2019–20 Tour de Ski explained

Tour de Ski
Series:	2019–20 FIS Cross-Country World Cup
Venue:	Lenzerheide, Switzerland Toblach, Italy Val di Fiemme, Italy
Date:	–
Stages:	7
Menfirst:	Alexander Bolshunov
Menfirst Nat:	RUS
Menfirst Color:	yellow
Mensecond:	Sergey Ustiugov
Mensecond Nat:	RUS
Menthird:	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo
Menthird Nat:	NOR
Menpoints:	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo
Menpoints Nat:	NOR
Menpoints Color:	red
Womenfirst:	Therese Johaug
Womenfirst Nat:	NOR
Womenfirst Color:	yellow
Womensecond:	Natalya Nepryayeva
Womensecond Nat:	RUS
Womenthird:	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg
Womenthird Nat:	NOR
Womenpoints:	Anamarija Lampič
Womenpoints Nat:	SLO
Womenpoints Color:	red
Previous:	2018–19
Next:	2021

The 2019–20 Tour de Ski was the 14th edition of the Tour de Ski and part of the 2019–20 FIS Cross-Country World Cup. The World Cup stage event began in Lenzerheide, Switzerland on 28 December 2019 and concluded with the Final Climb stage in Val di Fiemme, Italy, on 5 January 2020. The tour was the third tour starting in Lenzerheide. The last stage known as the Final Climb was held as a mass start for the first time. A points standing replaced the sprint standing from previous editions.

Alexander Bolshunov became the overall winner, surpassing Sergey Ustiugov and Johannes Høsflot Klæbo. He became the third Russian to win the Tour de Ski. In women's event the overall winner became Therese Johaug, who won the third Tour de Ski cup in her career. Natalya Nepryayeva was second and defending champion Ingvild Flugstad Østberg finished third.

Schedule

Stage	Venue	Date	Event	Technique	Distance		Start time (CET)
					Women	Men	Women	Men
		28 December 2019	Distance, mass start	Freestyle	10 km	15 km	12:45	14:15
	29 December 2019	Sprint	Freestyle	1.5 km	1.5 km	11:20	11:20
		31 December 2019	Distance, interval start	Freestyle	10 km	15 km	15:00	12:30
	1 January 2020	Distance, pursuit	Classic	10 km	15 km	11:40	13:00
		3 January 2020	Distance, mass start	Classic	10 km	15 km	13:15	15:15
	4 January 2020	Sprint	Classic	1.3 km	1.5 km	11:25	11:25
	5 January 2020	Final Climb, mass start	Freestyle	10 km	10 km	13:15	15:15

Overall leadership

Two main individual classifications were contested in the 2019–20 Tour de Ski, as well as a team competition. The most important was the overall standings, calculated by adding each skier's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses (time subtracted) were awarded at both sprint stages and at intermediate points during mass start stages. In the sprint stages, the winners were awarded 60 bonus seconds, while on mass start stages the first ten skiers past the intermediate point received from 15 seconds to 1 seconds. The skier with the lowest cumulative time would be the overall winner of the Tour de Ski. For the first time in Tour history, the skier leading the overall standings would wear a yellow bib.

Bonus seconds for the top 30 positions by type

Type		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13–15	16–20	21–25	26–30
In finish	Interval start	none
Mass start
Pursuit
Sprint	60	54	48	46	44	42	32	30	28	26	24	22	10	8	6	4
Intermediate sprint	Stage 5 (Mass Start)	15	12	10	8	6	5	4	3	2	1	none

The second competition was the points standings, which replaced the sprint competition from past editions. The skiers who received the highest number of points during the Tour would win the points standings. The points available for each stage finish were determined by the stage's type. The leader was identified by a red bib.

Points standings points for the top 10 positions by type

Type		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
In finish
Pursuit	15	12	10	8	6	5	4	3	2	1
Sprint	30	24	20	16	12	10	8	6	4	2
Intermediate sprint	Interval start	15	12	10	8	6	5	4	3	2	1
Mass start

The final competition was a team competition. This was calculated using the finishing times of the best two skiers of both genders per team on each stage; the leading team was the team with the lowest cumulative time.

A total of CHF 560,000, both genders included, was awarded in cash prizes in the race. The overall winners of the Tour de Ski received CHF 55,000, with the second and third placed skiers getting CHF 40,000 and CHF 27,500 respectively. All finishers in the top 20 were awarded money. The holders of the overall and points standings would benefit on each stage they led; the final winners of the points standings would be given CHF 6,000. CHF 3,000 was given to the winners of each stage of the race, with smaller amounts given to places 2 and 3.

Overall leadership by stage

Stage	Men			Women
	Winner	Overall standings	Points standings	Winner	Overall standings	Points standings
1	Sergey Ustiugov	Sergey Ustiugov	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Therese Johaug	Therese Johaug	Therese Johaug
2	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo		Anamarija Lampič	Natalya Nepryayeva	Anamarija Lampič
3	Sergey Ustiugov	Sergey Ustiugov		Therese Johaug	Therese Johaug
4	Alexander Bolshunov	Alexander Bolshunov		Ingvild Flugstad Østberg
5	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo			Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen		Natalya Nepryayeva
6	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo		Anamarija Lampič		Anamarija Lampič
7	Simen Hegstad Krüger	Alexander Bolshunov		Therese Johaug
Final		Alexander Bolshunov		Final	Therese Johaug

Final standings

Overall standings

Men Final overall standings (1–10)^[1] Rank Name Time 1 2:58:18.1 2 +27.3 3 +1:09.0 4 +1:51.6 5 +2:53.7 6 +2:55.7 7 +3:08.7 8 +3:17.5 9 +3:32.8 10 +3:39.2 Final overall standings (11–56) Rank Name Time 11 +3:56.9 12 +4:04.1 13 +4:24.4 14 +4:27.1 15 +4:40.1 16 +5:13.8 17 +5:15.3 18 +5:22.4 19 +6:15.4 20 +6:22.3 21 +6:33.9 22 +6:45.2 23 +6:52.5 24 +7:18.0 25 +7:48.3 26 +7:55.7 27 +8:06.7 28 +8:10.4 29 +8:27.8 30 +8:36.0 31 +9:03.7 32 +9:19.6 33 +10:08.5 34 +10:15.5 35 +10:18.1 36 +10:26.0 37 +10:48.2 38 +10:50.6 39 +11:01.6 40 +11:08.3 41 +11:23.4 42 +11:41.8 43 +13:17.3 44 +13:33.7 45 +13:57.8 46 +14:15.8 47 +14:23.1 48 +14:53.7 49 +16:13.7 50 +16:30.6 51 +16:30.7 52 +17:20.1 53 +17:38.6 54 +18:06.3 55 +18:13.5 56 +20:05.5

Women Final overall standings (1–10)^[2] Rank Name Time 1 2:28:18.6 2 +1:11.1 3 +1:17.5 4 +1:37.3 5 +2:13.4 6 +4:34.1 7 +4:40.6 8 +4:40.9 9 +4:44.1 10 +5:07.1 Final overall standings (11–41) Rank Name Time 11 +5:42.0 12 +6:00.7 13 +6:50.1 14 +6:56.4 15 +7:11.0 16 +7:31.0 17 +7:59.5 18 +9:17.0 19 +9:38.8 20 +9:59.8 21 +10:02.2 22 +10:47.0 23 +10:58.5 24 +11:11.2 25 +11:52.5 26 +12:12.2 27 +12:19.6 28 +12:26.5 29 +13:06.7 30 +13:50.1 31 +15:00.9 32 +15:23.7 33 +15:39.5 34 +15:54.0 35 +16:11.1 36 +16:18.1 37 +16:24.6 38 +16:45.7 39 +17:52.4 40 +19:18.3 41 +21:03.2

Points standings

Men Final points standings (1–10)^[3] Rank Name Points 1 117 2 89 3 87 4 67 5 37 6 35 7 23 8 18 9 17 10 17

Women Final points standings (1–10)^[4] Rank Name Points 1 90 2 76 3 72 4 66 5 61 6 59 7 50 8 34 9 15 10 12

Team standings

Final team standings (1–5)^[5]

Rank	Nation	Time
1	Norway	10:50:25.0
2	Russia	+12:10.1
3	Sweden	+17:49.3
4	Finland	+23:21.8
5	Germany	+30:08.5

Stages

Stage 1

28 December 2019, Lenzerheide, Switzerland

• No bonus seconds were awarded on this stage.

Men – 15 km Freestyle (mass start)^[6] Rank Name Time 1 33.19.1 2 +4.0 3 +4.0 4 +7.2 5 +8.6 6 +8.7 7 +8.8 8 +8.9 9 +9.0 10 +10.0

Women – 10 km Freestyle (mass start) ^[7] Rank Name Time 1 28:12:1 2 +12.3 3 +12.9 4 +13.1 5 +24.1 6 +40.1 7 +40.6 8 +41.3 9 +41.9 10 +42.0

Stage 2

29 December 2019, Lenzerheide, Switzerland

• Bonus seconds to the 30 skiers that qualifies for the quarter-finals, distributed as following:^[8]
  • 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 Freestyle^[9] Rank Name 1 2:44.64 (1) 2:55.33 60 2 2:45.84 (2) +0.35 54 3 2:49.91 (13) +0.57 48 4 2:49.28 (11) +0.86 46 5 2:48.32 (8) +0.94 44 6 2:46.65 (5) +2.16 42 7 2:46.70 (6) 32 8 2:46.61 (4) 30 9 2:46.34 (3) 28 10 2:50.66 (17) 26

Women – 1.5 km Sprint Freestyle^[10] Rank Name 1 3:17.69 (20) 3:06.02 60 2 3:12.64 (6) +0.03 54 3 3:14.44 (12) +0.47 48 4 3:11.23 (3) +1.03 46 5 3:11.43 (4) +4.78 44 6 3:16.70 (17) +5.29 42 7 3:14.95 (13) 32 8 3:17.80 (22) 30 9 3:10.76 (1) 28 10 3:14.02 (8) 26

Stage 3

31 December 2019, Toblach, Italy

• No bonus seconds were awarded on this stage.

Men – 15 km Freestyle (individual) ^[11] Rank Name Time 1 31:02.5 2 +22.6 3 +29.0 4 +29.6 5 +34.6 6 +35.2 7 +37.0 8 +39.4 9 +42.6 10 +43.1

Women – 10 km Freestyle (individual)^[12] Rank Name Time 1 23:51.9 2 +0.7 3 +10.2 4 +10.5 5 +20.8 6 +26.0 7 +35.6 8 +42.9 9 +45.0 10 +53.1

Stage 4

1 January 2020, Toblach, Italy

• Pursuit start lists were based only on Stage 3 results (not as in the past on the current Tour de Ski overall standing). In fact, stage 4 finish differences are combined results of stages 3 and 4
• No bonus seconds were awarded on this stage.

Men – 15 km Classic (pursuit)^[13] Rank Name Time 1 38:14.9 2 +13.7 3 +24.8 4 +29.2 5 +29.6 6 +29.8 7 +30.7 8 +47.9 9 +55.9 10 +57.2

Women – 10 km Classic (pursuit)^[14] Rank Name Time 1 26:51.5 2 +0.4 3 +27.2 4 +27.3 5 +27.7 6 +28.1 7 +1.29.4 8 +1.29.8 9 +1.30.1 10 +1.30.6

Stage 5

3 January 2020, Val di Fiemme, Italy

Men – 15 km Classic (mass start)^[15] Rank Name Time 1 39:51.0 15 2 +0.7 2 3 +1.0 8 4 +4.4 5 5 +10.2 12 6 +11.0 4 7 +13.7 8 +15.8 6 9 +18.1 1 10 +18.4 3

Women – 10 km Classic (mass start)^[16] Rank Name Time 1 29:07.9 15 2 +0.4 12 3 +1.0 10 4 +6.2 5 5 +6.8 8 6 +15.5 4 7 +17.2 3 8 +19.0 6 9 +25.0 1 10 +26.6 2

Stage 5 bonus seconds

• Men: 1 intermediate sprint, bonus seconds to the 10 first skiers (15–12–10–8–6–5–4–3–2–1) past the intermediate point.
• 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.
• No bonus seconds were awarded at the finish

Bonus seconds (Stage 5 – Men) Name Point 1 15 12 10 8 6 5 4 3 2 1

Bonus seconds (Stage 5 – Women) Name Point 1 15 12 10 8 6 5 4 3 2 1

Stage 6

4 January 2020, Val di Fiemme, Italy

• Bonus seconds to the 30 skiers that qualifies for the quarter-finals, distributed as following:^[8]
  • 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 Classic^[17] Rank Name 1 3:02.17 (1) 3:03.78 60 2 3:08.87 (4) +0.70 54 3 3:09.28 (5) +1.33 48 4 3:08.27 (3) +2.01 46 5 3:13.68 (12) +6.30 44 6 3:15.84 (22) +8.69 42 7 3:14.09 (15) 32 8 3:15.93 (23) 30 9 3:15.16 (17) 28 10 3:15.65 (21) 26

Women – 1.3 km Sprint Classic^[18] Rank Name 1 3:07.99 (12) 3:03.03 60 2 3:07.13 (7) +0.22 54 3 3:04.26 (1) +0.28 48 4 3:05.69 (4) +0.80 46 5 3:04.74 (2) +1.12 44 6 3:07.09 (6) +15.30 42 7 3:06.01 (5) 32 8 3:11.96 (18) 30 9 3:05.66 (3) 28 10 3:07.70 (11) 26

Stage 7

5 January 2020, Val di Fiemme, Italy

The race for "Fastest of the Day" counts for 2019–20 FIS Cross-Country World Cup points. No bonus seconds are awarded on this stage.

Men – 10 km Final Climb Freestyle (mass start)^[19] Rank Name Time 1 30:55.8 2 +13.9 3 +22.3 4 +26.2 5 +35.6 6 +41.0 7 +44.8 8 +47.8 9 +53.7 10 +59.3

Women – 10 km Freestyle (mass start)^[20] Rank Name Time 1 34:21.6 2 +50.3 3 +54.5 4 +57.1 5 +1:15.1 6 +1:51.1 7 +1:58.0 8 +2:06.5 9 +2:10.4 10 +2:12.9

World Cup points distribution

The table shows the number of 2019–20 FIS Cross-Country World Cup points won in the 2019–20 Tour de Ski for men and women.

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Overall Standings	400	320	240	200	180	160	144	128	116	104	96	88	80	72	64	60	56	52	48	44	40	36	32	28	24	20	20	20	20	20	10	5
Each 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

Sources

• Web site: RULES FOR THE FIS CROSS-COUNTRY WORLD CUP 2020/2021. International Ski Federation. 15 October 2020 . .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Men's 14th Tour de Ski overall standings . www.fis-ski.com. International Ski Federation (FIS) . 5 January 2020.
2. Web site: Women's 14th Tour de Ski overall standings . www.fis-ski.com. International Ski Federation (FIS) . 5 January 2020.
3. Web site: Tour de Ski points standings (Men) . www.fis-ski.com. International Ski Federation (FIS) . 5 January 2020.
4. Web site: Tour de Ski points standings (Women) . www.fis-ski.com. International Ski Federation (FIS) . 5 January 2020.
5. Web site: Tour de ski team standings . www.fis-ski.com. International Ski Federation (FIS) . 5 January 2020.
6. Web site: Men 15 km Mass Start Free . www.fis-ski.com. International Ski Federation (FIS) . 28 December 2019.
7. Web site: Women 10 km Mass Start Free . www.fis-ski.com. International Ski Federation (FIS) . 28 December 2019.
8. Web site: RULES FOR THE FIS CROSS-COUNTRY WORLD CUP . International Ski Federation (FIS) . 25 November 2019.
9. Web site: Men's Sprint Free . www.fis-ski.com. International Ski Federation (FIS) . 29 December 2019.
10. Web site: Women's Sprint Free . www.fis-ski.com. International Ski Federation (FIS) . 29 December 2019.
11. Web site: Men 15 km Individual Free . www.fis-ski.com. International Ski Federation (FIS) . 31 December 2019.
12. Web site: Women 10 km Individual Free . www.fis-ski.com. International Ski Federation (FIS) . 31 December 2019.
13. Web site: Men 15 km Pursuit Classic . www.fis-ski.com. International Ski Federation (FIS) . 1 January 2020.
14. Web site: Women 10 km Pursuit Classic . www.fis-ski.com. International Ski Federation (FIS) . 1 January 2020.
15. Web site: Men 15 km Mass Start Classic . www.fis-ski.com. International Ski Federation (FIS) . 3 January 2020.
16. Web site: Women 10 km Mass Start Classic . www.fis-ski.com. International Ski Federation (FIS) . 3 January 2020.
17. Web site: Men's Sprint Classic . www.fis-ski.com. International Ski Federation (FIS) . 4 January 2020.
18. Web site: Women's Sprint Classic . www.fis-ski.com. International Ski Federation (FIS) . 4 January 2020.
19. Web site: Men 10 km Mass Start Free . www.fis-ski.com. International Ski Federation (FIS) . 5 January 2020.
20. Web site: Women 10 km Mass Start Free . www.fis-ski.com. International Ski Federation (FIS) . 5 January 2020.