A story by Timothy Stellmacher, Worldloppet Master #5386, March 2023 In late October 1976 in the state of Wisconsin in the USA, my brother and I decided to purchase cross-country skis. We had spent the ’75-‘76 winter primarily indoors and we were looking for a healthy, outdoor, winter lifestyle. We decided to buy cross-country skis. […]
by William Brown – 2 x Gold Master & Global Skier n. 263- Moving to Minnesota at age 26, I took up Nordic skiing and completed my first American Birkebeiner the following season. I was hooked for life! Over the next 33 years, I’d become a two-time World Master skier and a Worldloppet Global skier […]
by Jaagup Vana – I’d like to share with you my emotions and memories from my very first foreign competition and road trip to the 44th Bieg Piastow ski marathon. I have nothing to compare it to and can only share my experience. Since our group of 4 had decided to travel to Poland by […]
by Jim Beckner – My wife’s name is Marcia. So when it came to considering which ten Worldloppets we would attend to garner our Masters gold pin it was a no-brainer that we would take in Italy’s Marcialonga. Gotta do it! As she declared, “If there’s a loppet which is my namesake I’d better ski […]
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 […]
by Tristan Zloebl – It was difficult to decide which experience I should tell. So far I have competed in 7 Worldloppet Races and every one is a story for itself. Either it is the “5-Weather-Race” in Iceland together with my dad, or the “broken shoe” race at Czech Republic together with my brother and […]
By Timo Hakulinen – I got married in 1985, and the honeymoon trip was made to the USA. My wife liked this destination very much, but I had another idea behind this, too: On the same journey I could, with the completion of the American Birkebeiner, get my Worldloppet passport fully stamped. This is what […]
by Brendon Hyde, Gold Master n.2095 – After skiing the Australian Kangaroo Hoppet for 10 years my first European Worldloppet tour was planned for 2003. I started training along park pathways in the Oz summertime using cross-country roller skis where I gave local kangaroos a bit of a fright since they all quickly hopped away. […]
by Ben Mitchell – I love how traveling for Worldloppet races can lead to such memorable experiences on and off the trails… This past winter I was excited to catch up with my parents and two brothers for the Dolomittenlauf and Marcialonga as we have long wanted to ski both races and since my parents […]
By Carlo Brena, director of the Cross-country skiing magazine SciFondo, Italy – It happened that, after the teenager-time with the usual ups and downs – sometimes beyond the limits of caution – Stefano and I found ourselves to share a new dimension of our friendship: the sweat dripping from our foreheads, the heavy breath after […]
by Danièle Grenier – My name is Danièle Grenier. I love skiing since my childhood in Quebec with my father. And since then I have never stopped for almost seventy years. I started Worldloppet trips very late in 2008 with the Vasaloppet and, year after year, I repeat the trip to Europe to join a […]
by Lino Davarda, Global Skier n.251 – I started to practice cross-country skiing following some accidents I had while practicing downhill skiing that limited my sport activity. First, I followed a friend who was taking part to the first edition of Marcialonga and then I tried to ski myself the 70 km on Nordic skis, […]
| N | NAME | |
|---|---|---|
| 5959 |  | WIENER Jay |
| 5955* |  | PIIROINEN Heikki Elias |
| 5954 | | VUOLLE Jukka |
| 5953 |  | JAEGER David |
| 5952 | | MacDOUGALL Donald |
| N | NAME | |
|---|---|---|
| 309 | | COOLEY Richard |
| 308 | | PETERSON Raymond |
| 307 |  | HAUBE Veljo |
| 306 | | ARTEL Karin |
| 305 | | ALLIKSAAR Lembit |
