Many international participants in Vasaloppet's Winter Week 2020

Vasaloppet’s Winter Week 2020 has eleven different races, just like last year. Preliminary numbers show that exactly half (50 percent) of the now over 57,000 registrants intend to ski the whole distance from Sälen to Mora; in other words they’ve registered for Vasaloppet, Öppet Spår Sunday, Öppet Spår Monday or Nattvasan 90. 50 percent are registered for the shorter races.

Participant age ranges from 7 to 91 years old. The average age is 42.6 years. 64 percent are men and 36 percent women. (More gender statistics can be found further down.)

55 percent of registrants have started in a Vasaloppet Winter Week race before, making 45 percent of this year’s registered participants debutants ”in forefathers’ tracks”. But there are those who are extremely experienced: About 400 registrants are Vasaloppet Veterans, meaning that they’ve skied Vasaloppet and/or Öppet Spår for at least 30 years.

So far about 500 registrants intend to take on Vasaloppstrippeln this year, which means skiing a Winter Week race and cycling and running Summer Week races of the same distance in Vasaloppet’s Summer Week this August. Vasaloppstrippeln has three distances to choose from: 30, 45 and 90 km.

The 20 biggest countries in Vasaloppet’s Winter Week 2020
11 percent of participants represent countries other than Sweden. 69 different nations (including Sweden) have registered participants.

Norway – 2008 registered participants
Denmark – 1023
Finland – 707
Germany – 563
Czech Republic – 330
Switzerland – 317
France – 193
Estonia – 180
Italy – 166
USA – 140
The Netherlands – 121
Russia – 120
Iceland – 110
Austria – 92
United Kingdom – 91
Poland – 83
Canada – 54
Belgium – 44
Latvia – 33
Spain – 22

Gender statistics 2020
64 percent of those registered for Vasaloppet’s Winter Week 2020 are men and 36 percent are women. In 1981, 1.5 percent of participants in Vasaloppet were women. In 2010, the female presence in Vasaloppet itself was 11 percent and in Vasaloppet on March 1, 2020, it will be up to 17 percent. The trend from the past few years continues, showing an increasing share of female participants in Vasaloppet.

Race by race
Vasaloppet 30 (formerly Kortvasan): 59 % men, 41 % women
Tjejvasan: 100 % women
Öppet Spår Sunday: 72 % men, 28 % women
Öppet Spår Monday: 73 % men, 27 % women
Ungdomsvasan: 53 % boys, 47 % girls
Stafettvasan: 72 % men, 28 % women
Vasaloppet 45 (formerly Halvvasan): 50 % men, 50 % women
Nattvasan 90: 78 % men, 22 % women
Nattvasan 45: 54 % men, 46 % women
Blåbärsloppet: 46 % men, 54 % women
Vasaloppet: 83 % men, 17 % women

Statistics are not final – registration open until the start
NOTE! The above statistics are from Friday, February 14, 2020 and as such they are not final. Online registration at vasaloppet.se closes on Tuesday, February 18 at midnight and when direct registration opens on Wednesday you can register on location up until the start. All team members in Stafettvasan, Nattvasan 90 and Nattvasan 45 have not yet been named and the preliminary statistics above are therefore based on the assumption that team members are from the same county and nation.

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