2004–05 FIS Cross-Country World Cup

2004–05 FIS Cross-Country World Cup
2004–05 FIS Cross-Country World Cup
Discipline	Men
Overall	Axel Teichmann
Distance	Axel Teichmann
Sprint	Tor Arne Hetland
Nations Cup	Norway
Nations Cup Overall	Norway
Competition
Locations	16 venues
Individual	20 events
Relay/Team	7 events
Cancelled	1 event
	←2003–04 2005–06→

The 2004–05 FIS Cross-Country World Cup was the 24th official World Cup season in cross-country skiing for men and women. The season began in Düsseldorf, Germany on 23 October 2004 and was concluded in Falun, Sweden on 20 March 2005. The overall winners were Marit Bjørgen and Axel Teichmann.

Calendar

Men

WC	Venue	Discipline	Date	Winner	Second	Third
1	Düsseldorf	Sprint F	23 October 2004	Peter Larsson	Tor-Arne Hetland	Cristian Zorzi
2	Gällivare	15 km C	20 November 2004	Axel Teichmann	René Sommerfeldt	Vasily Rochev
3	Ruka	15 km F	27 November 2004	Vincent Vittoz	Axel Teichmann	Giorgio Di Centa
4	Ruka	15 km C	28 November 2004	Axel Teichmann	Vasily Rochev	René Sommerfeldt
5	Bern	Sprint F	4 December 2004	Tor-Arne Hetland	Thobias Fredriksson	Johan Kjølstad
6	Val di Fiemme	30 km Skiathlon	11 December 2004	Axel Teichmann	Jens Filbrich	Vincent Vittoz
7	Asiago	Sprint C	14 December 2004	Jens Arne Svartedal	Tor-Arne Hetland	Björn Lind
8	Ramsau	30 km F, mass start	18 December 2004	Vincent Vittoz	Anders Södergren	Axel Teichmann
9	Otepää	15 km C	8 January 2005	Andrus Veerpalu	Frode Estil	Jaak Mae
	Otepää	Sprint C	9 January 2005	Cancelled (rescheduled to Lahti 5 March)
10	Nové Město	15 km F	15 January 2005	Vincent Vittoz	Christian Hoffmann	Tobias Angerer
11	Nové Město	Sprint F	16 January 2005	Johan Kjølstad	Freddy Schwienbacher	Björn Lind
12	Pragelato	30 km Skiathlon	22 January 2005	Lukáš Bauer	Mathias Fredriksson	Kristen Skjeldal
13	Reit im Winkl	15 km F	12 February 2005	Martin Bajčičák	Giorgio Di Centa	Christian Hoffmann
14	Reit im Winkl	Sprint C	13 February 2005	Eldar Rønning	Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset	Janusz Krężelok
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 (16–27 February)
15	Lahti	Sprint C	5 March 2005	Børre Næss	Tor-Arne Hetland	Eldar Rønning
16	Lahti	15 km F	6 March 2005	Lukáš Bauer	Christian Hoffmann	Thomas Moriggl
17	Drammen	Sprint C	9 March 2005	Tor-Arne Hetland	Eldar Rønning	Børre Næss
18	Oslo	50 km C	12 March 2005	Andrus Veerpalu	Jens Filbrich	Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset
19	Göteborg	Sprint F	16. March 2005	Trond Iversen	Keijo Kurttila	Ola Vigen Hattestad
20	Falun	30 km Skiathlon	19 March 2005	Yevgeny Dementyev	Tobias Angerer	Martin Bajčičák

Women

WC	Venue	Discipline	Date	Winner	Second	Third
1	Düsseldorf	Sprint F	23 oktober 2004	Marit Bjørgen	Anna Dahlberg	Gabriella Paruzzi
2	Gällivare	10 km C	20 November 2004	Marit Bjørgen	Kristina Šmigun	Virpi Kuitunen
3	Ruka	10 km F	26 November 2004	Kateřina Neumannová	Kristina Šmigun	Natalya Baranova-Masalkina
4	Ruka	10 km C	28 November 2004	Kristina Šmigun	Kateřina Neumannová	Marit Bjørgen
5	Bern	Sprint F	4 December 2004	Marit Bjørgen	Claudia Künzel	Ella Gjømle
6	Val di Fiemme	15 km Skiathlon	11 December 2004	Marit Bjørgen	Kristina Šmigun	Gabriella Paruzzi
7	Asiago	Sprint C	14 December 2004	Marit Bjørgen	Virpi Kuitunen	Ella Gjømle
8	Ramsau	15 km F, mass start	18 December 2004	Kristina Šmigun	Kristin Størmer Steira	Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Abruzova
9	Otepää	10 km C	8 January 2005	Marit Bjørgen	Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen	Kateřina Neumannová
	Otepää	Sprint C	9 January 2005	Cancelled (Rescheduled to Lahti 5 March)
10	Nové Město	10 km F	15 January 2005	Kateřina Neumannová	Marit Bjørgen	Yuliya Chepalova
11	Nové Město	Sprint F	16 January 2005	Marit Bjørgen	Pirjo Manninen	Claudia Künzel
12	Pragelato	15 km Skiathlon	22 January 2005	Kristin Størmer Steira	Kateřina Neumannová	Claudia Künzel
13	Reit im Winkl	10 km F	12 February 2005	Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Abruzova	Olga Zavyalova	Yuliya Chepalova
14	Reit im Winkl	Sprint C	13 February 2005	Virpi Kuitunen	Marit Bjørgen	Anna Dahlberg
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 (16–27 February)
15	Lahti	Sprint C	5 March 2005	Lina Andersson	Kirsi Välimaa	Virpi Kuitunen
16	Lahti	10 km F	6 March 2005	Yuliya Chepalova	Kateřina Neumannová	Karine Philippot
17	Drammen	Sprint C	9 March 2005	Virpi Kuitunen	Lina Andersson	Anna Dahlberg
18	Oslo	30 km C	12 March 2005	Marit Bjørgen	Kateřina Neumannová	Virpi Kuitunen
19	Göteborg	Sprint F	16 March 2005	Marit Bjørgen	Aino-Kaisa Saarinen	Virpi Kuitunen
20	Falun	15 km Skiathlon	19 March 2005	Marit Bjørgen	Kateřina Neumannová	Yuliya Chepalova

Men's team

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
1	24 October 2004	Düsseldorf	Team Sprint F	Norway Håvard Bjerkeli Tor Arne Hetland	Germany Tobias Angerer Axel Teichmann	Germany III Toni Lang Andreas Stitzl	^[1]
2	21 November 2004	Gällivare	4 × 10 km relay C/F	Germany Jens Filbrich Tobias Angerer René Sommerfeldt Axel Teichmann	Italy Giorgio Di Centa Fulvio Valbusa Pietro Piller Cottrer Cristian Zorzi	France Christophe Perrillat Vincent Vittoz Emmanuel Jonnier Benoit Chauvet	^[2]
3	5 December 2004	Bern	Team Sprint F	Russia Ivan Alypov Vasily Rochev	Norway Jens Arne Svartedal Tor Arne Hetland	Italy Renato Pasini Cristian Zorzi	^[3]
4	12 December 2004	Val di Fiemme	4 × 10 km relay C/F	Norway Jens Arne Svartedal Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset Frode Estil Tore Ruud Hofstad	Italy Giorgio Di Centa Fulvio Valbusa Pietro Piller Cottrer Cristian Zorzi	France Christophe Perrillat Vincent Vittoz Emmanuel Jonnier Alexandre Rousselet	^[4]
5	15 December 2004	Asiago	Team Sprint C	Norway Tor Arne Hetland Jens Arne Svartedal	Russia Nikolay Pankratov Vasily Rochev	Norway II Trond Iversen Børre Næss	^[5]
6	23 January 2005	Pragelato	Team Sprint C	Germany Jens Filbrich Axel Teichmann	Sweden Thobias Fredriksson Björn Lind	Germany II René Sommerfeldt Andreas Schlütter	^[6]
7	20 March 2005	Falun	4 × 10 km relay C/F	Norway Jens Arne Svartedal Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset Kristen Skjeldal Tore Ruud Hofstad	Italy Roland Clara Valerio Checchi Pietro Piller Cottrer Giorgio Di Centa	Sweden Thobias Fredriksson Niklas Karlsson Anders Södergren Mathias Fredriksson	^[7]

Women's team

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
1	24 October 2004	Düsseldorf	Team Sprint F	Norway Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen Marit Bjørgen	Germany II Manuela Henkel Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle	Italy Arianna Follis Gabriella Paruzzi	^[8]
2	21 November 2004	Gällivare	4 × 5 km relay C/F	Norway Kine Beate Bjørnås Vibeke Skofterud Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen Marit Bjørgen	Finland Kirsi Välimaa Virpi Kuitunen Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Riitta-Liisa Roponen	Germany Stefanie Böhler Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Anke Reschwamm Schulze Claudia Künzel	^[9]
3	5 December 2004	Bern	Team Sprint F	Norway Ella Gjømle Marit Bjørgen	Germany Stefanie Böhler Claudia Künzel	Italy Arianna Follis Gabriella Paruzzi	^[10]
4	12 December 2004	Val di Fiemme	4 × 5 km relay C/F	Russia Larisa Kurkina Natalya Baranova-Masalkina Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Abruzova Yuliya Chepalova	Germany Manuela Henkel Claudia Künzel Stefanie Böhler Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle	Norway Kine Beate Bjørnås Vibeke Skofterud Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen Marit Bjørgen	^[11]
5	15 December 2004	Asiago	Team Sprint C	Norway Ella Gjømle Marit Bjørgen	Finland Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Virpi Kuitunen	Sweden Elin Ek Anna Dahlberg	^[12]
6	23 January 2005	Pragelato	Team Sprint C	Germany Viola Bauer Claudia Künzel	Sweden Emelie Öhrstig Anna Dahlberg	Finland Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Pirjo Manninen	^[13]
7	20 March 2005	Falun	4 × 5 km relay C/F	Finland Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Kirsi Välimaa Riitta-Liisa Roponen Virpi Kuitunen	Norway Kine Beate Bjørnås Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen Kristin Mürer Stemland Marit Bjørgen	Russia Larisa Kurkina Natalya Baranova-Masalkina Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Abruzova Yuliya Chepalova	^[14]

Men's standings

Overall

Rank	after all 20 events	Points
1	Axel Teichmann	584
2	Vincent Vittoz	516
3	Tor Arne Hetland	512
4	Tobias Angerer	439
5	René Sommerfeldt	374
6	Mathias Fredriksson	374
7	Jens Arne Svartedal	361
8	Giorgio Di Centa	354
9	Yevgeny Dementyev	351
10	Eldar Rønning	320

Distance

Rank		Points
1	Axel Teichmann	552
2	Vincent Vittoz	506
3	Tobias Angerer	402
4	René Sommerfeldt	374
5	Giorgio Di Centa	354
6	Yevgeny Dementyev	351
7	Mathias Fredriksson	350
8	Jens Filbrich	320
9	Lukáš Bauer	319
10	Andrus Veerpalu	302

Sprint

Rank		Points
1	Tor Arne Hetland	564
2	Eldar Rønning	327
3	Trond Iversen	281
4	Thobias Fredriksson	267
5	Børre Næss	265
6	Björn Lind	256
7	Johan Kjølstad	251
8	Jens Arne Svartedal	234
9	Keijo Kurttila	171
10	Anti Saarepuu	158

Women's standings

Overall

Rank	after all 20 events	Points
1	Marit Bjørgen	1320
2	Kateřina Neumannová	751
3	Virpi Kuitunen	726
4	Kristina Šmigun	643
5	Claudia Nystad	613
6	Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen	552
7	Yuliya Chepalova	530
8	Aino-Kaisa Saarinen	484
9	Natalya Baranova-Masalkina	431
10	Gabriella Paruzzi	397

Distance

Rank		Points
1	Marit Bjørgen	740
2	Kateřina Neumannová	727
3	Kristina Šmigun	641
4	Yuliya Chepalova	521
5	Natalya Baranova-Masalkina	397
6	Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen	387
7	Claudia Nystad	343
8	Virpi Kuitunen	313
9	Kristin Størmer Steira	311
10	Gabriella Paruzzi	305

Sprint

Rank		Points
1	Marit Bjørgen	625
2	Virpi Kuitunen	415
3	Anna Dahlberg	385
4	Aino-Kaisa Saarinen	290
5	Claudia Nystad	270
6	Lina Andersson	236
7	Pirjo Muranen	232
8	Ella Gjømle	218
9	Emelie Öhrstig	218
10	Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen	165

Nations Cup

Overall

Rank	Nation	Points^[15]
1	Norway	8448
2	Germany	4881
3	Russia	4541
4	Finland	3902
5	Sweden	3875
6	Italy	3811
7	Estonia	1849
8	France	1793
9	Czech Republic	1524
10	Switzerland	901

Men

Rank	Nation	Points
1	Norway	4488
2	Germany	2712
3	Sweden	2429
4	Italy	2369
5	Russia	1779
6	France	1240
7	Estonia	1128
8	Finland	805
9	Czech Republic	704
10	Switzerland	467

Women

Rank	Nation	Points
1	Norway	3960
2	Finland	3097
3	Russia	2762
4	Germany	2169
5	Sweden	1446
6	Italy	1442
7	Czech Republic	820
8	Estonia	721
9	France	553
10	Canada	530

Achievements

Victories in this World Cup (all-time number of victories as of 2004–05 season in parentheses)

Men

Axel Teichmann (GER), 3 (5) first places
Vincent Vittoz (FRA), 3 (4) first places
Tor Arne Hetland (NOR), 2 (8) first places
Andrus Veerpalu (EST), 2 (6) first places
Lukáš Bauer (CZE), 2 (3) first places
Jens Arne Svartedal (NOR), 1 (7) first place
Peter Larsson (SWE), 1 (3) first place
Trond Iversen (NOR), 1 (2) first place
Johan Kjølstad (NOR), 1 (1) first place
Martin Bajčičák (SVK), 1 (1) first place
Eldar Rønning (NOR), 1 (1) first place
Børre Næss (NOR), 1 (1) first place
Yevgeny Dementyev (RUS), 1 (1) first place

Women

Marit Bjørgen (NOR), 10 (20) first places
Kristina Šmigun (EST), 2 (15) first places
Kateřina Neumannová (CZE), 2 (13) first places
Virpi Kuitunen (FIN), 2 (3) first places
Yuliya Chepalova (RUS), 1 (16) first place
Kristin Størmer Steira (NOR), 1 (1) first place
Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Abruzova (RUS), 1 (1) first place
Lina Andersson (SWE), 1 (1) first place

Retirements

References

^ "Men's Team Sprint F – Düsseldorf". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
^ "Men's 4x10 km Relay – Gällivare". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
^ "Men's Team Sprint F – Bern". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
^ "Men's 4x10 km Relay – Val di Fiemme". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
^ "Men's Team Sprint C – Asiago". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
^ "Men's Team Sprint C – Pragelato". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
^ "Men's 4x10 km Relay – Falun". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
^ "Ladies' Team Sprint F – Düsseldorf". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
^ "Ladies' 4x5 km Relay – Gällivare". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
^ "Ladies' Team Sprint F – Bern". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
^ "Ladies' 4x5 km Relay – Val di Fiemme". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
^ "Ladies' Team Sprint C – Asiago". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
^ "Ladies' Team Sprint C – Pragelato". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
^ "Ladies' 4x5 km Relay – Falun". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
^ "Nation Cup Standing Overall" (PDF). fis-ski.com. International Ski Federation. Retrieved 27 February 2020.

External links

fis-ski.com

[1] "Men's Team Sprint F – Düsseldorf". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.

[2] "Men's 4x10 km Relay – Gällivare". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.

[3] "Men's Team Sprint F – Bern". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.

[4] "Men's 4x10 km Relay – Val di Fiemme". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.

[5] "Men's Team Sprint C – Asiago". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.

[6] "Men's Team Sprint C – Pragelato". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.

[7] "Men's 4x10 km Relay – Falun". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.

[8] "Ladies' Team Sprint F – Düsseldorf". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.

[9] "Ladies' 4x5 km Relay – Gällivare". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.

[10] "Ladies' Team Sprint F – Bern". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.

[11] "Ladies' 4x5 km Relay – Val di Fiemme". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.

[12] "Ladies' Team Sprint C – Asiago". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.

[13] "Ladies' Team Sprint C – Pragelato". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.

[14] "Ladies' 4x5 km Relay – Falun". skisport365.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.

[15] "Nation Cup Standing Overall" (PDF). fis-ski.com. International Ski Federation. Retrieved 27 February 2020.

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2004–05 FIS Cross-Country World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Axel Teichmann	Marit Bjørgen
Distance	Axel Teichmann	Marit Bjørgen
Sprint	Tor Arne Hetland	Marit Bjørgen
Nations Cup	Norway	Norway
Nations Cup Overall	Norway
Competition
Locations	16 venues	16 venues
Individual	20 events	20 events
Relay/Team	7 events	7 events
Cancelled	1 event	1 event
←2003–04 2005–06→