Pre comp facts Drammen (Konnerud) NOR

Wednesday, 4th March 2020

PREVIEW WOMEN'S SPRINT FREESTYLE DRAMMEN (Konnerud)

• Maiken Caspersen Falla has won 21 individual sprint events in the World Cup, second most among women behind Marit Bjørgen (40).

• Falla could win an individual sprint World Cup on Norwegian snow for the eighth time. It would equal Bjørgen's record of most sprint wins in a single country: eight in Finland.

• Falla has already won a record five individual sprint World Cups in Drammen. She won five of the last six individual sprint World Cups here.

• Linn Svahn has won three individual World Cup sprint events, all three in 2019/20: in the classic style in Falun (8 February) and in the free in Dresden (11 January) and Davos (14 December).

• Svahn can become the youngest skier, male or female, to win more than three individual sprint World Cup events before turning 21. Pirjo Muranen set the current record at age 21-286.

• Svahn (20 years, 86 days) can also become the youngest skier, male or female, to claim a sixth World Cup victory in all events. Charlotte Kalla holds this record as she won her sixth World Cup event at age 20-68.

• Stina Nilsson (18) and Hanna Falk (4) are the only Swedish women to have won more individual World Cup sprint events than Svahn (3).

• Jonna Sundling could claim her third individual sprint World Cup win. Stina Nilsson (18), Hanna Falk (4) and Linn Svahn (3) have won more among Swedish women.

• Nadine Fähndrich finished third in the sprint classic event in Trondheim on 22 February. She became the second Swiss woman to claim a top-three finish in an individual sprint World Cup after Laurien van der Graaff.

• Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen (17) is the woman on most World Cup sprint podiums without ever winning one. She finished third in Åre on 18 February.

• Anamarija Lampic has won two individual sprint World Cup events this season, both stages in the Tour de Ski: in Lenzerheide on 29 December (freestyle) and in Val di Fiemme on 4 January (classic style).

• Lampic's only other World Cup win was a victory in the sprint classic in Pyeongchang on 3 February 2017.

• Natalia Nepryaeva won the sprint classic in Oberstdorf on 26 January, her first sprint victory in the World Cup.

• Nepryaeva can become the second Russian woman to win multiple sprint events in the World Cup, after Natalia Matveeva (2).

Wednesday, 4th March 2020

PREVIEW MEN'S SPRINT FREESTYLE DRAMMEN (Konnerud)

• Johannes Høsflot Klæbo has won 23 individual sprint World Cup events, at least seven more than any other man (Emil Jönsson follows on 16).

• Klæbo has won each of the last 15 individual sprint World Cup events he appeared in, since an 11th-place finish in the 3-Days Tour (freestyle) in Lillehammer on 30 November 2018 (Federico Pellegrino's victory).

• Klæbo won a record 13 individual sprint freestyle World Cup events. Federico Pellegrino has won 12.

• Klæbo can equal his own achievement from 2018/19 of winning a record eight individual sprint World Cup events in a single season.

• Klæbo (29) could join Tor Arne Hetland (30) in all-time second on most men's podium finishes in individual sprint World Cup events. Only Ola Vigen Hattestad (32) won more.

• The last 13 individual sprint World Cup events were won by Johannes Høsflot Klæbo (10), Lucas Chanavat (2) and Pål Golberg (1).

• Among Frenchmen, only Vincent Vittoz (10) and Maurice Manificat (10) have won more individual World Cup events in all events than Lucas Chanavat (2).

• Chanavat can become the first Frenchman to win a World Cup event in Norway.

• France has claimed 99 podium finishes in all individual World Cup events.

• Federico Pellegrino has won 13 career sprint World Cup events, joint-third most among men alongside Ola Vigen Hattestad. Only Johannes Høsflot Klæbo (23) and Emil Jönsson (16) won more.

• Twelve of Pellegrino's 13 World Cup sprint victories came in the freestyle, one behind Klæbo's record 13 wins in the sprint free.

• Pellegrino's only win in Norway came in the sprint freestyle in Lillehammer on 30 November 2018 (3-Days-Tour). This was the last time Klæbo was beaten in an individual sprint World Cup event.

• Switzerland (4) and Italy (2) are the two countries where Pellegrino has won multiple individual sprint World Cup events.

• Pellegrino could become the only man to win an individual sprint World Cup event in each of the last six seasons.

• Alexander Bolshunov's victory in the sprint classic style in Ruka in November 2018 has been his only individual sprint win in the World Cup.

• Sergey Ustiugov is the last Russian man other than Bulshunov to win an individual sprint World Cup event, in Lenzerheide on 30 December 2017.

• Erik Valnes has finished on the podium of an individual sprint World Cup four times this season, equal to Pål Golberg. Only Klæbo (7, all wins) has more top-three results.

• Valnes has yet to win his first individual World Cup event. He won two team sprint events.

• Richard Jouve (9) has claimed the most men's World Cup podium finishes across all events without ever winning. All of his top-three results came in sprint events, eight in individual sprint World Cups and one in a team sprint event.