Laurien van der Graaff explained

Laurien van der Graaff
Birth Date:14 October 1987
Birth Place:Nieuwkoop, Netherlands
Height:1.67 m
Seasons:15 – (20082022)
Club:TG Hütten
Wins:2
Totalpodiums:5
Teamwins:1
Teampodiums:4
Individual Starts:173
Team Starts:21
Wcoveralls:0 – (21st in 2018)
Wctitles:0

Laurien van der Graaff (born 14 October 1987) is a Swiss, former cross-country skier.[1]

Career

Born in the Netherlands to Dutch parents, she has dual citizenship. Her family moved to Switzerland when she was four.[2] Van der Graaff competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Switzerland. She placed 20th in the qualifying round in the sprint, advancing to the quarterfinals. She then finished 5th in that quarterfinal, failing to advance.[3] [4]

As of April 2014, her best showing at the World Championships is 11th, in the freestyle team sprint in 2013. Her best individual finish is 30th, in the 2013 classical sprint.[1]

Van der Graaff made her World Cup debut in March 2008. As of April 2014, she has two podium finishes, with the best a silver medal, in a freestyle sprint race at Nove Mesto in 2013–14. Her best World Cup overall finish is 24th, in 2013–14. Her best World Cup finish in a discipline is 7th, in the sprint in 2013–14.[1]

She announced her retirement from cross-country skiing in March, 2022.[5]

Cross-country skiing results

All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).[6]

Olympic Games

 Year  Age  10 km 
 individual 
 15 km 
 skiathlon 
 30 km 
 mass start 
 Sprint  4 × 5 km 
 relay 
 Team 
 sprint 
26
30 4
34 7

World Championships

 Year   Age   10 km 
 individual 
 15 km 
 skiathlon 
 30 km 
 mass start 
 Sprint   4 × 5 km 
 relay 
 Team 
 sprint 
23
25 11
27 7
29 7
31 8
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World Cup

Season standings

 Season  Age Discipline standingsSki Tour standings
OverallDistanceSprintNordic
Opening
Tour de
Ski
Ski Tour
2020
World Cup
Final
Ski Tour
Canada
20
21
22 121 86
23 82 56
24 36 14 42
25 47 19 44
26 24 7
27 3810
28 40 21
29 34 60 14 39
30 21 71 5 40
31 51 73 25
32 31 62 13 36 25
33 34 91 1152 35

Individual podiums

No.SeasonDateLocationRaceLevelPlace
1 2011–123 December 2011 Düsseldorf, Germany 0.9 km Sprint F World Cup 3rd
2 2013–1411 January 2014 Nové Město, Czech Republic 1.3 km Sprint F World Cup 2nd
3 2014–1524 January 2015 Rybinsk, Russia 1.3 km Sprint F World Cup 3rd
4 2017–1830 December 2017 Lenzerheide, Switzerland 1.5 km Sprint F Stage World Cup 1st
5 27 January 2018 Seefeld, Austria 1.1 km Sprint F World Cup 1st

Team podiums

No.SeasonDateLocationRaceLevelPlaceTeammate
1 2019–2022 December 2019 Planica, Slovenia 6 × 1.2 km Team Sprint F World Cup 3rd Fähndrich
2 12 January 2020 Dresden, Germany 12 × 0.65 km Team Sprint F World Cup 2nd Fähndrich
3 2020–2120 December 2020 Dresden, Germany 12 × 0.65 km Team Sprint F World Cup 1st Fähndrich
4 7 February 2021 Ulricehamn, Sweden 6 × 1.5 km Team Sprint F World Cup 3rd Fähndrich

Notes and References

  1. http://data.fis-ski.com/dynamic/athlete-biography.html?sector=CC&competitorid=92295 FIS Profile
  2. https://nos.nl/pyeongchang2018/artikel/2218126-zwitserse-van-der-graaff-dacht-er-wel-eens-over-om-voor-nederland-uit-te-komen.html Zwitserse Van der Graaff dacht weleens aan uitkomen voor Nederland
  3. Web site: Sports Reference Profile. https://web.archive.org/web/20181211010222/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/va/laurien-van-der-graaf-1.html. dead. 11 December 2018.
  4. Web site: Sochi2014.com profile . 19 March 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140319025331/http://www.sochi2014.com/en/athlete-laurien-van-der-graaff . 19 March 2014 .
  5. Web site: 2022-03-29 . The end of the Cross-Country journey of Laurien van der Graaff . 2023-03-07 . . en.
  6. Web site: VAN DER GRAAFF Laurien . . FIS-Ski . International Ski Federation . 22 December 2019.