Pre-comp facts: Québec city 10/15km C Mst

Pre-competition facts – Saturday, 23rd March 2019

10km Mst ladies C

Therese Johaug

• Therese Johaug has already secured this season's overall distance World Cup title. Johaug claimed her third distance crystal globe after 2013/14 and 2015/16.

• Johaug (3) is the third female athlete with at least three overall distance World Cup wins after Marit Bjørgen (3) and Justyna Kowalczyk (4).

• Johaug has won all 12 individual distance World Cup (9) and world championships (3) races in which she participated this season. The last time she failed to win an individual distance race was on 12 March 2016, when she finished in second place in the 10km pursuit classic style in the Ski Tour Canada (winner Krista Pärmäkoski).

• Johaug (9) can win at least 10 individual distance World Cup races in a single season for the second time after 2015/16, when she claimed 14 victories. Only Bjørgen in 2011/12 (10) and Bente Skari in 2002/03 (10) also managed to win 10+ individual distance races in the same World Cup season.

• Johaug (46) surpassed Kowalczyk (45) and Elena Välbe (45) in second place for most individual World Cup wins among women (distance and sprint events combined) as she won the 10km freestyle event in Falun last week. Only Bjørgen (102) has won more individual World Cup events than Johaug (46).

Ingvild Flugstad Østberg

• Only Therese Johaug (9) has won more individual distance World Cup races this season than Ingvild Flugstad Østberg (4).

• Østberg could win five individual distance races in a single World Cup season for the first time in her career. Last season, she won a total of four distance races.

• Østberg claimed just one of her 24 World Cup wins on Canadian snow, a 10km freestyle victory in the 2015/16 Ski Tour Canada (Canmore).

Other contenders

• Kerttu Niskanen (1) and Natalia Nepryaeva (1) are the only winners of an individual distance World Cup event this season other than Therese Johaug (9) and Ingvild Flugstad Østberg (4).

• Niskanen won the 10km classic in Cogne on 17 February. It was her second World Cup win in an individual distance event after a victory in the 10km classic in Lenzerheide in the Tour de Ski on 1 January 2014.

• Nepryaeva won the 10km free in Toblach (Tour de Ski) on 30 December. Nepryaeva can become the first woman representing Russia to win multiple individual distance events in a single World Cup season since Julija Tchepalova in 2005/06 (2).

• Ebba Andersson has finished in the top-four in all her nine individual distance World Cup appearances this season, including seven podium finishes. Andersson has yet to claim her first World Cup victory (any event).

• Only Johaug (9) and Østberg (8) have claimed more podium finishes in individual distance World Cup events this season than Andersson (7) and Nepryaeva (7).

• Charlotte Kalla was the last woman to hand Sweden an individual distance World Cup victory, as she won the 10km free in Toblach on 16 December 2017.

15km Mst Men C

Alexander Bolshunov

• Alexander Bolshunov has already secured this season's overall distance World Cup title. Bolshunov is the second man representing Russia to win the distance crystal globe after Alexander Legkov in 2012/13.

• Bolshunov has won the last three individual distance World Cup races. The last man to win four in a row was Sergey Ustiugov in the 2016/17 Tour de Ski.

• Bolshunov is on four individual distance World Cup wins this season, joint-most for an athlete from Russia (incl. Soviet Union) in a single campaign along with Ustiugov in 2016/17.

• Bolshunov has claimed eight podium finishes in individual distance events this World Cup season, at least four more than any other athlete (Didrik Tønseth 4).

Martin Johnsrud Sundby

• Martin Johnsrud Sundby has finished in the top-three of the overall distance World Cup in each of the last five seasons. Only Dario Cologna (6) has claimed more top-three finishes than Sundby (5).

• Sundby has won 22 individual distance World Cup races and needs one more win to join Petter Northug (23) in fourth place on the men's all-time list.

• Only Northug (47) and Bjørn Dæhlie (46) are on more men's World Cup wins (all events, including Tour stages and overall Tour wins) than Sundby (44).

• Sundby's last World Cup victory came on 9 December 2018, when he won the 4 x 7.5km relay in Beitostølen. His last individual win was a 9km pursuit triumph (freestyle) in the 2017/18 Tour de Ski (Val di Fiemme).

• Sundby claimed just two of his 44 World Cup wins on Canadian snow, a 2 x 15km skiathlon victory and the overall win in the 2015/16 Ski Tour Canada.

Other contenders

• Only Alexander Bolshunov (4) has won more individual distance World Cup races this season than Sjur Røthe (3).

• The last Norwegian man with more than three individual distance victories in a single World Cup season was Martin Johnsrud Sundby (4) in 2016/17.

• This season, only Bolshunov (8) has claimed more podium finishes in individual distance World Cup races than Didrik Tønseth (4).

• Tønseth has yet to claim his first win in an individual distance World Cup event this season. His last victory was a 15km classic victory in Davos on 13 December 2014.

• Iivo Niskanen won the 15km World Cup race in Otepää on 20 January (classic style). All three of Niskanen's World Cup victories have come in the 15km classic style.