Who is the best Vasaloppet skier of all time from your country?

Vasaloppet has had international winners 32 times (ten of which are in the women’s class which became official in 1997). After Sweden, Norway is the most successful with 17 victories.

(In the photo above six international winners, from top left: Justyna Kowalczyk, Pekka Kuvaja, John Kristian Dahl, Laila Kveli, Konrad Hallenbarter, Raul Olle.)

Here are the top placements for men and women from around 30 different nations
(Nation, gender, placement, name, year.)

AUSTRALIA
Men: 35, David Hislop, 1986
Women: 38, Esther Bottomley, 2015

AUSTRIA
M: 1, Walter Mayer, 1980; 1, Michail Botvinov, 1997
W: 1, Katerina Smutná, 2016

BELARUS
M: 35, Aliaksei Ivanou, 2006
W: 1, Svetlana Nageikina, 2002

BELGIUM:
M: 586, Erik Vliegen, 2017
W: 428, An Van Rie, 2012

CANADA
M: 20, Brian McKeever, 2017
W: 11, Andrea Dupont, 2013

CHINA
M: 24, Li Geliang, 2006
W: 5, Hongxue Li, 2005

CZECH REPUBLIC
M: 2, Stanislav Rezák, 2011
W: 3, Katerina Smutná, 2018, 2019, 2020

DENMARK
M: 19, Rasmus Jensen, 2000
W: 23, Signe Schlöer, 2014

ESTONIA
M: 1, Raul Olle, 2000
W: 7, Katrin Mauring, 2006

FINLAND
M: 1, Pekka Kuvaja, 1954; 1, Pauli Siitonen, 1973
W: 4, Lena Ray, 1994

FRANCE
M: 1, Jean-Paul Pierrat, 1978
W: 4, Annick Vaxelaire, 2004

GERMANY
M: 4, Jochen Behle, 1996
W: 4, Constanze Blum, 2001

HUNGARY
M: 302, Zoltan Tagscherer, 2008
W: 198, Marosffy Orsolya, 2008

ICELAND
M: 59, Einar Olafsson, 1987
W: 211, Audur Kristín Ebenezersdóttir, 2019

ISRAEL
M: 298, Daniel Kuzmin, 2004
W: 134, Katarina Kuzmina, 2005

ITALY
M: 5, Marco Cattaneo, 2004
W: 1, Christina Paluselli, 2006

JAPAN
M: 25, Katsuhito Ebisawa, 2006
W: 3, Sumiko Yokoyama, 2008

KAZAKHSTAN
M: 69, Kuanysh Kambarbayev, 2012
W: –

LATVIA
M: 187, Janis Teteris, 2010
W: 219, Zanete Leimane, 2019

LIECHTENSTEIN
M: 124, Markus Hasler, 2009
W: 53, Alexandra Crusius-Hasler, 2009

LITHUANIA
M: 763, Janis Melbardis, 2011
W: 807, Aina Ambraziene, 2018

NETHERLANDS
M: 214, Björn Haring, 2019
W: 12, Carolien Ten Bosch, 1994

NEW ZEALAND
M: 121, Christopher Rolfe, 1998
W: 689, Susan Carnahan, 2002

NORWAY
M: 1, Ole Ellefsäter, 1971; 1, Anders Aukland, 2004; 1, Jörgen Aukland, 2008; 1, Jörgen Aukland, 2013; 1, John Kristian Dahl, 2014; 1, Petter Eliassen, 2015; 1, John Kristian Dahl, 2016; 1, John Kristian Dahl, 2017; 1, Andreas Nygaard, 2018; 1, Tore Björset Berdal, 2019; 1, Petter Eliassen, 2020; 1, Tord Asle Gjerdalen, 2021; 1, Andreas Nygaard, 2022
W: 1, Vibeke Skofterud, 2012; Laila Kveli, 2013; 1, Laila Kveli, 2014; 1, Astrid Öyre Slind, 2022

POLAND
M: 22, Jozef Luszcek, 1987
W: 1, Justyna Kowalczyk, 2015

RUSSIA
M: 6, Ilya Chernousov, 2017
W: 1, Svetlana Nageikina, 2000

SLOVAKIA
M: 122, Jan Valuska, 1996
W: 20, Barbara Jezersek, 2016

SLOVENIA
M: 831, Jani Krsinar, 1994
W: 12, Maja Benedicic, 2010

SPAIN
M: 142, Sadurni Betriu Boix, 2019
W: 184, Isabel Dumall, 2007

SWITZERLAND
M: 1, Konrad Hallenbarter, 1983
W: 2, Seraina Boner, 2013

UNITED KINGDOM
M: 102, Andrew Musgrave, 2012
W: 384, Lucy Ryan, 2007

UNITED STATES
M: 6, Audun Endestad, 1984
W: 1, Kerrin Petty, 1998

Footnotes
Women were allowed to ski Vasaloppet 1981–1996 in the same class as the men. Since 1997, women have their own competition class.

Gert-Dietmar Klause of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) won Vasaloppet in 1975, and Ivan Garanin of the Soviet Union won in 1977.

Svetlana Nageikina won Vasaloppet two times, competing for different nations (Russia and Belarus). Katerina Smutná also skied for two different nations (Austria and the Czech Republic).

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Several other nations have participated in Vasaloppet over the years. Unfortunately, the Vasaloppet database is somewhat incomplete when searching years before the introduction of modern computers, which may have affected the list above. But, with that caveat, you can search and find the best results from any country that has participated in Vasaloppet.
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