The 2017–18 FIS Cross-Country World Cup Finals were the 10th edition of the FIS Cross-Country World Cup Finals, an annual cross-country skiing mini-tour event. The three-day event was held in Falun, Sweden. It began on 16 March 2018 and concluded on 18 March 2018. It was the final competition round of the 2017–18 FIS Cross-Country World Cup.

Johannes Høsflot Klæbo of Norway and Hanna Falk of Sweden won the first stage of the mini-tour; a sprint freestyle. Alexander Bolshunov of Russia and Marit Bjørgen of Norway won the two last stages; a mass start classic and a pursuit freestyle. Bolshunov and Bjørgen won the overall standings by defending their leading positions on the third stage.

Overall leadership

The results in the overall standings were calculated by adding each rider's finishing times on each stage. On the sprint stage, the winners were awarded 30 bonus seconds. On the second stage, the three fastest skiers in finish were awarded 15, 10 and 5 bonus seconds, and the ten first skiers to pass the intermediate sprint points were also awarded bonus seconds. No bonus seconds were awarded on the third stage. The skier with the lowest cumulative time was the overall winner of the Cross-Country World Cup Finals.

+Overall leadership by stage Stage Men Women Winner Overall standings Winner Overall standings 1 Johannes Høsflot Klæbo Johannes Høsflot Klæbo Hanna Falk Hanna Falk 2 Alexander Bolshunov Alexander Bolshunov Krista Pärmäkoski Marit Bjørgen 3 Alex Harvey Jessie Diggins Final Alexander Bolshunov Final Marit Bjørgen

Overall standings

+Men's overall standings (1–10) Rank Name Time 1 1:13:40.3 2 +47.1 3 +47.5 4 +48.7 5 +50.3 6 +51.7 7 +54.1 8 +54.9 9 +1:04.1 10 +1:04.2+ Women's overall standings (1–10) Rank Name Time 1 52:34.2 2 +16.7 3 +1:11.5 4 +1:12.0 5 +1:12.8 6 +1:16.2 7 +1:17.9 8 +1:19.0 9 +1:30.5 10 +1:44.7

Stages

Stage 1 16 March 2018 The skiers qualification times count in the overall standings. Bonus seconds are awarded to the 30 skiers that qualifies for the quarter-finals, distributed as following: Final: 30–27–24–23–22–21 Semi-final: 16–15–14–13–12–11 Quarter-final: 5–5–5–4–4–4–4–4–3–3–3–3–3–2–2–2–2–2

+Men – 1.4 km Sprint Freestyle Rank Name 1 2:36.69 (2)2:37.03 30 2 2:38.36 (4)+0.39 27 3 2:39.78 (11)+1.76 24 4 2:40.77 (16)+3.26 23 5 2:39.23 (8)+3.88 22 6 2:39.57 (9)+6.17 21 7 2:42.22 (21) 16 8 2:39.58 (10) 15 9 2:36.23 (1) 14 10 2:38.51 (5) 13+Women – 1.4 km Sprint Freestyle Rank Name 1 2:59.88 (1)3:08.25 30 2 3:03.68 (6) +0.53 27 3 3:03.60 (5)+1.40 24 4 3:05.78 (8)+1.72 23 5 3:10.55 (28)+4.30 22 6 3:08.26 (16)+6.99 21 7 3:01.53 (2) 16 8 3:07.19 (11) 15 9 3:02.84 (4) 14 10 3:09.26 (22) 13

Stage 2 17 March 2018 Bonus seconds: Men: 2 intermediate sprints, bonus seconds to the 10 first skiers (15–12–10–8–6–5–4–3–2–1) past the intermediate points. Women: 1 intermediate sprint, bonus seconds to the 10 first skiers (15–12–10–8–6–5–4–3–2–1) past the intermediate point. Bonus seconds in finish: 15–10–5 to the 3 first skiers crossing the finish line. +Men – 15 km Classical (mass start) Rank Name Time 1 36:59.845 2 +1.312 3 +3.17 4 +3.7 5 +5.212 6 +5.618 7 +5.6 8 +6.314 9 +6.33 10 +6.44+Women – 10 km Classical (mass start) Rank Name Time 1 26:00.5 15 2 +0.225 3 +5.117 4 +14.5 5 +14.8 6 +15.26 7 +15.4 8 +15.55 9 +24.810 10 +26.2

Stage 3 18 March 2018 The race for "Winner of the Day" counts for 2017–18 FIS Cross-Country World Cup points. No bonus seconds are awarded on this stage.

+Men – 15 km Freestyle (pursuit) Rank Name Time 1 34:34.3 2 +1.0 3 +6.7 4 +10.5 4 +10.5 6 +10.6 7 +11.2 8 +13.3 9 +15.5 10 +16.0+Women – 10 km Freestyle (pursuit) Rank Name Time 1 23:54.4 2 +10.7 3 +24.5 4 +35.0 5 +38.7 6 +45.3 7 +49.8 8 +55.8 9 +56.5 10 +57.3

World Cup points distribution The overall winners were awarded 200 points. The winners of each of the three stages are awarded 50 points. The maximum number of points an athlete can earn is therefore 350 points.

Position 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 Overall 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 Stage 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

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