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]

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
←2016–17 2018–19→

Calendar

Men

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]

Women

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		[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		[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		[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]

Men's team

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]

Women's team

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]

Men's standings

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

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

Women's standings

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

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

Nations Cup

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

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  Gianluca Cologna (SUI)[65]  Sergei Dolidovich (BLR)[66]  Hannes Dotzler (GER)[67]  Robin Duvillard (FRA)[68]  Ola Vigen Hattestad (NOR)[69]  Marcus Hellner (SWE)[70]  Noah Hoffman (USA)[67]  Martin Jakš (CZE)[71]  Emil Jönsson (SWE)[72]  Devon Kershaw (CAN)[73]  Graeme Killick (CAN)[74]  Dušan Kožíšek (CZE)[73]  Alexander Legkov (RUS)[75]  Martin Møller (DEN)[67]  Ville Nousiainen (FIN)[73]  Aleš Razým (CZE)[76]  Aivar Rehemaa (EST)[77]  Matias Strandvall (FIN)[73]  Tim Tscharnke (GER)[67]

Women  Marit Bjørgen (NOR)[78]  Martyna Galewicz (POL)[79]  Anna Haag (SWE)[72]  Martine Ek Hagen (NOR)[73]  Sylwia Jaśkowiec (POL)[80]  Aurore Jean (FRA)[67]  Justyna Kowalczyk (POL)[81]  Ewelina Marcisz (POL)[79]  Mona-Liisa Nousiainen (FIN)[73]  Kikkan Randall (USA)[82]  Aino-Kaisa Saarinen (FIN)[82]  Elizabeth Stephen (USA)[83]  Heidi Widmer (SUI)[67]

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.