{"id":592,"date":"2025-06-17T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T07:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vasaloppet.se\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=592"},"modified":"2025-12-09T14:04:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:04:50","slug":"new-start-times-for-cykelvasan","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/vasaloppet.se\/en\/news\/new-start-times-for-cykelvasan\/","title":{"rendered":"New start times for Cykelvasan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">In Friday&#8217;s races \u2013 Ungdomscykelvasan, Cykelvasan 30, Cykelvasan 45, and Cykelvasan \u00d6ppet Sp\u00e5r \u2013 no cyclist will start later than 1:00 PM.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"\">Concentrating the starts to Friday morning will be a positive change for participants, believes Tommy H\u00f6glund, Sport Lead at Vasaloppet.<br>\u2013 We hope this will create a more festive atmosphere for everyone, at both the start in Oxberg and the finish in Mora.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"\">Starting this year, Cykelvasan 90 will begin at 8:00 AM, a classic start time as the Vasaloppet ski race also starts at 08:00. Martin Kroon, Deputy Sports Manager at SVT Sport, previously commented:<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"\">\u2013 It feels entirely fitting that Cykelvasan will also start at 08:00. It\u2019s a truly classic start time that many Swedes relate to, and even though there are some differences between Vasaloppet and Cykelvasan, there is value in having the same start time.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Start times for Cykelvasan 2025<\/strong><br>Friday, August 8:\u00a0<strong>Ungdomscykelvasan<\/strong>, 32 km, start Oxberg 08:00\u201308:50 (competition)<br>Friday, August 8:\u00a0<strong>Cykelvasan 30<\/strong>, 32 km, first start Oxberg 09:00 (leisure)<br>Friday, August 8:\u00a0<strong>Cykelvasan 45<\/strong>, 45 km, first start Oxberg 11:00 (leisure)<br>Friday, August 8:\u00a0<strong>Cykelvasan \u00d6ppet Sp\u00e5r<\/strong>, 95 km, first start S\u00e4len 10:55 (leisure)<br>Saturday, August 9:\u00a0<strong>Cykelvasan 90<\/strong>, 95 km, start S\u00e4len, women\u2019s competition 08:00, men\u2019s competition 09:00. Leisure class group starts run every five minutes, starting at 09:15.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision to adjust start times for Cykelvasan 30, Cykelvasan 45, Cykelvasan \u00d6ppet Sp\u00e5r, and Cykelvasan 90 starting in 2025 was already made last autumn \u2013 a change that many participants have requested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":601,"template":"","news_category":[],"sport_category":[3],"class_list":["post-592","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","sport_category-bike"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New start times for Cykelvasan - Vasaloppet in English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/vasaloppet.se\/en\/news\/new-start-times-for-cykelvasan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New start times for Cykelvasan - 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