2006–07 FIS Cross-Country World Cup

The 2006–07 FIS Cross-Country World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season for cross-country skiers. It was the 26th official World Cup season in cross-country skiing for men and women. The season began on 28 October 2006 with 800m sprint races for women in Düsseldorf which was eventually won by Marit Bjørgen of Norway. This season, Tour de Ski was a part of the World Cup for the first time. The World Cup is organised by the FIS who also run world cups and championships in ski jumping, snowboarding and alpine skiing amongst others.

Calendar Both men's and women's events tend to be held at the same resorts over a 2 or 3 day period. Listed below is a list of races which equates with the points table further down this page.

The Tour de Ski is a series of events which count towards the World Cup. The inaugural Tour de Ski was supposed to start with the meet at Nové Město, but due to lack of snow the first two events were cancelled. The 1st Tour the Ski started in München and concluded at Val di Fiemme.

Men + Key: C – Classic / F – FreestyleDatePlaceDisciplineWinnerSecondThirdYellow bib 1128 October 2006   DüsseldorfSprint F   Eldar Rønning Øystein Pettersen Tor Arne Hetland Eldar Rønning 2218 November 2006   Gällivare15 km F   Ole Einar Bjørndalen Tore Ruud Hofstad Franz Göring Ole Einar Bjørndalen Eldar Rønning 3325 November 2006   RukaSprint C   Jens Arne Svartedal Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset Tor Arne Hetland Eldar Rønning 4426 November 2006   Ruka15 km C   Eldar Rønning Vincent Vittoz Anders Södergren 8 December 2006   AostaSprint F   cancelled, rescheduled to Rybinsk (21 Jan) 10 December 2006   Aosta30 km C Mass Start   cancelled 5513 December 2006   Cogne/Val d'Aosta15 km C   Eldar Rønning Tor Arne Hetland Yevgeny Dementyev Eldar Rønning 6616 December 2006   La Clusaz30 km F Mass Start   Tobias Angerer Alexander Legkov Yevgeny Dementyev 29 December 2006   Nové Město4.5 km C Prologue   cancelled due to lack of snow, not rescheduled 30 December 2006   Nové Město15 km F Pursuit   cancelled due to lack of snow, not rescheduled 731 December 2006   MunichSprint F   Christoph Eigenmann Devon Kershaw Roddy Darragon Eldar Rønning 82 January 2007   Oberstdorf10 km C + 10 km F  Double Pursuit   Vincent Vittoz Alexander Legkov Tobias Angerer 93 January 2007   Oberstdorf15 km C   Franz Göring René Sommerfeldt Tobias Angerer 105 January 2007   AsiagoSprint F   Tor Arne Hetland Thobias Fredriksson Petter Northug 116 January 2007   Val di Fiemme30 km C Mass Start   Eldar Rønning Ivan Alypov Sami Jauhojärvi 127 January 2007   Val di Fiemme11 km F Pursuit Final Climb   Sergey Shiryayev Alexander Legkov Giorgio Di Centa 71st Tour de Ski Overall (29 December 2006 – 7 January 2007) Tobias Angerer Alexander Legkov Simen Østensen Tobias Angerer No World Cup points are awarded for individual wins in Tour de Ski. However, quadruple World Cup points are available for the winner.81320 January 2007   Rybinsk30 km F Mass Start   Alexander Legkov Emmanuel Jonnier Tobias Angerer Tobias Angerer 91421 January 2007   RybinskSprint F   Renato Pasini Nikolay Pankratov Tobias Angerer 101527 January 2007   Otepää15 km C   Axel Teichmann Frode Estil Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset 111628 January 2007   OtepääSprint C   Jens Arne Svartedal Vasily Rochev Torin Koos 12173 February 2007   Davos15 km F   Vincent Vittoz Toni Livers Not awarded Christian Hoffmann 131815 February 2007   ChangchunSprint C   Ola Vigen Hattestad Børre Næss Tor Arne Hetland 141916 February 2007   Changchun15 km F   Tobias Angerer Vincent Vittoz Emmanuel Jonnier FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 (22 February–4 March)152010 March 2007   LahtiSprint F   Petter Northug Jens Arne Svartedal Eldar Rønning Tobias Angerer 162111 March 2007   Lahti15 km C   Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset Eldar Rønning Tobias Angerer 172214 March 2007   DrammenSprint C   Børre Næss Mats Larsson Trond Iversen 182317 March 2007   Oslo50 km C   Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset Tobias Angerer Frode Estil 192421 March 2007   StockholmSprint C   Mikhail Devyatyarov Emil Jönsson Mats Larsson 202524 March 2007   Falun15 km C + 15 km F Double Pursuit   Tobias Angerer Mathias Fredriksson Emmanuel Jonnier

Women + Key: C – Classic / F – FreestyleDatePlaceDisciplineWinnerSecondThirdYellow bib 1128 October 2006   DüsseldorfSprint F   Marit Bjørgen Natalya Matveyeva Ella Gjømle Marit Bjørgen 2218 November 2006   Gällivare10 km F   Kateřina Neumannová Kristina Šmigun Marit Bjørgen 3325 November 2006   RukaSprint C   Petra Majdič Virpi Kuitunen Marit Bjørgen 4426 November 2006   Ruka10 km C   Virpi Kuitunen Marit Bjørgen Kristina Šmigun 9 December 2006   AostaSprint F   cancelled, rescheduled to Rybinsk (21 Jan) 10 December 2006   Aosta15 km C Mass Start   cancelled 5513 December 2006   Cogne/Val d'Aosta10 km C   Virpi Kuitunen Petra Majdič Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Virpi Kuitunen 6616 December 2006   La Clusaz15 km F Mass Start   Virpi Kuitunen Riitta-Liisa Roponen Arianna Follis 29 December 2006   Nové Město3 km C Prologue   cancelled due to lack of snow, not rescheduled 30 December 2006   Nové Město10 km F Pursuit   cancelled due to lack of snow, not rescheduled 731 December 2006   MunichSprint F   Marit Bjørgen Arianna Follis Chandra Crawford Virpi Kuitunen 82 January 2007   Oberstdorf5 km C + 5 km F  Double Pursuit   Kristin Størmer Steira Valentyna Shevchenko Olga Zavyalova 93 January 2007   Oberstdorf10 km C   Petra Majdič Kristin Størmer Steira Virpi Kuitunen 105 January 2007   AsiagoSprint F   Virpi Kuitunen Marit Bjørgen Arianna Follis 116 January 2007   Val di Fiemme15 km C Mass Start   Virpi Kuitunen Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Marit Bjørgen 127 January 2007   Val di Fiemme10 km F Pursuit  Final Climb   Kateřina Neumannová Kristin Størmer Steira Valentyna Shevchenko 7 1st Tour de Ski Overall (29 December 2006 – 7 January 2007) Virpi Kuitunen Marit Bjørgen Valentyna Shevchenko 81320 January 2007   Rybinsk15 km F Mass Start   Riitta-Liisa Roponen Kateřina Neumannová Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Virpi Kuitunen 91421 January 2007   RybinskSprint F   Arianna Follis Claudia Künzel-Nystad Kikkan Randall 101527 January 2007   Otepää10 km C   Justyna Kowalczyk Virpi Kuitunen Valentyna Shevchenko 111628 January 2007   OtepääSprint C   Virpi Kuitunen Astrid Jacobsen Yevgeniya Shapovalova 12173 February 2007   Davos10 km F   Virpi Kuitunen Olga Zavyalova Marit Bjørgen 131815 February 2007   ChangchunSprint C   Yevgeniya Shapovalova Natalya Matveyeva Guro Strøm Solli 141916 February 2007   Changchun10 km F   Kateřina Neumannová Karine Philippot Svetlana Malahova FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 (22 February–4 March)152010 March 2007   LahtiSprint F   Virpi Kuitunen Riitta-Liisa Roponen Anna Dahlberg Virpi Kuitunen 162111 March 2007   Lahti10 km C   Kristina Šmigun Olga Zavyalova Viola Bauer 172214 March 2007   DrammenSprint C   Virpi Kuitunen Petra Majdič Aino-Kaisa Saarinen 182317 March 2007   Oslo30 km C   Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Virpi Kuitunen Petra Majdič 192421 March 2007   StockholmSprint C   Petra Majdič Virpi Kuitunen Anna Dahlberg 202524 March 2007   Falun7.5 km C + 7.5 km F Double Pursuit   Marit Bjørgen Kateřina Neumannová Therese Johaug

Men's team DatePlaceDisciplineWinnerSecondThird 129 October 2006   DüsseldorfTeam Sprint F   219 November 2006   Gällivare4 × 10 km relay C/F   317 December 2006   La Clusaz4 × 10 km relay C/F   21 January 2007   RybinskTeam Sprint C   cancelled, due to rescheduled sprint to Rybinsk (21 Jan) 44 February 2007   Davos4 × 10 km relay C/F   525 March 2007   Falun4 × 10 km relay C/F  

Women's team DatePlaceDisciplineWinnerSecondThird 129 October 2006   DüsseldorfTeam Sprint F   219 November 2006   Gällivare4 × 5 km relay C/F   317 December 2006   La Clusaz4 × 5 km relay C/F   21 January 2007   RybinskTeam Sprint C  cancelled, due to rescheduled sprint to Rybinsk (21 Jan) 44 February 2007   Davos4 × 5 km relay C/F   525 March 2007   Falun4 × 5 km relay C/F  

Men's standings Below are tables showing the number of points won in the 2006–07 Cross-Country Skiing World Cup for men.

The first place skier got 100 points, second place got 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... and from then on all the way to 30th - 1 point.

11 distance events and five sprint events counted in the World Cup overall standings. Overall Pos Skier 1 2 3 4 6 7 8-15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Pts 1 Tobias Angerer48 13 1 1 3 3 6 1 9 3 2 1 1131 2 Alexander Legkov 7 12 22 2 2 1 25 26 578 3 Eldar Rønning1 8 1 1 17 26 17 3 2 22 556 4 Tor Arne Hetland3 3 7 2 15 5 15 20 3 18 17 522 5 Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset 2 11 4 3 16 1 7 1 17 479 6 Vincent Vittoz 30 2 9 14 19 7 1= 2 10 5 463 7 Petter Northug11 24 4 5 1 7 12 23 442 8 Jens Arne Svartedal15 1 19 15 21 1 21 2 18 12 386 9 Sami Jauhojärvi 25 22 8 8 26 7 17 8 27= 24 8 13 5 382 10 Frode Estil 16 6 11 2 4 3 6 381 11 Simen Østensen 3 30 5 5 19 14 361 12 Mathias Fredriksson 27 4 14 11 14 13 27= 13 14 17 19 2 336 13 Franz Göring 3 6 4 6 24 317 14 Yevgeny Dementiev 18 3 3 8 9 24 18 26 315 15 Anders Södergren 3 5 4 16 23 11 4 297 16 Nikolay Pankratov 29 13 10 23 2 11 7 13 294 17 René Sommerfeldt 8 15 6 20 8 11 15 4 269 18 Axel Teichmann 6 7 5 1 22 8 262 19 Jens Filbrich 9 9 12 12 9 19 29 15 29 250 20 Emil Jönsson 6 6 7 7 4 2 246 21 Emmanuel Jonnier 16 26 2 28 3 3 238 22 Trond Iversen9 4 13 12 4 10 3 9 218 23 Vasily Rochev 10 17 4 15 2 17 17 214 24 Børre Næss13 2 29 1 24 209 25 Mats Larsson 16 10 23 2 3 18 202 25 Jaak Mae 5 26 5 5 6 12 202 27 Sergey Shiryayev 12 10 7 4 200 28 Øystein Pettersen2 9 16 19 11 11 184 29 Jiří Magál 12 29 13 8 18 9 178 30 Ola Vigen Hattestad 30 23 1 22 21 4 177

Distance RankPoints1 5922 4153 3484 2865 2856 2607 2558 2389 21910 217Sprint RankPoints1 3412 2863 2824 2345 2156 2107 2098 1819 17810 170

Women's standings Below are tables showing the number of points won in the 2006–07 Cross-Country Skiing World Cup for women.

The first place skier got 100 points, second place got 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... and from then on all the way to 30th - 1 point.

11 distance events and five sprint events counted in the World Cup overall standings. Overall Pos Skier 1 2 3 4 5 6 7-14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Pts 1 Virpi Kuitunen12 13 2 1 1 1 1 5 4 2 1 1 1 12 1 2 2 28 1510 2 Marit Bjørgen13 3 2 17 2 4 19 3 8 16 10 19 1 941 3 Kateřina Neumannová241 4 5 4 5 2 6 4 1 6 7 7 2 894 4 Petra Majdič10 8 1 7 2 8 6 15 9 11 4 6 2 3 1 26 844 5 Aino-Kaisa Saarinen17 17 8 8 3 7 4 3 16 6 6 17 9 5 3 1 11 6 826 6 Riitta-Liisa Roponen 9= 12 8 2 13 1 13 15 2 9 5 16 548 7 Valentyna Shevchenko 4 6 9 6 3 3 25 12 23 12 11 541 8 Justyna Kowalczyk 18 27 4 27 11 1 7 5 11 10 7 6 21 484 9 Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle7 19 16 18 25 9 8 9 10 25= 9 8 19 16 27 4 438 10 Arianna Follis5 14 18 30= 3 16 10 1 21 5 25 28 29 8 419 11 Kristina Šmigun 2 3 10 15 7 21 1 8 5 405 12 Olga Zavyalova 9= 15 14 25 14 8 2 2 9 7 398 13 Claudia Künzel-Nystad23 16 15 21 28 17 19 22 2 14 28 8 14 17 17 4 13 369 14 Kristin Størmer Steira 12 19 5 7 23 7 4 11 10 367 15 Vibeke Skofterud 5 27 5 6 19 9 7 19 14 13 15 364 16 Viola Bauer 26 13 15 10 16 27 10 16 3 14 20 10 18 333 17 Natalya Matveyeva2 23 5 24 4 2 13= 23 18 9 311 18 Karine Philippot21 22 20 14 12 19 6 2 24 19 287 19 Marianna Longa 11 22 13 15 17 18 5 18 21 6 9 281 20 Lina Andersson4 7 30= 9 5 10 5 6 12 272 21 Anna Dahlberg 14 6 3 15 4 3 20 255 22 Natalya Korostelyova 15 11 28 11 24 23 11 7 9 22 30 18 218 23 Yevgeniya Shapovalova 13 14 3 1 18 26 216 24 Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen25 4 17 2 4 17 214 25 Stefanie Böhler18 10 21 11 6 17 11 20 21 17 23 213 26 Ella Gjømle3 30 6 14 28 16 12 13 27 23 191 27 Mona-Liisa Malvalehto6 5 8 5 13 182 28 Alyona Sidko 29 22 29 21 25 12 5 10 12 23 14 176 29 Pirjo Manninen22 25 19 26 22 11 17 21 29 5 29 165 30 Kikkan Randall 12 3 7 7 30 155

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