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1994–95 FIS Cross-Country World Cup
Discipline Men Women
Overall Norway Bjørn Dæhlie (3rd title) Russia Yelena Vyalbe (4th title)
Nations Cup Norway Norway Russia Russia
Nations Cup Overall Russia Russia
Competition
Locations 10 venues 10 venues
Individual 15 events 15 events
Relay/Team events events

The 1994–95 FIS Cross-Country World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season for cross-country skiers. It was the 14th official World Cup season in cross-country skiing for men and ladies. The World Cup was organised by the International Ski Federation who also run world cups and championships in ski jumping, snowboarding and alpine skiing amongst others.

Bjørn Dæhlie reclaimed the crystal World Cup globe which Vladimir Smirnov had won in the 1993–94 season, thus taking his third overall men's World Cup title in four seasons. Smirnov won more races, with six wins including three during the 1995 World Championships, but Dæhlie was usually the runner-up. Also, one of Smirnov's World Championship wins didn't count towards the overall standings. Silvio Fauner, Harri Kirvesniemi, Torgny Mogren and Alexey Prokurorov also registered World Cup wins during the season.

In the women's Cup, Yelena Vyalbe won the six first events, and eventually won nine of the 15 races including one gold at the World Championships. Russians occupied the top five spots in the women's World Cup, with multiple races having three or more Russians on top of the standings. Only the Lahti 10 km was not won by a Russian skier, and in 11 of the 15 races did Russians occupy the top two spots in the standings. According to the Norwegian publication Sportsboken, the Russian women had not been this dominant since the 1970s.[1]

Calendar

Men

C – Classic / F – Freestyle
WC Date Place Discipline Winner Second Third Ref.
1 27 November 1994   Sweden Kiruna 10 km C   Norway Bjørn Dæhlie Kazakhstan Vladimir Smirnov Norway Kristen Skjeldal [2]
2 14 December 1994   Austria Tauplitzalm 15 km C   Russia Alexey Prokourorov Norway Bjørn Dæhlie Sweden Niklas Jonsson [3]
3 17 December 1994   Italy Sappada 15 km F   Norway Bjørn Dæhlie Italy Silvio Fauner Finland Jari Isometsä [4]
4 20 December 1994   Italy Sappada 10 km F   Sweden Torgny Mogren Sweden Henrik Forsberg Kazakhstan Vladimir Smirnov [5]
5 8 January 1995   Sweden Östersund 30 km F   Norway Bjørn Dæhlie Russia Alexey Prokourorov Norway Thomas Alsgaard [6]
6 14 January 1995   Czech Republic Nové Město 15 km C   Finland Harri Kirvesniemi Finland Jari Isometsä Italy Silvio Fauner [7]
7 27 January 1995   Finland Lahti 15 km F   Kazakhstan Vladimir Smirnov Norway Bjørn Dæhlie Finland Jari Isometsä [8]
8 29 January 1995   Finland Lahti 15 km C   Kazakhstan Vladimir Smirnov Finland Jari Isometsä Norway Bjørn Dæhlie [9]
9 4 February 1995   Sweden Falun 30 km C   Norway Bjørn Dæhlie Italy Silvio Fauner Kazakhstan Vladimir Smirnov [10]
10 11 February 1995   Norway Oslo 50 km C   Kazakhstan Vladimir Smirnov Russia Alexey Prokourorov Austria Mikhail Botvinov [11]
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1995 (9–19 March)
11 9 March 1995   Canada Thunder Bay 30 km C   Kazakhstan Vladimir Smirnov Norway Bjørn Dæhlie Russia Alexey Prokourorov [12]
12 11 March 1995   Canada Thunder Bay 10 km F   Kazakhstan Vladimir Smirnov Norway Bjørn Dæhlie Finland Mika Myllylä [13]
13 13 March 1995   Canada Thunder Bay 15 km F Pursuit   Kazakhstan Vladimir Smirnov Italy Silvio Fauner Finland Jari Isometsä [14]
14 19 March 1995   Canada Thunder Bay 50 km F   Italy Silvio Fauner Norway Bjørn Dæhlie Kazakhstan Vladimir Smirnov [15]
15 25 March 1995   Japan Sapporo 15 km F   Norway Bjørn Dæhlie Kazakhstan Vladimir Smirnov Norway Thomas Alsgaard [16]

Note: Until FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1999, World Championship races are part of the World Cup. Hence results from those races are included in the World Cup overall.

Women

Date Place Dist. Winner Second Third
27 November Sweden Kiruna, Sweden 5 km C  Yelena Vyalbe (RUS)  Nina Gavrylyuk (RUS)  Trude Dybendahl (NOR)
Vyalbe won the 15-minute race with a 15-second margin, while Dybendahl took the only other podium place – it was to be the only podium place for Norway until Lahti.
14 December Austria Tauplitz, Austria 10 km C  Yelena Vyalbe (RUS)  Nina Gavrylyuk (RUS)  Olga Danilova (RUS)
After a two-week break, the skiers resumed with a Wednesday race in Tauplitz, for the first World Cup race in the Austrian resort in five years. Vyalbe doubled her advantage to Gavrylyuk, while Danilova took third place in Dybendahl's absence, improving from 12th place in Kiruna. Larisa Lazutina placed fourth to complete the row of Russians.
17 December Italy Sappada, Italy 15 km F  Yelena Vyalbe (RUS)  Olga Korneyeva (RUS)  Nina Gavrylyuk (RUS)
The Russians went one better than in Tauplitz, occupying the first five spots. Vyalbe won by 41 seconds, while Korneeva overtook both Gavrylyuk and Danilova in the longer distance, and earned the right to a relay stage for the first team the following day.
18 December Italy Sappada, Italy 4 × 5 km F Russia Russia I Russia Russia II Norway Norway
Russia showed their dominance of female free-style cross-country skiing with two teams ahead of the competition; Russia I won by nearly a minute, while Norway in third place were a further 20 seconds behind.
20 December Italy Sappada, Italy 5 km F  Yelena Vyalbe (RUS)
 Nina Gavrylyuk (RUS)
 Olga Korneyeva (RUS)
In the final race before Christmas, someone managed to come close to Vyalbe. It was the same podium as the 15 km three days earlier, but Korneyeva was distanced by 11 seconds. Seven Russians placed on top of the standings.[17]
7 January Sweden Östersund, Sweden 30 km F  Yelena Vyalbe (RUS)  Stefania Belmondo (ITA)  Nina Gavrylyuk (RUS)
Vyalbe won again, but Belmondo showed form by becoming the second non-Russian to make a podium place, more than 45 seconds ahead of third-placed Gavrylyuk in the longest freestyle World Cup race of the season.
14 January Czech Republic Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic 15 km C  Yelena Vyalbe (RUS)  Larisa Lazutina (RUS)  Nina Gavrylyuk (RUS)
Vyalbe's sixth successive victory, in the first classical race in exactly one month. Once again four Russians placed in the top four.
15 January Czech Republic Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic 4 × 5 km C Russia Russia I Norway Norway Russia Russia II
With the relay being in classical style, Norway managed to beat the second Russian team; however, Russia's first team, made up of the top four in the previous day's race, won by a minute. The race time was slow, with Russia recording a total time of 65 minutes, nearly 20 minutes slower than in Sappada.
27 January Finland Lahti, Finland 4 × 5 km F Russia Russia I Russia Russia II Norway Norway
The second double Russian triumph in a free-style relay this season, though the distance between Russia's first team and second team was almost four times as great as that between Russia's second and Norway.
28 January Finland Lahti, Finland 10 km C  Inger Helene Nybråten (NOR)  Marit Mikkelsplass (NOR)  Larisa Lazutina (RUS)
The Russians struggled with worse skis,[1] allowing Norway to take the two top spots and get five women among the top eight. World Cup leader Vyalbe, unbeaten thus far in the season, finished 15th. Third-placed Lazutina was 3.9 seconds behind Nybråten, the smallest margin thus far in the season.
4 February Sweden Falun, Sweden 10 km C  Nina Gavrylyuk (RUS)  Yelena Vyalbe (RUS)  Larisa Lazutina (RUS)
Once more four Russians occupied the four top spots, in a closer race than in Lahti; Lazutina was only 3.2 seconds behind the gold medallist. Gavrylyuk finally won a race outright, after having placed among the top four in every race up to this.
5 February Sweden Falun, Sweden 10 km F Pur  Yelena Vyalbe (RUS)  Nina Gavrylyuk (RUS)  Larisa Lazutina (RUS)
The four Russians started with an advantage from the classical race, and remained in the lead. In the dash for the finish, Vyalbe was well ahead of her Russian compatriots.
7 February Norway Hamar, Norway 4 × 3 km F Russia Russia Norway Norway Italy Italy
In a Tuesday show race inside the Olympic speed skating arena of Vikingskipet, Norway came closer to Russia than they had ever been, but still finished 12 seconds behind.
11 February Norway Oslo, Norway 30 km C  Larisa Lazutina (RUS)  Anita Moen Guidon (NOR)  Olga Danilova (RUS)
The traditional Holmenkollen race ended without Vyalbe on the podium; Moen Guidon finished strongly, but finished 19 seconds behind Lazutina. Moen caught Danilova, who started half a minute ahead, and the pair got second and third, Danilova beating World Cup leader Vyalbe by a couple of seconds.
12 February Norway Oslo, Norway 4 × 5 km C/F Russia Russia Norway Norway Russia Russia II
Russia won by 30 seconds, the closest win margin in a relay thus far in the season, while the Russian second team and the Norwegian second team followed.
1995 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
10 March Canada Thunder Bay, Canada 15 km C  Larisa Lazutina (RUS)  Yelena Vyalbe (RUS)  Inger Helene Nybråten (NOR)
A month's break followed, as the skiers acclimatised to conditions in Canada. Vyalbe had not recovered to her pre-January form, admitting before the Championships that Lazutina was going to win everything.[18] Indeed, Lazutina won by over a minute, the largest margin of victory per kilometre in the World Cup season. Nybråten took her second podium place of the season and what was to be her only individual international medal.
12 March Canada Thunder Bay, Canada 5 km C  Larisa Lazutina (RUS)  Nina Gavrylyuk (RUS)  Manuela Di Centa (ITA)
Vyalbe without a medal again, finishing fourth, but still clinching the World Cup overall standings. Lazutina won by 23 seconds, while the Norwegians complained of poor skis in the heat (15 °C), and Di Centa, two-time gold medallist at Lillehammer in 1994, got her first podium place of the season after recovering from surgery to the intestines.
14 March Canada Thunder Bay, Canada 10 km F Pu  Larisa Lazutina (RUS)  Nina Gavrylyuk (RUS)  Olga Danilova (RUS)
Danilova rallied from 15th place in the 5 km to record the best time of the race, but after trailing by a minute after the classical race, it was only enough for bronze. Lazutina had the second-best time and Gavrylyuk the third, while Vyalbe finished 12th.
17 March Canada Thunder Bay, Canada 4 × 5 km M Russia Russia
Danilova, Lazutina, Vyalbe, Gavrylyuk
Norway Norway
Mikkelsplass, Nybråten, Nilsen, Moen Guidon
Sweden Sweden
Frithioff, Östlund, Ordina, Fanqvist
Russia were dominant, winning by more than a minute and a half. Danilova went straight to the lead on the first stage, outside the classical tracks, and Norwegian leaders commented that they could have protested but did not want to. Except for Vyalbe, all the Russian skiers had the best stage time. Ordina pulled away from Nilsen on the third stage, winning half a minute, but Moen Guidon caught Fanqvist in the final sprint and beat her to the finish line, winning silver by one tenth of a second.
18 March Canada Thunder Bay, Canada 30 km F  Yelena Vyalbe (RUS)  Manuela Di Centa (ITA)  Antonina Ordina (SWE)
Vyalbe took her sixth individual World Championship gold, and her eighth win of the season, as classical-specialist Lazutina fell to fifth place. The margin of victory was more than a minute. Di Centa got her second podium place, and her 140 points from the World Championships made up 85% of her total World Cup score. Russian-born Ordina took Sweden's only individual podium place of the season.
25 March Japan Sapporo, Japan 15 km F  Yelena Vyalbe (RUS)  Larisa Lazutina (RUS)  Nina Gavrylyuk (RUS)
Of the long-distance free style medallists in Thunder Bay, Di Centa didn't turn up, Ordina finished fourth, while Vyalbe won by half a minute in her last race of the season. It was an all-Russian podium for the seventh time this season.

Overall results

Below are tables showing the number of points won in the 1994–95 FIS Cross-Country World Cup for men and women.

11 races counted towards the total; the 9 best of the 11 races outside the World Championships, as well as the two best World Championship races.

 
Place Points
1st 100
2nd 80
3rd 60
4th 50
5th 45
6th 40
7th 36
8th 32
9th 29
10th 26
11th 24
12th 22
13th 20
14th 18
15th 16
16th 15
17th 14
18th 13
19th 12
20th 11
21st 10
22nd 9
23rd 8
24th 7
25th 6
26th 5
27th 4
28th 3
29th 2
30th 1

Men

Pos Skier Points
1 Norway Bjørn Dæhlie 930
2 Kazakhstan Vladimir Smirnov 866
3 Italy Silvio Fauner 591
4 Russia Alexey Prokurorov 572
5 Finland Jari Isometsä 525
6 Norway Thomas Alsgaard 429
7 Finland Harri Kirvesniemi 363
8 Finland Mika Myllylä 340
9 Sweden Torgny Mogren 330
10 Russia Mikhail Botvinov 269
11 Norway Kristen Skjeldal 268
12 Sweden Henrik Forsberg 256
13 Norway Erling Jevne 236
14 Austria Alois Stadlober 217
15 Italy Gaudenzio Godioz 213
16 Norway Vegard Ulvang 208
17 Austria Markus Gandler 194
18 Sweden Niklas Jonsson 182
19 Norway Egil Kristiansen 158
20 Italy Marco Albarello 152
21 Sweden Mathias Fredriksson 136
22 Germany Jochen Behle 129
Italy Fulvio Valbusa
24 Sweden Anders Bergström 127
25 Finland Jukka Hartonen 112
26 Italy Fabio Maj 111
27 Norway Sture Sivertsen 110
28 Germany Johan Mühlegg 104
29 Sweden Christer Majbäck 96
Liechtenstein Markus Hasler
31 Spain Juan Jesús Gutiérrez 93
32 Sweden Morgan Göransson 77
Germany Uwe Bellmann
34 Norway Terje Langli 74
35 Finland Karri Hietamäki 68
36 Finland Sami Repo 62
37 France Hervé Balland 58
38 Germany Andreas Schlütter 56
39 Norway Anders Eide 54
40 Czech Republic Luboš Buchta 51
41 Italy Giorgio Vanzetta 50
42 Finland Kimmo Kuusisto 49
43 Russia Vladimir Legotine 42
44 Sweden Sven-Erik Danielsson 40
Finland Jari Räsänen
Italy Maurizio Pozzi
47 Germany Peter Schlickenrieder 33
Italy Silvano Barco
49 Russia Sergey Chepikov 32
Norway Sigurd Brørs
51 Italy Pietro Piller Cottrer 31
52 Kazakhstan Pavel Riabinine 28
53 Sweden Håkan Nordbäck 27
Japan Hiroyuki Imai
55 Norway Krister Sørgård 24
Switzerland Jeremias Wigger
57 Russia Grigoriy Goutnikov 22
Russia Gennady Lazutin
France Philippe Sanchez
60 Sweden Peter Göransson 20

Women

Pos Skier Points
1 Russia Yelena Vyalbe 1060
2 Russia Nina Gavrylyuk 840
3 Russia Larisa Lazutina 785
4 Russia Olga Danilova 547
5 Russia Olga Korneyeva 395
6 Norway Inger Helene Nybråten 386
7 Italy Stefania Belmondo 377
8 Norway Marit Mikkelsplass 361
9 Norway Anita Moen 295
10 Norway Trude Dybendahl 290
11 Norway Elin Nilsen 283
12 Sweden Antonina Ordina 279
13 Sweden Marie-Helene Östlund 268
14 Czech Republic Kateřina Neumannová 229
15 Switzerland Sylvia Honegger 200
16 Russia Natalya Martynova 195
17 Italy Guidina Dal Sasso 172
18 Finland Pirkko Määttä 170
19 Finland Tuulikki Pyykkönen 167
20 Italy Manuela Di Centa 163
21 Russia Yelena Schalina 152
Russia Olga Pyleva
23 Finland Merja Kuusisto 146
24 Germany Sigrid Wille 141
25 Norway Bente Martinsen 123
26 Ukraine Iryna Terelia 110
27 Italy Gabriella Paruzzi 108
28 Slovakia Alžbeta Havrančíková 100
29 Estonia Kristina Šmigun 93
30 Germany Anke Schulze 86
31 Russia Natalya Baranova 83
32 Sweden Anna Frithioff 78
33 Germany Ina Kümmel 69
34 Japan Fumiko Aoki 66
35 Italy Sabina Valbusa 65
36 France Sophie Villeneuve 55
37 Germany Constanze Blum 54
38 Sweden Anette Fanqvist 49
39 Germany Manuela Henkel 46
40 Norway Maj Helen Sorkmo 41
Poland Małgorzata Ruchała
42 Norway Kari Uglem 38
43 Italy Cristina Paluselli 37
44 Switzerland Brigitte Albrecht 34
45 Norway Inger Lise Hegge 32
46 United States Leslie Thompson 31
47 Poland Dorota Kwaśna 29
Sweden Annika Evaldsson
49 Slovakia Jaroslava Bukvajová 28
United States Nina Kemppel
51 Slovenia Nataša Lačen 27
52 Czech Republic Iveta Fortová 25
53 Finland Virpi Niemi 24
54 Estonia Cristel Vahtra 22
55 Japan Sumiko Yokoyama 15
Italy Natalie Santer
57 Slovakia Tatiana Kutlíková 11
58 Austria Gerhild Pfügler 10
Finland Kati Pulkkinen
60 Austria Maria Theurl 9

Achievements

Victories in this World Cup (all-time number of victories as of 1994/95 season in parentheses)

References

  • FIS Official Site World Cup Results
  • Sportsboken 95-96, ed. Arvid Eriksen, Schibsted, ISBN 82-516-1583-6.

Notes