Centennial Vasaloppet Takes Place On Sunday
Visma Ski Classics continues with Vasaloppet on Sunday, March 6. The 90km classic race marks the tenth stage, the third Grand Classics event of Season XII, and 100 years of history in 2022.
Visma Ski Classics continues with Vasaloppet on Sunday, March 6. The 90km classic race marks the tenth stage, the third Grand Classics event of Season XII, and 100 years of history in 2022.
The biggest, strongest and best-funded team on the Pro Team circuit goes all in for Vasaloppet: anything short of victory is a failure.
Runar Skaug Mathisen, Lager 157 Ski Team, impressed in the Tartu Maraton, when he finished in 4th place. In his fourth season as a long-distance skier, the result is the best in his career.
Before the famous Vasaloppet on Sunday, March 6, ProXCskiing talked to Thomas Bing, athlete of the German National Ski Team and probably the greatest hope for a German victory at this event, about the 100-year-anniversary, his expectations, and preparations.
Last year, Lina Korsgren, Team Ramudden, won Tjejvasan after a photo finish sprint with Britta Johansson Norgren, Lager 157 Ski Team. After several podium places, last year’s victory was long-awaited and special. Johansson Norgren received the victory wreath first before a photo finish could indicate that Korsgren was the winner.
The annual Vasaloppet Winter Week consists of several different cross-country ski races over ten days, concluding with the classic Vasaloppet on the first Sunday of March.
For the first time in two years, Vasaloppet can arrange exercise races and competitions as usual again – and there is great interest in participating. Today, nearly two weeks after Sweden lifted its restrictions, almost 50,000 skiers are registered for one of twelve races in the Vasaloppet Winter Week 2022.
It was minus degrees and a little overcast when the start of the Jubileumsvasan took place in Sälen, Sweden, at 7:04 CET on Saturday morning.
Saturday, February 12, it’s time for Jubileumsvasan, a race in tribute to the pioneers who started and completed the first Vasaloppet in 1922.
Skiers have to present proof of Covid-19 vaccination to participate in Vasaloppet 2022.
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