1983–84 FIS Cross-Country World Cup

1983–84 FIS Cross-Country World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Gunde Svan	Marja-Liisa Hämälainen (2nd title)
Nations Cup	Norwegen	Norwegen
Competition
Standorte	8 venues	8 venues
Individual	10 events	10 events
Relay/Team	4 events	4 events

The 1983-84 FIS Cross-Country World Cup was the 3rd official World Cup season in cross-country skiing for men and ladies. The World Cup started in Reit im Winkl, West Germany from 9 December 1983 and finished in Murmansk, Soviet Union 25 March 1984. Gunde Svan of Sweden won the combined men's cup and Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen of Finland won the women's.

Race Calendar

Men

No.	Date	Venue	Event	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
1	10 December 1983	Reit im Winkl	15 km	Nikolaj Zimjatov	Harri Kirvesniemi	Jochen Behle	[1]
2	16 December 1983	Ramsau	30 km	Gunde Svan	Ove Aunli	Jan Ottosson	[2]
1984 Winter Olympics
3	10 February 1984	Sarajevo	30 km *	Nikolaj Zimjatov	Alexander Zavyalov	Gunde Svan	[3]
4	13 February 1984		15 km *	Gunde Svan	Aki Karvonen	Harri Kirvesniemi	[4]
5	19 February 1984		50 km *	Thomas Wassberg	Gunde Svan	Aki Karvonen	[5]
6	25 February 1984	Falun	30 km	Gunde Svan	Thomas Wassberg	Jan Lindvall	[6]
7	2 March 1984	Lahti	15 km	Lars Erik Eriksen	Thomas Wassberg	Gunde Svan	[7]
8	10 March 1984	Oslo	50 km	Tor Haakon Holte	Vladimir Sakhnov	Gunde Svan	[8]
9	17 March 1984	Fairbanks	15 km	Gunde Svan	Andy Gruenenfelder	Oddvar Brå	[9]
10	24 March 1984	Murmansk	15 km	Mikhail Devyatyarov	Vladimir Smirnov	Andrey Astachkin	[10]

Women

No.	Date	Venue	Event	Winner	Second	Third	Ref.
1	9 December 1983	Reit im Winkl	5 km	Kveta Jeriova	Anna Pasiarová	Tamara Markaschanskaya	[11]
2	17 December 1983	Autrans	10 km	Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen	Anna Pasiarová	Anne Jahren	[12]
1984 Winter Olympics
3	9 February 1984	Sarajevo	10 km *	Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen	Raissa Smetanina	Brit Pettersen	[13]
4	12 February 1984		5 km *	Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen	Berit Aunli	Kveta Jeriova	[14]
5	18 February 1984		20 km *	Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen	Raissa Smetanina	Anne Jahren	[15]
6	25 February 1984	Falun	10 km	Raissa Smetanina	Marie Risby	Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen	[16]
7	3 March 1984	Lahti	5 km	Berit Aunli	Raissa Smetanina	Marie Risby	[17]
8	8 March 1984	Oslo	20 km	Anette Bøe	Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen	Raissa Smetanina	[18]
9	17 March 1984	Štrbské pleso	5 km	Kveta Jeriova	Anette Bøe	Inger Helene Nybråten	[19]
10	24 March 1984	Murmansk	10 km	Inger Helene Nybråten	Raissa Smetanina	Anne Jahren	[20]

Team events

Date	Venue	Event	Winner	Second	Third	Gender	Ref.
17 December 1983	Ramsau	Relay 4x10 km	-	-	-	Men	-
18 December 1983		Relay 4x5 km	-	-	-	Women	-
15 February 1984	Sarajevo	Relay 4x5 km *	Norwegen Inger Helene Nybråten Anne Jahren Brit Pettersen Berit Aunli	Czechoslovakia Dagmar Švubová Blanka Paulu Gabriela Svobodová Květoslava Jeriová	Finnland Pirkko Määttä Eija Hyytiäinen Marjo Matikainen Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen	Women	-
16 February 1984		Relay 4x10 km *	Schweden Thomas Wassberg Benny Kohlberg Jan Ottosson Gunde Svan	Soviet Union Alexander Batyuk Alexander Zavyalov Vladimir Nikitin Nikolay Zimjatov	Finnland Kari Ristanen Juha Mieto Harri Kirvesniemi Aki Karvonen	Men	-
26 February 1984	Falun	Relay 4x10 km	-	-	-	Men	-
26 February 1984		Relay 4x5 km	-	-	-	Women	-
18 March 1984	Fairbanks	Relay 4x10 km	-	-	-	Men	-
25 March 1984	Murmansk	Relay 4x5 km	-	-	-	Women	-

• NOTE: Races marked with * counts officially for both as "FIS World Cup" / "Olympic Games" wins statistic

Overall standings

Men

Place	Skier	Land	Points
1.	Gunde Svan		145
2.	Thomas Wassberg		96
3.	Harri Kirvesniemi		93
4.	Tor Haakon Holte		86
5.	Vladimir Sakhnov		85
6.	Nikolaj Zimjatov		84
7.	Andy Grünenfelder		73
8.	Lars-Erik Eriksen		70
9.	Jan Ottosson		65
10.	Jan Lindvall		60

Women

Place	Skier	Land	Points
1.	Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen		134
2.	Raisa Smetanina		114
3.	Anne Jahren		104
4.	Inger Helene Nybråten		102
4.	Kveta Jeriova		102
6.	Marie Risby		95
7.	Berit Aunli		89
8.	Brit Pettersen		87
9.	Tamara Markasjanskaja		82
10.	Anette Bøe		78

Medal table

1	Schweden	6	4	5	15
2	Norwegen	6	3	7	16
3	Soviet Union	4	8	3	15
4	Finnland	4	3	5	12
5	Czechoslovakia	2	3	1	6
6	Schweiz	0	1	0	1
7	Deutschland	0	0	1	1
Total		22	22	22	66

Achievements

Victories in this World Cup (all-time number of victories as of 1983/84 season in parentheses)

Men

• Gunde Svan (SWE), 4 (6) first places
• Nikolaj Zimjatov (USSR), 2 (2) first places
• Thomas Wassberg (SWE), 1 (2) first place
• Tor Håkon Holte (NOR), 1 (1) first place
• Lars Erik Eriksen (NOR), 1 (1) first places
• Mikhail Devyatyarov (USSR), 1 (1) first place

Women

• Marja-Liisa Hämälainen (FIN), 4 (7) first places
• Kveta Jeriova (TCH), 2 (8) first places
• Berit Aunli (NOR), 1 (3) first place
• Anette Bøe (NOR), 1 (2) first place
• Raissa Smetanina (USSR), 1 (2) first place
• Inger Helene Nybråten (NOR), 1 (1) first place