2008–09 Tour de Ski explained

Tour de Ski
Series:	2008–09 FIS Cross-Country World Cup
Venue:	Oberhof, Germany Prague, Czech Republic Nové Město, Czech Republic Val di Fiemme, Italy
Date:	–
Stages:	7
Menfirst:	Dario Cologna
Menfirst Nat:	SUI
Menfirst Color:	red
Mensecond:	Petter Northug
Mensecond Nat:	NOR
Menthird:	Axel Teichmann
Menthird Nat:	GER
Mensprint:	Tor Arne Hetland
Mensprint Nat:	NOR
Mensprint Color:	black
Womenfirst:	Virpi Kuitunen
Womenfirst Nat:	FIN
Womenfirst Color:	red
Womensecond:	Aino-Kaisa Saarinen
Womensecond Nat:	FIN
Womenthird:	Petra Majdič
Womenthird Nat:	SLO
Womensprint:	Petra Majdič
Womensprint Nat:	SLO
Womensprint Color:	black
Previous:	2007–08
Next:	2009–10

The 2008–09 Tour de Ski was the third edition of the Tour de Ski and took place from 27 December 2008 until 4 January 2009. The race kicked off in Oberhof, Germany, and concluded with the Final Climb stage in Val di Fiemme, Italy. The tour was the first tour starting in Oberhof and the second starting in Germany. The men's event was 102 km, won by Dario Cologna of Switzerland; and the women's event was 60 km, won by Virpi Kuitunen of Finland.

Overall leadership

Overall leadership by stage

Stage	Men			Ladies
	Winner	Overall standings	Sprint standings	Winner	Overall standings	Sprint standings
1	Axel Teichmann	Axel Teichmann		Claudia Nystad	Claudia Nystad
2	Dario Cologna	Dario Cologna	Virpi Kuitunen	Virpi Kuitunen
3	Tor Arne Hetland		Arianna Follis	Arianna Follis
4	Axel Teichmann	Virpi Kuitunen	Virpi Kuitunen
5	Petter Northug	Arianna Follis	Aino-Kaisa Saarinen
6	Axel Teichmann	Virpi Kuitunen	Virpi Kuitunen
7	Ivan Babikov	Therese Johaug
Final				Final

Final standings

Overall standings

Men Final overall standings (1–10)^[1] Rank Name Time 1 2:56:05.4 2 +59.0 3 +1:02.8 4 +1:22.2 5 +1:31.0 6 +1:39.1 7 +1:52.7 8 +2:06.3 9 +2:16.4 10 +2:20.8 Final overall standings (11–54) Rank Name Time 11 +2:21.6 12 +2:41.5 13 +2:47.7 14 +2:49.3 15 +3:05.2 16 +3:07.2 17 +3:11.0 18 +3:40.8 19 +3:45.2 20 +3:55.3 21 +4:14.4 22 +4:20.7 23 +4:26.7 24 +4:33.7 25 +4:37.9 26 +4:40.7 27 +4:52.4 28 +4:59.5 29 +5:16.1 30 +5:18.9 31 +5:24.9 32 +5:28.5 33 +5:37.4 34 +6:29.8 35 +7:05.1 36 +7:30.5 37 +7:45.1 38 +7:51.3 39 +7:53.6 40 +8:20.9 41 +8:42.4 42 +9:40.1 43 +10:07.1 44 +10:18.4 45 +11:45.8 46 +11:57.8 47 +13:30.6 48 +14:15.9 49 +22:08.8 50 +22:37.8 51 +23:05.0 52 +23:23.5 53 +23:51.6 54 +28:34.1

Women Final overall standings (1–10)^[2] Rank Name Time 1 2:06:41.4 2 +7.2 3 +34.5 4 +1:21.1 5 +1:36.5 6 +2:20.0 7 +2:26.5 8 +2:35.6 9 +2:51.8 10 +3:12.4 Final overall standings (11–36) Rank Name Time 11 +3:24.6 12 +3:42.3 13 +4:05.5 14 +4:06.6 15 +4:51.7 16 +5:06.5 17 +5:23.3 18 +5:27.6 19 +6:31.4 20 +6:37.2 21 +6:58.6 22 +7:18.3 23 +7:45.9 24 +8:17.7 25 +8:30.5 26 +9:01.1 27 +9:04.1 28 +9:35.8 29 +9:54.9 30 +10:17.0 31 +10:50.0 32 +11:43.7 33 +12:27.6 34 +13:17.2 35 +13:25.0 36 +13:28.3

• Yevgeny Dementyev finished 9th but was later disqualified after he tested positive for recombinant erythropoietin (EPO).

Sprint standings

The sprint competition was contested during the sprint races and partly during the other races. According to the position in the race, the skiers achieved bonus seconds for sprints, and bonus points for intermediate points in mass start races.^[3]

Men Final sprint standings (1–10)^[4] Rank Name Total 1 131 2 122 3 105 4 102 5 101 6 88 7 86 8 74 9 73 10 70

Women Final sprint standings (1–10)^[5] Rank Name Total 1 148 2 130 3 123 4 92 5 74 6 74 7 72 8 72 9 70 10 67

Stages

Stage 1

27 December 2008, Oberhof - Prologue, Individual start

Men - 3.75 km Free ^[6] Place Name Time 1 Axel Teichmann 7:11,8 min 2 Dario Cologna + 8,2 s 3 Petter Northug + 13,0 s 4 Aivar Rehemaa + 13,3 s 5 Devon Kershaw + 13,8 s 6 Tom Reichelt + 14,9 s

Women - 2.8 km Free ^[7] Place Name Time 1 Claudia Nystad 6:17,2 min 2 Arianna Follis + 1,1 s 3 Justyna Kowalczyk + 2,3 s 3 Petra Majdič + 2,3 s 5 Marit Bjørgen + 7,6 s 6 Pirjo Muranen + 8,1 s

Stage 2

27 December 2008, Oberhof - Handicap Start

Women - 10 km Classic ^[8] Place Name Time 1 Virpi Kuitunen 30:22,7 min 2 Marit Bjørgen + 1,9 s 3 Justyna Kowalczyk + 6,2 s 4 Arianna Follis + 8,9 s 5 Aino-Kaisa Saarinen + 10,4 s 6 Petra Majdič + 29,4 s

Men - 15 km Classic ^[9] Place Name Time 1 Dario Cologna 43:05,1 min 2 Axel Teichmann + 4,8 s 3 Devon Kershaw + 26,4 s 4 Sami Jauhojärvi + 26,4 s 5 Tobias Angerer + 28,3 s 6 Jaak Mae + 28,4 s

Women - Pursuit Time ("Winner of the Day") Place Name Time 1 Virpi Kuitunen 23:56,7 min 2 Marit Bjørgen + 3,9 s 3 Aino-Kaisa Saarinen + 10,4 s 4 Justyna Kowalczyk + 18,2 s 5 Arianna Follis + 26,9 s

Men - Pursuit Time ("Winner of the Day") Place Name Time 1 Martin Johnsrud Sundby 35:47,9 min 2 Andrus Veerpalu + 2,9 s 3 Toni Livers + 3,5 s 4 Daniel Rickardsson + 4,4 s 5 Sami Jauhojärvi + 6,6 s

Stage 3

29 December 2008, Prague - Sprint

Men - 1.3 km Free ^[10] Place Name Time 1 Tor Arne Hetland 2:34,3 min + 60 bonus seconds 2 Vasily Rochev 2:33,8 min + 56 bonus seconds 3 Jean-Marc Gaillard 2:38,0 min + 52 bonus seconds 4 Sami Jauhojärvi 2:39,0 min + 48 bonus seconds 5 John Kristian Dahl 2:36,2 min + 44 bonus seconds 6 Eldar Rønning 2:36,2 min + 42 bonus seconds

Women - 1.3 km Free ^[11] Place Name Time 1 Arianna Follis 2:52,3 min + 60 bonus seconds 2 Aino-Kaisa Saarinen 2:54,8 min + 56 bonus seconds 3 Petra Majdič 2:58,3 min + 52 bonus seconds 4 Pirjo Muranen 2:56,8 min + 48 bonus seconds 5 Marthe Kristoffersen 2:54,9 min + 44 bonus seconds 6 Claudia Nystad 2:54,9 min + 42 bonus seconds

Stage 4

31 December 2008, Nové Město na Moravě - Individual start

Men - 15 km Classic ^[12] Place Name Time 1 Axel Teichmann 39:03,7 min 2 Martin Johnsrud Sundby + 5,0 s 3 Nikolay Chebotko + 10,5 s 4 Jaak Mae +11,3 s 5 Lukáš Bauer + 13,4 s 6 Eldar Rønning + 14,7 s

Women - 9 km Classic ^[13] Place Name Time 1 Virpi Kuitunen 24:45,4 min 2 Aino-Kaisa Saarinen + 37,6 s 3 Marit Bjørgen + 49,9 s 4 Justyna Kowalczyk + 55,1 s 5 Petra Majdič + 59,5 s 6 Marianna Longa + 1:15,0 s

Stage 5

1 January 2009, Nové Město na Moravě - Sprint

Men - 1.2 km Free ^[14] Place Name Time 1 Petter Northug 60 bonus seconds 2 Tor Arne Hetland 56 bonus seconds 3 Cristian Zorzi 52 bonus seconds 4 John Kristian Dahl 48 bonus seconds 5 Dario Cologna 44 bonus seconds 6 Nikolay Chebotko 42 bonus seconds

Women - 1.2 km Free ^[15] Place Name Time 1 Arianna Follis 60 bonus seconds 2 Petra Majdič 56 bonus seconds 3 Aino-Kaisa Saarinen 52 bonus seconds 4 Magda Genuin 48 bonus seconds 5 Alena Procházková 44 bonus seconds 6 Marianna Longa 42 bonus seconds

Stage 6

3 January 2009, Val di Fiemme, Italy - Mass start

Men - 20 km Classic ^[16] Place Name Time 1 Axel Teichmann 55:19,2 min 2 Sami Jauhojärvi + 0,3 s 3 Nikolay Chebotko + 1,3 s 4 Dario Cologna + 1,8 s 5 Martin Johnsrud Sundby + 2,5 s 6 Maxim Vylegzhanin + 3,9 s

Women - 10 km Classic ^[17] Place Name Time 1 Virpi Kuitunen 30:10,3 min 2 Petra Majdič + 13,8 s 3 Aino-Kaisa Saarinen + 20,5 s 4 Marianna Longa + 24,6 s 5 Marit Bjørgen + 33,0 s 6 Pirjo Muranen + 34,7 s

Stage 7

4 January 2009, Val di Fiemme - Pursuit

Men - 10 km Free Final Climb ^[18] Place Name Time 1 Ivan Babikov 33:51,2 min 2 Tom Reichelt + 1,5 s 3 Giorgio Di Centa + 3,2 s 4 Matti Heikkinen + 12,0 s 5 Lukáš Bauer + 15,2 s 6 Jean-Marc Gaillard + 21,7 s

Women - 9 km Free Final Climb ^[19] Place Name Time 1 Therese Johaug 35:07,7 min 2 Kristin Størmer Steira + 8,7 s 3 Valentyna Shevchenko + 44,3 s 4 Justyna Kowalczyk + 47,1 s 5 Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova + 54,6 s 6 Anna Haag + 58,4 s

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tour de Ski Overall Standing Men . www.fis-ski.com . International Ski Federation (FIS) . 22 January 2019.
2. Web site: Tour de Ski Overall Standing Ladies . www.fis-ski.com . International Ski Federation (FIS) . 22 January 2019.
3. Web site: Bonus seconds . https://web.archive.org/web/20080306231655/http://www.tour-de-ski.com/fr/news/tour-from/bonus-seconds.html . dead . 2008-03-06 . tour-de-ski.com . Tour de Ski.
4. Web site: TOUR DE SKI SPRINT STANDING MEN . . January 31, 2017.
5. Web site: TOUR DE SKI SPRINT STANDING LADIES . . January 31, 2017.
6. Web site: Prologue Men 3.7 km Free Individual Results . . January 31, 2017.
7. Web site: Prologue Ladies 2.8 km Free Individual Results . . January 31, 2017.
8. Web site: Ladies 10 km Classic Pursuit 'Handicap' Start Result . . January 31, 2017.
9. Web site: Men 15 km Classic Pursuit 'Handicap' Start Result . . January 31, 2017.
10. Web site: Men 1.3 km Free Sprint Results . . January 31, 2017.
11. Web site: Ladies 1.3 km Free Sprint Results . . January 31, 2017.
12. Web site: Men 15 km Classic Individual Results . . January 31, 2017.
13. Web site: Ladies 9 km Classic Individual Results . . January 31, 2017.
14. Web site: Men 1.2 km Free Sprint Results . . January 31, 2017.
15. Web site: Ladies 1.2 km Free Sprint Results . . January 31, 2017.
16. Web site: Men 20 km Classic Mass Start Results . . January 31, 2017.
17. Web site: Ladies 10 km Classic Mass Start Results . . January 31, 2017.
18. Web site: Men 10 km Free Final Climb Pursuit 'Handicap' Start Result . . January 31, 2017.
19. Web site: Ladies 9 km Free Final Climb Pursuit 'Handicap' Start Result . . January 31, 2017.