2017–18 Tour de Ski

The 2017–18 Tour de Ski was the 12th edition of the Tour de Ski, part of the 2017–18 FIS Cross-Country World Cup. The World Cup stage event began in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, on December 30, 2017, and ended in Val di Fiemme, Italy, on January 7, 2018. The cups were defended by Heidi Weng (Norway) and Sergey Ustiugov (Russia).

Tour de Ski

2017–18 FIS Cross-Country World Cup
Ski tour details
Venue(s)	Lenzerheide, Switzerland Oberstdorf, Germany Val di Fiemme, Italy
Dates	30 December 2017 (2017-12-30) – 7 January 2018 (2018-01-07)
Stages	7 (6 completed, 1 cancelled)
Results
Men Winner  Dario Cologna (SUI)   Second  Martin Johnsrud Sundby (NOR)   Third  Alex Harvey (CAN) Sprint  Dario Cologna (SUI) Women Winner  Heidi Weng (NOR)   Second  Ingvild Flugstad Østberg (NOR)   Third  Jessica Diggins (USA) Sprint  Ingvild Flugstad Østberg (NOR)

Schedule

Stage	Venue	Date	Event	Technique	Distance		Start time (CET)
					Women	Men	Women	Men
1	Lenzerheide (SUI)	30 December 2017	Sprint	Free	1.5 km	1.5 km	13:00	13:27
2		31 December 2017	Distance, individual start	Classic	10 km	15 km	15:00	10:30
3		1 January 2018	Distance, pursuit	Free	10 km	15 km	11:00	13:00
4^[a]	Oberstdorf (GER)	3 January 2018	Sprint	Classic	1.2 km	1.5 km	14:50	14:50
5^[b]		4 January 2018	Distance, mass start	Free	10 km	15 km	10:15	11:15
6	Val di Fiemme (ITA)	6 January 2018	Distance, mass start	Classic	10 km	15 km	14:15	15:45
7		7 January 2018	Final climb, pursuit	Free	9 km	9 km	11:30	14:30

a. ¹ Stage 4 was cancelled due to the bad weather.[1]

b. ¹ Stage 5 men's distance was shortened due to previous day's storm damage.[2]

Overall leadership

Overall leadership by stage

Stage	Men			Ladies
	Winner	Overall standings	Sprint standings	Winner	Overall standings	Sprint standings
1	Sergey Ustiugov	Sergey Ustiugov	Sergey Ustiugov	Laurien van der Graaff	Laurien van der Graaff	Laurien van der Graaff
2	Dario Cologna			Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg
3	Dario Cologna	Dario Cologna		Ingvild Flugstad Østberg
4	Cancelled			Cancelled
5	Emil Iversen			Ingvild Flugstad Østberg		Ingvild Flugstad Østberg
6	Alexey Poltoranin			Heidi Weng
7	Martin Johnsrud Sundby		Dario Cologna	Heidi Weng	Heidi Weng
Final		Dario Cologna	Dario Cologna	Final	Heidi Weng	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg

Final standings

Legend
	Denotes the winner of the Overall standings		Denotes the winner of the Sprint standings

Overall standings

Men Final overall standings (1–10)[3] Rank Name Time 1  Dario Cologna (SUI) 2:49:29.8 2  Martin Johnsrud Sundby (NOR) +1:26.5 3  Alex Harvey (CAN) +1:30.6 4  Alexey Poltoranin (KAZ) +1:41.7 5  Hans Christer Holund (NOR) +2:17.8 6  Alexander Bolshunov (RUS) +3:09.7 7  Jean-Marc Gaillard (FRA) +3:16.7 8  Daniel Rickardsson (SWE) +3:20.8 9  Aleksey Chervotkin (RUS) +3:33.5 10  Andrey Larkov (RUS) +3:37.8 Final overall standings (11–43) Rank Name Time 11  Maurice Manificat (FRA) +3:45.7 12  Niklas Dyrhaug (NOR) +4:46.3 13  Denis Spitsov (RUS) +5:13.1 14  Emil Iversen (NOR) +5:15.7 15  Andrew Musgrave (GBR) +5:18.1 16  Martin Jaks (CZE) +5:26.3 17  Didrik Tønseth (NOR) +5:35.0 18  Alexey Vitsenko (RUS) +5:51.2 19  Andrey Melnichenko (RUS) +5:58.3 20  Thomas Bing (GER) +6:27.3 21  Ivan Yakimushkin (RUS) +7:01.0 22  Toni Livers (SUI) +7:32.5 23  Jonas Dobler (GER) +7:46.7 24  Karel Tammjarv (EST) +7:55.7 25  Lucas Bögl (GER) +7:59.5 26  Stanislav Volzhentsev (RUS) +8:10.8 27  Andreas Katz (GER) +8:22.6 28  Oskar Svensson (SWE) +8:27.9 29  Jonas Baumann (SUI) +9:01.6 30  Florian Notz (GER) +9:42.9 31  Petr Knop (CZE) +9:49.0 32  Candide Pralong (SUI) +10:23.5 33  Mirco Bertolina (ITA) +10:41.8 34  Damien Tarantola (FRA) +11:16.1 35  Antti Ojansivu (FIN) +11:29.3 36  Ales Razym (CZE) +11:32.7 37  Kusti Kittilä (FIN) +11:51.1 38  Patrick Caldwell (USA) +11:54.8 39  Michal Novak (CZE) +12:32.1 40  Ari Luusua (FIN) +12:34.7 41  Gleb Retivykh (RUS) +12:50.1 42  Andy Kühne (GER) +12:52.1 43  Valentin Mättig (GER) +13:00.0

Ladies Final overall standings (1–10)[4] Rank Name Time 1  Heidi Weng (NOR) 2:20:56.5 2  Ingvild Flugstad Østberg (NOR) +48.5 3  Jessica Diggins (USA) +2:23.2 4  Krista Pärmäkoski (FIN) +2:57.7 5  Teresa Stadlober (AUT) +3:09.4 6  Kerttu Niskanen (FIN) +4:17.0 7  Anastasia Sedova (RUS) +4:49.6 8  Nathalie von Siebenthal (SUI) +4:56.1 9  Sadie Bjornsen (USA) +6:15.0 10  Stefanie Böhler (GER) +6:41.1 Final overall standings (11–32) Rank Name Time 11  Natalia Nepryaeva (RUS) +7:13.5 12  Anna Haag (SWE) +7:14.5 13  Petra Novakova (CZE) +7:44.2 14  Emma Wikén (SWE) +8:03.1 15  Aino-Kaisa Saarinen (FIN) +8:08.2 16  Elizabeth Stephen (USA) +8:25.8 17  Elisa Brocard (ITA) +8:38.9 18  Anna Nechaevskaya (RUS) +8:44.5 19  Nadine Fähndrich (SUI) +9:41.1 20  Alisa Zhambalova (RUS) +9:53.1 21  Katharina Hennig (GER) +10:06.4 22  Anne Kjersti Kalvå (NOR) +10:32.4 23  Maria Nordström (SWE) +10:42.4 24  Rosie Brennan (USA) +10:59.6 25  Jennie Öberg (SWE) +11:30.2 26  Pia Fink (GER) +11:59.5 27  Anna Shevchenko (KAZ) +12:28.1 28  Evelina Settlin (SWE) +12:31.7 29  Linn Sömskar (SWE) +12:50.6 30  Yana Kirpichenko (RUS) +12:57.0 31  Mariya Guschina (RUS) +13:16.4 32  Katerina Berouskova (CZE) +14:22.5

Sprint standings

Men Final sprint standings (1–10)[5] Rank Name Bonus 1  Dario Cologna (SUI) 1:25 2  Alexander Bolshunov (RUS) 0:59 3  Alex Harvey (CAN) 0:55 4  Alexey Poltoranin (KAZ) 0:47 5  Martin Johnsrud Sundby (NOR) 0:38 6  Emil Iversen (NOR) 0:37 7  Andrew Musgrave (GBR) 0:28 8  Andrey Larkov (RUS) 0:24 9  Didrik Tønseth (NOR) 0:10 10  Maurice Manificat (FRA) 0:09

Ladies Final sprint standings (1–10)[6] Rank Name Bonus 1  Ingvild Flugstad Østberg (NOR) 1:33 2  Heidi Weng (NOR) 1:30 3  Jessica Diggins (USA) 1:13 4  Krista Pärmäkoski (FIN) 1:08 5  Natalia Nepryaeva (RUS) 0:47 6  Sadie Bjornsen (USA) 0:15 7  Kerttu Niskanen (FIN) 0:12 8  Teresa Stadlober (AUT) 0:11 9  Aino-Kaisa Saarinen (FIN) 0:10 10  Nadine Fähndrich (SUI) 0:10

Team standings

Final team standings (1–7)[7]

Rank	Nation	Time
1	Norway	10:23:09.5
2	Russia	+9:29.4
3	Switzerland	+16:33.9
4	Finland	+18:01.5
5	Sweden	+19:59.5
6	Germany	+20:19.1
7	Czech Republic	+34:30.8

Stages

Stage 1

30 December 2017, Lenzerheide, Switzerland

• Bonus seconds to the 30 skiers that qualifies for the quarter-finals, distributed as following:
  • Final: 60–54–48–46–44–42
  • Semi-final: 32–30–28–26–24–22
  • Quarter-final: 10–10–10–8–8–8–8–8–6–6–6–6–6–4–4–4–4–4

Men – 1.5 km Sprint Free[8] Rank Name Time BS 1  Sergey Ustiugov (RUS) 2:57.28 60 2  Federico Pellegrino (ITA) +1.00 54 3  Lucas Chanavat (FRA) +2.76 48 4  Ristomatti Hakola (FIN) +5.91 46 5  Finn Hågen Krogh (NOR) +14.39 44 6  Richard Jouve (FRA) +21.01 42

Ladies – 1.5 km Sprint Free[9] Rank Name Time BS 1  Laurien Van Der Graaff (SUI) 3:25.80 60 2  Sophie Caldwell (USA) +1.42 54 3  Maiken Caspersen Falla (NOR) +1.86 48 4  Natalia Nepryaeva (RUS) +3.17 46 5  Jessica Diggins (USA) +4.33 44 6  Sandra Ringwald (GER) +31.68 42

Stage 2

31 December 2017, Lenzerheide, Switzerland

• Bonus seconds in finish: 15–10–5 to the 3 fastest skiers.

Men – 15 km Classic (individual)[10] Rank Name Time BS 1  Dario Cologna (SUI) 35:29.5 15 2  Alexey Poltoranin (KAZ) +0.6 10 3  Martin Johnsrud Sundby (NOR) +13.1 5 4  Alexander Bolshunov (RUS) +14.0 5  Aleksey Chervotkin (RUS) +16.2 6  Hans Christer Holund (NOR) +21.2 7  Iivo Niskanen (FIN) +22.9 8  Francesco De Fabiani (ITA) +27.2 9  Didrik Tønseth (NOR) +32.0 10  Sergey Ustiugov (RUS) +37.1

Ladies – 10 km Classic (individual)[11] Rank Name Time BS 1  Ingvild Flugstad Østberg (NOR) 26:59.4 15 2  Heidi Weng (NOR) +25.7 10 3  Sadie Bjornsen (USA) +42.2 5 4  Kerttu Niskanen (FIN) +48.9 5  Anna Haag (SWE) +52.6 6  Nicole Fessel (GER) +58.2 7  Jessica Diggins (USA) +1:04.4 8  Nathalie von Siebenthal (SUI) +1:08.3 9  Stefanie Böhler (GER) +1:08.8 10  Anamarija Lampič (SLO) +1:10.9

Stage 3

1 January 2018, Lenzerheide, Switzerland

• Bonus seconds in finish: 15–10–5 to the 3 first skiers crossing the finish line.

Men – 15 km Free (pursuit)[12] Rank Name Time BS 1  Dario Cologna (SUI) 34:56.6 15 2  Sergey Ustiugov (RUS) +17.6 10 3  Alexander Bolshunov (RUS) +45.5 5 4  Alex Harvey (CAN) +46.8 5  Alexey Poltoranin (KAZ) +47.1 6  Martin Johnsrud Sundby (NOR) +48.1 7  Hans Christer Holund (NOR) +48.2 8  Aleksey Chervotkin (RUS) +49.9 9  Iivo Niskanen (FIN) +51.5 10  Marcus Hellner (SWE) +1:21.7

Ladies – 10 km Free (pursuit)[13] Rank Name Time BS 1  Ingvild Flugstad Østberg (NOR) 26:48.1 15 2  Heidi Weng (NOR) +27.8 10 3  Jessica Diggins (USA) +1:16.9 5 4  Krista Pärmäkoski (FIN) +1:45.9 5  Sadie Bjornsen (USA) +1:46.2 6  Kerttu Niskanen (FIN) +1:46.6 7  Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen (NOR) +1:59.9 8  Nicole Fessel (GER) +2:00.3 9  Petra Novaková (CZE) +2:01.0 10  Sandra Ringwald (GER) +2:11.3

Stage 4

3 January 2018, Oberstdorf, Germany

• Stage was cancelled due to the bad weather.[1]

Stage 5

4 January 2018, Oberstdorf, Germany

Men – 15 km Free (mass start)[14] Rank Name Time BS 1  Emil Iversen (NOR) 29:49.8 15 2  Sindre Bjørnestad Skar (NOR) +0.4 10 3  Francesco De Fabiani (ITA) +0.9 5 4  Dario Cologna (SUI) +3.7 27 5  Alex Harvey (CAN) +4.0 6 6  Andrew Musgrave (GBR) +4.0 22 7  Finn Hågen Krogh (NOR) +4.0 8  Martin Johnsrud Sundby (NOR) +4.2 23 9  Thomas Bing (GER) +4.9 6 10  Maurice Manificat (FRA) +5.2 7

Ladies – 10 km Free (mass start)[15] Rank Name Time BS 1  Ingvild Flugstad Østberg (NOR) 23:16.5 25 2  Maiken Caspersen Falla (NOR) +1.9 10 3  Krista Pärmäkoski (FIN) +3.2 20 4  Nathalie von Siebenthal (SUI) +4.1 5  Maria Nordström (SWE) +4.4 3 6  Nicole Fessel (GER) +5.5 6 7  Teresa Stadlober (AUT) +5.8 8  Anne Kjersti Kalvå (NOR) +6.5 4 9  Anastasia Sedova (RUS) +6.7 10  Emma Wikén (SWE) +7.1

Stage 5 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.
• Ladies: 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.

Bonus seconds (Stage 5 – Men) Name Point 1 Point 2 Finish Total  Dario Cologna (SUI) 12 15 – 27  Martin Johnsrud Sundby (NOR) 15 8 – 23  Andrew Musgrave (GBR) 10 12 – 22  Emil Iversen (NOR) – – 15 15  Sindre Bjørnestad Skar (NOR) – – 10 10  Didrik Tønseth (NOR) – 10 – 10  Calle Halfvarsson (SWE) 8 – – 8  Alexander Bolshunov (RUS) 3 5 – 8  Maurice Manificat (FRA) 5 2 – 7  Alex Harvey (CAN) 6 – – 6  Thomas Bing (GER) – 6 – 6  Francesco De Fabiani (ITA) – – 5 5  Sergey Ustiugov (RUS) 4 – – 4  Marcus Hellner (SWE) – 4 – 4  Andrey Larkov (RUS) – 3 – 3  Adrien Backscheider (FRA) 2 – – 2  Alexey Chervotkin (RUS) 1 – – 1  Dominik Baldauf (AUT) – 1 – 1

Bonus seconds (Stage 5 – Ladies) Name Point 1 Finish Total  Ingvild Flugstad Østberg (NOR) 10 15 25  Krista Pärmäkoski (FIN) 15 5 20  Jessica Diggins (USA) 12 – 12  Maiken Caspersen Falla (NOR) – 10 10  Heidi Weng (NOR) 8 – 8  Nicole Fessel (GER) 6 – 6  Anna Haag (SWE) 5 – 5  Anne Kjersti Kalvå (NOR) 4 – 4  Maria Nordström (SWE) 3 – 3  Tiril Udnes Weng (NOR) 2 – 2  Kerttu Niskanen (FIN) 1 – 1

Stage 6

6 January 2018, Val di Fiemme, Italy

Men – 15 km Classic (mass start)[16] Rank Name Time BS 1  Alexey Poltoranin (KAZ) 38:40.3 37 2  Andrey Larkov (RUS) +0.4 13 3  Alex Harvey (CAN) +0.9 17 4  Dario Cologna (SUI) +2.3 18 5  Alexander Bolshunov (RUS) +15.0 18 6  Daniel Rickardsson (SWE) +20.2 6 7  Francesco De Fabiani (ITA) +23.1 1 8  Hans Christer Holund (NOR) +26.4 7 9  Didrik Tønseth (NOR) +27.0 10  Niklas Dyrhaug (NOR) +28.6

Ladies – 10 km Classic (mass start)[17] Rank Name Time BS 1  Heidi Weng (NOR) 29:07.9 30 2  Krista Pärmäkoski (FIN) +7.6 18 3  Teresa Stadlober (AUT) +8.6 11 4  Jessica Diggins (USA) +23.6 12 5  Ingvild Flugstad Østberg (NOR) +35.2 10 6  Kerttu Niskanen (FIN) +45.4 5 7  Anastasia Sedova (RUS) +46.1 4 8  Natalia Nepryaeva (RUS) +59.9 1 9  Nathalie von Siebenthal (SUI) +1:01.0 3 10  Sadie Bjornsen (USA) +1:11.3

Stage 6 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.
• Ladies: 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.

Bonus seconds (Stage 6 – Men) Name Point 1 Point 2 Finish Total  Alexey Poltoranin (KAZ) 10 12 15 37  Sergey Ustiugov (RUS) 15 15 – 30  Dario Cologna (SUI) 8 10 – 18  Alexander Bolshunov (RUS) 12 6 – 18  Alex Harvey (CAN) 4 8 5 17  Andrey Larkov (RUS) – 3 10 13  Martin Johnsrud Sundby (NOR) 6 4 – 10  Hans Christer Holund (NOR) 5 2 – 7  Daniel Rickardsson (SWE) 1 5 – 6  Marcus Hellner (SWE) 3 – – 3  Maurice Manificat (FRA) 2 – – 2  Francesco De Fabiani (ITA) – 1 – 1

Bonus seconds (Stage 6 – Ladies) Name Point 1 Finish Total  Heidi Weng (NOR) 15 15 30  Krista Pärmäkoski (FIN) 8 10 18  Jessica Diggins (USA) 12 – 12  Teresa Stadlober (AUT) 6 5 11  Ingvild Flugstad Østberg (NOR) 10 – 10  Kerttu Niskanen (FIN) 5 – 5  Anastasia Sedova (RUS) 4 – 4  Nathalie von Siebenthal (SUI) 3 – 3  Aino-Kaisa Saarinen (FIN) 2 – 2  Natalia Nepryaeva (RUS) 1 – 1

Stage 7

7 January 2018, Val di Fiemme, Italy

The race for "Fastest of the Day" counts for 2017–18 FIS Cross-Country World Cup points. No bonus seconds were awarded on this stage.

Men – 9 km Final climb (pursuit)[18] Rank Name Time 1  Martin Johnsrud Sundby (NOR) 28:36.4 2  Maurice Manificat (FRA) +12.8 3  Denis Spitsov (RUS) +14.3 4  Dario Cologna (SUI) +15.7 5  Hans Christer Holund (NOR) +20.6 6  Alex Harvey (CAN) +23.6 7  Didrik Tønseth (NOR) +26.9 8  Jean-Marc Gaillard (FRA) +35.4 9  Lucas Bögl (GER) +43.8 10  Alexey Vitsenko (RUS) +44.5

Ladies – 9 km Final climb (pursuit)[19] Rank Name Time 1  Heidi Weng (NOR) 32:11.5 2  Teresa Stadlober (AUT) +41.3 3  Jessica Diggins (USA) +41.9 4  Ingvild Flugstad Østberg (NOR) +49.3 5  Elizabeth Stephen (USA) +1:22.6 6  Nathalie von Siebenthal (SUI) +1:23.5 7  Krista Pärmäkoski (FIN) +1:26.0 8  Kerttu Niskanen (FIN) +1:29.6 9  Stefanie Böhler (GER) +1:34.5 10  Anastasia Sedova (RUS) +1:36.3

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