2001–02 FIS Cross-Country World Cup

2001–02 FIS Cross-Country World Cup
2001–02 FIS Cross-Country World Cup
Discipline	Men
Overall	Per Elofsson (2nd title)
Distance	(not arranged)
Sprint	Trond Iversen
Nations Cup	Norway
Nations Cup Overall	Norway
Competition
Locations	15 venues
Individual	20 events
Relay/Team	5 events
	←2000–01 2002–03→

The 2001–02 FIS Cross-Country World Cup was the 21st official World Cup season in cross-country skiing for men and ladies. The season began in Kuopio, Finland on 24 November 2001 and finished in Lillehammer, Norway on 23 March 2002. Per Elofsson of Sweden won the overall men's cup,^[1] and Bente Skari of Norway won the women's.^[2]

Calendar

Men

Key: C – Classic / F – Freestyle
WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib	Ref.
1	24 November 2001	Kuopio	15 km C	Anders Aukland	Erling Jevne	Frode Estil	Anders Aukland	[1]
2	25 November 2001	Kuopio	10 km F	Per Elofsson	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Thomas Alsgaard		[2]
3	8 December 2001	Cogne	10 km C	Anders Aukland	Per Elofsson	Frode Estil		[3]
4	9 December 2001	Cogne	Sprint F	Cristian Zorzi	Tor Arne Hetland	Markus Hasler		[4]
5	12 December 2001	Brusson	15 km F	Johann Mühlegg	Christian Hoffmann	Per Elofsson	Per Elofsson	[5]
6	15 December 2001	Davos	15 km C	Erling Jevne	Per Elofsson	Ivan Bátory		[6]
7	19 December 2001	Asiago	Sprint C	Jens Arne Svartedal	Trond Iversen	Andreas Schlütter		[7]
8	22 December 2001	Ramsau	30 km F Mass Start	Per Elofsson	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Christian Hoffmann		[8]
9	27 December 2001	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Sprint F	Cristian Zorzi	Tor Arne Hetland	Peter Larsson		[9]
10	29 December 2001	Salzburg	Sprint F	Håvard Bjerkeli	Trond Einar Elden	Tor Arne Hetland		[10]
11	5 January 2002	Val di Fiemme	10 km C + 10 km F Double Pursuit	Per Elofsson	Thomas Alsgaard	Anders Aukland		[11]
12	6 January 2002	Val di Fiemme	Sprint F	Trond Iversen	Keijo Kurttila	Thobias Fredriksson		[12]
13	8 January 2002	Val di Fiemme	30 km C Mass Start	Anders Aukland	Vitaly Denisov	Mathias Fredriksson		[13]
14	12 January 2002	Nové Město	10 km F	Fabio Maj	Jaak Mae	Kristen Skjeldal		[14]
2002 Winter Olympics (8–24 February)
15	2 March 2002	Lahti	10 km F	Per Elofsson	Thomas Alsgaard	Tore Ruud Hofstad	Per Elofsson	[15]
16	5 March 2002	Stockholm	Sprint C	Jens Arne Svartedal	Trond Iversen	Björn Lind		[16]
17	9 March 2002	Falun	10 km C + 10 km F Double Pursuit	Thomas Alsgaard	Kristen Skjeldal	Per Elofsson		[17]
18	13 March 2002	Oslo	Sprint C	Jens Arne Svartedal	Jörgen Brink	Keijo Kurttila		[18]
19	16 March 2002	Oslo	50 km F	Thomas Alsgaard	Kristen Skjeldal	Pietro Piller Cottrer		[19]
20	23 March 2002	Lillehammer	58 km C (Birkebeinerrennet)	Thomas Alsgaard	Anders Aukland	Frode Estil		[20]

Ladies

Key: C – Classic / F – Freestyle
WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib	Ref.
1	24 November 2001	Kuopio	10 km C	Bente Skari	Olga Danilova	Lina Andersson	Bente Skari	[21]
2	25 November 2001	Kuopio	5 km F	Kateřina Neumannová	Yuliya Chepalova	Kristina Šmigun	Olga Danilova	[22]
3	8 December 2001	Cogne	10 km C	Bente Skari	Olga Danilova	Vibeke Skofterud	Olga Danilova	[23]
4	9 December 2001	Cogne	Sprint F	Kateřina Neumannová	Vibeke Skofterud	Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen	Kateřina Neumannová	[24]
5	12 December 2001	Brusson	10 km F	Yuliya Chepalova	Stefania Belmondo	Kristina Šmigun		[25]
6	15 December 2001	Davos	10 km C	Bente Skari	Kristina Šmigun	Stefania Belmondo		[26]
7	19 December 2001	Asiago	Sprint C	Bente Skari	Petra Majdič	Beckie Scott	Bente Skari	[27]
8	22 December 2001	Ramsau	15 km F Mass Start	Kristina Šmigun	Stefania Belmondo	Yelena Burukhina		[28]
9	27 December 2001	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Sprint F	Evi Sachenbacher	Sabina Valbusa	Maj Helen Sorkmo		[29]
10	29 December 2001	Salzburg	Sprint F	Anita Moen	Kateřina Neumannová	Maj Helen Sorkmo	Kateřina Neumannová	[30]
11	5 January 2002	Val di Fiemme	5 km C + 5 km F Double Pursuit	Olga Danilova	Bente Skari	Kateřina Neumannová	Bente Skari	[31]
12	6 January 2002	Val di Fiemme	Sprint F	Kateřina Neumannová	Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen	Sabina Valbusa	Kateřina Neumannová	[32]
13	8 January 2002	Val di Fiemme	15 km F Mass Start	Bente Skari	Olga Danilova	Svetlana Nageykina	Bente Skari	[33]
14	12 January 2002	Nové Město	5 km F	Yuliya Chepalova	Kateřina Neumannová	Stefania Belmondo	Kateřina Neumannová	[34]
2002 Winter Olympics (8–24 February)
15	2 March 2002	Lahti	10 km F	Kristina Šmigun	Stefania Belmondo	Nina Gavrylyuk	Kateřina Neumannová	[35]
16	5 March 2002	Stockholm	Sprint C	Bente Skari	Petra Majdič	Anita Moen	Bente Skari	[36]
17	9 March 2002	Falun	5 km C + 5 km F Double Pursuit	Stefania Belmondo	Nina Gavrylyuk	Gabriella Paruzzi		[37]
18	13 March 2002	Oslo	Sprint C	Bente Skari	Lina Andersson	Manuela Henkel		[38]
19	16 March 2002	Oslo	30 km F	Stefania Belmondo	Kristina Šmigun	Gabriella Paruzzi		[39]
20	23 March 2002	Lillehammer	58 km C (Birkebeinerrennet)	Anita Moen	Vibeke Skofterud	Manuela Henkel		[40]

Men's team

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
1	27 November 2001	Kuopio	4 × 10 km relay C/F	Norway Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset Erling Jevne Håvard Bjerkeli Tor Arne Hetland	Sweden Urban Lindgren Mathias Fredriksson Per Elofsson Jörgen Brink	Russia Vasily Rochev Mikhail Ivanov Nikolay Bolshakov Vladimir Vilissov	[41]
2	16 December 2001	Davos	4 × 10 km relay C/F	Sweden Urban Lindgren Mathias Fredriksson Niklas Jonsson Per Elofsson	Russia Vitaly Denisov Mikhail Ivanov Vladimir Vilissov Nikolay Bolshakov	Norway Frode Estil Erling Jevne Thomas Alsgaard Tor Arne Hetland	[42]
3	13 January 2002	Nové Město	Team Sprint F	Italy II Fabio Maj Freddy Schwienbacher	Italy I Giorgio Di Centa Cristian Zorzi	Finland III Teemu Kattilakoski Sami Repo	[43]
4	3 March 2002	Lahti	Team Sprint F	Italy Giorgio Di Centa Cristian Zorzi	Germany René Sommerfeldt Tobias Angerer	Czech Republic Lukáš Bauer Martin Koukal	[44]
5	10 March 2002	Falun	4 × 10 km relay C/F	Norway I Frode Estil Anders Aukland Kristen Skjeldal Thomas Alsgaard	Sweden Mathias Fredriksson Per Elofsson Anders Södergren Fredrik Östberg	Norway II Jens Arne Svartedal Erling Jevne Tore Ruud Hofstad Tore Bjonviken	[45]

Ladies' team

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
1	27 November 2001	Kuopio	4 × 5 km relay C/F	Russia I Olga Danilova Natalya Baranova-Masalkina Nina Gavrylyuk Yuliya Chepalova	Russia II Alyona Sidko Lyubov Yegorova Yelena Burukhina Olga Zavyalova	Sweden Lina Andersson Elin Ek Anna Dahlberg Jenny Olsson	[46]
2	16 December 2001	Davos	4 × 5 km relay C/F	Norway Tina Bay Bente Skari Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen Vibeke Skofterud	Russia III Alyona Sidko Olga Moskalenko Yelena Burukhina Ekaterina Stchastlivaia	Italy Cristina Paluselli Gabriella Paruzzi Arianna Follis Stefania Belmondo	[47]
3	13 January 2002	Nové Město	Team Sprint F	Russia Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova Yuliya Chepalova	Italy Gabriella Paruzzi Sabina Valbusa	Finland Riikka Sirviö Riitta-Liisa Lassila	[48]
4	3 March 2002	Lahti	Team Sprint F	Italy Gabriella Paruzzi Sabina Valbusa	Russia Olga Zavyalova Nina Gavrylyuk	France/ Italy Karine Philippot Stefania Belmondo	[49]
5	10 March 2002	Falun	4 × 5 km relay C/F	Italy Sabina Valbusa Gabriella Paruzzi Cristina Paluselli Stefania Belmondo	Norway Anita Moen Marit Bjørgen Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen Vibeke Skofterud	Germany Manuela Henkel Viola Bauer Claudia Künzel Evi Sachenbacher	[50]

Men's standings

Overall

Rank	Skier	Points
	Per Elofsson	780
2	Thomas Alsgaard	777
3	Anders Aukland	545
4	Kristen Skjeldal	518
5	Frode Estil	404
6	Jaak Mae	401
7	Cristian Zorzi	327
8	Johann Mühlegg	322
9	Jens Arne Svartedal	315
10	Erling Jevne	307

Rank	Skier	Points
11	Lukáš Bauer	303
12	Trond Iversen	260
13	Tor Arne Hetland	258
14	Tobias Angerer	231
15	Pietro Piller Cottrer	226
16	Jörgen Brink	214
17	Andreas Schlütter	211
18	Håvard Bjerkeli	210
19	Andrus Veerpalu	201
20	Mathias Fredriksson	198

Rank	Skier	Points
21	Ivan Bátory	197
22	Espen Bjervig	196
23	Fabio Maj	179
24	Vincent Vittoz	174
25	Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset	171
26	Giorgio Di Centa	170
27	Freddy Schwienbacher	167
28	Christian Hoffmann	163
29	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	160
30	Thobias Fredriksson	150

Sprint

Rank	Skier	Points
	Trond Iversen	328
2	Jens Arne Svartedal	300
3	Cristian Zorzi	264
4	Thobias Fredriksson	254
5	Håvard Bjerkeli	249
6	Tor Arne Hetland	247
7	Björn Lind	205
8	Jörgen Brink	155
9	Keijo Kurttila	154
10	Freddy Schwienbacher	149

Ladies' standings

Overall

Rank	Skier	Points
	Bente Skari	877
2	Kateřina Neumannová	763
3	Stefania Belmondo	760
4	Kristina Šmigun	649
5	Yuliya Chepalova	612
6	Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen	552
7	Olga Danilova	488
8	Gabriella Paruzzi	467
9	Anita Moen	440
10	Sabina Valbusa	381

Rank	Skier	Points
11	Vibeke Skofterud	370
12	Olga Zavyalova	345
13	Nina Gavrylyuk	330
14	Petra Majdič	311
15	Lina Andersson	290
16	Evi Sachenbacher	289
17	Lyubov Yegorova	263
18	Manuela Henkel	258
19	Valentina Shevchenko	254
20	Natalya Baranova-Masalkina	235

Rank	Skier	Points
21	Viola Bauer	218
22	Beckie Scott	216
23	Svetlana Nageykina	214
24	Maj Helen Sorkmo	199
25	Kaisa Varis	194
26	Kati Venäläinen	191
27	Tina Bay	183
28	Yelena Burukhina	178
29	Karine Philippot	165
30	Satu Salonen	162

Sprint

Rank	Skier	Points
	Bente Skari	319
2	Anita Moen	307
3	Kateřina Neumannová	293
4	Evi Sachenbacher	237
5	Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen	223
6	Manuela Henkel	209
7	Maj Helen Sorkmo	203
8	Sabina Valbusa	201
9	Petra Majdič	200
10	Beckie Scott	158

Achievements

Victories in this World Cup (all-time number of victories as of 2001/02 season in parentheses)

Men

Per Elofsson (SWE), 4 (11) first places
Thomas Alsgaard (NOR), 3 (13) first places
Anders Aukland (NOR), 3 (3) first places
Jens Arne Svartedal (NOR), 3 (3) first places
Cristian Zorzi (ITA), 2 (4) first places
Johann Mühlegg (ESP), 1 (7) first place
Erling Jevne (NOR), 1 (3) first place
Fabio Maj (ITA), 1 (2) first place
Håvard Bjerkeli (NOR), 1 (1) first place
Trond Iversen (NOR), 1 (1) first place

Women

Bente Skari (NOR), 7 (28) first places
Kateřina Neumannová (CZE), 3 (7) first places
Stefania Belmondo (ITA), 2 (23) first places
Yuliya Chepalova (RUS), 2 (13) first places
Kristina Šmigun (EST), 2 (7) first places
Anita Moen (NOR), 2 (3) first place
Olga Danilova (RUS), 1 (4) first place
Evi Sachenbacher (GER), 1 (1) first place

References

^ "WORLD CUP STANDING MEN" (PDF). International Ski Federation. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
^ "WORLD CUP STANDING WOMEN" (PDF). International Ski Federation. Retrieved 30 January 2018.

External links

[1] "WORLD CUP STANDING MEN" (PDF). International Ski Federation. Retrieved 30 January 2018.

[2] "WORLD CUP STANDING WOMEN" (PDF). International Ski Federation. Retrieved 30 January 2018.

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