2004–05 FIS Cross-Country World Cup

The 2004–05 FIS Cross-Country World Cup was the 24th official World Cup season in cross-country skiing for men and women. The season began in Düsseldorf, Germany on 23 October 2004 and was concluded in Falun, Sweden on 20 March 2005. The overall winners were Marit Bjørgen and Axel Teichmann.

2004–05 FIS Cross-Country World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Axel Teichmann	Marit Bjørgen
Distance	Axel Teichmann	Marit Bjørgen
Sprint	Tor Arne Hetland	Marit Bjørgen
Nations Cup	Norway	Norway
Nations Cup Overall	Norway
Competition
Locations	16 venues	16 venues
Individual	20 events	20 events
Relay/Team	7 events	7 events
Cancelled	1 event	1 event
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Calendar

Men

WC	Venue	Discipline	Date	Winner	Second	Third
1	Düsseldorf	Sprint F	23 October 2004	Peter Larsson	Tor-Arne Hetland	Cristian Zorzi
2	Gällivare	15 km C	20 November 2004	Axel Teichmann	René Sommerfeldt	Vasily Rochev
3	Ruka	15 km F	27 November 2004	Vincent Vittoz	Axel Teichmann	Giorgio Di Centa
4	Ruka	15 km C	28 November 2004	Axel Teichmann	Vasily Rochev	René Sommerfeldt
5	Bern	Sprint F	4 December 2004	Tor-Arne Hetland	Thobias Fredriksson	Johan Kjølstad
6	Val di Fiemme	30 km Skiathlon	11 December 2004	Axel Teichmann	Jens Filbrich	Vincent Vittoz
7	Asiago	Sprint C	14 December 2004	Jens Arne Svartedal	Tor-Arne Hetland	Björn Lind
8	Ramsau	30 km F, mass start	18 December 2004	Vincent Vittoz	Anders Södergren	Axel Teichmann
9	Otepää	15 km C	8 January 2005	Andrus Veerpalu	Frode Estil	Jaak Mae
	Otepää	Sprint C	9 January 2005	Cancelled (rescheduled to Lahti 5 March)
10	Nové Město	15 km F	15 January 2005	Vincent Vittoz	Christian Hoffmann	Tobias Angerer
11	Nové Město	Sprint F	16 January 2005	Johan Kjølstad	Freddy Schwienbacher	Björn Lind
12	Pragelato	30 km Skiathlon	22 January 2005	Lukáš Bauer	Mathias Fredriksson	Kristen Skjeldal
13	Reit im Winkl	15 km F	12 February 2005	Martin Bajčičák	Giorgio Di Centa	Christian Hoffmann
14	Reit im Winkl	Sprint C	13 February 2005	Eldar Rønning	Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset	Janusz Krężelok
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 (16–27 February)
15	Lahti	Sprint C	5 March 2005	Børre Næss	Tor-Arne Hetland	Eldar Rønning
16	Lahti	15 km F	6 March 2005	Lukáš Bauer	Christian Hoffmann	Thomas Moriggl
17	Drammen	Sprint C	9 March 2005	Tor-Arne Hetland	Eldar Rønning	Børre Næss
18	Oslo	50 km C	12 March 2005	Andrus Veerpalu	Jens Filbrich	Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset
19	Gothenburg	Sprint F	16. March 2005	Trond Iversen	Keijo Kurttila	Ola Vigen Hattestad
20	Falun	30 km Skiathlon	19 March 2005	Yevgeny Dementyev	Tobias Angerer	Martin Bajčičák

Women

WC	Venue	Discipline	Date	Winner	Second	Third
1	Düsseldorf	Sprint F	23 oktober 2004	Marit Bjørgen	Anna Dahlberg	Gabriella Paruzzi
2	Gällivare	10 km C	20 November 2004	Marit Bjørgen	Kristina Šmigun	Virpi Kuitunen
3	Ruka	10 km F	26 November 2004	Kateřina Neumannová	Kristina Šmigun	Natalya Baranova-Masalkina
4	Ruka	10 km C	28 November 2004	Kristina Šmigun	Kateřina Neumannová	Marit Bjørgen
5	Bern	Sprint F	4 December 2004	Marit Bjørgen	Claudia Künzel	Ella Gjømle
6	Val di Fiemme	15 km Skiathlon	11 December 2004	Marit Bjørgen	Kristina Šmigun	Gabriella Paruzzi
7	Asiago	Sprint C	14 December 2004	Marit Bjørgen	Virpi Kuitunen	Ella Gjømle
8	Ramsau	15 km F, mass start	18 December 2004	Kristina Šmigun	Kristin Størmer Steira	Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Abruzova
9	Otepää	10 km C	8 January 2005	Marit Bjørgen	Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen	Kateřina Neumannová
	Otepää	Sprint C	9 January 2005	Cancelled (Rescheduled to Lahti 5 March)
10	Nové Město	10 km F	15 January 2005	Kateřina Neumannová	Marit Bjørgen	Yuliya Chepalova
11	Nové Město	Sprint F	16 January 2005	Marit Bjørgen	Pirjo Manninen	Claudia Künzel
12	Pragelato	15 km Skiathlon	22 January 2005	Kristin Størmer Steira	Kateřina Neumannová	Claudia Künzel
13	Reit im Winkl	10 km F	12 February 2005	Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Abruzova	Olga Zavyalova	Yuliya Chepalova
14	Reit im Winkl	Sprint C	13 February 2005	Virpi Kuitunen	Marit Bjørgen	Anna Dahlberg
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 (16–27 February)
15	Lahti	Sprint C	5 March 2005	Lina Andersson	Kirsi Välimaa	Virpi Kuitunen
16	Lahti	10 km F	6 March 2005	Yuliya Chepalova	Kateřina Neumannová	Karine Philippot
17	Drammen	Sprint C	9 March 2005	Virpi Kuitunen	Lina Andersson	Anna Dahlberg
18	Oslo	30 km C	12 March 2005	Marit Bjørgen	Kateřina Neumannová	Virpi Kuitunen
19	Gothenburg	Sprint F	16 March 2005	Marit Bjørgen	Aino-Kaisa Saarinen	Virpi Kuitunen
20	Falun	15 km Skiathlon	19 March 2005	Marit Bjørgen	Kateřina Neumannová	Yuliya Chepalova

Men's team

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
1	24 October 2004	Düsseldorf	Team Sprint F	Norway Håvard Bjerkeli Tor Arne Hetland	Germany Tobias Angerer Axel Teichmann	Germany III Toni Lang Andreas Stitzl	[1]
2	21 November 2004	Gällivare	4 × 10 km relay C/F	Germany Jens Filbrich Tobias Angerer René Sommerfeldt Axel Teichmann	Italy Giorgio Di Centa Fulvio Valbusa Pietro Piller Cottrer Cristian Zorzi	France Christophe Perrillat Vincent Vittoz Emmanuel Jonnier Benoit Chauvet	[2]
3	5 December 2004	Bern	Team Sprint F	Russia Ivan Alypov Vasily Rochev	Norway Jens Arne Svartedal Tor Arne Hetland	Italy Renato Pasini Cristian Zorzi	[3]
4	12 December 2004	Val di Fiemme	4 × 10 km relay C/F	Norway Jens Arne Svartedal Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset Frode Estil Tore Ruud Hofstad	Italy Giorgio Di Centa Fulvio Valbusa Pietro Piller Cottrer Cristian Zorzi	France Christophe Perrillat Vincent Vittoz Emmanuel Jonnier Alexandre Rousselet	[4]
5	15 December 2004	Asiago	Team Sprint C	Norway Tor Arne Hetland Jens Arne Svartedal	Russia Nikolay Pankratov Vasily Rochev	Norway II Trond Iversen Børre Næss	[5]
6	23 January 2005	Pragelato	Team Sprint C	Germany Jens Filbrich Axel Teichmann	Sweden Thobias Fredriksson Björn Lind	Germany II René Sommerfeldt Andreas Schlütter	[6]
7	20 March 2005	Falun	4 × 10 km relay C/F	Norway Jens Arne Svartedal Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset Kristen Skjeldal Tore Ruud Hofstad	Italy Roland Clara Valerio Checchi Pietro Piller Cottrer Giorgio Di Centa	Sweden Thobias Fredriksson Niklas Karlsson Anders Södergren Mathias Fredriksson	[7]

Women's team

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
1	24 October 2004	Düsseldorf	Team Sprint F	Norway Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen Marit Bjørgen	Germany II Manuela Henkel Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle	Italy Arianna Follis Gabriella Paruzzi	[8]
2	21 November 2004	Gällivare	4 × 5 km relay C/F	Norway Kine Beate Bjørnås Vibeke Skofterud Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen Marit Bjørgen	Finland Kirsi Välimaa Virpi Kuitunen Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Riitta-Liisa Roponen	Germany Stefanie Böhler Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Anke Reschwamm Schulze Claudia Künzel	[9]
3	5 December 2004	Bern	Team Sprint F	Norway Ella Gjømle Marit Bjørgen	Germany Stefanie Böhler Claudia Künzel	Italy Arianna Follis Gabriella Paruzzi	[10]
4	12 December 2004	Val di Fiemme	4 × 5 km relay C/F	Russia Larisa Kurkina Natalya Baranova-Masalkina Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Abruzova Yuliya Chepalova	Germany Manuela Henkel Claudia Künzel Stefanie Böhler Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle	Norway Kine Beate Bjørnås Vibeke Skofterud Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen Marit Bjørgen	[11]
5	15 December 2004	Asiago	Team Sprint C	Norway Ella Gjømle Marit Bjørgen	Finland Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Virpi Kuitunen	Sweden Elin Ek Anna Dahlberg	[12]
6	23 January 2005	Pragelato	Team Sprint C	Germany Viola Bauer Claudia Künzel	Sweden Emelie Öhrstig Anna Dahlberg	Finland Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Pirjo Manninen	[13]
7	20 March 2005	Falun	4 × 5 km relay C/F	Finland Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Kirsi Välimaa Riitta-Liisa Roponen Virpi Kuitunen	Norway Kine Beate Bjørnås Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen Kristin Mürer Stemland Marit Bjørgen	Russia Larisa Kurkina Natalya Baranova-Masalkina Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Abruzova Yuliya Chepalova	[14]

Men's standings

Overall Rank after all 20 events Points 1 Axel Teichmann 584 2 Vincent Vittoz 516 3 Tor Arne Hetland 512 4 Tobias Angerer 439 5 René Sommerfeldt 374 6 Mathias Fredriksson 374 7 Jens Arne Svartedal 361 8 Giorgio Di Centa 354 9 Yevgeny Dementyev 351 10 Eldar Rønning 320

Distance Rank Points 1 Axel Teichmann 552 2 Vincent Vittoz 506 3 Tobias Angerer 402 4 René Sommerfeldt 374 5 Giorgio Di Centa 354 6 Yevgeny Dementyev 351 7 Mathias Fredriksson 350 8 Jens Filbrich 320 9 Lukáš Bauer 319 10 Andrus Veerpalu 302

Sprint Rank Points 1 Tor Arne Hetland 564 2 Eldar Rønning 327 3 Trond Iversen 281 4 Thobias Fredriksson 267 5 Børre Næss 265 6 Björn Lind 256 7 Johan Kjølstad 251 8 Jens Arne Svartedal 234 9 Keijo Kurttila 171 10 Anti Saarepuu 158

Women's standings

Overall Rank after all 20 events Points 1 Marit Bjørgen 1320 2 Kateřina Neumannová 751 3 Virpi Kuitunen 726 4 Kristina Šmigun 643 5 Claudia Nystad 613 6 Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen 552 7 Yuliya Chepalova 530 8 Aino-Kaisa Saarinen 484 9 Natalya Baranova-Masalkina 431 10 Gabriella Paruzzi 397

Distance Rank Points 1 Marit Bjørgen 740 2 Kateřina Neumannová 727 3 Kristina Šmigun 641 4 Yuliya Chepalova 521 5 Natalya Baranova-Masalkina 397 6 Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen 387 7 Claudia Nystad 343 8 Virpi Kuitunen 313 9 Kristin Størmer Steira 311 10 Gabriella Paruzzi 305

Sprint Rank Points 1 Marit Bjørgen 625 2 Virpi Kuitunen 415 3 Anna Dahlberg 385 4 Aino-Kaisa Saarinen 290 5 Claudia Nystad 270 6 Lina Andersson 236 7 Pirjo Muranen 232 8 Ella Gjømle 218 9 Emelie Öhrstig 218 10 Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen 165

Nations Cup

Overall Rank Nation Points[15] 1  Norway 8448 2  Germany 4881 3  Russia 4541 4  Finland 3902 5  Sweden 3875 6  Italy 3811 7  Estonia 1849 8  France 1793 9  Czech Republic 1524 10  Switzerland 901

Men Rank Nation Points 1  Norway 4488 2  Germany 2712 3  Sweden 2429 4  Italy 2369 5  Russia 1779 6  France 1240 7  Estonia 1128 8  Finland 805 9  Czech Republic 704 10  Switzerland 467

Women Rank Nation Points 1  Norway 3960 2  Finland 3097 3  Russia 2762 4  Germany 2169 5  Sweden 1446 6  Italy 1442 7  Czech Republic 820 8  Estonia 721 9  France 553 10  Canada 530

Achievements

Victories in this World Cup (all-time number of victories as of 2004–05 season in parentheses)

Men  Axel Teichmann (GER), 3 (5) first places  Vincent Vittoz (FRA), 3 (4) first places  Tor Arne Hetland (NOR), 2 (8) first places  Andrus Veerpalu (EST), 2 (6) first places  Lukáš Bauer (CZE), 2 (3) first places  Jens Arne Svartedal (NOR), 1 (7) first place  Peter Larsson (SWE), 1 (3) first place  Trond Iversen (NOR), 1 (2) first place  Johan Kjølstad (NOR), 1 (1) first place  Martin Bajčičák (SVK), 1 (1) first place  Eldar Rønning (NOR), 1 (1) first place  Børre Næss (NOR), 1 (1) first place  Yevgeny Dementyev (RUS), 1 (1) first place

Women  Marit Bjørgen (NOR), 10 (20) first places  Kristina Šmigun (EST), 2 (15) first places  Kateřina Neumannová (CZE), 2 (13) first places  Virpi Kuitunen (FIN), 2 (3) first places  Yuliya Chepalova (RUS), 1 (16) first place  Kristin Størmer Steira (NOR), 1 (1) first place  Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Abruzova (RUS), 1 (1) first place  Lina Andersson (SWE), 1 (1) first place

Retirements