Did you know that participants from 60 countries, across six continents, are registered for Vasaloppet's Winter Week 2023? Here is an update summarizing, in English, some interesting news items from Vasaloppet's Swedish website and elsewhere this autumn. We'll see you soon!
On the night of Thursday, November 3, Vasaloppet's central warehouse at the Mora Ski Stadium burned to the ground. The warehouse, belonging to one of Vasaloppet's owner sports clubs, IFK Mora, stored many of the materials used in Vasaloppet's events. Machines, thousands of signs, kilometres of fences, large vats used to heat blueberry soup and other specialized equipment collected over decades are gone. Even the original motto from 1923 disappeared in the flames.
In 2022, many fantastic performances were seen in the Vasaloppet Arena – to be expected, with over 75,000 registered participants. To illustrate this and inspire more people for 2023, we have listed 12 amazing achievements from the past year. For those who want to test their wings in 2023, registration is now open for all races both during the Winter Week and Summer Week.
Registration for Vasaloppet's Summer Week 2023 is open. Welcome to bike and run Vasaloppet August 11–19 2023, see you in Mora!
Registration for Vasaloppet's Summer Week 2023 opens on Saturday, September 24 and there will be several new changes. The three mountain bike races Cykelvasan 30, Cykelvasan 45 and Ungdomscykelvasan will move from Sunday to Friday and the running relay Vasakvartetten will be combined with Vasastafetten.
Sweden’s largest ultramarathon race Ultravasan saw a new record number of registered participants in the Vasaloppet Arena this Saturday morning. Victor Stenqvist won Ultravasan 90 with the time of 6,19,07. Anna Hellström won with 7,40,51. In Ultravasan 45 there were also two Swedish winners; Kristofer Låås and Barbro Näsström. The new running race Trailvasan 30 was also held in the Vasaloppet Arena for the first time. Registration for Vasaloppet's Summer Week 2023 opens on Saturday, September 24, 2022.
This weekend, the time will come for runners to enter the Vasaloppet Arena again as the Vasaloppet Summer Week 2022 concludes with a total of six different running races. More than 6,400 runners, both elite and recreational athletes, from 32 countries will participate in the individual races and relays. Many of the individual runners also hope to complete this year's Vasaloppstrippeln. Here are some facts, favourites, statistics and trivia ahead of the races.
Cykelvasan 90 2022 was dramatic. The men's winner Emil Lindgren, Serneke Allebike CK, held the lead on his own for a long time. He was caught up with in Oxberg but broke ahead again after Hökberg and settled the race in a duel on the finishing stretch. Sandra Salinger, Mix Sports Club, was the last to enter the finishing stretch in the women's class, but first to finish. In total, close to 9,000 participants registered for Cykelvasan 90 and the last ones are expected to finish around 20:00 this evening in Mora.
On Saturday, August 13, the year's most prestigious mountain bike race, Cykelvasan 90, will run, as always, from Sälen to Mora. New for this year, Sveriges Television will broadcast the race live on TV. The elite women start at 07:30 and the elite men at 08:15. The SVT broadcast starts at 07:25. Here are all the conditions for Cykelvasan 2022.
Just days left until the start of Vasaloppet's Summer Week 2022! Here are some things to consider before your race.
