Cross-Country Team selections for Beijing 2022
Jan 31, 2022·Cross-Country
The Olympic Winter Games of Beijing 2022 will go underway shortly. National Olympic Committees have selected their athletes for the upcoming competitions that will take place from 5th to 20th February (click here for the full Cross-Country schedule at the Winter Olympic Games).
FIS Cross-Country will publish a team a day and extend this article in order to get an overview of the competitors of the biggest teams on the Olympic stage.
Congratulations already now to all selected athletes for reaching one of the highest achievements for a sports professional: being selected to participate at the Winter Olympic Games and good luck for your endeavors.
TEAM SLOVENIA
Team Slovenia has hit the podiums of the World Cup and World Championships in the past four years remarkably. Can the team show their talents and skills also on the worlds largest sporting stage? We can’t wait to see you racing and wish all athletes all the best in their endeavors at the Olympic Winter Games.
WOMEN
Anamarija Lampič | Eva Urevc | Neza Zerjav | Anja Mandelic | Anita Klemenčič
MEN
TEAM POLAND
Eight athletes will be representing Poland in Cross-Country skiing - including Monika Skinder as the current Junior Sprint World Champion, Weronika Kaleta as the Junior Sprint Bronze medalist and of course young talent Izabela Marcisz, the current U23 10km World Champion. We wish you all best of luck and best of health for the upcoming title events!
WOMEN
Izabela Marcisz | Monika Skinder | Weronika Kaleta | Magdalena Kobielusz | Zuzanna Fujak
MEN
Maciej Starega | Dominik Bury | Kamil Bury | Mateusz Haratyk
TEAM AUSTRIA
A grand total of 106 athletes will represent Austria overall disciplines at the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing. Along with three-time Olympian, Teresa Stadlober, the Austrian Olympic Committee sends four more Cross-County athletes to represent their country in Cross-Country skiing.
WOMEN
Teresa Stadlober | Lisa Unterweger
MEN
TEAM CZECH REPUBLIC
After confirmation by the Czech Olympic Committee, the Czech Ski Team is Zhangjiakou bound with ten athletes in total. The team is currently in 11th position in the world Nations ranking in Cross-Country and has its eyes set on various top-10 finishes.
WOMEN
Zuzana Holíková | Petra Hynčicová | Petra Nováková | Tereza Beranová | Katerina Janatová
MEN
Petr Knop | Michal Novák | Jan Pechoušek | Ludek Seller | Adam Fellner | Ondrej Cerny
Click here to see all selected athletes of the Czech Olympic Committee.
TEAM ITALY
With 12 athletes on the quota, Team Italy is ready with six women and six men for the Winter Olympic Games. The journey has begun and we wish all athletes the best of health and the very best of luck chasing your dreams!
WOMEN
Anna Comarella | Martina Di Centa | Caterina Ganz | Greta Laurent | Cristina Pittin | Lucia Scardoni
MEN
Francesco De Fabiani | Davide Graz | Federico Pellegrino | Maicol Rastelli | Giandomenico Salvadori | Paolo Ventura
TEAM FINLAND
The Board of the Finnish Olympic Committee confirmed the final Olympic selections. Finland will be represented at Beijing 2022 by a total of 95 athletes and a quota of 13 athletes are selected for the Cross-Country competitions. Among the athletes are title defenders such as Iivo Niskanen, Olympic gold medalist of the 50km C Mst and Krista Pärmäkoski, Olympic bronze medalist in Skiathlon, 10km F ind. Start and silver medalist in the 30km Mst.
WOMEN
Jasmi Joensuu | Anne Kyllönen | Jasmin Kähärä | Katri Lylynperä | Johanna Matintalo | Kerttu Niskanen | Krista Pärmäkoski
MEN
Ristomatti Hakola | Perttu Hyvärinen | Remi Lindholm | Joni Mäki | Iivo Niskanen | Lauri Vuorinen
Click here to see more selected athletes of the Finnish Olympic Committee.
TEAM SWITZERLAND
Under the lead four-time Olympic champion Dario Cologna, the Swiss Team is ready and Beijing 2022 bound. With a quota of 14 athletes, six women and eight men have been selected by Swiss Olympic. Jason Rüesch claimed the last spot in the team with his victory in the 30km Mass start at Oberstodorf’s COC.
WOMEN
Nadine Fähndrich | Laurien Van der Graaff | Lydia Hiernickel | Anja Weber | Nadja Kälin | Alina Meier
MEN
Dario Cologna | Jonas Baumann | Candide Pralong | Roman Furger | Jovian Hediger | Valerio Grond | Roman Schaad | Jason Rüesch
Click here to find out more on Swiss Olympic.
TEAM CANADA
With the selections of the 29 year-old Olivia Bouffard Nesbitt and 21 year-old Rémi Drolet, the Cross-Country team that will represent Canada at the Olympic Winter Games is complete and ready to be confirmed by the Canadian Olympic Committee. A total of five women and four men will be heading to Beijing.
WOMEN
Dahria Beatty | Olivia Bouffard Nesbitt | Cendrine Browne | Laura Leclair | Katherine Stewart-Jones
MEN
Antoine Cyr | Remi Drolet | Olivier Léveillé | Graham Ritchie
Click here for more team selections of Team Canada.
TEAM GREAT BRITAIN
With three top athletes at the start line, Team GB might be small but has proven to take in roles as favorites for various competitions. Andrew Musgrave leads the squad with the experience of 10 Olympic Game competitions collected from Vancouver 2010, Sochi 2014 and PyeongChang 2018.
MEN
James Clugnet | Andrew Musgrave | Andrew Young
Click here to find more selections for Team GB
TEAM USA
The line-up of the U.S. Olympic Cross-Country Team brings out a total of 10 first-time Olympians to Beijing 2022. In 2018, Jessie Diggins and Kikkan Randall made history by winning USA’s first-ever Olympic gold in Cross-Country skiing. Ever since, along with Olympic Winter Games proven Rosie Brennan and Scott and Caitlin Patterson, Jessie Diggins has shared her experience with her younger team colleagues who now will step on the worlds largest sporting stage and the team is looking into claiming more Olympic podiums and to repeat their great performances that they showed along the World Cup and title events.
WOMEN
Jessie Diggins | Rosie Brennan | Julia Kern | Hailey Swirbul | Sophia Laukli | Novie McCabe | Hannah Halvorsen | Caitlin Patterson
MEN
JC Schoonmaker | Kevin Bolger | Ben Ogden | Luke Jager | Gus Schumacher | Scott Patterson
Click here to follow the U.S. Olympic Team on their journey in Beijing 2022.
TEAM FRANCE
With a quota of five women and eight men, the French Olympic Committee has selected their complete Cross-Country team representing France at the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing 2022.
Not only podium places in the Mens Relay and the Mens Teamsprint are to be defended. The successes in the Sprint competitions but also various Distance formats sice the last Olympic Games promise to become successful events during this upcoming February.
WOMEN
Coralie Bentz | Delphine Claudel | Flora Dolci | Mélissa Gal | Lena Quintin
MEN
Adrien Backscheider | Lucas Chanavat | Renaud Jay | Richard Jouve | Hugo Lapalus | Jules Lapierre | Maurice Manificat | Clément Parisse
Click here for all selections of the French Olympic Committee.
TEAM GERMANY
With six male athletes and eight female athletes on the line-up, Germany is ready with it’s Cross-Country squad for the Olympic Winter Games. Of the 14 athletes, only a few bring in experiences from previous Olympic Games already. But the team that has brought up a number of athletes reporting into top positions in Cross-Country skiing in recent years, is ready to introduce a new generation of skiers to the Olympics.
WOMEN
Katharina Hennig | Victoria Carl | Coletta Rydzek | Laura Gimmler | Pia Fink | Katherine Sauerbrey | Antonia Fräbel | Sofie Krehl
MEN
Lucas Bögl | Jonas Dobler | Friedrich Moch | Florian Notz | Janosch Brugger | Albert Kuchler
Click here for more informatio about the German Olympic Team.
RUSSIAN OLYMPIC COMMITTEE ATHLETES
Within Team ROC (Russian Olympic Committee), athletes have been selected for the Olympic Winter Games who dominated international racing in recent years. All up front Alexander Bolshunov, who won the Overall World Cup twice in a row and brought the Distance World Cup globe home after the past three seasons. Will the 25 year-old be able to fight for Olympic Gold? A strong competitor field already awaits in the own rows. Denis Spitsov has his eyes set to repeat his Olympic medals of 2018 but also Yulia Stupak and Natalia Nepryaeva have proven to be in top shape for the events on the worlds largest sporting stage.
Click here for more information on the athletes of the Russian Olympic Committee.
WOMEN
Lilia Vasilieva | Maria Istomina | Hristina Matsokina | Natalia Nepryaeva | Anastasia Rygalina | Tatiana Sorina | Veronika Stepanova | Yulia Stupak
MEN
Alexander Bolshunov | Artem Maltsev | Ilya Semikov | Denis Spitsov | Alexander Terentev | Servey Ustiugov | Alexey Chervotkin | Ivan Yakimushkin
TEAM NORWAY
The home country of the most successful winter Olympian of all times - Marit Bjørgen - faced another challenging selection process due to a huge line-up and constant top results of Norwegian athletes. After the first selection on 20th December, the final two spots for each – the womens and mens team – were announced on 10th January by the Norwegian Olympic Committee. With Anne Kjersti Kalvå and Mathilde Skjærdalen Myhrvold, two rookies at Olympic Winter Games claimed the final spots in the womens team and with Sjur Røthe and Pål Golberg, two medal-event-proven athletes complete the mens team.
Click here for more information on the athletes of the Norwegian Olympic Committee.
WOMEN
Maiken Caspersen Falla | Helene Marie Fossesholm | Therese Johaug | Anne Kjersti Kalvå | Mathilde Skjærdalen Myhrvold | Heidi Weng | Lotta Udnes Weng | Tiril Udnes Weng
MEN
Pål Golberg | Hans Christer Holund | Emil Iversen | Johannes Høsflot Klæbo | Simen Hegstad Krüger | Sjur Røthe | Håvard Solås Taugbøl | Erik Valnes
TEAM SWEDEN
With the final selections of Charlotte Kalla and Calle Halfvarsson, the Swedish Cross-Country squad for the Olympic Winter Games is completed. With the experience of four Olympic Winter Games and a total of nine Olympic medals, Charlotte Kalla brings in a routine into the team that otherwise consists of 10 Olympic novices out of the total 16 athletes.
Click here for the official communication from the Swedish Olympic Committee.
WOMEN
Jonna Sundling | Frida Karlsson | Ebba Andersson | Maja Dahlqvist | Anna Dyvik | Charlotte Kalla | Moa Olsson | Emma Ribom
MEN
Jens Burman | Marcus Grate | Oskar Svensson | Johan Häggström | Leo Johansson | Anton Persson | William Poromaa | Calle Halfvarsson
