Kowalczyk and Cologna Cross-Country World Cup champions 2011
World Cup
Fri, Mar 25, 2011 - By FIS
The FIS Cross-Country World Cup presented by Viessmann finished last weekend with the FIS World Cup Final event in Stockholm and Falun (both SWE).
In both ladies' and men's overall rankings, the winners of the World Cup trophy had already been decided before the Final. After an outstanding season, Poland's Justyna Kowalczyk and Swiss Dario Cologna secured victory in the overall World Cup rankings.
Justyna Kowalczyk took her third consecutive overall World Cup title in a dominant manner and is now third in terms of most overall World Cup wins together with Marjo Matikanen-Kallstroem, behind Elena Vaelbe (5 overall victories) and Bente Skari (4 overall wins). The Polish Olympic champion started in 29 of 31 individual races and earned points in each race. In the end she won by an amazing 495 point margin over Marit Bjoergen (NOR) who, too, showed a strong performance during the entire season with 10th place as her worst result, yet she skipped the Viessmann FIS Tour de Ski performance by Craft Sportswear. Arianna Follis (ITA) took the third place in the overall ranking to conclude her career with an amazing result. The distance World Cup trophy also went to Justyna Kowalczyk while the sprint World Cup globe was won for the third time by the Slovenian top skier Petra Majdic, who also announced her retirement after this season.
On the men's side, Dario Cologna celebrated his second overall World Cup victory after 2008/2009. The 25-year-old Swiss claimed victory 330 points ahead of last year's winner Petter Northug (NOR). Daniel Rickardsson from Sweden scored his first season podium result in third. Cologna also secured the distance World Cup trophy while the sprint World Cup went to Sweden's top sprinter Emil Joensson for the second time in a row.
In the Nations' Cup, Norway took the honors 3762 points ahead of Sweden whilst Russia finished third. Russia was close to making a historical Team Cup win on the men's side but the Norwegians delivered an amazing finish on the final weekend to claim a narrow victory. All in all, 14 different nations made it onto the Cross-Country podium this season and 9 of them even reached top spot.
World Cup 2010/2011 in numbers
Overall ranking ladies
1 Justyna Kowalczyk (POL) 2073 pts
2 Marit Bjoergen (NOR) 1578 pts
3 Arianna Follis (ITA) 1310pts
4 Therese Johaug (NOR) 1173 pts
5 Charlotte Kalla (SWE) 1100 pts
6 Petra Majdic (SLO) 1087 pts
Rookie of the year (best U23 skier): Therese Johaug (NOR)
Distance ranking ladies
1 Justyna Kowalczyk (POL) 1039 pts
2 Marit Bjoergen (NOR) 775 pts
3 Therese Johaug 671 pts
Sprint ranking ladies
1 Petra Majdic (SLO) 480 pts
2 Arianna Follis (ITA) 434 pts
3 Kikkan Randall (USA) 427 pts
Team Cup ladies
1 Norway 6700 pts
2 Sweden 3638 pts
3 Italy 3560 pts
Prize Money ranking (in CHF; only World Cup)
1. Justyna Kowalczyk (POL) 371’000 CHF
2. Marit Bjoergen (NOR) 248’500
3.Therese Johaug (NOR) 179’363
Most WC victories (including competition series):
Marit Bjoergen (NOR) 9
Justyna Kowalczyk (POL) 2
Kikkan Randall (USA) 2
Most top 3 places (including competition series):
Justyna Kowalczyk (POL) 10
Marit Bjoergen (NOR) 9
Therese Johaug (NOR) 5
Overall ranking men
1Dario Cologna) 1566 pts
2 Petter Northug (NOR) 1236 pts
3 Daniel Rickardsson (SWE) 981 pts
4 Lukas Bauer (CZE) 923 pts
5 Alexander Legkov (RUS) 796 pts
6 Emil Joensson (SWE) 746 pts
Rookie of the year (best U23 skier): Alex Harvey (CAN)
Distance ranking men
1 Dario Cologna (SUI) 706pts
2 Daniel Rickardsson (SWE) 568 pts
3 Lukas Bauer (CZE) 553 pts
Sprint ranking men
1. Emil Joensson (SWE) 580 pts
2. Ola Vigen Hattestad (NOR) 407 pts
3. Jesper Modin (SWE) 300 pts
Team Cup men
1. Norway 4807 pts
2. Russia 4467 pts
3. Sweden 4107 pts
Nations Cup (ladies & men)
1. Norway 11507 pts
2. Sweden 7745 pts
3. Russia 6244 pts
Prize money ranking (in CHF; without World Championships)
1 Dario Cologna (SUI) 311’250 CHF
2 Petter Northug (NOR) 217250 CHF
3 Lukas Bauer (CZE) 85’375 CHF
Most WC victories (including competition series):
Emil Joensson (SWE) 4
Dario Cologna (SUI) 2
Most top 3 places (including competition series)
Dario Cologna (SUI) 6
Petter Northug (NOR) 5
Emil Joensson & Daniel Rickardsson (both SWE) 4