Summary of Tour de Ski China 08/09
Around New Year of 2009, the 2nd Tour de Ski
The 2nd Tour de Ski China had over 100 participants from more than 10 countries on 3 continents; Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Switzerland, France, South Africa, China etc. The competition took the skiers to Xiwuqi, Inner Mongolia,
To arrange a competition during a course of 11 days with 5 stages of both sprint and long distance races not only takes participants and spectators, it also takes an organization team for everything to run smoothly. This team consists of people working with track and arena preparation, timekeeping, referees, travel coordination, information and volunteers. The local governments hosting the stage competitions are also involved in the preparations.
All in all, a gathering of 150 athletes, coaches, service staff, journalists and organizers went on a trip of over 22.000 km with a flight route of 18 take offs and landings. With them on the trip, the skiers had over 100 pair of skis and other equipment which also had to go on and off the planes every time
Flight Route: Europe-Beijing-Inner
Media
Being a major ski international ski event in
Xinhua News Agency, Chinas biggest news agency had daily dispatches of news with photos that gets picked up by many other websites and newspapers. The tour was reported on by more than 30 newspapers and magazines, including China Daily, China Sports Daily, People’s Daily etc
Results
In the total standings after the last stage was finished in Shangri-la, you could see that the Swedish skiers dominated in the men’s competition and the Chinese ladies conquered out most other competition on the women’s side
Tour de Ski 2008/09 Men / Total Standings
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Tour de Ski 2008/09 Women / Total Standings
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Money League - Tour de Ski China 2009-02-02
Men
Place
Nationality
Name
Total sum
1
SWE
Anders Högberg
88.000
2
SWE
Johan Edin
50.000
3
CHN
Xu Wenlong
28.000
4
SWE
Fredrik Persson
17.000
5
FRA
Remi Damevin
10.000
5
SWZ
Gaudenz Flury
10.000
6
CHN
Sun Qinghai
8.000
7
NOR
Asgeir Årdal
6.000
8
CHN
Tang Jinle
4.000
Women
| Place | Nationality | Name | Total Sum |
| 1 | CHN | Man Dandan | 84.000 |
| 2 | CHN | Li Hongxue | 50.000 |
| 3 | SWZ | Sandra Gredig | 28.000 |
| 4 | CHN | Song Bo | 13.000 |
| 5 | FIN | Lotta Puttonen | 8.000 |
| 5 | NOR | Tiril Schölberg | 8.000 |
| 6 | CHN | Guo Liping | 6.000 |
| 6 | CHN | Li Xin | 6.000 |
| 6 | CHN | E Yingcui | 6.000 |
| 7 | SWE | Therese Carlsson | 4.000 |
Picture Gallery Tour de Ski 2008-09
Stage 1- Inner Mongolia Short Sprint
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Stage 2 - Inner Mongolia
Stage 3 - Changchun Sprint
Stage 4 - Vasaloppet China 50 km
Stage 5 - Shangri-la Sprint
