Eve of the 2018 Tour de Ski: 7 Races, 9 Days, 3 Countries

FasterSkierDecember 29, 2017

With the 2018 edition of the multi-stage Tour de Ski beginning on Saturday, Dec. 30, and lasting through Sunday, Jan. 7, here’s a glance at the race schedule and several nations’ lineups. If you’re in the U.S. and have access to the Olympic Channel, all of the events are going to be streamed live online, according to a U.S. Ski & Snowboard press release.

Stay tuned for FasterSkier’s full coverage of the event, with quick rundowns, full reports and live tweeting of the races.

2018 TOUR DE SKI SCHEDULE (all times EST)

(Note: All events will be available online. “Streaming only” denotes that an event will not broadcast on TV.)

LENZERHEIDE, Switzerland

Saturday, December 30

  • 7:00 a.m. – Men’s and women’s freestyle sprint (Olympic Channel TV)

Sunday, December 31

  • 4:30 a.m. – Men’s 15 k classic (Streaming only)
  • 9:00 a.m. – Women’s 10 k classic (9:30 a.m. Olympic Channel TV)

Monday, January 1

  • 5:00 a.m. – Women’s 10 k freestyle pursuit (Olympic Channel TV)
  • 7:00 a.m. – Men’s 15 k freestyle pursuit (Streaming only)

OBERSTDORF, Germany

Wednesday, January 3

  • 8:50 a.m. – Men’s and women’s classic sprint (12:00 p.m. Olympic Channel TV)
    NOTE: Final Olympic selection event to qualify through a top-eight finish

Thursday, January 4

  • 4:00 a.m. – Women’s 10 k classic mass start (Olympic Channel TV)
  • 5:00 a.m. – Men’s 15 k classic mass start (Streaming only)

VAL DI FIEMME, Italy

Saturday, January 6

  • 8:15 a.m. – Women’s 10 k classic mass start (11:00 a.m. Olympic Channel TV)
  • 9:45 a.m. – Men’s 15 k classic mass start (Streaming only)

Sunday, January 7

  • 5:30 a.m. – Women’s 9 k freestyle pursuit – hill climb (7:30 a.m. NBCSN, 11:00 a.m. Olympic Channel TV)
  • 8:30 a.m. – Men’s 9 k freestyle pursuit – hill climb (Streaming only)

 

ROSTERS (from FIS and FS reporting)

Stage 1 start lists: Women | Men

Austria

Women

  • Teresa Stadlober
  • Anna Seebacher
  • Lisa Unterweger

Men

  • Dominik Baldauf
  • Max Hauke
  • Bernhard Tritscher

 

Finland

Women

  • Mari Laukkanen
  • Laura Mononen
  • Kerttu Niskanen
  • Krista Pärmäkoski
  • Aino-Kaisa Saarinen
  • Anne Kyllönen

Men

  • Iivo Niskanen
  • Ristomatti Hakola
  • Martti Jylhä
  • Kusti Kittilä
  • Ari Luusua
  • Antti Ojansivu

 

Canada

Men

  • Alex Harvey
  • Devon Kershaw

 

France

Men

  • Maurice Manificat
  • Jean-Marc Gaillard
  • Adrien Backscheider
  • Clément Parisse
  • Lucas Chanavat
  • Baptiste Gros
  • Alexis Jeannerod
  • Richard Jouve
  • Jules Lapierre
  • Damien Tarantola

Women

  • Delphine Claudel
  • Anouk Faivre-Picon
  • Coraline Thomas-Hugue
  • Aurore Jean

 

Italy

Men

  • Federico Pellegrino
  • Maico Rastelli
  • Francesco De Fabiano
  • Dietmar Noeckler
  • Giandomenico Salvadori
  • Mirco Bertolina

Women

  • Lucia Scardoni
  • Greta Laurent
  • Elisa Brocard
  • Giulia Stuerz

 

Norway

Women

  • Mari Eide
  • Maiken Caspersen Falla
  • Thea Krokan Murud
  • Anne Kjersti Kalvå
  • Kathrine Harsem
  • Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen
  • Silje Øyre Slind
  • Heidi Weng
  • Tiril Udnes Weng
  • Ingvild Flugstad Østberg

Men

  • Niklas Dyrhaug
  • Hans Christer Holund
  • Emil Iversen
  • Finn Hågen Krogh
  • Sjur Røthe
  • Sindre Bjørnestad Skar
  • Martin Johnsrud Sundby
  • Didrik Tønseth

 

Russia

Men

  • Alexander Bolshunov
  • Alexey Vitsenko
  • Stanislav Volzhentsev
  • Andrey Larkov
  • Andrey Melnichenko
  • Gleb Retyvykh
  • Denis Spitsov
  • Sergey Ustyugov
  • Alexey Chervotkin
  • Ivan Yakimushkin

Women

  • Maria Gushchina
  • Alisa Zhambalova
  • Yana Kirpichenko
  • Natalia Nepryaeva
  • Anna Nechaevskaya
  • Anastasia Sedova

 

Sweden

Women

  • Anna Haag
  • Maria Nordström
  • Evelina Settlin
  • Linn Sömskar
  • Emma Wikén
  • Jennie Öberg

Men

  • Jens Burman
  • Gustav Eriksson
  • Calle Halfvarsson
  • Marcus Hellner
  • Emil Jönsson
  • Daniel Rickardsson
  • Oskar Svensson

 

Switzerland

Men

  • Beda Klee
  • Candide Pralong
  • Curdin Perl
  • Dario Cologna
  • Gianluca Cologna
  • Jonas Baumann
  • Jovian Hediger
  • Roman Furger
  • Roman Schaad
  • Toni Livers

Women

  • Nadine Fähndrich
  • Nathalie von Siebenthal
  • Laurien van der Graaff
  • Lydia Hiernickel
  • Selina Gasparin

 

USA

Women

  • Sadie Bjornsen
  • Rosie Brennan
  • Sophie Caldwell
  • Jessie Diggins
  • Kikkan Randall
  • Ida Sargent
  • Liz Stephen

Men

  • Erik Bjornsen
  • Paddy Caldwell
  • Simi Hamilton
  • Andy Newell

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