Australia/New Zealand Cup

FIS Cross-Country Australia/New Zealand Cup
GenreCross-country skiing
Date(s)Southern wintertime season
BeginsJuly
EndsSeptember
Location(s)Australia
New Zealand
Inaugurated2005 (2005)
Organised byInternational Ski Federation
2019 FIS Cross-Country Australia/New Zealand Cup

The Australia/New Zealand Cup (ANC) is a series of cross-country skiing events arranged by the International Ski Federation (FIS). It is one of the nine FIS Cross-Country Continental Cups, a second-level competition ranked below the World Cup. The Australia/New Zealand Cup is open for competitors from all nations, but are mainly a competition for skiers from Australia and New Zealand. It is the only Continental Cup taking place in the Southern Hemisphere.

The Australia/New Zealand Cup has been held since the 2005, and has been a part of the Cross-Country Continental Cup since then.

World Cup qualification

In the end of certain periods, the overall leaders for both genders receive a place in the World Cup in the following period. The overall winners of the season receive a place in the World Cup in the beginning of the following season.

Overall winners

Men

Season Winner Second Third
2006 Australia Ben Sim (1) France Geoffroy Pais Australia Ben Derrick
2007 Australia Paul Murray Australia Ben Sim Japan Tomio Kanamaru
2008 Australia Ben Sim (2) France Geoffroy Pais Australia Andrew Mock
2009 Switzerland Thomas Diezig Australia Ben Sim Switzerland Valerio Leccardi
2010 Australia Callum Watson (1) Australia Ben Sim Australia Chris Darlington
2011 Australia Callum Watson (2) Australia Ben Sim Australia Phillip Bellingham
2012 Australia Callum Watson (3) Russia Alexander Legkov Australia Alexei Almoukov
2013 Sweden Victor Gustafsson Australia Callum Watson Australia Phillip Bellingham
2014 Switzerland Valerio Leccardi Australia Phillip Bellingham Australia Paul Kovacs
2015 Australia Phillip Bellingham (1) Australia Callum Watson Australia Alasdair Tutt
2016 Australia Phillip Bellingham (2) Australia Nick Montgomery Australia Jackson Bursill
2017 Australia Phillip Bellingham (3) Australia Callum Watson Australia Paul Kovacs
2018[1] Australia Phillip Bellingham (4) Australia Callum Watson Australia Mark Pollock
2019 Australia Phillip Bellingham (5) Switzerland Lauro Brändli Australia Seve De Campo
2020 Not held due to the coronavirus pandemic
2021 Australia Phillip Bellingham (6) Australia Seve De Campo Australia Mark Pollock
2022 Australia Seve De Campo Australia Lars Young Vik Australia Bentley Walker-Broose

Women

Season Winner Second Third
2006 New Zealand Samantha Bondarenko Switzerland Natascia Leonardi Cortesi New Zealand Katherine Calder
2007 New Zealand Katherine Calder (1) Australia Esther Bottomley New Zealand Samantha Bondarenko
2008 Australia Esther Bottomley (1) Australia Aimee Watson United States Evelyn Dong
2009 New Zealand Katherine Calder (2) Australia Esther Bottomley Australia Aimee Watson
2010 Australia Esther Bottomley (2) Australia Aimee Watson Australia Belinda Phillips
2011 Australia Esther Bottomley (3) Australia Lucy Glanville Australia Georgia Merritt
2012 Australia Esther Bottomley (4) Poland Justyna Kowalczyk Australia Aimee Watson
2013 Japan Chisa Ōbayashi Australia Jessica Yeaton Poland Justyna Kowalczyk
2014 Australia Esther Bottomley (5) Australia Jessica Yeaton Australia Anna Trnka
2015 Slovenia Barbara Jezeršek(1) Australia Katerina Paul Australia Casey Wright
2016 Australia Katerina Paul (1) Australia Aimee Watson United States Mary Rose
2017 Australia Barbara Jezeršek(2) Australia Katerina Paul Australia Aimee Watson
2018[2] Australia Katerina Paul (2) Australia Casey Wright Australia Emily Champion
Australia Ella Jackson
2019 Australia Katerina Paul (3) Australia Casey Wright United States Jessie Diggins
2020 Not held due to the coronavirus pandemic
2021 Australia Casey Wright Australia Zana Evans Australia Aimee Watson
2022 Australia Katerina Paul (4) Australia Phoebe Cridland Australia Zana Evans

References

  1. ^ "Australia/New Zealand Cup Overall 2018 Men". fis-ski.com. International Ski Federation. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  2. ^ "Australia/New Zealand Cup Overall 2018 Women". fis-ski.com. International Ski Federation. Retrieved 9 March 2020.