1993–94 FIS Cross-Country World Cup

The 1993–94 FIS Cross-Country World Cup was the 13th official World Cup season in cross-country skiing for men and women. The season began in Santa Caterina, Italy, on 11 December 1993 and finished in Thunder Bay, Canada, on 20 March 1994. Vladimir Smirnov of Kazakhstan won the combined men's cup, and Manuela Di Centa of Italy won the women's.

1993–94 FIS Cross-Country World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Vladimir Smirnov (2nd title)	Manuela Di Centa
Nations Cup	Norway	Russia
Nations Cup Overall	Norway
Competition
Locations	9 venues	9 venues
Individual	13 events	13 events
Relay/Team	6 events	6 events

Calendar

Men

C – Classic / F – Freestyle

No.	Date	Venue	Event	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
1	11 December 1993	Santa Caterina	30 km C	Vladimir Smirnov	Torgny Mogren	Niklas Jonsson	[1]
2	18 December 1993	Davos	15 km F	Bjørn Dæhlie	Vegard Ulvang	Torgny Mogren	[2]
3	21 December 1993	Toblach	10 km C	Vladimir Smirnov	Jari Isometsä	Sture Sivertsen	[3]
4	22 December 1993		15 km F Pursuit	Vladimir Smirnov	Silvio Fauner	Bjørn Dæhlie	[4]
5	9 January 1994	Kavgolovo	15 km C	Vladimir Smirnov	Bjørn Dæhlie	Mika Myllylä	[5]
6	15 January 1994	Oslo	15 km F	Vladimir Smirnov	Bjørn Dæhlie	Mika Myllylä	[6]
1994 Winter Olympics (12–27 February)
7	14 February 1994	Lillehammer	30 km F	Thomas Alsgaard	Bjørn Dæhlie	Mika Myllylä	[7]
8	17 February 1994		10 km C	Bjørn Dæhlie	Vladimir Smirnov	Marco Albarello	[8]
9	19 February 1994		15 km F Pursuit	Bjørn Dæhlie	Vladimir Smirnov	Silvio Fauner	[9]
10	27 February 1994		50 km C	Vladimir Smirnov	Mika Myllylä	Sture Sivertsen	[10]
11	5 March 1994	Lahti	15 km F	Vladimir Smirnov	Bjørn Dæhlie	Anders Bergström	[11]
12	12 March 1994	Falun	30 km C	Harri Kirvesniemi	Mika Myllylä	Sture Sivertsen	[12]
13	19 March 1994	Thunder Bay	50 km F	Alexey Prokourorov	Herve Balland	Silvano Barco	[13]

Women

C – Classic / F – Freestyle

No.	Date	Venue	Event	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
1	11 December 1993	Santa Caterina	5 km C	Yelena Välbe	Lyubov Yegorova	Stefania Belmondo	[14]
2	18 December 1993	Davos	10 km F	Yelena Välbe	Stefania Belmondo	Manuela Di Centa	[15]
3	21 December 1993	Toblach	15 km C	Manuela Di Centa	Lyubov Yegorova	Yelena Välbe	[16]
4	8 January 1994	Kavgolovo	10 km C	Lyubov Yegorova	Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi	Yelena Välbe	[17]
5	15 January 1994	Oslo	15 km F	Lyubov Yegorova	Manuela Di Centa	Natalya Martynova	[18]
1994 Winter Olympics (12–27 February 1994)
6	13 February 1994	Lillehammer	15 km F	Manuela Di Centa	Lyubov Yegorova	Nina Gavrylyuk	[19]
7	15 February 1994		5 km C	Lyubov Yegorova	Manuela Di Centa	Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi	[20]
8	17 February 1994		10 km F Pursuit	Lyubov Yegorova	Manuela Di Centa	Stefania Belmondo	[21]
9	24 February 1994		30 km C	Manuela Di Centa	Marit Wold	Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi	[22]
10	6 March 1994	Lahti	30 km F	Manuela Di Centa	Lyubov Yegorova	Stefania Belmondo	[23]
11	12 March 1994	Falun	10 km F	Manuela Di Centa	Yelena Välbe	Trude Dybendahl	[24]
12	19 March 1994	Thunder Bay	5 km C	Larisa Lazutina	Inger Helene Nybråten	Svetlana Nageykina	[25]
13	20 March 1994		10 km F	Manuela Di Centa	Larisa Lazutina	Lyubov Yegorova	[26]

Note: Until 1994 Winter Olympics, Olympic races are part of the World Cup. Hence results from those races are included in the World Cup overall.

Men's team

C – Classic / F – Freestyle

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
1	19 December 1993	Davos	4 × 10 km relay C	Norway I Sture Sivertsen Vegard Ulvang Thomas Alsgaard Bjørn Dæhlie	Russia I Andrey Kirillov Igor Badamshin Mikhail Botvinov Alexei Prokourorov	Finland Jari Isometsä Harri Kirvesniemi Jukka Hartonen Mika Myllylä	[27]
2	16 January 1993	Oslo	4 × 10 km relay F	Finland Jari Räsänen Jukka Hartonen Mika Myllylä Jari Isometsä	Italy I Silvano Barco Gianfranco Polvara Giorgio Vanzetta Silvio Fauner	Norway I Egil Kristiansen Vegard Ulvang Bjørn Dæhlie Thomas Alsgaard	[28]
3	22 February 1994	Lillehammer	4 × 10 km relay C/F	Italy Maurilio De Zolt Marco Albarello Giorgio Vanzetta Silvio Fauner	Norway Sture Sivertsen Vegard Ulvang Thomas Alsgaard Bjørn Dæhlie	Finland Mika Myllylä Harri Kirvesniemi Jari Räsänen Jari Isometsä	[29] [30]
4	4 March 1994	Lahti	4 × 10 km relay C	Finland I Sami Repo Harri Kirvesniemi Jari Isometsä Jari Räsänen	Norway Kristen Skjeldal Anders Eide Egil Kristiansen Thomas Alsgaard	Finland II Kuisma Taipale Mika Kuusisto Karri Hietamäki Sami Heiskanen	[31]
5	13 March 1994	Falun	4 × 10 km relay F	Norway I Sture Sivertsen Erling Jevne Vegard Ulvang Bjørn Dæhlie	Italy I Silvano Barco Maurilio De Zolt Giorgio Vanzetta Silvio Fauner	Sweden I Anders Bergström Torgny Mogren Lars Håland Henrik Forsberg	[32]
6	20 March 1994	Thunder Bay	4 × 10 km relay C/F	Norway I Krister Sørgård Vegard Ulvang Bjørn Dæhlie Thomas Alsgaard	Finland Sami Repo Mika Kuusisto Jari Isometsä Jukka Hartonen	Sweden Niklas Jonsson Christer Majbäck Henrik Forsberg Torgny Mogren	[33]

Women's team

C – Classic / F – Freestyle

WC	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
1	12 December 1993	Santa Caterina	4 × 5 km relay C	Russia Svetlana Nageykina Larisa Lazutina Nina Gavrylyuk Yelena Välbe	Finland Pirkko Määttä Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi Tuulikki Pyykkönen Marjut Rolig	Norway I Trude Dybendahl Marit Wold Elin Nilsen Inger Helene Nybråten	[34]
2	22 December 1993	Toblach	4 × 5 km relay F	Russia I Larisa Lazutina Olga Danilova Lyubov Yegorova Yelena Välbe	Russia II Svetlana Nageykina Nina Gavrylyuk Natalya Martynova Yelena Shalina	Italy Guidina Dal Sasso Stefania Belmondo Gabriella Paruzzi Manuela Di Centa	[35]
3	16 January 1993	Oslo	4 × 5 km relay F	Russia Svetlana Nageykina Yelena Välbe Natalya Martynova Lyubov Yegorova	Italy Bice Vanzetta Gabriella Paruzzi Manuela Di Centa Stefania Belmondo	Norway I Anita Moen Elin Nilsen Marit Wold Trude Dybendahl	[36]
4	22 February 1994	Lillehammer	4 × 5 km relay C/F	Russia Yelena Välbe Larisa Lazutina Nina Gavrylyuk Lyubov Yegorova	Norway Trude Dybendahl Inger Helene Nybråten Elin Nilsen Anita Moen	Italy Bice Vanzetta Manuela Di Centa Gabriella Paruzzi Stefania Belmondo	[37] [38]
5	4 March 1994	Lahti	4 × 5 km relay C	Norway Anita Moen Inger Helene Nybråten Marit Wold Trude Dybendahl	Russia Svetlana Nageykina Larisa Lazutina Nina Gavrylyuk Yelena Välbe	Finland I Marjut Rolig Tuulikki Pyykkönen Merja Lahtinen Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi	[39]
6	13 March 1994	Falun	4 × 5 km relay F	Russia Svetlana Nageykina Nina Gavrylyuk Larisa Lazutina Yelena Välbe	Norway I Anita Moen Inger Helene Nybråten Marit Wold Trude Dybendahl	Sweden I Anna Frithioff Marie-Helene Östlund Antonina Ordina Lis Frost	[40]

Overall standings

Men

Rank		Points
1	Vladimir Smirnov	830
2	Bjørn Dæhlie	680
3	Jari Isometsä	442
4	Mika Myllylä	430
5	Silvio Fauner	412
6	Vegard Ulvang	346
7	Thomas Alsgaard	326
8	Torgny Mogren	316
9	Alexey Prokurorov	294
10	Sture Sivertsen	289

Women

Rank		Points
1	Manuela Di Centa	790
2	Lyubov Yegorova	740
3	Yelena Välbe	570
4	Stefania Belmondo	481
5	Larisa Lazutina	458
6	Inger Helene Nybråten	362
7	Nina Gavrylyuk	356
8	Trude Dybendahl	319
9	Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi	264
10	Marit Wold	247

Achievements

Victories in this World Cup (all-time number of victories as of 1993/94 season in parentheses)

Men

• Vladimir Smirnov (KAZ), 7 (16) first places
• Bjørn Dæhlie (NOR), 3 (19) first places
• Alexey Prokourorov (RUS), 1 (5) first place
• Harri Kirvesniemi (FIN), 1 (4) first place
• Thomas Alsgaard (NOR), 1 (1) first place

Women

• Manuela Di Centa (ITA), 6 (8) first places
• Lyubov Yegorova (RUS), 4 (11) first places
• Yelena Välbe (RUS), 2 (24) first places
• Larisa Lazutina (RUS), 1 (3) first place