2017–18 FIS Cross-Country World Cup

The 2017–18 FIS Cross-Country World Cup was the 37th official World Cup season in cross-country skiing for men and women. The season began on 24 November 2017 in Ruka, Finland and ended on 18 March 2018 in Falun, Sweden.^[1]

Discipline Men

Overall

Johannes Høsflot Klæbo

Distance

Dario Cologna

Sprint

Johannes Høsflot Klæbo

Quick facts Discipline, Overall ...

2017–18 FIS Cross-Country World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Heidi Weng (2nd title)
Distance	Dario Cologna	Heidi Weng
Sprint	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Maiken Caspersen Falla
U-23	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Natalya Nepryayeva
Bonus	Dario Cologna	Jessie Diggins
Nations Cup	Norway	Norway
Nations Cup Overall	Norway
Stage events
Nordic Opening	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Charlotte Kalla
Tour de Ski	Dario Cologna	Heidi Weng
World Cup Final	Alexander Bolshunov	Marit Bjørgen
Competition
Locations	14 venues	14 venues
Individual	27 events	27 events
Relay/Team	1 event	1 event
Cancelled	1 event	1 event
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Men

More information WC, Stage ...

C – Classic / F – Freestyle
WC	Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib	Ref.

	1	24 November 2017	Ruka	Sprint C	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Pål Golberg	Calle Halfvarsson	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	^[2]
	2	25 November 2017	Ruka	15 km C	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Didrik Tønseth	Iivo Niskanen		^[3]
	3	26 November 2017	Ruka	15 km F Pursuit	Maurice Manificat	Matti Heikkinen	Hans Christer Holund		^[4]
1	8th Nordic Opening Overall (24–26 November 2017)				Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Alexander Bolshunov		^[5]

2	4	2 December 2017	Lillehammer	Sprint C	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Sergey Ustiugov	Alexander Bolshunov	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	^[6]
3	5	3 December 2017	Lillehammer	30 km Skiathlon	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Hans Christer Holund		^[7]
4	6	9 December 2017	Davos	Sprint F	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Federico Pellegrino	Alexander Bolshunov		^[8]
5	7	10 December 2017	Davos	15 km F	Maurice Manificat	Sergey Ustiugov	Alexander Bolshunov		^[9]
6	8	16 December 2017	Toblach	15 km F	Simen Hegstad Krüger	Maurice Manificat	Andrew Musgrave		^[10]
7	9	17 December 2017	Toblach	15 km C Pursuit	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Sergey Ustiugov	Alexey Poltoranin		^[11]

	10	30 December 2017	Lenzerheide	Sprint F	Sergey Ustiugov	Federico Pellegrino	Lucas Chanavat	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	^[12]
	11	31 December 2017	Lenzerheide	15 km C	Dario Cologna	Alexey Poltoranin	Martin Johnsrud Sundby		^[13]
	12	1 January 2018	Lenzerheide	15 km F Pursuit	Dario Cologna	Sergey Ustiugov	Alexander Bolshunov		^[14]
		3 January 2018	Oberstdorf	Sprint C	cancelled due to severe weather, not rescheduled				^[15]
	13	4 January 2018	Oberstdorf	15 km F Mass Start	Emil Iversen	Sindre Bjørnestad Skar	Francesco De Fabiani	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	^[16]
	14	6 January 2018	Val di Fiemme	15 km C Mass Start	Alexey Poltoranin	Andrey Larkov	Alex Harvey		^[17]
	15	7 January 2018	Val di Fiemme	9 km F Pursuit climb	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Maurice Manificat	Denis Spitsov		^[18]
8	12th Tour de Ski Overall (30 December 2017 – 7 January 2018)				Dario Cologna	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Alex Harvey	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	^[19]

9	16	13 January 2018	Dresden	Sprint F	Federico Pellegrino	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Lucas Chanavat	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	^[20]
10	17	20 January 2018	Planica	Sprint C	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Emil Iversen	Teodor Peterson	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	^[21]
11	18	21 January 2018	Planica	15 km C	Alexey Poltoranin	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Calle Halfvarsson		^[22]
12	19	27 January 2018	Seefeld in Tirol	Sprint F	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Lucas Chanavat	Calle Halfvarsson		^[23]
13	20	28 January 2018	Seefeld in Tirol	15 km F Mass Start	Dario Cologna	Alex Harvey	Martin Johnsrud Sundby		^[24]
2018 Winter Olympics (9–25 February)
14	21	3 March 2018	Lahti	Sprint F	Federico Pellegrino	Gleb Retivykh	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	^[25]
15	22	4 March 2018	Lahti^{[nb 1]}	15 km C	Alexander Bolshunov	Iivo Niskanen	Emil Iversen		^[26]
16	23	7 March 2018	Drammen	Sprint C	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Eirik Brandsdal	Alexander Bolshunov		^[27]
17	24	10 March 2018	Oslo	50 km F Mass Start	Dario Cologna	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Maxim Vylegzhanin		^[28]

	25	16 March 2018	Falun	Sprint F	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Federico Pellegrino	Lucas Chanavat	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	^[29]
	26	17 March 2018	Falun	15 km C Mass Start	Alexander Bolshunov	Calle Halfvarsson	Francesco De Fabiani		^[30]
	27	18 March 2018	Falun	15 km F Pursuit	Alex Harvey	Hans Christer Holund	Maxim Vylegzhanin		^[31]
18	2017/18 World Cup Final (16–18 March 2018)				Alexander Bolshunov	Alex Harvey	Dario Cologna		^[32]

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Women

More information WC, Stage ...

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

	1	24 November 2017	Ruka	Sprint C	Stina Nilsson	Sadie Bjornsen	Yuliya Belorukova	Stina Nilsson	^[33]
	2	25 November 2017	Ruka	10 km C	Marit Bjørgen	Charlotte Kalla	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Stina Nilsson	^[34]
	3	26 November 2017	Ruka	10 km F Pursuit	Ragnhild Haga	Heidi Weng	Charlotte Kalla	Charlotte Kalla	^[35]
1	8th Nordic Opening Overall (24–26 November 2017)				Charlotte Kalla	Marit Bjørgen	Ragnhild Haga	Charlotte Kalla	^[36]

2	4	2 December 2017	Lillehammer	Sprint C	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Krista Pärmäkoski	Sadie Bjornsen	Charlotte Kalla	^[37]
3	5	3 December 2017	Lillehammer	15 km Skiathlon	Charlotte Kalla	Heidi Weng	Ragnhild Haga		^[38]
4	6	9 December 2017	Davos	Sprint F	Stina Nilsson	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Kikkan Randall		^[39]
5	7	10 December 2017	Davos	10 km F	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Ragnhild Haga	Krista Pärmäkoski		^[40]
6	8	16 December 2017	Toblach	10 km F	Charlotte Kalla	Ragnhild Haga	Heidi Weng		^[41]
7	9	17 December 2017	Toblach	10 km C Pursuit	Marit Bjørgen	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Heidi Weng		^[42]

	10	30 December 2017	Lenzerheide	Sprint F	Laurien van der Graaff	Sophie Caldwell	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Charlotte Kalla	^[43]
	11	31 December 2017	Lenzerheide	10 km C	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Heidi Weng	Sadie Bjornsen	Charlotte Kalla	^[44]
	12	1 January 2018	Lenzerheide	10 km F Pursuit	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Heidi Weng	Jessie Diggins	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	^[45]
		^{[nb 2]} 3 January 2018	Oberstdorf	Sprint C	cancelled after qualification due to severe weather, not rescheduled				^[15]
	13	4 January 2018	Oberstdorf	10 km F Mass Start	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Krista Pärmäkoski	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	^[46]
	14	6 January 2018	Val di Fiemme	10 km C Mass Start	Heidi Weng	Krista Pärmäkoski	Teresa Stadlober		^[47]
	15	7 January 2018	Val di Fiemme	9 km F Pursuit climb	Heidi Weng	Teresa Stadlober	Jessie Diggins		^[48]
8	12th Tour de Ski Overall (30 December 2017 – 7 January 2018)				Heidi Weng	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Jessie Diggins	Heidi Weng	^[49]

9	16	13 January 2018	Dresden	Sprint F	Hanna Falk	Maja Dahlqvist	Sophie Caldwell	Heidi Weng	^[50]
10	17	20 January 2018	Planica	Sprint C	Stina Nilsson	Kathrine Harsem	Maiken Caspersen Falla		^[51]
11	18	21 January 2018	Planica	10 km C	Krista Pärmäkoski	Charlotte Kalla	Heidi Weng		^[52]
12	19	27 January 2018	Seefeld in Tirol	Sprint F	Sophie Caldwell Laurien van der Graaff	Not awarded	Maiken Caspersen Falla		^[53]
13	20	28 January 2018	Seefeld in Tirol	10 km F Mass Start	Jessie Diggins	Heidi Weng	Ragnhild Haga		^[54]
2018 Winter Olympics (9–25 February)
14	21	3 March 2018	Lahti	Sprint F	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Stina Nilsson	Hanna Falk	Heidi Weng	^[55]
15	22	4 March 2018	Lahti	10 km C	Krista Pärmäkoski	Natalya Nepryayeva	Marit Bjørgen		^[56]
16	23	7 March 2018	Drammen	Sprint C	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Stina Nilsson	Jessie Diggins		^[57]
17	24	11 March 2018	Oslo	30 km F Mass Start	Marit Bjørgen	Jessie Diggins	Ragnhild Haga		^[58]

	25	16 March 2018	Falun	Sprint F	Hanna Falk	Jonna Sundling	Marit Bjørgen	Heidi Weng	^[59]
	26	17 March 2018	Falun	10 km C Mass Start	Krista Pärmäkoski	Marit Bjørgen	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg		^[60]
	27	18 March 2018	Falun	10 km F Pursuit	Jessie Diggins	Ragnhild Haga	Marit Bjørgen		^[61]
18	2017/18 World Cup Final (16–18 March 2018)				Marit Bjørgen	Jessie Diggins	Sadie Bjornsen		^[62]

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Men's team

More information WC, Date ...

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
1	14 January 2018	Dresden	Team Sprint F	Italy I Dietmar Nöckler Federico Pellegrino	Sweden I Emil Jönsson Teodor Peterson	Russia I Andrey Krasnov Gleb Retivykh	^[63]

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Women's team

More information WC, Date ...

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
1	14 January 2018	Dresden	Team Sprint F	Sweden II Ida Ingemarsdotter Maja Dahlqvist	Sweden I Hanna Falk Stina Nilsson	United States I Ida Sargent Sophie Caldwell	^[64]

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Men's standings

More information Rank, after all 30 events ...

Overall

Rank	after all 30 events	Points
	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	1409
2	Dario Cologna	1290
3	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	1261
4	Alex Harvey	1179
5	Alexander Bolshunov	1152
6	Hans Christer Holund	917
7	Alexey Poltoranin	796
8	Maurice Manificat	763
9	Emil Iversen	635
10	Federico Pellegrino	613

Distance

Rank	after all 17 events	Points
	Dario Cologna	698
2	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	657
3	Hans Christer Holund	599
4	Alex Harvey	594
5	Maurice Manificat	586
6	Alexey Poltoranin	533
7	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	457
8	Simen Hegstad Krüger	413
9	Alexander Bolshunov	396
10	Sergey Ustiugov	388

Sprint

Rank	after all 10 events	Points
	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	740
2	Federico Pellegrino	497
3	Lucas Chanavat	323
4	Emil Iversen	310
5	Ristomatti Hakola	293
6	Alexander Bolshunov	276
7	Gleb Retivykh	245
8	Richard Jouve	206
9	Eirik Brandsdal	194
10	Calle Halfvarsson	187

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More information Rank, after all 39 payouts ...

Prize money

Rank	after all 39 payouts	CHF
1	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	168.449
2	Dario Cologna	116.075
3	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	100.075
4	Alexander Bolshunov	85.825
5	Alex Harvey	82.400
6	Alexey Poltoranin	51.350
7	Federico Pellegrino	43.900
8	Hans Christer Holund	42.325
9	Maurice Manificat	38.470
10	Sergey Ustiugov	35.500

Helvetia U23

Rank	after all 30 events	Points
	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	1409
2	Alexander Bolshunov	1152
3	Aleksey Chervotkin	569
4	Denis Spitsov	376
5	Oskar Svensson	229
6	Even Northug	97
7	Fredrik Riseth	74
8	Ivan Yakimushkin	71
9	Lauri Vuorinen	67
10	Mattis Stenshagen	65

Audi Quattro Bonus Ranking

Rank	after all 11 events	Points
	Dario Cologna	184
2	Alexander Bolshunov	137
3	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	122
4	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	121
5	Sergey Ustiugov	116
6	Alex Harvey	116
7	Federico Pellegrino	103
8	Hans Christer Holund	102
9	Maurice Manificat	101
10	Ristomatti Hakola	92

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Women's standings

More information Rank, after all 30 events ...

Overall

Rank	after all 30 events	Points
	Heidi Weng	1476
2	Jessie Diggins	1436
3	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	1414
4	Krista Pärmäkoski	1220
5	Marit Bjørgen	1078
6	Sadie Bjornsen	956
7	Charlotte Kalla	934
8	Teresa Stadlober	888
9	Ragnhild Haga	808
10	Kerttu Niskanen	757

Distance

Rank	after all 17 events	Points
	Heidi Weng	818
2	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	755
3	Jessie Diggins	723
4	Krista Pärmäkoski	656
5	Marit Bjørgen	636
6	Charlotte Kalla	620
7	Teresa Stadlober	592
8	Ragnhild Haga	588
9	Kerttu Niskanen	481
10	Sadie Bjornsen	422

Sprint

Rank	after all 10 events	Points
	Maiken Caspersen Falla	573
2	Stina Nilsson	495
3	Sophie Caldwell	396
4	Hanna Falk	331
5	Laurien van der Graaff	295
6	Jessie Diggins	269
7	Krista Pärmäkoski	252
8	Sadie Bjornsen	246
9	Kathrine Rolsted Harsem	208
10	Sandra Ringwald	207

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More information Rank, after all 39 payouts ...

Prize money

Rank	after all 39 payouts	CHF
1	Heidi Weng	140.100
2	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	111.775
3	Jessie Diggins	109.075
4	Marit Bjørgen	94.175
5	Krista Pärmäkoski	79.900
6	Charlotte Kalla	65.600
7	Ragnhild Haga	61.000
8	Stina Nilsson	53.300
9	Maiken Caspersen Falla	51.250
10	Sadie Bjornsen	41.075

Helvetia U23

Rank	after all 30 events	Points
	Natalya Nepryayeva	614
2	Anastasia Sedova	474
3	Ebba Andersson	263
4	Nadine Fähndrich	245
5	Yuliya Belorukova	222
6	Anamarija Lampič	216
7	Tiril Udnes Weng	199
8	Victoria Carl	175
9	Katharina Hennig	167
10	Lotta Udnes Weng	50

Audi Quattro Bonus Ranking

Rank	after all 11 events	Points
	Jessie Diggins	181
2	Krista Pärmäkoski	154
3	Heidi Weng	145
4	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	133
5	Sophie Caldwell	90
6	Charlotte Kalla	83
7	Marit Bjørgen	80
8	Maiken Caspersen Falla	74
9	Sadie Bjornsen	66
10	Laurien van der Graaff	64

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Nations Cup

More information Rank, after all 62 events ...

Overall

Rank	after all 62 events	Points
1	Norway	10821
2	Sweden	5383
3	Russia	5328
4	Finland	3772
5	United States	3702
6	Switzerland	2914
7	France	2214
8	Germany	1899
9	Italy	1698
10	Canada	1299

Men

Rank	after all 31 events	Points
1	Norway	5306
2	Russia	3639
3	France	2055
4	Switzerland	1853
5	Sweden	1812
6	Italy	1338
7	Finland	1292
8	Canada	1284
9	Kazakhstan	808
10	Germany	574

Women

Rank	after all 31 events	Points
1	Norway	5515
2	Sweden	3571
3	United States	3270
4	Finland	2480
5	Russia	1689
6	Germany	1325
7	Switzerland	1061
8	Austria	906
9	Slovenia	525
10	Italy	360

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Points distribution

The table shows the number of points won in the 2017/18 Cross-Country Skiing World Cup for men and ladies.

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

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
Team Sprint

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

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	16	12	8	4

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

Bonus points	15	12	10	8	6	5	4	3	2	1

Achievements

Only individual events.

First World Cup career victory

Men

Simen Hegstad Krüger, 24, in his 6th season - the WC 6 (15 km F) in Toblach; first podium was 2016–17 WC 7 (10 km F) in Toblach
Alexander Bolshunov, 21, in his 2nd season - the WC 15 (15 km C) in Lahti; first podium was 2017–18 WC 1 (8th Nordic Opening overall) in Ruka

Women

Ragnhild Haga, 26, in her 9th season – the WC 1 (15 km F Pursuit) in Ruka; first podium was 2014–15 WC 8 (3 km F Prologue) in Oberstdorf
Laurien van der Graaff, 30, in her 9th season – the WC 8 (Sprint F) in Lenzerheide; first podium was 2011–12 WC 3 (Sprint F) in Düsseldorf

First World Cup podium

Men

Alexander Bolshunov, 20, in his 2nd season – no. 3 in the WC 1 (8th Nordic Opening overall) in Ruka
Lucas Chanavat, 23, in his 3rd season – no. 3 in the WC 8 (Sprint F) in Lenzerheide
Andrey Larkov, 28, in his 6th season – no. 2 in the WC 8 (15 km C Mass Start) in Val di Fiemme
Denis Spitsov, 21, in his 1st season – no. 3 in the WC 8 (9 km F Pursuit Climb) in Val di Fiemme

Women

Yuliya Belorukova, 22, in her 4th season – no. 3 in the WC 1 (Sprint C) in Ruka
Teresa Stadlober, 24, in her 5th season – no. 3 in the WC 8 (10 km C Mass Start) in Val di Fiemme
Maja Dahlqvist, 23, in her 4th season – no. 2 in the WC 9 (Sprint F) in Dresden
Kathrine Harsem, 28, in her 9th season – no. 2 in the WC 10 (Sprint C) in Planica
Natalya Nepryayeva, 22, in her 5th season – no. 2 in the WC 15 (10 km C) in Lahti
Jonna Sundling, 23, in her 4th season – no. 2 in the WC 18 (Sprint F) in Falun

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

Men

Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, 11 (14) first places
Dario Cologna, 5 (26) first places
Alexander Bolshunov, 3 (3) first places
Alexey Poltoranin, 2 (11) first places
Federico Pellegrino, 2 (11) first places
Maurice Manificat, 2 (9) first places
Martin Johnsrud Sundby, 1 (30) first place
Sergey Ustiugov, 1 (12) first place
Alex Harvey, 1 (7) first place
Emil Iversen, 1 (5) first place
Simen Hegstad Krüger, 1 (1) first place

Women

Marit Bjørgen, 4 (114) first places
Ingvild Flugstad Østberg, 4 (11) first places
Maiken Caspersen Falla, 3 (16) first places
Stina Nilsson, 3 (15) first places
Charlotte Kalla, 3 (12) first places
Heidi Weng, 3 (11) first places
Krista Pärmäkoski, 3 (5) first places
Jessie Diggins, 2 (5) first places
Hanna Falk, 2 (4) first places
Laurien van der Graaff, 2 (2) first places
Sophie Caldwell, 1 (2) first place
Ragnhild Haga, 1 (1) first place

Retirements

Following are notable cross-country skiers who announced their retirement during or after this season:

Men

Women

Footnotes

[1]
Alexey Poltoranin was disqualified two years later, because of illegal doping. This result was deleted
[2]
Qualification was completed, but the race was cancelled before the final rounds. Sprint qualification times will not count towards the Tour de Ski but will count for FIS points.

2017–18 FIS Cross-Country World Cup

Calendar

Men

Women

Men's team

Women's team

Men's standings

Overall

Distance

Sprint

Prize money

Helvetia U23

Audi Quattro Bonus Ranking

Women's standings

Overall

Distance

Sprint

Prize money

Helvetia U23

Audi Quattro Bonus Ranking

Nations Cup

Overall

Men

Women

Points distribution

Achievements

Retirements

Footnotes

References

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