2014–15 FIS Cross-Country World Cup

The 2014–15 FIS Cross-Country World Cup was the 34th official World Cup season in cross-country skiing for men and women. The season started on 29 November 2014 in Ruka, Finland and ended on 15 March 2015 in Oslo, Norway.

2014–15 FIS Cross-Country World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Dario Cologna (4th title)	Marit Bjørgen (4th title)
Distance	Dario Cologna	Marit Bjørgen
Sprint	Finn Hågen Krogh	Marit Bjørgen
U-23	Francesco De Fabiani	Stina Nilsson
Nations Cup	Norway	Norway
Nations Cup Overall	Norway
Stage events
Nordic Opening	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Marit Bjørgen
Tour de Ski	Petter Northug	Marit Bjørgen
Competition
Locations	13 venues	13 venues
Individual	26 events	26 events
Relay/Team	1 event	1 event
←2013–14 2015–16→

The season's biggest event is FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2015.

Changed results due to doping violation

On 20 July 2016, Martin Johnsrud Sundby was banned from competing in ski competitions for two months by the FIS after having used an asthma medicine incorrectly during the 2014–15 season. He was also stripped of two results; a victory in 15 km C in Davos, 13 December 2014 and a third place in 25 km F Pursuit in Toblach, 8 January 2015. the latter also resulted in Sundby losing the Tour de Ski title. Due to losing a total of 616 points for the affected competitions he also lost the overall World Cup title.^[1][2]

Calendar

Men

C – Classic / F – Freestyle

WC	Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib	Ref.
1	1	29 November 2014	Ruka	Sprint C	Eirik Brandsdal	Petter Northug	Sondre Turvoll Fossli	Eirik Brandsdal	[3]
2	2	30 November 2014	Ruka	15 km C	Iivo Niskanen	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Sami Jauhojärvi	Eirik Brandsdal Iivo Niskanen	[4]
	3	5 December 2014	Lillehammer	Sprint F	Pål Golberg	Alexei Petukhov	Finn Hågen Krogh	Eirik Brandsdal	[5]
	4	6 December 2014	Lillehammer	10 km F	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Finn Hågen Krogh	Sjur Røthe	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	[6]
	5	7 December 2014	Lillehammer	15 km C Pursuit	Didrik Tønseth	Alexey Poltoranin	Martin Johnsrud Sundby		[7]
3	5th Nordic Opening Overall (5–7 December 2014)				Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Finn Hågen Krogh	Sjur Røthe		[8]
4	6	13 December 2014	Davos	15 km C	Didrik Tønseth	Dario Cologna	Sjur Røthe	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	[9]
5	7	14 December 2014	Davos	Sprint F	Finn Hågen Krogh	Anders Gløersen	Eirik Brandsdal		[10]
6	8	20 December 2014	Davos	15 km F	Anders Gløersen	Petter Northug	Chris Jespersen		[11]
7	9	21 December 2014	Davos	Sprint F	Federico Pellegrino	Alexei Petukhov	Finn Hågen Krogh		[12]
	10	3 January 2015	Oberstdorf	4 km F Prologue	Dario Cologna	Calle Halfvarsson	Petter Northug	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	[13]
	11	4 January 2015	Oberstdorf	15 km C Pursuit	Petter Northug	Alex Harvey	Calle Halfvarsson		[14]
	12	6 January 2015	Val Mustair	Sprint F	Federico Pellegrino	Petter Northug	Martin Johnsrud Sundby		[15]
	13	7 January 2015	Toblach	10 km C	Alexey Poltoranin	Evgeniy Belov	Martin Johnsrud Sundby		[16]
	14	8 January 2015	Cortina-Toblach	35 km F Pursuit	Petter Northug	Calle Halfvarsson	Evgeniy Belov		[17]
	15	10 January 2015	Val di Fiemme	15 km C Mass Start	Tim Tscharnke	Alexey Poltoranin	Dario Cologna		[18]
	16	11 January 2015	Val di Fiemme	9 km F Pursuit	Roland Clara	Maurice Manificat	Toni Livers		[19]
8	9th Tour de Ski Overall (3–11 January 2015)				Petter Northug	Evgeniy Belov	Calle Halfvarsson		[20]
9	17	17 January 2015	Otepää	Sprint C	Tomas Northug	Ola Vigen Hattestad	Toni Ketelä	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	[21]
10	18	23 January 2015	Rybinsk	15 km F	Dario Cologna	Evgeniy Belov	Sergey Ustiugov		[22]
11	19	24 January 2015	Rybinsk	Sprint F	Federico Pellegrino	Sergey Ustiugov	Andrey Parfenov		[23]
12	20	25 January 2015	Rybinsk	30 km Skiathlon	Maxim Vylegzhanin	Dario Cologna	Matti Heikkinen		[24]
13	21	14 February 2015	Östersund	Sprint C	Finn Hågen Krogh	Alex Harvey	Timo André Bakken		[25]
14	22	15 February 2015	Östersund	15 km F	Finn Hågen Krogh	Maurice Manificat	Marcus Hellner		[26]
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 (19 February – 1 March)
15	23	7 March 2015	Lahti	Sprint F	Eirik Brandsdal	Sindre Bjørnestad Skar	Richard Jouve	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	[27]
16	24	8 March 2015	Lahti	15 km C	Francesco De Fabiani	Alexey Poltoranin	Sami Jauhojärvi		[28]
17	25	11 March 2015	Drammen	Sprint C	Eirik Brandsdal	Finn Hågen Krogh	Ola Vigen Hattestad		[29]
18	26	14 March 2015	Oslo	50 km F Mass Start	Sjur Røthe	Dario Cologna	Martin Johnsrud Sundby		[30]

Women

WC	Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib	Ref.
1	1	29 November 2014	Ruka	Sprint C	Marit Bjørgen	Katja Višnar	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Marit Bjørgen	[31]
2	2	30 November 2014	Ruka	10 km C	Therese Johaug	Marit Bjørgen	Charlotte Kalla		[32]
	3	5 December 2014	Lillehammer	Sprint F	Marit Bjørgen	Celine Brun-Lie	Heidi Weng	Marit Bjørgen	[33]
	4	6 December 2014	Lillehammer	5 km F	Therese Johaug	Marit Bjørgen	Heidi Weng		[34]
	5	7 December 2014	Lillehammer	10 km C Pursuit	Therese Johaug	Heidi Weng	Marit Bjørgen		[35]
3	5th Nordic Opening Overall (5–7 December 2014)				Marit Bjørgen	Therese Johaug	Heidi Weng		[36]
4	6	13 December 2014	Davos	10 km C	Therese Johaug	Marit Bjørgen	Kerttu Niskanen	Marit Bjørgen	[37]
5	7	14 December 2014	Davos	Sprint F	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Celine Brun-Lie		[38]
6	8	20 December 2014	Davos	10 km F	Marit Bjørgen	Nicole Fessel	Heidi Weng		[39]
7	9	21 December 2014	Davos	Sprint F	Marit Bjørgen	Stina Nilsson	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg		[40]
	10	3 January 2015	Oberstdorf	3 km F Prologue	Marit Bjørgen	Heidi Weng	Ragnhild Haga	Marit Bjørgen	[41]
	11	4 January 2015	Oberstdorf	10 km C Pursuit	Marit Bjørgen	Heidi Weng	Therese Johaug		[42]
	12	6 January 2015	Val Mustair	Sprint F	Marit Bjørgen	Heidi Weng	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg		[43]
	13	7 January 2015	Toblach	5 km C	Marit Bjørgen	Therese Johaug	Heidi Weng		[44]
	14	8 January 2015	Cortina-Toblach	15 km F Pursuit	Marit Bjørgen	Heidi Weng	Therese Johaug		[45]
	15	10 January 2015	Val di Fiemme	10 km C Mass Start	Therese Johaug	Marit Bjørgen	Heidi Weng		[46]
	16	11 January 2015	Val di Fiemme	9 km F Pursuit	Therese Johaug	Heidi Weng	Marit Bjørgen		[47]
8	9th Tour de Ski Overall (3–11 January 2015)				Marit Bjørgen	Therese Johaug	Heidi Weng		[48]
9	17	17 January 2015	Otepää	Sprint C	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Stina Nilsson	Celine Brun-Lie	Marit Bjørgen	[49]
10	18	23 January 2015	Rybinsk	10 km F	Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen	Elizabeth Stephen	Stefanie Böhler		[50]
11	19	24 January 2015	Rybinsk	Sprint F	Jennie Öberg	Natalya Matveyeva	Laurien van der Graaff		[51]
12	20	25 January 2015	Rybinsk	15 km Skiathlon	Martine Ek Hagen	Riitta-Liisa Roponen	Stefanie Böhler		[52]
13	21	14 February 2015	Östersund	Sprint C	Marit Bjørgen	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Stina Nilsson		[53]
14	22	15 February 2015	Östersund	10 km F	Charlotte Kalla	Marit Bjørgen	Therese Johaug		[54]
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 (18 February – 1 March)
15	23	7 March 2015	Lahti	Sprint F	Marit Bjørgen	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Kikkan Randall	Marit Bjørgen	[55]
16	24	8 March 2015	Lahti	10 km C	Marit Bjørgen	Heidi Weng	Charlotte Kalla		[56]
17	25	11 March 2015	Drammen	Sprint C	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Heidi Weng	Marit Bjørgen		[57]
18	26	15 March 2015	Oslo	30 km F Mass Start	Marit Bjørgen	Therese Johaug	Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen		[58]

Men's team

WC	Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
1	1	18 January 2015	Otepää	Team Sprint F	Russia I Alexey Petukhov Sergey Ustiugov	Norway I Anders Gløersen Finn Hågen Krogh	Italy Dietmar Nöckeler Federico Pellegrino	[59]

Ladies' team

WC	Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
1	1	18 January 2015	Otepää	Team Sprint F	Sweden I Ida Ingemarsdotter Stina Nilsson	Norway I Maiken Caspersen Falla Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Poland Justyna Kowalczyk Sylwia Jaśkowiec	[60]

Men's standings

Overall Rank after 28 events Points 1 Dario Cologna 1103 2 Petter Northug 1047 3 Calle Halfvarsson 897 4 Finn Hågen Krogh 870 5 Evgeniy Belov 868 6 Martin Johnsrud Sundby 748 7 Niklas Dyrhaug 613 8 Alexey Poltoranin 557 9 Alex Harvey 518 10 Maxim Vylegzhanin 488

Distance Rank after 16 events Points 1 Dario Cologna 821 2 Martin Johnsrud Sundby 480 3 Evgeniy Belov 457 4 Calle Halfvarsson 411 5 Petter Northug 401 6 Niklas Dyrhaug 385 7 Alexey Poltoranin 351 8 Maxim Vylegzhanin 330 9 Alex Harvey 313 10 Maurice Manificat 293

Sprint Rank after 10 events Points 1 Finn Hågen Krogh 479 2 Eirik Brandsdal 442 3 Federico Pellegrino 376 4 Alexey Petukhov 298 5 Sondre Turvoll Fossli 267 6 Sergey Ustiugov 221 7 Tomas Northug 217 8 Petter Northug 214 9 Ola Vigen Hattestad 204 10 Pål Golberg 187

Prize money Rank after 38 payouts CHF 1 Martin Johnsrud Sundby 193,900 2 Finn Hågen Krogh 105,250 3 Petter Northug 102,125 4 Dario Cologna 78,812 5 Eirik Brandsdal 51,000 6 Evgeniy Belov 45,875 7 Calle Halfvarsson 45,600 8 Federico Pellegrino 36,250 9 Sjur Røthe 32,000 10 Anders Gløersen 29,250

Helvetia U23 Rank after 28 events Points 1 Francesco De Fabiani 309 2 Sergey Ustiugov 297 3 Sondre Turvoll Fossli 267 4 Iivo Niskanen 169 5 Sindre Bjørnestad Skar 112 6 Håvard Solås Taugbøl 106 7 Richard Jouve 72 8 Vegard Bjerkreim Nilsen 54 9 Martin Løwstrøm Nyenget 50 10 Simen Hegstad Krüger 37

Audi Quattro Bonus Ranking Rank after 8 events Points 1 Dario Cologna 152 2 Petter Northug 128 3 Evgeniy Belov 119 4 Martin Johnsrud Sundby 117 5 Calle Halfvarsson 97 6 Federico Pellegrino 60 7 Robin Duvillard 47 8 Alex Harvey 45 9 Ilia Chernousov 44 10 Maciej Starega 40

Women's standings

Overall Rank after 28 events Points 1 Marit Bjørgen 2172 2 Therese Johaug 1388 3 Heidi Weng 1332 4 Ingvild Flugstad Østberg 894 5 Ragnhild Haga 750 6 Maiken Caspersen Falla 661 7 Charlotte Kalla 620 8 Nicole Fessel 565 9 Denise Herrmann 548 10 Elizabeth Stephen 544

Distance Rank after 16 events Points 1 Marit Bjørgen 962 2 Therese Johaug 857 3 Heidi Weng 692 4 Charlotte Kalla 426 5 Ragnhild Haga 402 6 Nicole Fessel 399 7 Elizabeth Stephen 360 8 Martine Ek Hagen 344 9 Yuliya Chekalyova 328 10 Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen 326

Sprint Rank after 10 events Points 1 Marit Bjørgen 610 2 Ingvild Flugstad Østberg 560 3 Maiken Caspersen Falla 512 4 Stina Nilsson 345 5 Heidi Weng 280 6 Katja Višnar 260 7 Celine Brun-Lie 252 8 Hanna Falk 217 9 Natalya Matveyeva 216 10 Laurien van der Graaff 174

Prize money Rank after 38 payouts CHF 1 Marit Bjørgen 332,650 2 Therese Johaug 160,375 3 Heidi Weng 109,625 4 Ingvild Flugstad Østberg 76,625 5 Maiken Caspersen Falla 54,625 6 Stina Nilsson 44,999 7 Charlotte Kalla 38,625 8 Ragnhild Haga 32,350 9 Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen 28,000 10 Elizabeth Stephen 24,000

Helvetia U23 Rank after 28 events Points 1 Stina Nilsson 427 2 Teresa Stadlober 247 3 Nathalie von Siebenthal 131 4 Petra Nováková 79 5 Lea Einfalt 77 6 Natalya Zhukova 65 7 Nathalie Schwarz 64 8 Sofia Henriksson 51 Maja Dahlqvist 51 10 Victoria Carl 44

Audi Quattro Bonus Ranking Rank after events Points 1 Marit Bjørgen 184 2 Heidi Weng 134 3 Therese Johaug 127 4 Ingvild Flugstad Østberg 52 5 Stina Nilsson 48 6 Maiken Caspersen Falla 44 7 Laurien van der Graaff 42 Ragnhild Haga 42 Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen 42 10 Sophie Caldwell 40

Nations Cup

Overall Rank after 56 events Points 1  Norway 17225 2  Russia 5861 3  Sweden 5324 4  Finland 3143 5  Germany 2510 6  Switzerland 2076 7  United States 1836 8  Italy 1649 9  France 1543 10  Poland 862

Men Rank after 28 events Points 1  Norway 8301 2  Russia 4188 3  Sweden 2093 4  Switzerland 1722 5  Italy 1359 6  Finland 1318 7  France 1112 8  Canada 749 9  Kazakhstan 552 10  Germany 393

Women Rank after 28 events Points 1  Norway 8924 2  Sweden 3231 3  Germany 2117 4  Finland 1825 5  Russia 1673 6  United States 1573 7  Poland 745 8  Slovenia 649 9  France 431 10  Czech Republic 415

Points distribution

The table shows the number of points won in the 2014/15 Cross-Country Skiing World Cup for men and women.

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

A skier's best results in all distance races and sprint races counts towards the overall World Cup totals.

All distance races, included individual stages in Tour de Ski and in World Cup Final (which counts as 50% of a normal race), count towards the distance standings. All sprint races, including the sprint races during the Tour de Ski and the first race of the World Cup final (which counts as 50% of a normal race), count towards the sprint standings.

In mass start races bonus points are awarded to the first 10 at each bonus station.

The Nations Cup ranking is calculated by adding each country's individual competitors' scores and scores from team events. Relay events count double, with only one team counting towards the total, while in team sprint events two teams contribute towards the total, with the usual World Cup points (100 to winning team, etc.) awarded.

Achievements

WC stage events are not included. Only individual events.

First World Cup career victory

Men Iivo Niskanen, 22, in his 5th season – the WC 2 (15 km C) in Ruka; also first podium Didrik Tønseth, 23, in his 4th season – the WC 2 (15 km C Pursuit) in Lillehammer; first podium was 2013–14 WC 4 (15 km C) in Lillehammer Finn Hågen Krogh, 24, in his 5th season – the WC 5 (Sprint F) in Davos; first podium was 2012–13 WC 14 (Sprint F) in Lahti Federico Pellegrino, 24, in his 6th season – the WC 7 (Sprint F) in Davos; first podium was 2010–11 WC 8 (Sprint F) in Liberec Roland Clara, 32, in his 11th season – the WC 8 (9 km F Pursuit) in Val di Fiemme; first podium was 2010–11 WC 7 (9 km F Pursuit) in Val di Fiemme Tomas Northug, 24, in his 6th season – the WC 9 (Sprint C) in Otepää; also first podium Francesco De Fabiani, 21, in his 2nd season – the WC 16 (15 km C) in Lahti; also first podium Sjur Røthe, 26, in his 7th season – the WC 18 (50 km F) in Oslo; first podium was 2012-13 WC 4 (15 km C) in Canmore

Women Jennie Öberg, 25, in her 5th season – the WC 11 (Sprint F) in Rybinsk; also first podium Martine Ek Hagen, 23, in her 5th season – the WC 12 (Skiathlon) in Rybinsk; also first podium

First World Cup podium

Men Sondre Turvoll Fossli, 21, in his 5th season – no. 3 in the WC 1 (Sprint C) in Ruka Iivo Niskanen, 22, in his 5th season – no. 1 in the WC 2 (15 km C) in Ruka Toni Ketelä, 26, in his 5th season – no. 3 in the WC 9 (Sprint C) in Otepää Tomas Northug, 24, in his 6th season – no. 1 in the WC 9 (Sprint C) in Otepää Andrey Parfenov, 27, in his 8th season – no. 3 in the WC 11 (Sprint F) in Rybinsk Timo André Bakken, 25, in his 8th season – no. 3 in the WC 13 (Sprint C) in Östersund Sindre Bjørnestad Skar, 23, in his 5th season – no. 2 in the WC 15 (Sprint F) in Lahti Richard Jouve, 20, in his 1st season – no. 3 in the WC 15 (Sprint F) in Lahti Francesco De Fabiani, 21, in his 2nd season – no. 1 in the WC 16 (15 km C) in Lahti

Women Jennie Öberg, 25, in her 5th season – no. 1 in the WC 11 (Sprint F) in Rybinsk Martine Ek Hagen, 23, in her 5th season – no. 1 in the WC 12 (Skiathlon) in Rybinsk

Victories in this World Cup (all-time number of victories as of 2014/15 season in parentheses)

Men Petter Northug, 3 (37) first places Eirik Brandsdal, 3 (8) first places Finn Hågen Krogh, 3 (6) first places Federico Pellegrino, 3 (3) first places Dario Cologna, 2 (21) first place Martin Johnsrud Sundby, 2 (10) first places Didrik Tønseth, 2 (2) first places Alexey Poltoranin, 1 (8) first place Anders Gløersen, 1 (5) first place Maxim Vylegzhanin, 1 (6) first place Pål Golberg, 1 (3) first place Tim Tscharnke, 1 (2) first place Iivo Niskanen, 1 (1) first place Tomas Northug, 1 (1) first place Francesco De Fabiani, 1 (1) first place Sjur Røthe, 1 (1) first place Roland Clara, 1 (1) first place

Women Marit Bjørgen, 15 (102) first places Therese Johaug, 6 (25) first places Ingvild Flugstad Østberg, 2 (3) first places Charlotte Kalla, 1 (4) first place Maiken Caspersen Falla, 1 (4) first place Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen, 1 (5) first place Jennie Öberg, 1 (1) first place Martine Ek Hagen, 1 (1) first place

Retirements

Following are notable cross-country skiers who announced their retirement:

Men  Giorgio Di Centa (ITA)[61]  Cyril Gaillard (FRA)[61]  Sebastian Gazurek (POL)  Maciej Kreczmer (POL)  Anders Södergren (SWE)[62]

Women  Celine Brun-Lie (NOR)[63]  Perianne Jones (CAN)[61]  Claudia Nystad (GER)[61]  Riikka Sarasoja-Lilja (FIN)[61]  Kristin Størmer Steira (NOR)