2015 Tour de Ski

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The 2015 Tour de Ski began in Oberstdorf, Germany on January 3, 2015, and ended in Val di Fiemme, Italy on January 10, 2015. The cups were being defended by Therese Johaug (Norway) and Martin Johnsrud Sundby (Norway), the former of which came second to Marit Bjørgen, while Sundby retained the cup.

On July 20, 2016, Sundby was stripped of the cup due to illegal use of asthma medication during the tournament.^[1]

Schedule

Stage	Venue	Date	Event	Distance		Start time (CET)
Stage	Venue	Date	Event	Women	Men	Women	Men
1	Oberstdorf (GER)	3 January 2015	Prologue Free technique, individual start	3 km	4 km	10:45	12:45
2	Oberstdorf (GER)	4 January 2015	Distance classical technique, pursuit	10 km	15 km	11:00	12:15
3	Val Müstair (SUI)	6 January 2015	Sprint Free technique, qualification and finals	1.4 km	1.4 km	13:15
4	Toblach (ITA)	7 January 2015	Distance Classical technique, individual start	5 km	10 km	15:30	13:00
5	Toblach (ITA)	8 January 2015	Distance Free technique, pursuit	15 km	25 km	15:30	12:15
6	Val di Fiemme (ITA)	10 January 2015	Distance Classical technique, mass start	10 km	15 km	15:45	13:00
7	Val di Fiemme (ITA)	11 January 2015	Final Climb Free technique, pursuit	9 km	9 km	13:30	12:00

Standings

Men

Final standings after stage 7, with bonus seconds deducted

Place	Name	Time
1	Petter Northug (NOR)	4:0:47
2	Evgeniy Belov (RUS)	+12.6
3	Calle Halfvarsson (SWE)	+30.7
4	Dario Cologna (SUI)	+1:33.1
5	Roland Clara (ITA)	+2:00.7
6	Niklas Dyrhaug (NOR)	+2:04.0
7	Alexey Poltoranin (KAZ)	+2:28.2
8	Chris Andre Jespersen (NOR)	+2:37.8
9	Maxim Vylegzhanin (RUS)	+2:51.2
10	Daniel Richardsson (SWE)	+3:04.5

Women

Final standings after stage 7, with bonus seconds deducted

Place	Name	Time
1	Marit Bjørgen (NOR)	2:34:44.6
2	Therese Johaug (NOR)	+1:39.2
3	Heidi Weng (NOR)	+1:59.5
4	Ragnhild Haga (NOR)	+7:32.2
5	Elizabeth Stephen (USA)	+7:41.8
6	Eva Vrabcová-Nyvltová (CZE)	+8:29.4
7	Nicole Fessel (GER)	+8:55.8
8	Denise Herrmann (GER)	+9:35.1
9	Emma Wiken (SWE)	+9:47.9
10	Teresa Stadlober (AUT)	+9:53.8

Stages

Stage 1

3 January 2015, Oberstdorf, Germany - prologue

**Men - 4 km freestyle (individual)**
Place	Name	Time
1	Dario Cologna (SUI)	9:54.2
2	Calle Halfvarsson (SWE)	+5.0
3	Petter Northug (NOR)	+5.5
4	Ilia Chernousov (RUS)	+7.0
5	Marcus Hellner (SWE)	+8.2

**Women - 3 km freestyle (individual)**
Place	Name	Time
1	Marit Bjørgen (NOR)	7:53.0
2	Heidi Weng (NOR)	+10.7
3	Ragnhild Haga (NOR)	+12.2
4	Therese Johaug (NOR)	+13.2
5	Nicole Fessel (GER)	+13.5

Stage 2

4 January 2015, Oberstdorf, Germany

**Men - 15 km classical (pursuit)**
Place	Name	Time
1	Petter Northug (NOR)	42:01.2
2	Alex Harvey (CAN)	+0.6
3	Calle Halfvarsson (SWE)	+0.8
4	Niklas Dyrhaug (NOR)	+2.0
5	Alexey Poltoranin (KAZ)	+2.1

**Women - 10 km classical (pursuit)**
Place	Name	Time
1	Marit Bjørgen (NOR)	29:27.6
2	Heidi Weng (NOR)	+56.2
3	Therese Johaug (NOR)	+56.8
4	Stina Nilsson (SWE)	+1:33.5
5	Nicole Fessel (GER)	+1:37.7

Stage 3

6 January 2015, Val Müstair, Switzerland

**Men - 1.4 km freestyle (sprint)**
Place	Name	Time
1	Federico Pellegrino (ITA)	3:13.65
2	Petter Northug (NOR)	+0.18
3	Martin Johnsrud Sundby (NOR)	+0.19
4	Evgeniy Belov (RUS)	+2.33
5	Ilia Chernousov (RUS)	+6.07

**Women - 1.4 km freestyle (sprint)**
Place	Name	Time
1	Marit Bjørgen (NOR)	3:37.73
2	Heidi Weng (NOR)	+1.97
3	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg (NOR)	+2.41
4	Stina Nilsson (SWE)	+6.40
5	Maiken Caspersen Falla (NOR)	+7.74

Stage 4

7 January 2015, Toblach, Italy

**Men - 10 km classical (individual)**
Place	Name	Time
1	Alexey Poltoranin (KAZ)	22:58.1
2	Evgeniy Belov (RUS)	+0.5
3	Martin Johnsrud Sundby (NOR)	+4.2
4	Calle Halfvarsson (SWE)	+9.4
5	Dario Cologna (SUI)	+14.3

**Women - 5 km classical (individual)**
Place	Name	Time
1	Marit Bjørgen (NOR)	12:48.5
2	Therese Johaug (NOR)	+10.8
3	Heidi Weng (NOR)	+13.1
4	Emma Wiken (SWE)	+13.8
5	Justyna Kowalczyk (POL)	+17.6

Stage 5

8 January 2015, Toblach, Italy

**Men - 25 km freestyle (pursuit)**
Place	Name	Time
1	Petter Northug (NOR)	53:56.9
2	Calle Halfvarsson (SWE)	+2.0
3	Evgeniy Belov (RUS)	+2.4
4	Niklas Dyrhaug (NOR)	+1:45.9

**Women - 15 km freestyle (pursuit)**
Place	Name	Time
1	Marit Bjørgen (NOR)	36:37.9
2	Heidi Weng (NOR)	+1:58.8
3	Therese Johaug (NOR)	+2:51.4
4	Emma Wiken (SWE)	+4:20.4
5	Ragnhild Haga (NOR)	+4:23.7

Stage 6

10 January 2015, Val di Fiemme, Italy

**Men - 15 km classical (mass start)**
Place	Name	Time
1	Tim Tscharnke (GER)	46:48.8
2	Alexey Poltoranin (KAZ)	+0.0
3	Dario Cologna (SUI)	+0.3
4	Stanislav Volzhentsev (RUS)	+0.7
5	Alexander Bessmertnykh (RUS)	+0.7

**Women - 10 km classical (mass start)**
Place	Name	Time
1	Therese Johaug (NOR)	33:10.4
2	Marit Bjørgen (NOR)	+1.1
3	Heidi Weng (NOR)	+5.5
4	Aino-Kaisa Saarinen (FIN)	+1:13.1
5	Elizabeth Stephen (USA)	+1:39.6

Stage 7

11 January 2015, Val di Fiemme, Italy

**Men - 9 km freestyle (pursuit)**
Place	Name	Time
1	Roland Clara (ITA)	29:13.0
2	Maurice Manificat (FRA)	+2.1
-	Martin Johnsrud Sundby (NOR)	DSQ
3	Toni Livers (SUI)	+16.9
4	Simen Andreas Sveen (NOR)	+24.8

**Women - 9 km freestyle (pursuit)**
Place	Name	Time
1	Therese Johaug (NOR)	32:16.4
2	Heidi Weng (NOR)	+59.4
3	Marit Bjørgen (NOR)	+1:11.1
4	Elizabeth Stephen (USA)	+1:13.5
5	Eva Vrabcová-Nyvltová (CZE)	+1:54.6

References

↑ VG.no (Norwegian)

External links

Official website

Tour de Ski

Seasons

Winners

Men	2006–07: Tobias Angerer (GER) 2007–08: Lukáš Bauer (CZE) 2008–09: Dario Cologna (SUI) 2009–10: Lukáš Bauer (CZE) 2010–11: Dario Cologna (SUI) 2011–12: Dario Cologna (SUI) 2012–13: Alexander Legkov (RUS) 2013–14: Martin Johnsrud Sundby (NOR) 2015: Petter Northug (NOR) 2016: Martin Johnsrud Sundby (NOR)

Women	2006–07: Virpi Kuitunen (FIN) 2007–08: Charlotte Kalla (SWE) 2008–09: Virpi Kuitunen (FIN) 2009–10: Justyna Kowalczyk (POL) 2010–11: Justyna Kowalczyk (POL) 2011–12: Justyna Kowalczyk (POL) 2012–13: Justyna Kowalczyk (POL) 2013–14: Therese Johaug (NOR) 2015: Marit Bjørgen (NOR) 2016: Therese Johaug (NOR)

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