Trans jurassienne

La Transju 2024: Steps for sustainability & consistency

For over 40 years, La Transju’ has been France’s most popular and continues to grow. Each year it demonstrates its dynamism, adapting to environmental and meteorological constraints, and multiplies its projects to promote the image of the Jura and Haut-Doubs beyond its borders. La Transju 2024 – a date in the Worldloppet calendar, not to […]

La Transjurasienne 2023 pictures

Another great edition of the great La Transjurasienne has taken place past weekend. The French member of Worldloppet is the biggest cross-country skiing race in France and attracting thousands of international skiers year by year. In 2023 almost all victories stay in the Grande Nation: Thomas Joly & Jennifer Lamber won the classic style races […]

French victories on day one of La Transju

Frenchies Thomas Joly and Jennifer Lambert won the Transju’ Marathon Classic 50 km, the highlight of the first day of the 44th edition of La Transju’. With his fist raised as he crossed the finish line, Thomas Joly (Team Nordic Expérience), winner of last year’s sprint, was able to enjoy his last straight line this […]

Final adaptions to La Transjurasienne 2023 route

Environmental responsibility is one of the most important commitments from the organizers of La Transjurasienne. Therefore they have adapted the race courses and the event to its environment and nature, and not the other way around. In order to additionally guarantee optimal skiing conditions, the organizers had to do some final changes on the race […]

Vlog: Gunnar meeting a touchy Reindeer at La Transjurasienne 2022

Welcome to another edition of our Video-Blog Gunnar’s Nordic Adventures, this time from the Jura Mountains in France, the home of La Transju and also of a very touchy reindeer.In this Vlog I am following the racers of the 70 km skating marathon, to show you some insights into La Transjurasienne.And we are going to explore the Parc […]

Ski Marathon Festival at La Transjurasienne

The conditions couldn’t have been better for the La Transjurasienne weekend 2022. Slightly sub-zero degrees accompanied by sunshine and a well prepared track guaranteed a great Ski Marathon Festival for about 3500 skiers. On Saturday the classic events were taking place, and today on Sunday it was time for the original La Transjurasienne: 70 km […]

La Transju’ is cancelled, take on the challenge e-Transju’

La Transju’, the biggest cross-country ski event in France, and Wordloppet member, should have taken place on February 13th and 14th, 2021. In the difficult COVID sanitary conditions, La Transju’ organizing committee was forced into making the difficult decision to cancel the 2021 edition, but at the same time, invites participants to rise to a sporting […]

36. A Global Family

by Silvio Carcano, Alessandro Carcano and Maria Rita Chini – Global skiers and 3 times masters – This is the story of an Italian family, a mother, Maria Rita, who buys almost by chance a Worldloppet Passport with her two sons Alessandro and Silvio, but in the end they all conquered the prestigious Worldloppet Global […]

14. Three mistakes on the way to La Transjurassienne 2010

by Jim Whalen 2 x Worldloppet Gold Master – I registered for the February 13, 2010 La Transjurassienne classic race. This would be my fourth Worldloppet race, but only my second time travelling overseas for a race.  I still had a lot to learn.  I had travelled for a work meeting in Nashville on Monday […]

Worldloppet presents the Worldloppet Stories project

Since some weeks, the entire world has been affected by the pandemic Coronavirus, that has been impacting our lives and lifestyles. At this particular moment, Worldloppet would love to take a small step to cheer spirits up, sharing stories of good memories and fun times of the slopes – sure that everything will go back […]

Looking at 2021: registrations opening for all the Worldloppet races

The current season is slowly fading to the end, leaving a sour taste for the many events that were forced to cancel for the different reasons. It has not been an easy season, due to the lack of snow in many countries and the current spread of the virus COVID -19, that has inducted both […]

Cancellation of La Transju’,due to lack of snow

Due to the low snowfall on the Jura mountain and the weather conditions of the last weekend which made the initially planned backup course impracticable, the organizers of La Transju’ had to make the difficult decision to cancel the 2020 edition scheduled for February 8 and 9. The International Nordic Fair and related activities are […]