The Vasaloppet organization is, of course, working each year to develop and improve the Vasaloppet Arena. This summer we can therefore present some route changes in the cycling and running races. Here you can read more on these changes.
We recommend that all participants take the bus to the start location. Buy your ticket to Vasaloppet's official bus transports through vasaloppet.se. By taking the bus you can be sure to arrive at the start on time.
Ultravasan will run for the third time on Saturday August 20, 2016. As in the first two successful years there will be many elite world-class runners making their way to Dalarna. Swedish 100 km world champion Jonas Buud, who won the men's competition in Ultravasan 90 in both 2014 and 2015, will return to show his mettle once more. The ladies side looks highly interesting, the biggest star being world champion Ellie Greenwood from the UK.
When Vasaloppet opened registration for eight of the ten ski races in Vasaloppet's Winter Week 2017 this Sunday morning, two of the races were fully booked immediately. The new couples race Nattvasan was fully booked in 1.5 minutes while Vasaloppet was full after 4 minutes. Over 33,000 participants had registered for the Winter Week 2017 after one hour.
Registration for the 2017 Winter Week opens on March 20 at 09:00. Here is some extra information for those interested in Stafettvasan, since things will work differently next year.
For the seventh year in a row, more than fifty thousand participants managed to complete their Winter Week races, and this year the total was 55,435 (including all Stafettvasan sections). Only 2,128 participants broke off their races, which is about half as many as last year. There were a total of 68,024 registered participants.
Vasaloppet now introduces the major initiative Nattvasan 2017, a 90 kilometre ski adventure between Sälen and Mora in the middle of the night. This freestyle race runs as a couples competition with teams of two. The first Nattvasan will take place on Friday March 3, 2017, at 20:00 in the evening. Registration opens on Sunday March 20, 2016.
Vasaloppet 2016 was decided with exciting final spurts in both the men's and ladies' class. Norwegian John Kristian Dahl won one of the largest group spurts in Vasaloppet history and took his second victory ahead of his compatriot Stian Hoelgaard. Czech/Austrian Katerina Smutná won the ladies' class two seconds ahead of Britta Johansson Norgren.
It has been 495 years since Gustav Vasa's adventures in Dalarna, and the 92nd Vasaloppet since the beginning in 1922 will start in Sälen on Sunday March 6, 2016, at 08:00. As usual Vasaloppet has collected and compiled interesting historic facts and trivia as well as current news for the race on Sunday.
Britta Johansson Norgren, Sollefteå Skidor IF, won Tjejvasan 2016 ahead of Katerina Smutná, Austria, and Julia Svan, Vansbro AIK SK. Over the past three years Britta has come in fourth, second and fourth place in Tjejvasan, but today was her first victory in the world's biggest ski race only for women. "I value this victory very highly," said Britta.
