On Saturday August 19 the running world elite and thousands of recreational athletes will come together in the Vasaloppet Arena. Here we offer facts, statistics and trivia for the fourth Ultravasan, the 27th Vasastafetten, and the very first Vasakvartetten. Runners from 28 nations are registered. Over 100 participants also have the chance to complete a Vasaloppstrippeln in 2017.
Jennie Stenerhag and Jonas Ahlstrand won the mountain bike race Cykelvasan 2017. This was Stenerhag's third victory in a row and fourth in total. It was the first Cykelvasan win for road cycling professional Jonas Ahlstrand. Cykelvasan 90 between Sälen and Mora ran today for the ninth year in a row with 13,000 registered participants! Read more and watch the finishes.
This year Cykelvasan is held for the ninth time, and once again this year sets a new registration record. To the Cykelvasan races Friday-Saturday August 11–12 there are, so far, over 23,000 cyclists registered – and it is still possible to register for the Friday races. Here we have, as tradition goes, collected news, facts, statistics and information about Cykelvasan, the biggest Nordic mountain bike race.
It is still not too late to take on the challenge of biking or running Vasaloppet this year! Cykelvasan 90 is fully booked but start positions are available in all other races.
Ten races and 65,000 registered participants. Joy, tears, sweat and cheers. Vasaloppet's Winter Week is part of a tradition dating back to 1922, now a ski festival that stretches across generations. The winter of 2017 offered fantastic ski tracks, sun, snow and the magical world premiere of Nattvasan. Here is our summary of the ten day skiing festival, told in ten minutes.
Vasaloppet can now present a new course change for Ultravasan 90, Ultravasan 45, Vasastafetten and Vasakvartetten in the Summer Week 2017. "The improved running experience decided this change. This new-old route offers our participants a wonderful running environment," says Anders “Hobbe” Holmberg, Vasaloppet's Arena Manager.
Littering went down with 90 percent in the Vasaloppet Arena during all races of the Winter Week, excluding Vasaloppet. The rule implementing a time penalty against participants who are found to be littering where not allowed during a race will also apply to cyclists and runners in Vasaloppet's Summer Week.
A happy coincidence led to Ultravasan seeing the light of day. Namely the fact that Mora was home to one of the world's foremost sports organizers, Vasaloppet, as well as home to one of the world's foremost ultrarunners, Jonas Buud! He brought experiences from ultrarunning races all over the world and was eager to give other ultrarunners the opportunity to run a race in the classic terrain between Sälen and Mora. "If you can ski and bike between Sälen and Mora, surely you can run it too," enthusiasts said.
The ninth Cykelvasan in history will run on Saturday August 12, 2017 – 94 kilometres from Sälen to Mora. Today the race was fully booked, which means 13,000 registered cyclists. In addition there are now over 3,200 registered for Cykelvasan Öppet Spår which, on Friday August 11, will run for the third time. There the maximum number of participants is 6,000. In other words, registering is still possible.
The fourth Ultravasan 90 has, like in previous years, attracted many from the ultrarunning world elite to run from Sälen to Mora this August. The 2016 men's class top three (see photo above) and the 2016 ladies' class top two will return in Ultravasan 2017. Also spicing up the starting field are a number of other well-known runners, challenging the victors from previous years. Today over 1000 runners are registered for Ultravasan 90 and Ultravasan 45, which run on Saturday, August 19.
