Last season, a successful trio was training outside the Swedish National Team. Now, Frida Karlsson, Linn Svahn and Maja Dahlqvist are back.

“It means a lot. We will really benefit from being a strong team that can train with each other,” says women’s coach Stefan Thomson.

The Swedish men’s National Team chose a training plan where the sprinters were at a camp at a low altitude in Meråker, Norway, and the distance skiers at a high altitude (1.800 meters above sea level in Livigno, Italy).

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On the women’s side, the plan is slightly different. The A National Team skiers are in Livigno, while the women in Team Bauhaus have been at a training camp in Bruksvallarna, Sweden.

“We have chosen a more individual approach to training at high altitude. Ebba and Johanna (Andersson and Hagström) have chosen to train on low,” says women’s coach Stefan Thomson from the camp in Livigno to Langd.se. Thomson “shares responsibility” for the women’s team with Andreas Domeij.

In addition, Maja Dahlqvist is in the USA, where she is training with the American National Team (including her partner Kevin Bolger) and with Johannes Høsflot Klæbo.

What have you prioritized during the training camp in Livigno?

“We are a group that does not have much experience of being at altitude, so it is very much about learning and becoming confident in how we get the training so that there is a good start to the altitude and good effect of training at high altitude. Then the increased load the altitude provides also hopefully increases training effect,” says Thomson.

One person who has had challenges with altitude is Moa Lundgren (read her thoughts on training at high altitude here).

A significant change for the Swedish women’s National Team going into next winter is that Frida Karlsson, Linn Svahn, and Maja Dahlqvist are back (although Dahlqvist is not at this camp):

“It means a lot that they are back. We are a strong team, and we will really benefit from and train with each other. It gives an incredibly high level in every training session,” says Thomson, and is supported by “returnee” Linn Svahn.

“It’s nice to be back; we have an excellent feeling in the team. How the national team looks and works right now is how a national team of this caliber should be. Everything is at the highest level,” says Svahn (read more here).

The camp in Livigno ended on Friday, and the women’s National Team will meet again on October 25 for skiing on snow:

“We are only weeks away from the premiere, so it is very important to be able to ski on snow at that time. We will have six girls continuing with a new high-altitude camp. This will be either in Livigno or on a glacier in Pitztal. Ebba Andersson and Johanna Hagström will join Team Bauhaus at the camp in Vålådalen,” says Thomson.