2018–19 FIS Cross-Country World Cup

The 2018–19 FIS Cross-Country World Cup was the 38th official World Cup season in cross-country skiing for men and women. The season began on 24 November 2018 in Ruka, Finland and concluded with the World Cup Final on 24 March 2019 in Quebec City, Canada.^[1]

2018–19 FIS Cross-Country World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg
Distance	Alexander Bolshunov	Therese Johaug
Sprint	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Stina Nilsson
U-23	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Ebba Andersson
Bonus	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg
Nations Cup	Norway	Norway
Nations Cup Overall	Norway
Stage events
Nordic Opening	Didrik Tønseth	Therese Johaug
Tour de Ski	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg
World Cup Final	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Stina Nilsson
Competition
Locations	17 venues	17 venues
Individual	29 events	29 events
Relay/Team	4 events	4 events
←2017–18 2019–20→

The biennial World Championships in Seefeld, Austria interrupted the World Cup in mid-February.

Calendar

Men

WC	Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib	Ref.
1	1	24 November 2018	Ruka	Sprint C	Alexander Bolshunov	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Eirik Brandsdal	Alexander Bolshunov	[2]
2	2	25 November 2018	Ruka	15 km C	Alexander Bolshunov	Emil Iversen	Calle Halfvarsson		[3]
	3	30 November 2018	Lillehammer	Sprint F	Federico Pellegrino	Emil Iversen	Alex Harvey	Alexander Bolshunov	[4]
	4	1 December 2018	Lillehammer	15 km F	Sjur Røthe	Didrik Tønseth	Denis Spitsov		[5]
	5	2 December 2018	Lillehammer	15 km C Pursuit	Janosch Brugger	Jean-Marc Gaillard	Erik Bjornsen		[6]
3	9th Nordic Opening Overall (30 November – 2 December 2018)				Didrik Tønseth	Sjur Røthe	Emil Iversen	Emil Iversen	[7]
4	6	8 December 2018	Beitostølen	30 km F	Sjur Røthe	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Andrey Melnichenko	Alexander Bolshunov	[8]
5	7	15 December 2018	Davos	Sprint F	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Federico Pellegrino	Baptiste Gros		[9]
6	8	16 December 2018	Davos	15 km F	Evgeniy Belov	Maurice Manificat	Martin Johnsrud Sundby		[10]
	9	29 December 2018	Toblach	Sprint F	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Richard Jouve	Lucas Chanavat	Alexander Bolshunov	[11]
	10	30 December 2018	Toblach	15 km F	Sergey Ustiugov	Simen Hegstad Krüger	Alexander Bolshunov		[12]
	11	1 January 2019	Val Müstair	Sprint F	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Federico Pellegrino	Sergey Ustiugov		[13]
	12	2 January 2019	Oberstdorf	15 km C Mass Start	Emil Iversen	Francesco De Fabiani	Sergey Ustiugov		[14]
	13	3 January 2019	Oberstdorf	15 km F Pursuit	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Sergey Ustiugov	Alexander Bolshunov		[15]
	14	5 January 2019	Val di Fiemme	15 km C Mass Start	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Francesco De Fabiani	Alexander Bolshunov		[16]
	15	6 January 2019	Val di Fiemme	9 km F Pursuit climb	Sjur Røthe	Simen Hegstad Krüger	Andrey Melnichenko		[17]
7	13th Tour de Ski Overall (29 December 2018 – 6 January 2019)				Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Sergey Ustiugov	Simen Hegstad Krüger	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	[18]
8	16	12 January 2019	Dresden	Sprint F	Sindre Bjørnestad Skar	Gleb Retivykh	Erik Valnes	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	[19]
9	17	19 January 2019	Otepää	Sprint C	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Alexander Bolshunov	Pål Golberg		[20]
10	18	20 January 2019	Otepää	15 km C	Iivo Niskanen	Alexander Bolshunov	Didrik Tønseth		[21]
11	19	26 January 2019	Ulricehamn	15 km F	Maurice Manificat	Simen Hegstad Krüger	Didrik Tønseth		[22]
12	20	9 February 2019	Lahti	Sprint F	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Federico Pellegrino	Finn Hågen Krogh		[23]
13	21	16 February 2019	Cogne	Sprint F	Federico Pellegrino	Francesco De Fabiani	Lucas Chanavat		[24]
14	22	17 February 2019	Cogne	15 km C	Alexander Bolshunov	Iivo Niskanen	Alexander Bessmertnykh		[25]
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2019 (20 February–3 March)
15	23	9 March 2019	Oslo	50 km C Mass Start	Alexander Bolshunov	Maxim Vylegzhanin	Andrey Larkov	Alexander Bolshunov	[26]
16	24	12 March 2019	Drammen	Sprint C	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Eirik Brandsdal	Richard Jouve	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	[27]
17	25	16 March 2019	Falun	Sprint F	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Emil Iversen	Sindre Bjørnestad Skar		[28]
18	26	17 March 2019	Falun	15 km F	Alexander Bolshunov	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Didrik Tønseth		[29]
	27	22 March 2019	Quebec City	Sprint F	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Federico Pellegrino	Sindre Bjørnestad Skar	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	[30]
	28	23 March 2019	Quebec City	15 km C Mass Start	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Alex Harvey	Didrik Tønseth		[31]
	29	24 March 2019	Quebec City	15 km F Pursuit	Alex Harvey	Alexander Bolshunov	Andrew Young		[32]
19	2018–19 World Cup Finals (22–24 March 2019)				Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Alex Harvey	Alexander Bolshunov		[33]

Women

WC	Stage	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib	Ref.
1	1	24 November 2018	Ruka	Sprint C	Yuliya Belorukova	Maja Dahlqvist	Ida Ingemarsdotter	Yulia Belorukova	[34]
2	2	25 November 2018	Ruka	10 km C	Therese Johaug	Charlotte Kalla	Ebba Andersson		[35]
	3	30 November 2018	Lillehammer	Sprint F	Jonna Sundling	Stina Nilsson	Sadie Bjornsen	Yuliya Belorukova	[36]
	4	1 December 2018	Lillehammer	10 km F	Therese Johaug	Ebba Andersson	Charlotte Kalla		[37]
	5	2 December 2018	Lillehammer	10 km C Pursuit	Therese Johaug	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Ebba Andersson	Therese Johaug	[38]
3	9th Nordic Opening Overall (30 November – 2 December 2018)				Therese Johaug	Ebba Andersson	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg		[39]
4	6	8 December 2018	Beitostølen	15 km F	Therese Johaug	Charlotte Kalla	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Therese Johaug	[40]
5	7	15 December 2018	Davos	Sprint F	Stina Nilsson	Sophie Caldwell	Maja Dahlqvist		[41]
6	8	16 December 2018	Davos	10 km F	Therese Johaug	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Krista Pärmäkoski		[42]
	9	29 December 2018	Toblach	Sprint F	Stina Nilsson	Ida Ingemarsdotter	Jessie Diggins	Therese Johaug	[43]
	10	30 December 2018	Toblach	10 km F	Natalya Nepryayeva	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Anastasia Sedova		[44]
	11	1 January 2019	Val Müstair	Sprint F	Stina Nilsson	Sophie Caldwell	Jessie Diggins		[45]
	12	2 January 2019	Oberstdorf	10 km C Mass Start	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Natalya Nepryayeva	Anastasia Sedova	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	[46]
	13	3 January 2019	Oberstdorf	10 km F Pursuit	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Natalya Nepryayeva	Jessie Diggins		[47]
	14	5 January 2019	Val di Fiemme	10 km C Mass Start	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Natalya Nepryayeva	Anastasia Sedova		[48]
	15	6 January 2019	Val di Fiemme	9 km F Pursuit climb	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Krista Pärmäkoski	Anastasia Sedova		[49]
7	13th Tour de Ski Overall (29 December 2018 – 6 January 2019)				Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Natalya Nepryayeva	Krista Pärmäkoski		[50]
8	16	12 January 2019	Dresden	Sprint F	Stina Nilsson	Maja Dahlqvist	Jonna Sundling	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	[51]
9	17	19 January 2019	Otepää	Sprint C	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Natalya Nepryayeva	Maja Dahlqvist		[52]
10	18	20 January 2019	Otepää	10 km C	Therese Johaug	Ebba Andersson	Natalya Nepryayeva		[53]
11	19	26 January 2019	Ulricehamn	10 km F	Therese Johaug	Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen	Ebba Andersson		[54]
12	20	9 February 2019	Lahti	Sprint F	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Sophie Caldwell	Maja Dahlqvist		[55]
13	21	16 February 2019	Cogne	Sprint F	Jessie Diggins	Sandra Ringwald	Johanna Hagström		[56]
14	22	17 February 2019	Cogne	10 km C	Kerttu Niskanen	Nadine Fähndrich	Natalya Nepryayeva		[57]
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2019 (20 February–3 March)
15	23	10 March 2019	Oslo	30 km C Mass Start	Therese Johaug	Natalya Nepryayeva	Ebba Andersson	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	[58]
16	24	12 March 2019	Drammen	Sprint C	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen	Natalya Nepryayeva		[59]
17	25	16 March 2019	Falun	Sprint F	Stina Nilsson	Maiken Caspersen Falla	Maja Dahlqvist		[60]
18	26	17 March 2019	Falun	10 km F	Therese Johaug	Ebba Andersson	Jessie Diggins		[61]
	27	22 March 2019	Quebec City	Sprint F	Stina Nilsson	Maja Dahlqvist	Jonna Sundling	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	[62]
	28	23 March 2019	Quebec City	10 km C Mass Start	Stina Nilsson	Therese Johaug	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg		[63]
	29	24 March 2019	Quebec City	10 km F Pursuit	Therese Johaug	Krista Pärmäkoski	Ebba Andersson		[64]
19	2018–19 World Cup Finals (22–24 March 2019)				Stina Nilsson	Therese Johaug	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg		[65]

Men's team

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
1	9 December 2018	Beitostølen	4 × 7.5 km relay C/F	Norway I Emil Iversen Martin Johnsrud Sundby Sjur Røthe Finn Hågen Krogh	Russia I Evgeniy Belov Alexander Bolshunov Denis Spitsov Andrey Melnichenko	Norway II Didrik Tønseth Hans Christer Holund Magne Haga Simen Hegstad Krüger	[66]
2	13 January 2019	Dresden	Team Sprint F	Norway I Erik Valnes Sindre Bjørnestad Skar	Norway II Pål Golberg Eirik Brandsdal	Russia I Artem Maltsev Gleb Retivykh	[67]
3	27 January 2019	Ulricehamn	4 × 7.5 km relay C/F	Russia II Evgeniy Belov Alexander Bessmertnykh Denis Spitsov Artem Maltsev	Russia I Andrey Larkov Alexander Bolshunov Andrey Melnichenko Sergey Ustiugov	Norway Hans Christer Holund Didrik Tønseth Sjur Røthe Simen Hegstad Krüger	[68]
4	10 February 2019	Lahti	Team Sprint C	Norway I Emil Iversen Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Norway II Sindre Bjørnestad Skar Eirik Brandsdal	Finland I Iivo Niskanen Ristomatti Hakola	[69]

Women's team

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
1	9 December 2018	Beitostølen	4 × 5 km relay C/F	Norway I Heidi Weng Therese Johaug Ragnhild Haga Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Russia II Lidia Durkina Anna Zherebyatyeva Mariya Istomina Elena Soboleva	Finland I Johanna Matintalo Krista Pärmäkoski Riitta-Liisa Roponen Eveliina Piippo	[70]
2	13 January 2019	Dresden	Team Sprint F	Sweden I Stina Nilsson Maja Dahlqvist	Sweden II Ida Ingemarsdotter Jonna Sundling	Norway I Mari Eide Maiken Caspersen Falla	[71]
3	27 January 2019	Ulricehamn	4 × 5 km relay C/F	Norway I Heidi Weng Therese Johaug Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Sweden I Evelina Settlin Ebba Andersson Charlotte Kalla Jonna Sundling	Finland Laura Mononen Krista Pärmäkoski Riitta-Liisa Roponen Eveliina Piippo	[72]
4	10 February 2019	Lahti	Team Sprint C	Sweden I Ida Ingemarsdotter Maja Dahlqvist	Norway I Tiril Udnes Weng Maiken Caspersen Falla	Sweden II Evelina Settlin Hanna Falk	[73]

Men's standings

Overall Rank after all 32 events Points    Johannes Høsflot Klæbo 1715 2 Alexander Bolshunov 1617 3 Sjur Røthe 974 4 Simen Hegstad Krüger 907 5 Didrik Tønseth 867 6 Emil Iversen 825 7 Francesco De Fabiani 815 8 Federico Pellegrino 706 9 Martin Johnsrud Sundby 689 10 Sergey Ustiugov 633

Distance Rank after all 17 events Points    Alexander Bolshunov 864 2 Sjur Røthe 558 3 Martin Johnsrud Sundby 513 4 Simen Hegstad Krüger 495 5 Didrik Tønseth 486 6 Francesco De Fabiani 369 7 Andrey Larkov 365 8 Andrey Melnichenko 331 9 Johannes Høsflot Klæbo 325 10 Emil Iversen 316

Sprint Rank after all 12 events Points    Johannes Høsflot Klæbo 754 2 Federico Pellegrino 555 3 Eirik Brandsdal 471 4 Sindre Bjørnestad Skar 444 5 Alexander Bolshunov 363 6 Lucas Chanavat 352 7 Gleb Retivykh 329 8 Emil Iversen 299 9 Richard Jouve 284 10 Sondre Turvoll Fossli 204

Prize money Rank after all 44 payouts CHF 1 Johannes Høsflot Klæbo 207.500 2 Alexander Bolshunov 139.625 3 Sjur Røthe 85.875 4 Simen Hegstad Krüger 61.050 5 Emil Iversen 59.675 6 Didrik Tønseth 58.775 7 Sergey Ustiugov 55.800 8 Federico Pellegrino 46.600 9 Martin Johnsrud Sundby 42.000 10 Alex Harvey 35.550

Helvetia U23 Rank after all 32 events Points    Johannes Høsflot Klæbo 1715 2 Alexander Bolshunov 1617 3 Denis Spitsov 428 4 Viktor Thorn 428 5 Jules Lapierre 198 6 Erik Valnes 177 7 Andrey Sobakarev 122 8 Irineu Esteve Altimiras 108 9 Ivan Yakimushkin 103 10 Janosch Brugger 93

Audi e-tron Bonus Ranking Rank after all 10 events Points    Johannes Høsflot Klæbo 326 2 Alexander Bolshunov 228 3 Emil Iversen 218 4 Federico Pellegrino 148 5 Sindre Bjørnestad Skar 145 6 Richard Jouve 104 7 Lucas Chanavat 104 8 Sergey Ustiugov 96 9 Simen Hegstad Krüger 74 10 Francesco De Fabiani 70

Women's standings

Overall Rank after all 32 events Points    Ingvild Flugstad Østberg 1654 2 Natalya Nepryayeva 1431 3 Therese Johaug 1322 4 Krista Pärmäkoski 1316 5 Stina Nilsson 1072 6 Jessie Diggins 1005 7 Ebba Andersson 918 8 Yuliya Belorukova 853 9 Maja Dahlqvist 672 10 Maiken Caspersen Falla 656

Distance Rank after all 17 events Points    Therese Johaug 956 2 Ingvild Flugstad Østberg 817 3 Natalya Nepryayeva 692 4 Krista Pärmäkoski 687 5 Ebba Andersson 646 6 Jessie Diggins 468 7 Charlotte Kalla 454 8 Yuliya Belorukova 385 9 Anastasia Sedova 377 10 Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen 352

Sprint Rank after all 12 events Points    Stina Nilsson 626 2 Maiken Caspersen Falla 583 3 Maja Dahlqvist 482 4 Sophie Caldwell 371 5 Natalya Nepryayeva 311 6 Ida Ingemarsdotter 306 7 Jessie Diggins 301 8 Sadie Bjornsen 263 9 Jonna Sundling 260 10    Nadine Fähndrich 245

Prize money Rank after all 44 payouts CHF 1 Ingvild Flugstad Østberg 175.900 2 Therese Johaug 146.375 3 Natalya Nepryayeva 119.325 4 Stina Nilsson 97.575 5 Krista Pärmäkoski 83.900 6 Ebba Andersson 71.500 7 Maja Dahlqvist 55.300 8 Jessie Diggins 54.525 9 Maiken Caspersen Falla 50.050 10 Yuliya Belorukova 40.950

Helvetia U23 Rank after all 32 events Points    Ebba Andersson 918 2 Tiril Udnes Weng 406 3 Mariya Istomina 268 4 Katharina Hennig 250 5 Lotta Udnes Weng 181 6 Lidia Durkina 175 7 Frida Karlsson 169 8 Johanna Hagström 107 9 Moa Lundgren 103 10 Anna Zherebyateva 56

Audi e-tron Bonus Ranking Rank after all 10 events Points    Ingvild Flugstad Østberg 213 2 Stina Nilsson 207 3 Natalya Nepryayeva 161 4 Jessie Diggins 123 5 Maiken Caspersen Falla 99 6 Sophie Caldwell 98 7 Sadie Bjornsen 97 8 Ida Ingemarsdotter 94 9 Yuliya Belorukova 94 10 Krista Pärmäkoski 84

Nations Cup

Overall Rank after all 72 events Points 1  Norway 12657 2  Russia 8636 3  Sweden 7015 4  Finland 3510 5  United States 3065 6  France 2483 7  Italy 2463 8  Germany 2220 9   Switzerland  1839 10  Slovenia 1165

Men Rank after all 36 events Points 1  Norway 6740 2  Russia 4929 3  France 2292 4  Sweden 2100 5  Italy 1864 6  Finland 1216 7   Switzerland  982 8  Germany 845 9  Canada 642 10  Great Britain 584

Women Rank after all 36 events Points 1  Norway 5917 2  Sweden 4915 3  Russia 3707 4  United States 2501 5  Finland 2294 6  Germany 1375 7  Slovenia 1007 8   Switzerland  857 9  Italy 599 10  Japan 361

Points distribution

The table shows the number of points won in the 2018/19 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 Janosch Brugger, 21, in his 3rd season – the WC 3 (15 km C Pursuit) in Lillehammer; also first podium Evgeniy Belov, 28, in his 9th season – the WC 6 (15 km F) in Davos; first podium was 2013-14 WC 17 (15 km C Mass Start) in Szklarska Poręba

Women Yuliya Belorukova, 23, in her 5th season – the WC 1 (Sprint C) in Ruka; first podium was 2017–18 WC 1 (Sprint C) in Ruka Jonna Sundling, 23, in her 5th season – the WC 3 (Sprint F) in Lillehammer; first podium was 2017–18 WC 18 (Sprint F) in Falun Natalya Nepryayeva, 23, in her 6th season – the WC 7 (10 km F) in Toblach; first podium was 2017–18 WC 15 (10 km C) in Lahti

First World Cup podium

Men Janosch Brugger, 21, in his 3rd season - no. 1 in the WC 3 (15 km C Pursuit) in Lillehammer Erik Bjornsen, 27, in his 7th season - no. 3 in the WC 3 (15 km C Pursuit) in Lillehammer Andrey Melnichenko, 26, in his 4th season - no. 3 in the WC 4 (30 km F) in Beitostølen Erik Valnes, 22, in his 2nd season - no. 3 in the WC 8 (Sprint F) in Dresden

Women Ebba Andersson, 21, in her 3rd season - no. 3 in the WC 2 (10 km C) in Ruka Anastasia Sedova, 23, in her 3rd season - no. 3 in the WC 7 (10 km F) in Toblach Sandra Ringwald, 28, in her 9th season - no. 2 in the WC 13 (Sprint F) in Cogne Johanna Hagström, 20, in her 3rd season - no. 3 in the WC 13 (Sprint F) in Cogne    Nadine Fähndrich, 23, in her 4th season - no. 2 in the WC 14 (10 km C) in Cogne

Victories in this World Cup (all-time number of victories in parentheses)

Men Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, 13 (27) first places Alexander Bolshunov, 5 (8) first places Sjur Røthe, 3 (4) first places Federico Pellegrino, 2 (13) first places Sergey Ustiugov, 1 (13) first place Maurice Manificat, 1 (10) first place Alex Harvey, 1 (8) first place Emil Iversen, 1 (6) first place Didrik Tønseth, 1 (3) first place Iivo Niskanen, 1 (3) first place Sindre Bjørnestad Skar, 1 (2) first place Evgeniy Belov, 1 (1) first place Janosch Brugger, 1 (1) first place

Women Therese Johaug, 11 (53) first places Stina Nilsson, 8 (23) first places Ingvild Flugstad Østberg, 5 (16) first places Maiken Caspersen Falla, 3 (19) first places Jessie Diggins, 1 (6) first place Kerttu Niskanen, 1 (2) first place Yuliya Belorukova, 1 (1) first place Natalya Nepryayeva, 1 (1) first place Jonna Sundling, 1 (1) first place

Retirements

The following athletes announced their retirements during or after the season:

Men Robin Duvillard[74] Alex Harvey[75] Matti Heikkinen[76] Nikita Kryukov[77] Petter Northug[78] Luis Stadlober[79] Len Väljas[75] Maxim Vylegzhanin[80]

Women Stefanie Böhler[81] Nicole Fessel[82] Coraline Hugue Ida Ingemarsdotter[83] Sandra Ringwald[81] Ida Sargent[84] Elisabeth Schicho[81] Nathalie von Siebenthal[85]

Footnotes