1994–95 FIS Cross-Country World Cup

Cross-country skiing competition 1994–95 FIS Cross-Country World Cup Overall NOR Bjørn Dæhlie (3rd title) RUS Yelena Välbe (4th title) Nations Cup NOR Norway RUS Russia Nations Cup Overall RUS Russia 10 venues 10 venues 15 events 15 events events events 1993–94 1995–96 The 1994–95 FIS Cross-Country World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season for cross-country skiers. It was the 14th official World Cup season in cross-country skiing for men and women. The World Cup was organised by the International Ski Federation who also run world cups and championships in ski jumping, snowboarding and alpine skiing amongst others. Bjørn Dæhlie reclaimed the crystal World Cup globe which Vladimir Smirnov had won in the 1993–94 season, thus taking his third overall men's World Cup title in four seasons. Smirnov won more races, with six wins including three during the 1995 World Championships, but Dæhlie was usually the runner-up. Also, one of Smirnov's World Championship wins didn't count towards the overall standings. Silvio Fauner, Harri Kirvesniemi, Torgny Mogren and Alexey Prokurorov also registered World Cup wins during the season. In the women's Cup, Yelena Välbe won the six first events, and eventually won nine of the 15 races including one gold at the World Championships. Russians occupied the top five spots in the women's World Cup, with multiple races having three or more Russians on top of the standings. Only the Lahti 10 km was not won by a Russian skier, and in 11 of the 15 races did Russians occupy the top two spots in the standings. According to the Norwegian publication Sportsboken, the Russian women had not been this dominant since the 1970s.Eriksen et al., p. 29. Calendar Men + C – Classic / F – FreestyleWC World CupDatePlaceDisciplineWinnerSecondThirdRef. Reference 127 November 1994   SWE Kiruna10 km C   NOR Bjørn Dæhlie KAZ Vladimir Smirnov NOR Kristen Skjeldal 214 December 1994   AUT Tauplitzalm15 km C   RUS Alexey Prokourorov NOR Bjørn Dæhlie SWE Niklas Jonsson 317 December 1994   ITA Sappada15 km F   NOR Bjørn Dæhlie ITA Silvio Fauner FIN Jari Isometsä 420 December 1994   ITA Sappada10 km F   SWE Torgny Mogren SWE Henrik Forsberg KAZ Vladimir Smirnov 58 January 1995   SWE Östersund30 km F   NOR Bjørn Dæhlie RUS Alexey Prokourorov NOR Thomas Alsgaard 614 January 1995   CZE Nové Město15 km C   FIN Harri Kirvesniemi FIN Jari Isometsä ITA Silvio Fauner 727 January 1995   FIN Lahti15 km F   KAZ Vladimir Smirnov NOR Bjørn Dæhlie FIN Jari Isometsä 829 January 1995   FIN Lahti15 km C   KAZ Vladimir Smirnov FIN Jari Isometsä NOR Bjørn Dæhlie 94 February 1995   SWE Falun30 km C   NOR Bjørn Dæhlie ITA Silvio Fauner KAZ Vladimir Smirnov 1011 February 1995   NOR Oslo50 km C   KAZ Vladimir Smirnov RUS Alexey Prokourorov RUS Mikhail Botvinov FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1995n wsc Until FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1999, World Championship races are part of the World Cup. Hence results from those races are included in the World Cup overall. (9–19 March)119 March 1995   CAN Thunder Bay30 km C   KAZ Vladimir Smirnov NOR Bjørn Dæhlie RUS Alexey Prokourorov 1211 March 1995   CAN Thunder Bay10 km F   KAZ Vladimir Smirnov NOR Bjørn Dæhlie FIN Mika Myllylä 1313 March 1995   CAN Thunder Bay15 km F Pursuit   KAZ Vladimir Smirnov ITA Silvio Fauner FIN Jari Isometsä 1419 March 1995   CAN Thunder Bay50 km F   ITA Silvio Fauner NOR Bjørn Dæhlie KAZ Vladimir Smirnov 1525 March 1995   JPN Sapporo15 km F   NOR Bjørn Dæhlie KAZ Vladimir Smirnov NOR Thomas Alsgaard Women WC World Cup Date Place Discipline Winner Second Third Ref. Reference1 27 November 1994 SWE Kiruna, Sweden 5 km C Yelena Välbe RUS Nina Gavrylyuk RUS Trude Dybendahl NOR Välbe won the 15-minute race with a 15-second margin, while Dybendahl took the only other podium place – it was to be the only podium place for Norway until Lahti.2 14 December 1994 AUT Tauplitz, Austria 10 km C Yelena Välbe RUS Nina Gavrylyuk RUS Olga Danilova RUS After a two-week break, the skiers resumed with a Wednesday race in Tauplitz, for the first World Cup race in the Austrian resort in five years. Välbe doubled her advantage to Gavrylyuk, while Danilova took third place in Dybendahl's absence, improving from 12th place in Kiruna. Larisa Lazutina placed fourth to complete the row of Russians.3 17 December 1994 ITA Sappada, Italy 15 km F Yelena Välbe RUS Olga Korneyeva RUS Nina Gavrylyuk RUS The Russians went one better than in Tauplitz, occupying the first five spots. Välbe won by 41 seconds, while Korneeva overtook both Gavrylyuk and Danilova in the longer distance, and earned the right to a relay stage for the first team the following day. 4 20 December 1994 ITA Sappada, Italy 5 km F Yelena Välbe RUSNina Gavrylyuk RUS Olga Korneyeva RUS In the final race before Christmas, someone managed to come close to Välbe. It was the same podium as the 15 km three days earlier, but Korneyeva was distanced by 11 seconds. Seven Russians placed on top of the standings.http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/610.html?sector=CC&raceid=552 FIS-SKI - resultats - Sappada 20.10.1994 2007-01-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20070929162321/http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/610.html?sector=CC&raceid=552 2007-09-29 dead 5 7 January 1995 SWE Östersund, Sweden 30 km F Yelena Välbe RUS Stefania Belmondo ITA Nina Gavrylyuk RUS Välbe won again, but Belmondo showed form by becoming the second non-Russian to make a podium place, more than 45 seconds ahead of third-placed Gavrylyuk in the longest freestyle World Cup race of the season.6 14 January 1995 CZE Nové Město, Czech Republic 15 km C Yelena Välbe RUS Larisa Lazutina RUS Nina Gavrylyuk RUS Välbe's sixth successive victory, in the first classical race in exactly one month. Once again four Russians placed in the top four.7 28 January 1995 FIN Lahti, Finland 10 km C Inger Helene Nybråten NOR Marit Mikkelsplass NOR Larisa Lazutina RUS The Russians struggled with worse skis, allowing Norway to take the two top spots and get five women among the top eight. World Cup leader Välbe, unbeaten thus far in the season, finished 15th. Third-placed Lazutina was 3.9 seconds behind Nybråten, the smallest margin thus far in the season.8 4 February 1995 SWE Falun, Sweden 10 km C Nina Gavrylyuk RUS Yelena Välbe RUS Larisa Lazutina RUS Once more four Russians occupied the four top spots, in a closer race than in Lahti; Lazutina was only 3.2 seconds behind the gold medallist. Gavrylyuk finally won a race outright, after having placed among the top four in every race up to this.9 5 February 1995 SWE Falun, Sweden 10 km F Pursuit Yelena Välbe RUS Nina Gavrylyuk RUS Larisa Lazutina RUS The four Russians started with an advantage from the classical race, and remained in the lead. In the dash for the finish, Välbe was well ahead of her Russian compatriots.10 11 February 1995 NOR Oslo, Norway 30 km C Larisa Lazutina RUS Anita Moen Guidon NOR Olga Danilova RUS The traditional Holmenkollen race ended without Välbe on the podium; Moen Guidon finished strongly, but finished 19 seconds behind Lazutina. Moen caught Danilova, who started half a minute ahead, and the pair got second and third, Danilova beating World Cup leader Välbe by a couple of seconds. FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1995n wsc (9–19 March)11 10 March 1995 CAN Thunder Bay, Canada 15 km C Larisa Lazutina RUS Yelena Välbe RUS Inger Helene Nybråten NOR A month's break followed, as the skiers acclimatised to conditions in Canada. Välbe had not recovered to her pre-January form, admitting before the Championships that Lazutina was going to win everything.Eriksen et al., p. 24. Indeed, Lazutina won by over a minute, the largest margin of victory per kilometre in the World Cup season. Nybråten took her second podium place of the season and what was to be her only individual international medal.12 12 March 1995 CAN Thunder Bay, Canada 5 km C Larisa Lazutina RUS Nina Gavrylyuk RUS Manuela Di Centa ITA Välbe without a medal again, finishing fourth, but still clinching the World Cup overall standings. Lazutina won by 23 seconds, while the Norwegians complained of poor skis in the heat (15 °C), and Di Centa, two-time gold medallist at Lillehammer in 1994, got her first podium place of the season after recovering from surgery to the intestines.13 14 March 1995 CAN Thunder Bay, Canada 10 km F Pursuit Larisa Lazutina RUS Nina Gavrylyuk RUS Olga Danilova RUS Danilova rallied from 15th place in the 5 km to record the best time of the race, but after trailing by a minute after the classical race, it was only enough for bronze. Lazutina had the second-best time and Gavrylyuk the third, while Välbe finished 12th. 14 18 March 1995 CAN Thunder Bay, Canada 30 km F Yelena Välbe RUS Manuela Di Centa ITA Antonina Ordina SWE Välbe took her sixth individual World Championship gold, and her eighth win of the season, as classical-specialist Lazutina fell to fifth place. The margin of victory was more than a minute. Di Centa got her second podium place, and her 140 points from the World Championships made up 85% of her total World Cup score. Russian-born Ordina took Sweden's only individual podium place of the season.15 25 March 1995 JPN Sapporo, Japan 15 km F Yelena Välbe RUS Larisa Lazutina RUS Nina Gavrylyuk RUS Of the long-distance free style medallists in Thunder Bay, Di Centa didn't turn up, Ordina finished fourth, while Välbe won by half a minute in her last race of the season. It was an all-Russian podium for the seventh time this season. Men's team + C – Classic / F – FreestyleWC World CupDatePlaceDisciplineWinnerSecondThirdRef. Reference 118 December 1994   ITA Sappada 4 × 10 km relay F   I Egil Kristiansen Kristen Skjeldal Bjørn Dæhlie Thomas Alsgaard Sami Repo Jukka Hartonen Jari Isometsä Mika Myllylä Morgan Göransson Torgny Mogren Christer Majbäck Henrik Forsberg 215 January 1995   NOR Nové Město 4 × 10 km relay C   Karri Hietamäki Jari Isometsä Harri Kirvesniemi Mika Myllylä Mathias Fredriksson Niklas Jonsson Christer Majbäck Henrik Forsberg Fabio Maj Silvio Fauner Gaudenzio Godioz Marco Albarello 35 February 1995   SWE Falun 4 × 10 km relay C   Sture Sivertsen Terje Langli Bjørn Dæhlie Thomas Alsgaard Jari Räsänen Jukka Hartonen Jari Isometsä Mika Myllylä I Mathias Fredriksson Anders Bergström Lars Håland Henrik Forsberg N/An unofficial Unofficial World Cup race inside the Olympic speed skating arena of Vikingskipet.5 February 1995   NOR Hamar 4 × 5.5 km relay F   Maurizio Pozzi Gaudenzio Godioz Fabio Maj Silvio Fauner Jari Isometsä Mika Myllylä Jukka Hartonen Jari Räsänen Peter Schlickenrieder Jochen Behle Torald Rein Andreas Schlütter 412 February 1995   NOR Oslo4 × 5 km relay C/F   Karri Hietamäki Harri Kirvesniemi Mika Kuusisto Sami Repo Mathias Fredriksson Niklas Jonsson Torgny Mogren Henrik Forsberg I Sture Sivertsen Erling Jevne Egil Kristiansen Thomas Alsgaard 5n wsc17 March 1995   CAN Thunder Bay 4 × 10 km relay C/F   Sture Sivertsen Erling Jevne Bjørn Dæhlie Thomas Alsgaard Karri Hietamäki Harri Kirvesniemi Jari Räsänen Jari Isometsä Fulvio Valbusa Marco Albarello Fabio Maj Silvio Fauner 626 March 1995   JPN Sapporo 4 × 10 km relay C/F   Vegard Ulvang Bjørn Dæhlie Kristen Skjeldal Thomas Alsgaard Marco Albarello Silvio Fauner Gaudenzio Godioz Fabio Maj Mika Kuusisto Harri Kirvesniemi Sami Repo Jari Isometsä Women's team WC World Cup Date Place Discipline Winner Second Third Ref. Reference1 18 December 1994 ITA Sappada, Italy 4 × 5 km relay C I Olga Danilova Nina Gavrylyuk Olga Korneyeva Yelena Välbe II Olga Pyleva Yelena Shalina Larisa Lazutina Natalya Martynova I Anita Moen Elin Nilsen Marit Mikkelsplass Trude Dybendahl Russia showed their dominance of female free-style cross-country skiing with two teams ahead of the competition; Russia I won by nearly a minute, while Norway in third place were a further 20 seconds behind. 2 15 January 1995 CZE Nové Město, Czech Republic 4 × 5 km relay C I Olga Danilova Nina Gavrylyuk Larisa Lazutina Yelena Välbe Inger Helene Nybråten Marit Mikkelsplass Kari Uglem Maj Helen Sorkmo II Olga Pyleva Yelena Shalina Natalya Baranova Olga Korneyeva With the relay being in classical style, Norway managed to beat the second Russian team; however, Russia's first team, made up of the top four in the previous day's race, won by a minute. The race time was slow, with Russia recording a total time of 65 minutes, nearly 20 minutes slower than in Sappada.3 27 January 1995 FIN Lahti, Finland 4 × 5 km relay F I Olga Korneyeva Nina Gavrylyuk Larisa Lazutina Yelena Välbe II Olga Pyleva Yelena Shalina Natalya Martynova Olga Danilova Anita Moen Elin Nilsen Trude Dybendahl Bente Martinsen The second double Russian triumph in a free-style relay this season, though the distance between Russia's first team and second team was almost four times as great as that between Russia's second and Norway. N/An unofficial 7 February 1995 NOR Hamar, Norway 4 × 3 km relay F Olga Danilova Nina Gavrylyuk Larisa Lazutina Yelena Välbe Anita Moen Elin Nilsen Bente Martinsen Trude Dybendahl Sabina Valbusa Guidina Dal Sasso Cristina Paluselli Stefania Belmondo In a Tuesday show race inside the Olympic speed skating arena of Vikingskipet, Norway came closer to Russia than they had ever been, but still finished 12 seconds behind.4 12 February 1995 NOR Oslo, Norway 4 × 5 km relay C/F I Olga Danilova Larisa Lazutina Nina Gavrylyuk Yelena Välbe I Marit Mikkelsplass Inger Helene Nybråten Elin Nilsen Anita Moen II Natalya Baranova Yelena Shalina Olga Korneyeva Natalya Martynova Russia won by 30 seconds, the closest win margin in a relay thus far in the season, while the Russian second team and the Norwegian second team followed.5n wsc 17 March 1995 CAN Thunder Bay, Canada 4 × 5 km relay C/F Olga Danilova Larisa Lazutina Yelena Välbe Nina Gavrylyuk Marit Mikkelsplass Inger Helene Nybråten Elin Nilsen Anita Moen Anna Frithioff Marie-Helene Östlund Antonina Ordina Anette Fanqvist Russia were dominant, winning by more than a minute and a half. Danilova went straight to the lead on the first stage, outside the classical tracks, and Norwegian leaders commented that they could have protested but did not want to. Except for Välbe, all the Russian skiers had the best stage time. Ordina pulled away from Nilsen on the third stage, winning half a minute, but Moen Guidon caught Fanqvist in the final sprint and beat her to the finish line, winning silver by one tenth of a second.6 26 March 1995 JPN Sapporo, Japan 4 × 5 km relay C/F Nina Gavrylyuk Larisa Lazutina Natalya Martynova Yelena Välbe Trude Dybendahl Inger Helene Nybråten Marit Mikkelsplass Elin Nilsen Anna Frithioff Marie-Helene Östlund Antonina Ordina Anette Fanqvist Overall results Below are tables showing the number of points won in the 1994–95 FIS Cross-Country World Cup for men and women. 11 races counted towards the total; the 9 best of the 11 races outside the World Championships, as well as the two best World Championship races. Place Points 1st 100 2nd 80 3rd 60 4th 50 5th 45 6th 40 7th 36 8th 32 9th 29 10th 26 11th 24 12th 22 13th 20 14th 18 15th 16 16th 15 17th 14 18th 13 19th 12 20th 11 21st 10 22nd 9 23rd 8 24th 7 25th 6 26th 5 27th 4 28th 3 29th 2 30th 1 Men Pos Skier Points 1 Norway Bjørn Dæhlie 930 2 Kazakhstan Vladimir Smirnov 866 3 Italy Silvio Fauner 591 4 Russia Alexey Prokurorov 572 5 Finland Jari Isometsä 525 6 Norway Thomas Alsgaard 429 7 Finland Harri Kirvesniemi 363 8 Finland Mika Myllylä 340 9 Sweden Torgny Mogren 330 10 Russia Mikhail Botvinov 269 11 Norway Kristen Skjeldal 268 12 Sweden Henrik Forsberg 256 13 Norway Erling Jevne 236 14 Austria Alois Stadlober 217 15 Italy Gaudenzio Godioz 213 16 Norway Vegard Ulvang 208 17 Austria Markus Gandler 194 18 Sweden Niklas Jonsson 182 19 Norway Egil Kristiansen 158 20 Italy Marco Albarello 152 21 Sweden Mathias Fredriksson 136 22 Germany Jochen Behle 129 Italy Fulvio Valbusa 24 Sweden Anders Bergström 127 25 Finland Jukka Hartonen 112 26 Italy Fabio Maj 111 27 Norway Sture Sivertsen 110 28 Germany Johan Mühlegg 104 29 Sweden Christer Majbäck 96 Liechtenstein Markus Hasler 31 Spain Juan Jesús Gutiérrez 93 32 Sweden Morgan Göransson 77 Germany Uwe Bellmann 34 Norway Terje Langli 74 35 Finland Karri Hietamäki 68 36 Finland Sami Repo 62 37 France Hervé Balland 58 38 Germany Andreas Schlütter 56 39 Norway Anders Eide 54 40 CZE Luboš Buchta 51 41 Italy Giorgio Vanzetta 50 42 Finland Kimmo Kuusisto 49 43 Russia Vladimir Legotine 42 44 Sweden Sven-Erik Danielsson 40 Finland Jari Räsänen Italy Maurizio Pozzi 47 Germany Peter Schlickenrieder 33 Italy Silvano Barco 49 Russia Sergey Chepikov 32 Norway Sigurd Brørs 51 Italy Pietro Piller Cottrer 31 52 KAZ Pavel Riabinine 28 53 Sweden Håkan Nordbäck 27 Japan Hiroyuki Imai 55 Norway Krister Sørgård 24 Switzerland Jeremias Wigger 57 Russia Grigoriy Gutnikov 22 Russia Gennady Lazutin France Philippe Sanchez 60 Sweden Peter Göransson 20 Women Pos Skier Points 1 Russia Yelena Välbe 1060 2 Russia Nina Gavrylyuk 840 3 Russia Larisa Lazutina 785 4 Russia Olga Danilova 547 5 Russia Olga Korneyeva 395 6 Norway Inger Helene Nybråten 386 7 Italy Stefania Belmondo 377 8 Norway Marit Mikkelsplass 361 9 Norway Anita Moen 295 10 Norway Trude Dybendahl 290 11 Norway Elin Nilsen 283 12 Sweden Antonina Ordina 279 13 Sweden Marie-Helene Östlund 268 14 CZE Kateřina Neumannová 229 15 SUI Sylvia Honegger 200 16 Russia Natalya Martynova 195 17 Italy Guidina Dal Sasso 172 18 Finland Pirkko Määttä 170 19 Finland Tuulikki Pyykkönen 167 20 Italy Manuela Di Centa 163 21 Russia Yelena Schalina 152 Russia Olga Pyleva 23 Finland Merja Kuusisto 146 24 Germany Sigrid Wille 141 25 Norway Bente Martinsen 123 26 Ukraine Iryna Terelia 110 27 Italy Gabriella Paruzzi 108 28 Slovakia Alžbeta Havrančíková 100 29 Estonia Kristina Šmigun 93 30 Germany Anke Schulze 86 31 Russia Natalya Baranova 83 32 Sweden Anna Frithioff 78 33 Germany Ina Kümmel 69 34 Japan Fumiko Aoki 66 35 Italy Sabina Valbusa 65 36 France Sophie Villeneuve 55 37 Germany Constanze Blum 54 38 Sweden Anette Fanqvist 49 39 Germany Manuela Henkel 46 40 Norway Maj Helen Sorkmo 41 Poland Małgorzata Ruchała 42 Norway Kari Uglem 38 43 Italy Cristina Paluselli 37 44 SUI Brigitte Albrecht 34 45 Norway Inger Lise Hegge 32 46 USA Leslie Thompson 31 47 Poland Dorota Kwaśna 29 Sweden Annika Evaldsson 49 Slovakia Jaroslava Bukvajová 28 USA Nina Kemppel 51 Slovenia Nataša Lačen 27 52 CZE Iveta Fortová 25 53 Finland Virpi Niemi 24 54 Estonia Cristel Vahtra 22 55 Japan Sumiko Yokoyama 15 Italy Natalie Santer 57 SVK Tatiana Kutlíková 11 58 Austria Gerhild Pfügler 10 Finland Kati Pulkkinen 60 Austria Maria Theurl 9 Achievements Victories in this World Cup (all-time number of victories as of 1994/95 season in parentheses) Men Vladimir Smirnov KAZ, 6 (22) first places Bjørn Dæhlie NOR, 5 (24) first places Torgny Mogren SWE, 1 (13) first place Alexey Prokourorov RUS, 1 (6) first place Harri Kirvesniemi FIN, 1 (5) first place Silvio Fauner ITA, 1 (1) first place Women Yelena Välbe RUS, 9 (33) first places Larisa Lazutina RUS, 4 (7) first places Nina Gavrilyuk RUS, 2 (2) first places Inger Helene Nybråten NOR, 1 (4) first place Notes n References FIS Official Site World Cup Results Sportsboken 95-96, ed. Arvid Eriksen, Schibsted, 82-516-1583-6. External links FIS Official Site World Cup Results World Cup 1994-95 World Cup 1994-95 Category:FIS Cross-Country World Cup seasons