2015–16 FIS Cross-Country World Cup

The 2015–16 FIS Cross-Country World Cup was the 35th official World Cup season in cross-country skiing for men and women. The season started on 27 November 2015 in Ruka, Finland, and ended on 12 March 2016 in Canmore, Alberta, Canada.

2015–16 FIS Cross-Country World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Martin Johnsrud Sundby (2nd title)	Therese Johaug (2nd title)
Distance	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Therese Johaug
Sprint	Federico Pellegrino	Maiken Caspersen Falla
U-23	Francesco De Fabiani	Stina Nilsson
Nations Cup	Norway	Norway
Nations Cup Overall	Norway
Stage events
Nordic Opening	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Therese Johaug
Tour de Ski	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Therese Johaug
Ski Tour Canada	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Therese Johaug
Competition
Locations	19 venues	19 venues
Individual	33 events	33 events
Relay/Team	3 events	3 events
←2014–15 2016–17→

Therese Johaug set a new record for total points in one season, with 2681. Martin Johnsrud Sundby set a new men's record for total points in one season, with 2634. Sundby won 14 races during the season and surpassed Petter Northug's record of nine victories which he achieved in both 2009–10 and 2012–13. Johaug won 17 races during this season and equaled Marit Bjørgen's record from 2011–12; a record Johaug herself eclipsed with 20 victories in the 2019–20 season.

Calendar

Men

C – Classic / F – Freestyle

WC	Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib	Ref.
	1	27 November 2015	Ruka	Sprint C	Sondre Turvoll Fossli	Eirik Brandsdal	Petter Northug	Sondre Turvoll Fossli	[1]
	2	28 November 2015	Ruka	10 km F	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Alex Harvey	Dario Cologna	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	[2]
	3	29 November 2015	Ruka	15 km C Pursuit	Niklas Dyrhaug	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Sjur Røthe		[3]
1	6th Nordic Opening Overall (27–29 November 2015)				Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Petter Northug	Finn Hågen Krogh		[4]
2	4	5 December 2015	Lillehammer	30 km Skiathlon	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Niklas Dyrhaug	Hans Christer Holund	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	[5]
3	5	12 December 2015	Davos	30 km F	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Maurice Manificat	Anders Gløersen		[6]
4	6	13 December 2015	Davos	Sprint F	Federico Pellegrino	Baptiste Gros	Sondre Turvoll Fossli		[7]
5	7	19 December 2015	Toblach	Sprint F	Federico Pellegrino	Simeon Hamilton	Andrew Young		[8]
6	8	20 December 2015	Toblach	15 km C	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Alexander Bessmertnykh	Sjur Røthe		[9]
	9	1 January 2016	Lenzerheide	Sprint F	Federico Pellegrino	Sergey Ustiugov	Finn Hågen Krogh	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	[10]
	10	2 January 2016	Lenzerheide	30 km C Mass Start	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Petter Northug	Didrik Tønseth		[11]
	11	3 January 2016	Lenzerheide	10 km F Pursuit	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Petter Northug	Finn Hågen Krogh		[12]
	12	5 January 2016	Oberstdorf	Sprint C	Emil Iversen	Sergey Ustiugov	Alexey Poltoranin		[13]
	13	6 January 2016	Oberstdorf	15 km C Mass Start	Alexey Poltoranin	Dario Cologna	Francesco De Fabiani		[14]
	14	8 January 2016	Toblach	10 km F	Finn Hågen Krogh	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Maurice Manificat		[15]
	15	9 January 2016	Val di Fiemme	15 km C Mass Start	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Niklas Dyrhaug	Alexey Poltoranin		[16]
	16	10 January 2016	Val di Fiemme	9 km F Pursuit climb	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Robin Duvillard	Matti Heikkinen		[17]
7	10th Tour de Ski Overall (1–10 January 2016)				Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Finn Hågen Krogh	Sergey Ustiugov		[18]
8	17	16 January 2016	Planica	Sprint F	Federico Pellegrino	Baptiste Gros	Richard Jouve	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	[19]
9	18	23 January 2016	Nové Město na Moravě	15 km F	Maurice Manificat	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Sergey Ustiugov		[20]
10	19	3 February 2016	Drammen	Sprint C	Petter Northug	Ola Vigen Hattestad	Eirik Brandsdal		[21]
11	20	6 February 2016	Oslo	50 km C Mass Start	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Niklas Dyrhaug	Maxim Vylegzhanin		[22]
12	21	11 February 2016	Stockholm	Sprint C	Nikita Kryukov	Ola Vigen Hattestad	Petter Northug		[23]
13	22	13 February 2016	Falun	10 km C	Maxim Vylegzhanin	Alexander Bessmertnykh	Maurice Manificat		[24]
14	23	14 February 2016	Falun	15 km F Mass Start	Sergey Ustiugov	Francesco De Fabiani	Martin Johnsrud Sundby		[25]
15	24	20 February 2016	Lahti	Sprint F	Emil Iversen	Finn Hågen Krogh	Petter Northug		[26]
16	25	21 February 2016	Lahti	30 km Skiathlon	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Finn Hågen Krogh	Hans Christer Holund		[27]
	26	1 March 2016	Gatineau	Sprint F	Sergey Ustiugov	Richard Jouve	Simeon Hamilton	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	[28]
	27	2 March 2016	Montreal	17.5 km C Mass Start	Emil Iversen	Petter Northug	Sergey Ustiugov		[29]
	28	4 March 2016	Quebec City	Sprint F	Baptiste Gros	Alex Harvey	Sergey Ustiugov		[30]
	29	5 March 2016	Quebec City	15 km F Pursuit	Sergey Ustiugov	Petter Northug	Emil Iversen		[31]
	30	8 March 2016	Canmore	Sprint C	Federico Pellegrino	Eirik Brandsdal	Maurice Manificat		[32]
	31	9 March 2016	Canmore	30 km Skiathlon	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Sergey Ustiugov	Matti Heikkinen		[33]
	32	11 March 2016	Lake Louise	15 km F	Matti Heikkinen	Evgeniy Belov	Marcus Hellner		[34]
	33	12 March 2016	Canmore	15 km C Pursuit	Maurice Manificat	Matti Heikkinen	Martin Johnsrud Sundby
17	1st Ski Tour Canada Overall (1–12 March 2016)				Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Sergey Ustiugov	Petter Northug

Women

WC	Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib	Ref.
	1	27 November 2015	Ruka	Sprint C	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Stina Nilsson	Ragnhild Haga	Maiken Caspersen Falla	[35]
	2	28 November 2015	Ruka	5 km F	Therese Johaug	Charlotte Kalla	Ida Ingemarsdotter	Ida Ingemarsdotter	[36]
	3	29 November 2015	Ruka	10 km C Pursuit	Therese Johaug	Stina Nilsson	Kerttu Niskanen	Therese Johaug	[37]
1	6th Nordic Opening Overall (27–29 November 2015)				Therese Johaug	Stina Nilsson	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg		[38]
2	4	5 December 2015	Lillehammer	15 km Skiathlon	Therese Johaug	Heidi Weng	Charlotte Kalla	Therese Johaug	[39]
3	5	12 December 2015	Davos	15 km F	Therese Johaug	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Heidi Weng		[40]
4	6	13 December 2015	Davos	Sprint F	Stina Nilsson	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg		[41]
5	7	19 December 2015	Toblach	Sprint F	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Stina Nilsson		[42]
6	8	20 December 2015	Toblach	10 km C	Therese Johaug	Krista Pärmäkoski	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg		[43]
	9	1 January 2016	Lenzerheide	Sprint F	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Ida Ingemarsdotter	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Therese Johaug	[44]
	10	2 January 2016	Lenzerheide	15 km C Mass Start	Therese Johaug	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Heidi Weng		[45]
	11	3 January 2016	Lenzerheide	5 km F Pursuit	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Therese Johaug	Heidi Weng		[46]
	12	5 January 2016	Oberstdorf	Sprint C	Sophie Caldwell	Heidi Weng	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg		[47]
	13	6 January 2016	Oberstdorf	10 km C Mass Start	Therese Johaug	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Heidi Weng		[48]
	14	8 January 2016	Toblach	5 km F	Jessie Diggins	Heidi Weng	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg		[49]
	15	9 January 2016	Val di Fiemme	10 km C Mass Start	Heidi Weng	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Therese Johaug		[50]
	16	10 January 2016	Val di Fiemme	9 km F Pursuit climb	Therese Johaug	Heidi Weng	Elizabeth Stephen		[51]
7	10th Tour de Ski Overall (1–10 January 2016)				Therese Johaug	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Heidi Weng		[52]
8	17	16 January 2016	Planica	Sprint F	Stina Nilsson	Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen	Heidi Weng	Therese Johaug	[53]
9	18	23 January 2016	Nové Město na Moravě	10 km F	Therese Johaug	Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen	Jessie Diggins		[54]
10	19	3 February 2016	Drammen	Sprint C	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Natalya Matveyeva		[55]
11	20	7 February 2016	Oslo	30 km C Mass Start	Therese Johaug	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Anne Kyllönen		[56]
12	21	11 February 2016	Stockholm	Sprint C	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Stina Nilsson		[57]
13	22	13 February 2016	Falun	5 km C	Therese Johaug	Heidi Weng	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg		[58]
14	23	14 February 2016	Falun	10 km F Mass Start	Therese Johaug	Heidi Weng	Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen		[59]
15	24	20 February 2016	Lahti	Sprint F	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Jessie Diggins	Heidi Weng		[60]
16	25	21 February 2016	Lahti	15 km Skiathlon	Therese Johaug	Heidi Weng	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg		[61]
	26	1 March 2016	Gatineau	Sprint F	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Stina Nilsson	Jessie Diggins	Therese Johaug	[62]
	27	2 March 2016	Montreal	10.5 km C Mass Start	Therese Johaug	Heidi Weng	Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen		[63]
	28	4 March 2016	Quebec City	Sprint F	Stina Nilsson	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Heidi Weng		[64]
	29	5 March 2016	Quebec City	10 km F Pursuit	Heidi Weng	Therese Johaug	Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen		[65]
	30	8 March 2016	Canmore	Sprint C	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg		[66]
	31	9 March 2016	Canmore	15 km Skiathlon	Heidi Weng	Therese Johaug	Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen		[67]
	32	11 March 2016	Lake Louise	10 km F	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Heidi Weng	Krista Pärmäkoski		[68]
	33	12 March 2016	Canmore	10 km C Pursuit	Krista Pärmäkoski	Therese Johaug	Jessie Diggins		[69]
17	1st Ski Tour Canada Overall (1–12 March 2016)				Therese Johaug	Heidi Weng	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg		[70]

Men's team

WC	Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
1	1	6 December 2015	Lillehammer	4 x 7.5 km Relay C/F	Norway I Niklas Dyrhaug Hans Christer Holund Martin Johnsrud Sundby Petter Northug	Norway III Martin Løwstrøm Nyenget Mathias Rundgreen Simen Andreas Sveen Finn Hågen Krogh	Norway II Emil Iversen Didrik Tønseth Sjur Røthe Anders Gløersen	[71]
2	2	17 January 2016	Planica	Team Sprint F	Italy I Dietmar Nöckler Federico Pellegrino	France I Renaud Jay Baptiste Gros	France II Valentin Chauvin Richard Jouve	[72]
3	3	24 January 2016	Nové Město na Moravě	4 x 7.5 km Relay	Norway I Sjur Røthe Martin Johnsrud Sundby Mathias Rundgreen Finn Hågen Krogh	Russia I Evgeniy Belov Alexander Legkov Aleksey Chervotkin Sergey Ustiugov	Italy Dietmar Nöckler Francesco De Fabiani Roland Clara Federico Pellegrino	[73]

Women's team

WC	Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
1	1	6 December 2015	Lillehammer	4 x 5 km Relay C/F	Norway I Maiken Caspersen Falla Ingvild Flugstad Østberg Therese Johaug Heidi Weng	Finland Krista Pärmäkoski Kerttu Niskanen Laura Mononen Anne Kyllönen	United States Rosie Brennan Sadie Bjornsen Elizabeth Stephen Jessie Diggins	[74]
2	2	17 January 2016	Planica	Team Sprint F	Sweden I Ida Ingemarsdotter Stina Nilsson	Norway I Heidi Weng Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen	Germany I Sandra Ringwald Hanna Kolb	[75]
3	3	24 January 2016	Nové Město na Moravě	4 x 5 km Relay	Norway Ingvild Flugstad Østberg Heidi Weng Therese Johaug Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen	United States Sophie Caldwell Sadie Bjornsen Elizabeth Stephen Jessie Diggins	Finland Anne Kyllönen Krista Pärmäkoski Riitta-Liisa Roponen Kerttu Niskanen	[76]

Men's standings

Overall Rank after 36 events Points 1 Martin Johnsrud Sundby 2634 2 Petter Northug 1602 3 Finn Hågen Krogh 1584 4 Sergey Ustiugov 1476 5 Maurice Manificat 1131 6 Niklas Dyrhaug 995 7 Alex Harvey 889 8 Emil Iversen 874 9 Didrik Tønseth 871 10 Hans Christer Holund 834

Distance Rank after 21 events Points 1 Martin Johnsrud Sundby 1444 2 Maurice Manificat 763 3 Niklas Dyrhaug 729 4 Finn Hågen Krogh 614 5 Sergey Ustiugov 605 6 Didrik Tønseth 604 7 Hans Christer Holund 572 8 Petter Northug 526 9 Maxim Vylegzhanin 488 10 Alexander Legkov 480

Sprint Rank after 12 events Points 1 Federico Pellegrino 553 2 Petter Northug 476 3 Finn Hågen Krogh 414 4 Baptiste Gros 324 5 Eirik Brandsdal 307 6 Sergey Ustiugov 294 7 Ola Vigen Hattestad 291 8 Sondre Turvoll Fossli 268 9 Emil Iversen 244 10 Simeon Hamilton 222

Prize money Rank after 57 payouts CHF 1 Martin Johnsrud Sundby 407,200 2 Sergey Ustiugov 159,250 3 Petter Northug 144,750 4 Finn Hågen Krogh 133,000 5 Maurice Manificat 65,550 6 Federico Pellegrino 62,750 7 Niklas Dyrhaug 52,625 8 Emil Iversen 37,250 9 Francesco De Fabiani 34,624 10 Baptiste Gros 30,000

Helvetia U23 Rank after 36 events Points 1 Francesco De Fabiani 717 2 Sondre Turvoll Fossli 268 3 Richard Jouve 174 4 Oskar Svensson 135 5 Håvard Solås Taugbøl 108 6 Simen Hegstad Krüger 81 7 Roman Schaad 55 8 Even Northug 44 9 Aleksey Chervotkin 40 10 Lucas Chanavat 35

Audi Quattro Bonus Ranking Rank after 19 events Points 1 Martin Johnsrud Sundby 608 2 Sergey Ustiugov 386 3 Petter Northug 368 4 Finn Hågen Krogh 312 5 Didrik Tønseth 264 6 Emil Iversen 244 7 Niklas Dyrhaug 236 8 Federico Pellegrino 199 9 Maurice Manificat 194 10 Alex Harvey 172

Women's standings

Overall Rank after 36 events Points 1 Therese Johaug 2681 2 Ingvild Flugstad Østberg 2302 3 Heidi Weng 2172 4 Krista Pärmäkoski 1335 5 Charlotte Kalla 1217 6 Maiken Caspersen Falla 1151 7 Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen 1142 8 Jessie Diggins 1128 9 Kerttu Niskanen 1120 10 Anne Kyllönen 1025

Distance Rank after 21 events Points 1 Therese Johaug 1533 2 Heidi Weng 1145 3 Ingvild Flugstad Østberg 976 4 Charlotte Kalla 730 5 Krista Pärmäkoski 664 6 Kerttu Niskanen 638 7 Anne Kyllönen 602 8 Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen 555 9 Jessie Diggins 547 10 Ragnhild Haga 470

Sprint Rank after 12 events Points 1 Maiken Caspersen Falla 726 2 Ingvild Flugstad Østberg 646 3 Stina Nilsson 602 4 Heidi Weng 409 5 Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen 355 6 Ida Ingemarsdotter 321 7 Sophie Caldwell 303 8 Jessie Diggins 297 9 Krista Pärmäkoski 279 10 Sandra Ringwald 248

Prize money Rank after 57 payouts CHF 1 Therese Johaug 430,700 2 Ingvild Flugstad Østberg 236,750 3 Heidi Weng 224,625 4 Maiken Caspersen Falla 106,563 5 Stina Nilsson 91,749 6 Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen 63,500 7 Krista Pärmäkoski 58,937 8 Charlotte Kalla 48,675 9 Jessie Diggins 46,500 10 Kerttu Niskanen 36,125

Helvetia U23 Rank after 36 events Points 1 Stina Nilsson 995 2 Nathalie von Siebenthal 518 3 Teresa Stadlober 486 4 Petra Novaková 322 5 Yuliya Belorukova 125 6 Anamarija Lampič 85 7 Nika Razinger 68 8 Daria Storozhilova 67 9 Jonna Sundling 56 10 Nadine Fähndrich 44

Audi Quattro Bonus Ranking Rank after 19 events Points 1 Ingvild Flugstad Østberg 489 2 Heidi Weng 470 3 Therese Johaug 430 4 Maiken Caspersen Falla 302 5 Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen 235 6 Stina Nilsson 231 7 Ida Ingemarsdotter 217 8 Krista Pärmäkoski 207 9 Charlotte Kalla 198 10 Jessie Diggins 193

Nations Cup

Overall Rank after 78 events Points 1  Norway 24234 2  Russia 6743 3  Finland 6247 4  Sweden 6039 5  Germany 3532 6  United States 3525 7  France 2916 8  Italy 2549 9  Switzerland 2144 10  Canada 1659

Men Rank after 39 events Points 1  Norway 12546 2  Russia 5689 3  France 2840 4  Italy 1913 5  Canada 1561 6  Finland 1516 7  Sweden 1368 8  Switzerland 1284 9  Germany 1024 10  Kazakhstan 830

Women Rank after 39 events Points 1  Norway 11688 2  Finland 4731 3  Sweden 4671 4  United States 2908 5  Germany 2508 6  Russia 1054 7  Switzerland 860 8  Italy 636 9  Poland 598 10  Slovenia 579

Achievements

New official FIS count from 2015/16 season.^[77] Only individual events.

First World Cup career victory

Men Sondre Turvoll Fossli, 22, in his 6th season – the WC 1 (Sprint C) in Kuusamo; first podium was 2014-15 WC 1 (Sprint C) in Ruka Niklas Dyrhaug, 28, in his 7th season – the WC 1 (15 km C Pursuit) in Ruka; also first podium Emil Iversen, 24, in his 3rd season – the WC 7 (Sprint C) in Oberstdorf; also first podium Baptiste Gros, 25, in his 6th season – the WC 17 (Sprint F) in Quebec City; first podium was 2013-14 WC 8 (Sprint F) in Szklarska Poręba

Women Stina Nilsson, 22, in her 5th season – the WC 4 (Sprint F) in Davos; first podium was 2013-14 WC 14 (Sprint C) in Drammen Sophie Caldwell, 25, in her 4th season – the WC 7 (Sprint C) in Oberstdorf; first podium was 2013-14 WC 12 (Sprint F) in Lahti Jessie Diggins, 24, in her 6th season – the WC 7 (5 km F) in Toblach; also first podium Heidi Weng, 24, in her 7th season – the WC 7 (10 km C Mass Start) in Val di Fiemme; first podium was 2011-12 WC 18 (15 km Skiathlon) in Lahti Krista Pärmäkoski, 25, in her 8th season – the WC 17 (10 km C Pursuit) in Canmore; first podium was 2010-11 WC 11 (10 km C Handicap start) in Oberhof

First World Cup podium

Men Niklas Dyrhaug, 28, in his 7th season – no. 1 in the WC 1 (15 km C Pursuit) in Ruka Hans Christer Holund, 26, in his 8th season – no. 3 in the WC 2 (30 km Skiathlon) in Lillehammer Andrew Young, 23, in his 8th season – no. 3 in the WC 5 (Sprint F) in Toblach Emil Iversen, 24, in his 3rd season – no. 1 in the WC 7 (Sprint C) in Oberstdorf Robin Duvillard, 32, in his 13th season – no. 2 in the WC 7 (9 km Pursuit climb) in Val di Fiemme

Women Jessie Diggins, 24, in her 6th season – no. 1 in the WC 7 (5 km F) in Toblach

Victories in this World Cup (all-time number of victories as of 2015/16 season in parentheses)

Men Martin Johnsrud Sundby, 14 (26) first places Federico Pellegrino, 5 (8) first places Sergey Ustiugov, 3 (4) first places Emil Iversen, 3 (3) first places Maurice Manificat, 2 (6) first places Petter Northug, 1 (36) first place Alexey Poltoranin, 1 (9) first place Maxim Vylegzhanin, 1 (7) first place Finn Hågen Krogh, 1 (7) first place Nikita Kryukov, 1 (5) first place Matti Heikkinen, 1 (3) first place Sondre Turvoll Fossli, 1 (1) first place Niklas Dyrhaug, 1 (1) first place Baptiste Gros, 1 (1) first place

Women Therese Johaug, 17 (42) first places Maiken Caspersen Falla, 8 (12) first places Stina Nilsson, 3 (3) first places Heidi Weng, 3 (3) first places Ingvild Flugstad Østberg, 2 (5) first places Sophie Caldwell, 1 (1) first place Jessie Diggins, 1 (1) first place Krista Pärmäkoski, 1 (1) first place

Retirements

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

Men  Ivan Babikov (CAN)[78]  Roland Clara (ITA)[79]  Jesper Modin (SWE)[80]  Eldar Rønning (NOR)[81]

Women  Maria Rydqvist (SWE)[82]