Vasaloppet

39. Skiing with a purpose

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 […]

33. Memories of Worldloppet ski

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. […]

28. A tasty surprise at the 1994 Vasaloppet

By Marcia Beckner – The 1994 Vasaloppet was our first Worldloppet. Interesting that we picked the longest and largest Worldloppet for our initiation. But having attended the Lillehammer Olympics the two weeks previous, the Vasaloppet was a natural fit for my husband and me. It was all so terribly exciting – on the start line […]

7. A Master without Vasa?

by Arno Bachaus – I had still not been able to enter Vasaloppet, I even became Worldoppet Master without it. Something had to be done. My first victory came as I managed to register in a mind-blowing 87 seconds! The year leading up to the race slipped by very quickly. My promise to make at […]

5. The Vasaloppet Experience

by Michael Sippel – At the end of March 2019, I set my mind on taking part to Vasaloppet 2020 and I registered. Unluckily preparation did not go as planned: snow was missing. Apart from a training camp on artificial snow at the beginning of December and a few trips to the ski-hall in Oberhof, […]

1. Vasaloppet for my father

by Ilaria Cavallari (Italy) I heard people talking about it since I was a child, THE race, the longest one, the most historical, the most blazoned and the stories about it captured my soul in a way that I decided to go. Vasa has to be respected, you cannot improvise anything – so they taught […]

Petter Eliassen and Lina Korsgren won Vasaloppet 2020

In heavy snowfall and tough conditions Petter Eliassen, Team Ragde Eiedom, and Lina Korsgren, Team Ramudden, won the 90 km long Vasaloppet. Eliassen passed Stian Hoelgaard, Team Koteng, in the last few meters winning Vasaloppet for the second time with a winning margin of one second. The winning time was 4.25,14. Lina Korsgren skied to […]

Vasaloppet weekend is ready to start

Snow conditions will guarantee the end of the Vasa-week for the many skier from all over the world Vasaloppet – The weather condition in the past weeks and the cancelations of other races in the countries nearby had worried the thousands of skiers that were getting ready to approach the queen of the xc-ski marathons […]

The Worldloppet races snow situation

Here you can check the latest stand of the Worldloppet races’ tracks: Race: Gatineau LoppetKm ready at the moment: 100% of 200 kilometres of trails for classical cross-country skiing, which includes over 125 kilometres of trails shared with skate skiers.Snow condition: Snow Base at P8 Parking Lot: 22.5 cm Temperature Min and Max (° C) – 3° C Expected temperature for the […]

Ski Planet 2 by Worldloppet Episode 1

?ON AIR? THE SECOND SEASON OF #SkiPlanetByWorldloppet Welcome to the 1st episode of #SkiPlanetByWorldloppet, your worldwide cross-country marathon skiing show! We start the trip accross skiing destinations in Japan, Sapporo ?? … even if the race was cancelled, there is so much to discover all around it…sushi, kimono, Olympic Games, so many interesting topics for […]