1999–2000 FIS Cross-Country World Cup

The 1999–2000 FIS Cross-Country World Cup was the 19th official World Cup season in cross-country skiing for men and women. The season began on 27 November 1999 in Kiruna, Sweden and finished on 19 March 2000 in Bormio, Italy. Johann Mühlegg of Spain won the men's cup,^[1] and Bente Skari of Norway won the women's.^[2]

1999–2000 FIS Cross-Country World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Johan Mühlegg	Bente Martinsen (2nd title)
Long Distance	Johan Mühlegg	Larisa Lazutina
Middle Distance	Jari Isometsä	Kristina Šmigun
Sprint	Morten Brørs	Bente Martinsen
Nations Cup	Norway	Russia
Nations Cup Overall	Norway
Competition
Locations	17 venues	17 venues
Individual	21 events	21 events
Relay/Team	5 events	5 events
←1998–99 2000–01→

The 1999–2000 World Cup season is the only season where a Middle Distance Cup has been arranged.

Calendar

Men

Key: C – Classic / F – Freestyle

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
1	27 November 1999	Kiruna	10 km C	Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset	Thomas Alsgaard	Ivan Bátory	[3]
2	10 December 1999	Sappada	15 km F	Johann Mühlegg	Stephan Kunz	Christian Hoffmann	[4]
3	11 December 1999	Sappada	7.5 km C + 7.5 km F  Double Pursuit	Thomas Alsgaard	Espen Bjervig	Stephan Kunz	[5]
4	18 December 1999	Davos	30 km C	Frode Estil	Espen Bjervig	Niklas Jonsson	[6]
5	27 December 1999	Engelberg	Sprint C	Fabio Maj	Espen Bjervig	Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset	[7]
6	28 December 1999	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Sprint C	Peter Schlickenrieder	Håvard Solbakken	Martin Koukal	[8]
7	29 December 1999	Kitzbühel	Sprint F	Morten Brørs	Håvard Solbakken	Håvard Bjerkeli	[9]
8	9 January 2000	Moscow	30 km F	Johann Mühlegg	Thomas Alsgaard	Stephan Kunz	[10]
9	12 January 2000	Nové Město	15 km C	Thomas Alsgaard	Johann Mühlegg	Harri Kirvesniemi	[11]
10	2 February 2000	Trondheim	10 km F	Mika Myllylä	Per Elofsson	Pietro Piller Cottrer	[12]
11	5 February 2000	Lillehammer	10 km C + 10 km F   Combined Pursuit	Jari Isometsä	Johann Mühlegg	Mikhail Botvinov	[13]
12	16 February 2000	Ulrichen	10 km F	Jari Isometsä	Per Elofsson	René Sommerfeldt	[14]
13	20 February 2000	Lamoura-Mouthe	72 km F Mass Start	Johann Mühlegg	Per Elofsson	Juan Jesús Gutiérrez	[15]
14	26 February 2000	Falun	15 km F	Johann Mühlegg	Jari Isometsä	Pietro Piller Cottrer
15	28 February 2000	Stockholm	Sprint C	Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset	Tore Bjonviken	Håvard Solbakken
16	3 March 2000	Lahti	Sprint F	Cristian Zorzi	Morten Brørs	Silvio Fauner
17	5 March 2000	Lahti	30 km C Mass Start	Mikhail Ivanov	Fabio Maj	Vladimir Vilisov
18	8 March 2000	Oslo	Sprint C	Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset	Jens Arne Svartedal	Trond Iversen
19	11 March 2000	Oslo	50 km C	Harri Kirvesniemi	Mikhail Ivanov	Mikhail Botvinov
20	17 March 2000	Bormio	10 km C	Erling Jevne	Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset	Frode Estil	[16]
21	19 March 2000	Bormio	15 km F Pursuit	Jari Isometsä	Johann Mühlegg	Per Elofsson	[17]

Women

Key: C – Classic / F – Freestyle

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
1	27 November 1999	Kiruna	5 km C	Bente Martinsen	Anita Moen	Kristina Šmigun
2	10 December 1999	Sappada	10 km F	Kristina Šmigun	Larisa Lazutina	Yuliya Chepalova
3	12 December 1999	Sappada	7.5 km F	Larisa Lazutina	Nina Gavrylyuk	Olga Danilova
4	18 December 1999	Davos	15 km C	Olga Danilova	Larisa Lazutina	Bente Martinsen
5	27 December 1999	Engelberg	Sprint C	Nina Gavrylyuk	Anita Moen	Svetlana Nageykina
6	28 December 1999	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Sprint F	Kristina Šmigun	Bente Martinsen	Kateřina Neumannová	[18]
7	29 December 1999	Kitzbühel	Sprint F	Bente Martinsen	Maj Helen Sorkmo	Anita Moen	[19]
8	8 January 2000	Moscow	15 km F	Kaisa Varis	Kristina Šmigun	Nina Gavrylyuk	[20]
9	12 January 2000	Nové Město	10 km C	Larisa Lazutina	Kristina Šmigun	Bente Martinsen	[21]
10	2 February 2000	Trondheim	5 km F	Stefania Belmondo	Nina Gavrylyuk	Yuliya Chepalova	[22]
11	5 February 2000	Lillehammer	5 km C + 5 km F   Combined Pursuit	Larisa Lazutina	Olga Danilova	Svetlana Nageykina	[23]
12	16 February 2000	Ulrichen	5 km F	Kristina Šmigun	Stefania Belmondo	Sabina Valbusa	[24]
13	20 February 2000	Lamoura-Mouthe	44 km F Mass Start	Stefania Belmondo	Kristina Šmigun	Larisa Lazutina	[25]
14	26 February 2000	Falun	10 km F	Yuliya Chepalova	Stefania Belmondo	Larisa Lazutina
15	28 February 2000	Stockholm	Sprint C	Bente Martinsen	Pirjo Manninen	Kati Sundqvist
16	3 March 2000	Lahti	Sprint F	Kristina Šmigun	Bente Martinsen	Kaisa Varis
17	5 March 2000	Lahti	15 km C Mass Start	Larisa Lazutina	Bente Martinsen	Anita Moen
18	8 March 2000	Oslo	Sprint C	Bente Martinsen	Pirjo Manninen	Anita Moen
19	11 March 2000	Oslo	30 km C	Olga Danilova	Larisa Lazutina	Kaisa Varis
20	17 March 2000	Bormio	5 km C	Bente Martinsen	Olga Danilova	Kaisa Varis	[26]
21	18 March 2000	Bormio	10 km F Pursuit	Yuliya Chepalova	Stefania Belmondo	Kaisa Varis	[27]

Men's team

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
1	28 November 1999	Kiruna	4 × 10 km relay F	Italy I Fulvio Valbusa Maurizio Pozzi Fabio Maj Silvio Fauner	Norway I Espen Bjervig Kristen Skjeldal Thomas Alsgaard Tor Arne Hetland	Austria Alexander Marent Mikhail Botvinov Achim Walcher Gerhard Urain	[28]
2	8 December 1999	Asiago	Team Sprint F	Germany Tobias Angerer Peter Schlickenrieder	Norway Frode Estil Tore Bjonviken	Italy Giorgio Di Centa Cristian Zorzi	[29]
3	19 December 1999	Davos	4 × 10 km relay C	Norway I Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset Erling Jevne Espen Bjervig Frode Estil	Sweden Håkan Nordbäck Niklas Jonsson Mathias Fredriksson Urban Lindgren	Finland Janne Immonen Mika Myllylä Harri Kirvesniemi Jari Isometsä	[30]
4	13 January 2000	Nové Město	4 × 10 km relay C/F	Norway I Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset Erling Jevne Kristen Skjeldal Thomas Alsgaard	Austria Alexander Marent Mikhail Botvinov Achim Walcher Christian Hoffmann	Russia I Vitaly Denisov Mikhail Ivanov Vladimir Vilisov Alexey Prokourorov	[31]
5	27 February 2000	Falun	4 × 10 km relay F	Italy I Fulvio Valbusa Fabio Maj Pietro Piller Cottrer Cristian Zorzi	Russia Vitaly Denisov Nikolay Bolshakov Mikhail Ivanov Vladimir Vilisov	Austria Gerhard Urain Mikhail Botvinov Achim Walcher Christian Hoffmann	[32]
6	4 March 2000	Lahti	4 × 10 km relay C/F	Austria Gerhard Urain Mikhail Botvinov Achim Walcher Christian Hoffmann	Finland I Janne Immonen Harri Kirvesniemi Teemu Kattilakoski Sami Repo	Russia I Vitaly Denisov Mikhail Ivanov Nikolay Bolshakov Vladimir Vilisov	[33]

Women's team

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
1	28 November 1999	Kiruna	4 × 5 km relay F	Russia I Lyubov Yegorova Irina Skladneva Anfisa Reztsova Yuliya Chepalova	Russia II Svetlana Nageykina Olga Danilova Larisa Lazutina Nina Gavrylyuk	Norway Bente Martinsen Elin Nilsen Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen Anita Moen	[34]
2	28 November 1999	Asiago	Team Sprint F	Norway Anita Moen Bente Martinsen	Italy Karin Moroder Stefania Belmondo	Russia Irina Skladneva Yuliya Chepalova	[35]
3	19 December 1999	Davos	4 × 5 km relay C	Russia I Svetlana Nageykina Nina Gavrylyuk Larisa Lazutina Olga Danilova	Norway I Anita Moen Hilde Glomsås Elin Nilsen Bente Martinsen	Norway II Tina Bay Marit Roaldseth Maj Helen Sorkmo Rønnaug Schei	[36]
4	13 January 2000	Nové Město	4 × 5 km relay C/F	Russia I Olga Danilova Svetlana Nageykina Lyubov Yegorova Larisa Lazutina	Russia II Olga Zavyalova Nina Gavrylyuk Irina Skladneva Yuliya Chepalova	Norway I Anita Moen Bente Martinsen Elin Nilsen Maj Helen Sorkmo	[37]
5	27 February 2000	Falun	4 × 5 km relay F	Russia I Olga Danilova Olga Zavyalova Larisa Lazutina Yuliya Chepalova	Russia II Lyubov Yegorova Svetlana Nageykina Irina Skladneva Nina Gavrylyuk	Italy Gabriella Paruzzi Sabina Valbusa Antonella Confortola Stefania Belmondo	[38]
6	4 March 2000	Lahti	4 × 5 km relay C/F	Russia I Olga Danilova Nina Gavrylyuk Olga Zavyalova Yuliya Chepalova	Russia II Lyubov Yegorova Marina Denisova Yekaterina Stchastlivaia Irina Skladneva	Italy Saskia Santer Gabriella Paruzzi Antonella Confortola Sabina Valbusa	[39]

Men's standings

Overall Rank Skier Points 1 Johann Mühlegg 948 2 Jari Isometsä 708 3 Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset 586 4 Per Elofsson 536 5 Thomas Alsgaard 461 6 Fabio Maj 401 7 Stephan Kunz 378 8 Espen Bjervig 371 9 Mikhail Botvinov 362 10 Cristian Zorzi 359

Long Distance Rank Skier Points 1 Johann Mühlegg 315 2 Mikhail Ivanov 198 3 Mikhail Botvinov 183 4 Per Elofsson 170 5 Harri Kirvesniemi 160 6 Frode Estil 141 7 Fabio Maj 130 8 Thomas Alsgaard 125 Vladimir Vilisov 125 10 Niklas Jonsson 105

Middle Distance Rank Skier Points 1 Jari Isometsä 596 2 Johann Mühlegg 592 3 Per Elofsson 350 4 Thomas Alsgaard 336 5 Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset 245 6 Stephan Kunz 231 7 Christian Hoffmann 205 8 Cristian Zorzi 199 9 Janne Immonen 197 10 Erling Jevne 194

Sprint Rank Skier Points 1 Morten Brørs 349 2 Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset 268 3 Håvard Solbakken 239 4 Tor Arne Hetland 193 5 Cristian Zorzi 160 6 Håvard Bjerkeli 159 7 Mathias Fredriksson 152 8 Silvio Fauner 140 9 Fabio Maj 137 Espen Bjervig 137

Women's standings

Overall Rank Skier Points 1 Bente Martinsen 1176 2 Kristina Šmigun 1165 3 Larisa Lazutina 1008 4 Olga Danilova 880 5 Nina Gavrylyuk 857 6 Stefania Belmondo 820 7 Yuliya Chepalova 712 8 Kaisa Varis 680 9 Anita Moen 665 10 Svetlana Nageykina 548

Long Distance Rank Skier Points 1 Larisa Lazutina 360 2 Kristina Šmigun 266 3 Olga Danilova 256 4 Kaisa Varis 241 5 Bente Martinsen 216 6 Nina Gavrylyuk 213 7 Stefania Belmondo 211 8 — — 9 Olga Zavyalova 149 10 Anita Moen 140

Middle Distance Rank Skier Points 1 Kristina Šmigun 601 2 Stefania Belmondo 585 3 Larisa Lazutina 553 4 Yuliya Chepalova 511 5 Olga Danilova 486 6 Bente Martinsen 455 7 Nina Gavrylyuk 439 8 Kaisa Varis 379 9 — — 10 Anita Moen 225

Sprint Rank Skier Points 1 Bente Martinsen 505 2 Anita Moen 300 3 Kristina Šmigun 298 4 Nina Gavrylyuk 205 5 Maj Helen Sorkmo 192 6 Pirjo Manninen 186 7 Olga Danilova 138 Hilde G. Pedersen 138 9 Beckie Scott 130 10 Marit Roaldseth 123

Achievements

Victories in this World Cup (all-time number of victories as of 1999/2000 season in parentheses)

Men  Johann Mühlegg (ESP), 4 (4) first places  Jari Isometsä (FIN), 3 (4) first places  Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset (NOR), 3 (3) first places  Thomas Alsgaard (NOR), 2 (7) first places  Mika Myllylä (FIN), 1 (9) first place  Harri Kirvesniemi (FIN), 1 (6) first place  Peter Schlickenrieder (GER), 1 (2) first place  Erling Jevne (NOR), 1 (2) first place  Frode Estil (NOR), 1 (1) first place  Fabio Maj (ITA), 1 (1) first place  Morten Brørs (NOR), 1 (1) first place  Cristian Zorzi (ITA), 1 (1) first place  Mikhail Ivanov (RUS), 1 (1) first place

Women  Bente Martinsen (NOR), 5 (15) first places  Larisa Lazutina (RUS), 4 (19) first places  Kristina Šmigun (EST), 4 (5) first places  Stefania Belmondo (ITA), 2 (21) first places  Yuliya Chepalova (RUS), 2 (4) first places  Olga Danilova (RUS), 2 (3) first places  Nina Gavrylyuk (RUS), 1 (5) first place  Kaisa Varis (FIN), 1 (1) first place