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The World Cup in ski racing in 2020 will be one of the expected events of the upcoming ski season. Since the next World Championship in this sport will be held only in 2021, and the upcoming Winter Olympic Games only in 2022, fans will be able to concentrate all their attention on the cup starts and possibly predict future winners.
2020 Cup
The 2019/2020 World Cup starts in Finland on November 29 and will end almost by the end of March in Canadian Canmore. During this time, about 40 starts await skiers. That cup starts will be a guide for athletes in preparation for the upcoming World Cup and the Olympic Games.
In the calendar of ski races in 2020, an abundance of sprints can be traced with the practical absence of long distances of 30-50 km, relay races are also becoming a rarity. The organizer of the tournament, the international skiing federation FIS, explains the current trend with the low telerating of these disciplines, as well as the requests of representatives of individual countries who are not able to hold such competitions at national championships. On the other hand, the President of the Russian Federation of Cross-Country Skiing is convinced of the opposite, since it is relay races that often collect the highest television ratings in Russia and, most likely, in many other countries. In addition, Russia, as well as other world ski leaders (Norway, Sweden, Finland) has all the opportunities for holding tournaments within the country.
On a note! The 2019/2020 World Cup ski race calendar is tentative. The final version is due to be approved by the FIS Council in May 2019.
Tournament opening
The first period traditionally opens in the Finnish city of Ruka. The program provides for several spectacular disciplines at once, where the best skiers and skiers of the world will fight for first places.
| date | A place | Women | Men |
1st period | |||
| 29.11.19 | Ruka (Finland) | Sprint, classic style | |
| 30.11.19 | 10 km, classic style | 15 km, classic style | |
| 1.12.19 | 10 km Pursuit | 15 km Pursuit | |
| 1.12.19 | Offset mini-tour | ||
| 7.12.19 | Lillehammer (Norway) | 7.5 km + 7.5 km, skiathlon | 15 km + 15 km, skiathlon |
| 8.12.19 | 4x5 km relay | 4x7.5 km relay | |
| 14.12.19 | Davos (Switzerland) | Sprint Free Style | |
| 15.12.19 | 10 km free style | 15 km, free style | |
| 21.12.19 | Planica (Slovenia) | Sprint, classic style | |
| 22.12.19 | Team Sprint Free Style | ||
Tour de Ski 2019/2020
The multi-day skiing Tour de Ski is included in the World Cup standings, but has been withdrawn to a separate prestigious nomination. Here, athletes will find a couple of sprint stages (in a classic and free style), the rest will be remote. Races will be held almost every day, so to win the general classification it is important to participate in each of them. The points earned will go to the overall standings of the Cup, but victory in each race will cost only 50 points, but it will be possible to double points in the overall standings.
In the new season, the Tour de Ski will be held from December 28, 2019 to January 5–5, 2020.
| date | A place | Women | Men | |
2nd period | ||||
| 28.12.19 | Lenzerheide (Switzerland) | Sprint, classic style | ||
| 29.12.19 | 10 km, mass start, freestyle | 15 km, mass start, freestyle | ||
| 31.12.19 | Vaduz (Liechtenstein) | Sprint Free Style | ||
| 1.01.20 | Toblach (Italy) | 10 km free style | 15 km, free style | |
| 2.01.20 | 10 km Pursuit | 15 km Pursuit | ||
| 4.01.20 | Val Di Fiemme (Italy) | 10 km, mass start, classic style | 15 km, mass start, classic style | |
| 5.01.20 | 9 km, free style | |||
| 5.01.20 | TDS offset | TDS overall standings | TDS overall standings | |
Tournament Continuation
After a short break, the third period of the World Cup 2020 will open. Cross-country skiing will be held on four European tracks according to the following schedule:
| date | A place | Women | Men |
3rd period | |||
| 11.01.20 | Dresden, Germany) | Sprint Free Style | |
| 12.01.20 | Team Sprint Free Style | ||
| 18.02.20 | Nove Mesto (Czech Republic) | 10 km, classic style | 15 km, classic style |
| 19.01.20 | 4x5 km relay | 4x7.5 km relay | |
| 25.01.20 | Oberstdorf (Germany) | Sprint, classic style | Sprint, classic style |
| 26.01.20 | 7.5 km + 7.5 km, skiathlon | 15 km + 15 km, skiathlon | |
| 8.02.20 | Falun (Sweden) | Sprint, classic style | |
| 9.02.20 | 10 km free style | 30 km free style | |
New in the program
A distinctive feature of the 2020 World Cup schedule is the new multi-day skiing, which will be held in Sweden and Norway. These countries also initiated it, because here the population is most interested in skiing. In addition, a tour prologue is planned in Edinburgh, Scotland, with the aim of attracting other nations to this winter sport.
| date | A place | Women | Men |
4th period | |||
| 15.02.20 | Ostersund (Sweden) | 10 km free style | 15 km, free style |
| 16.02.20 | 10 km, classic style | 15 km, classic style | |
| 18.02.20 | Åre (Sweden) | Sprint Free Style | |
| 20.02.20 | Storlien (Norway) | 38 km | |
| 22.02.20 | Trondheim (Norway) | Sprint, classic style | |
| 23.02.20 | 7.5 km + 7.5 km, skiathlon | 15 km + 15 km, skiathlon | |
Spring program
With the exception of the starts on February 29 in Finnish Lahti, then the athletes will have a busy program in March.
| date | A place | Women | Men |
5th period | |||
| 29.02.20 | Lahti (Finland) | 10 km, classic style | 15 km, classic style |
| 1.03.20 | 4x5 km relay | 4x7.5 km relay | |
| 4.03.20 | Drammen (Norway) | Sprint, classic style | |
| 7.03.20 | Oslo | 30 km, mass start, classic style | |
| 8.03.20 | 50 km, mass start, classic style | ||
Spring tour | |||
| 14.03.20 | Quebec (Canada) | Sprint Free Style | |
| 15.03.20 | Team Sprint Free Style | ||
| 17.03.20 | Minneapolis (Canada) | Sprint Free Style | |
The final | |||
| 21.03.20 | Canmore (Canada) | 10 km, mass start, freestyle | 15 km, mass start, freestyle |
| 22.03.20 | 10 km Pursuit | 15 km Pursuit | |
To find out which athletes will become owners of the Big Crystal Globes in the upcoming 2019/2020 season, fans can only in March 2020. As practice shows, the winner does not have to be a universal skier, winning sprint and distance stages. For success, it is enough to show good results in one form and not bad to speak in another. For example, in the season 2018/2019, even the 9th place in the distance classification did not prevent the Norwegian Johannes Klebo from becoming the first in the overall classification due to the victory by a wide margin in the sprint stages.
Johannes Klebo
Performances of the best skiers of the planet throughout the tournament will be available on the Eurosport channel. Major cup starts will also be broadcast on Match TV.
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