Vasaloppet

Last chance to go to Vasaloppet 2024: Christmas Shopping

“Same procedure as last year? Same procedure as every year!” The Worldloppet Christmas Shopping is here, and we’re spreading the holiday cheer with an exciting giveaway! Shop and Win Visit our webshop, place your orders before December 4th, so we can make sure, the delivery will be right in time to lay under the Christmas […]

Annual General Meeting in Mora with extensive decisions

For the first time since the Covid pandemic started, the delegates of the Worldloppet member races have gathered again for the Annual General Meeting. After two virtual meetings in the past years, the delegates have met past weekend in Mora, the finish destination of Vasaloppet.  “Mora is a special place for cross-country skiing. Especially, in […]

Vlog: Gunnar’s Nordic Adventures at Vasaloppet 100 years

In this edition of Gunnar’s Nordic Adventures we travel to Mora ?? to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the king of cross-country skiing, the Vasaloppet! I did my first Vasa! With everything you need for this experience: Standing in line on the first uphill, a crash, blueberry soup… My summary: Indeed, every skier has to […]

Vasaloppet ready for 15,800 skiers tomorrow

On Sunday, March 6 at 08:00 in Sälen, it’s time for the start of the 98th Vasaloppet – 100 years after the first race in 1922. Vasaloppet is fully booked, which means 15,800 registered participants. In total, more than 50,000 participants have so far registered for Vasaloppet’s Winter Week 2022 races. Here are all the […]

Vasaloppet 2022 sold out within hours

The registration for 2022’s Vasaloppet Winter Week and the 100th anniversary opened yesterday (Sun 21st Mar) morning. Only a few hours later the Vasaloppet was fully booked. The 15,800 start places in Vasaloppet were filled this morning and over 28,000 had registered for a Winter Week 2022 race before noon.“Of course it’s fantastic that so […]

Gjerdalen and Korsgren win Vasaloppet 2021

The Norwegian Anders Gjerdalen and the Swede Lina Korsgren grab the victory in 2021’s Vasaloppet elite race. Both in record time. Battle between Björgen and Korsgren It had minus 6 degrees, when 73 elite ladies started today at 07:40 in Sälen, Sweden, start of Vasaloppet. All eyes have been on Norway’s Marit Björgen: Would the […]

The King is joining the Virtual Racing League

On March 7th a small group of elite skiers will ski the king of cross-country skiing races, the Vasaloppet – the Swedish Worldloppet race. Popular skiers are prevented to participate. But the organizers came up with some ideas, to offer the Vasa experience also to amateurs, including the possibility to get a stamp in your […]

+Update+ Only 400 elite skiers at Vasaloppet 2021

This week the OC of the Swedish Worldloppet race, Vasaloppet, has decided on how to carry out their events in 2021 due to the COVID pandemic. The king of cross-country ski races will take place, as planned, on the 7th march. But only elite skiers will stand on the starting line in Sälen. Usually thousands […]

These are the names of the Vasaloppstrippeln finishers

Looking back at the unusual Vasaloppet year of 2020, Vasaloppet can happily announce that 528 participants completed their Vasaloppstrippeln after cycling and running races in Hemmavasan. In addition, several participants have chosen to save their ski race from this past winter and instead complete Vasaloppstrippeln in combination with Vasaloppet’s Summer Week on August 13–21, 2021. […]

Vasaloppet has a new CEO

Vasaloppet’s Development Manager Johan Eriksson has been appointed acting CEO of Vasaloppet. A post he will hold for the next six months at least. Next up is the virtual Hemmavasan, where over 12,000 registered cyclists and runners in 20 countries will participate on their home turfs during the period of August 15–22. Since Eva-Lena Frick […]