Müstair	Sprint F	Federico Pellegrino	Alexander Bolshunov	Richard Jouve	Alexander Bolshunov	^[14]
	8	2 January 2021		15 km C Mass Start	Alexander Bolshunov	Dario Cologna	Ivan Yakimushkin		^[15]
	9	3 January 2021		15 km F Pursuit	Alexander Bolshunov	Artem Maltsev	Maurice Manificat		^[16]
	10	5 January 2021	Toblach	15 km F	Alexander Bolshunov	Denis Spitsov	Ivan Yakimushkin		^[17]
	11	6 January 2021	Toblach	15 km C Pursuit	Alexander Bolshunov	Ivan Yakimushkin	Evgeniy Belov		^[18]
	12	8 January 2021	Val di Fiemme	15 km C Mass Start	Alexander Bolshunov	Francesco De Fabiani	Aleksey Chervotkin		^[19]
	13	9 January 2021		Sprint C	Oskar Svensson	Gleb Retivykh	Alexander Bolshunov		^[20]
	14	10 January 2021		10 km F Mass Start Climb	Denis Spitsov	Alexander Bolshunov	Maurice Manificat		^[21]
5	15th Tour de Ski Overall (1–10 January 2021)				Alexander Bolshunov	Maurice Manificat	Denis Spitsov		^[22]

6	15	23 January 2021	Lahti	30 km Skiathlon	Emil Iversen	Sjur Røthe	Pål Golberg	Alexander Bolshunov	^[23]
		24 January 2021	Lahti	4 × 7.5 km Relay C/F	Norway Pål Golberg Emil Iversen Sjur Røthe Simen Hegstad Krüger	Finland I Perttu Hyvärinen Ristomatti Hakola Iivo Niskanen Joni Mäki	Russia II Ilia Semikov Ivan Yakimushkin Andrey Melnichenko Sergey Ustiugov		^[24]
7	16	29 January 2021	Falun	15 km F	Alexander Bolshunov	Simen Hegstad Krüger	Sjur Røthe		^[25]
8	17	30 January 2021		15 km C Mass Start	Alexander Bolshunov	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Pål Golberg		^[26]
9	18	31 January 2021		Sprint C	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Oskar Svensson	Håvard Solås Taugbøl		^[27]
10	19	6 February 2021	Ulricehamn^[28]	Sprint F	Oskar Svensson	Gleb Retivykh	Federico Pellegrino		^[29]
		7 February 2021	Ulricehamn^[28]	Team Sprint F	Italy I Francesco de Fabiani Federico Pellegrino	Switzerland I Jovian Hediger Roman Furger	Sweden II Karl-Johan Westberg Johan Häggström		^[30]
		20 February 2021	Nové Město	Sprint C	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[31]
			Nové Město		Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[31]
21 February 2021	15 km F
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2021 (23 February–7 March)
11	20	13 March 2021	Engadin	15 km C Mass Start	Alexander Bolshunov	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Pål Golberg	Alexander Bolshunov	^[32]
12	21	14 March 2021	Engadin	50 km F Pursuit	Simen Hegstad Krüger	Hans Christer Holund	Jens Burman	Alexander Bolshunov	^[33]

		19 March 2021	Beijing	Sprint F	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[34]
		20 March 2021		15 km Skiathlon
		21 March 2021		15 km C Pursuit
	2020–21 World Cup Finals Overall (19–21 March 2021)

Place	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31 - 40	>40

Individual	100	80	60	50	45	40	36	32	29	26	24	22	20	18	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

Nordic Opening	200	160	120	100	90	80	72	64	58	52	48	44	40	36	32	30	28	26	24	22	20	18	16	14	12	10	8	6	4	2
World Cup Final
Relay (Nations Cup)
Team Sprint (Nations Cup)

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	20	20	20	20	20	10	5

Stage Nordic Opening	50	46	43	40	37	34	32	30	28	26	24	22	20	18	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1
Stage Tour de Ski
Stage World Cup Final

Relay (Individual points)	25	20	15	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1
Team Sprint (Individual points)

Bonus points (Mass Start checkpoints)	15	12	10	8	6	5	4	3	2	1