Facts, statistics, news and broadcast times for the 97th ...

2021-03-04 10:47 CET

Facts, statistics, news and broadcast times

for the 97th Vasaloppet

This Sunday morning, March 7, 2021, millions of TV viewers will sit down at

home, as always, to follow the start of the 97th Vasaloppet in S?len. This

year has a different start location, a new finish and separate start times for

men and women for the first time ever. Here are the conditions for this year's

edition of the world's most prestigious cross-country ski race ¨C sometimes

referred to as the long distance world championship.

Vasaloppet 2020 saw the 600,000th finish in Vasaloppet (90 km). But this

year only 300 elite men and 100 elite women have the chance to ski

Vasaloppet.

VASALOPPET QUICK FACTS

DATE: Sunday, March 7, 2021

START: Tj?rnhedens Idrottsplats, S?len

START TIMES: Women 07:40, Men 08:00

FINISH: At the new finish line portal by the belfry in Mora.

DISTNACE: 90 km, classic technique

NO SPECTATORS: During Vasaloppet 2021, the Vasaloppet Arena is closed

both for training and spectators, as opposed to Vasa?ket when the whole

Arena is open.

LIVE BROADCAST: Via radio, TV, SVT Play and

FIRST RACE: 1922

CANCELLED: 1932, 1934 and 1990

THIS IS VASALOPPET NUMBER: 97

DEFENDING CHAMPIONS: Petter Eliassen, Norway, and Lina Korsgren,

Sweden

MAX REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS 2021: 300 men, 100 women

MAX REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS 2022:15,800

RECORD NUMBER OF STARTING PARTICIPANTS: 15,709 set off in Vasaloppet

2010

HILL PRIZE: Evertsberg 47 km

ADDITIONAL SPURT PRIZES: Sm?gan 10 km, M?ngsbodarna 24 km, Risberg

36 km, Oxberg 62 km, H?kberg 71 km, Eldris 81 km

VISMA SKI CLASSIC CLIMB: Vasaloppet's highest point (528 metres above sea

level) 3 km

VISMA SKI CLASSICS SPRINT: M?ngsbodarna 24 km, Evertsberg 47 km

VASALOPPET'S 100TH ANNIVERSARY: 2022 (Registration for Vasaloppet

2022 opens on March 21, 2021)

WEBSITE: vasaloppet.se

Victors

Petter Eliassen from Norway won among the men in Vasaloppet 2020 and

Swedish Lina Korsgren won the women's class. The male winners have all

been from Norway these past eight years while the latest four women who

won were all from Sweden. The latest Swedish men's class winner was J?rgen

Brink in 2012.

Three former Vasaloppet winners are registered in this year's men's class:

Anders Aukland, who won in 2004, Andreas Nygaard, 2018, and Petter

Eliassen, 2015 and 2020.

Four women's class winners of recent years are on the start list again this

year: Laila Kveli, 2013 and 2014, Katerina Smutn¨¢, 2016, Britta Johansson

Norgren, 2017 and 2019, and Lina Korsgren, 2018 and 2020.

The whole start list



Last year's results

Vasaloppet 2020, men

1 Petter Eliassen, (NOR), 4.25.14

2 Stian Hoelgaard, (NOR), 4.25.15

3 Torleif Syrstad, (NOR), 4.25.57

4 Tord Asle Gjerdalen, (NOR), 4.26.02

5 Klas Nilsson, (SWE), Skellefte? XC Club, 4.26.13

6 Andreas Nygaard, (NOR), 4.28.31

7 Nils Persson, (SWE), ?stersunds SK, 4.28.32

8 Anders Aukland, (NOR), 4.28.34

9 Max Novak, (SWE), Offerdals SK, 4.28.34

10 Simen Engebretsen Nordli, (NOR), 4.28.35

Vasaloppet 2020, women

1 Lina Korsgren, (SWE), ?re L?ngdskidklubb, 4.41.02

2 Britta Johansson Norgren, (SWE), Sollefte? Skidor IF, 4.47.11

3 Katerina Smutn¨¢, (CZE), 4.49.25

4 Ida Dahl, (SWE), IFK Mora SK, 4.50.50

5 Kari Vikhagen Gjeitnes, (NOR), 4.51.25

6 Laila Kveli, (NOR), 4.53.19

7 Thea Krokan Murud, (NOR), 4.53.25

8 Jenny Larsson, (SWE), ?stersunds SK, 4.57.57

9 Emilie Fleten, (NOR), 4.58.33

10 Heli Heiskanen, (FIN), 5.08.54

Cross-country cup

The international cross-country cup Visma Ski Classics is running for its

eleventh season. Visma Ski Classics now has professional teams from eleven

different nations. Vasaloppet is the season's fifth race out of nine.

The overall standings in Visma Ski Classics Champion are currently showing a

Swedish lead for both the women and the men. There are a total of four

Swedish men and five Swedish ladies in the respective top tens.

Visma Ski Classics Champion 2020¨C2021, men:

1) Emil Persson, (SWE), Lager 157 Ski Team, 870 points

2) Ermil Vokuev, (RUS), Russian Winter Team, 700

3) Tord Asle Gjerdalen, (NOR), Team XPND Fuel of Norway, 690

4) Oskar Kardin, (SWE), Team Ragde Eiendom, 625

5) Petter Eliassen, (NOR), Team Ragde Eiendom, 535

6) Morten Eide Pedersen, (NOR), Team Nordic Athlete, 410

7) Stian Hoelgaard, (NOR), Team Koteng, 360

8) Maxim Vylegzanin, (RUS), Russian Winter Team, 352

9) Max Novak, (SWE), Team Ramudden, 339

10) Johannes Ekl?f, (SWE), Team Ramudden, 311

Visma Ski Classics Champion 2020¨C2021, women:

1) Lina Korsgren, (SWE), Team Ramudden, 970 points

2) Ida Dahl, (SWE),Team Ramudden, 750

3) Emelie Fleten, (NOR),Team Koteng, 680

4) Jenny Larsson, (SWE),Team Ramudden, 580

5) Katerina Smutn¨¢, (CZE), Ed System Bauer Team, 520

6) Elin Mohlin, (SWE), Lager 157 Ski Team, 430

7) Olga Tsareva, (RUS), Russian Winter Team, 415

8) Sofie Elebro, (SWE), Team Parkettpartner Sjusj?en, 375

9) Roxane Lacroix, (FRA), Team D¨¦cathlon Exp¨¦rience, 324

9) Anastasia Rygalina, (RUS), Russian Winter Team, 324

Remaining races after Vasaloppet:

Saturday, March 20: V?l?dalsrennet, 54 km, V?l?dalen, Sweden (replacing

Birkebeinerrennet, Norway)

Saturday, March 27: ?refj?llsloppet, 100 km, V?l?dalen, Sweden

Saturday, April 10: Reistadl?pet, 50 km, Setermoen¨CBardufoss, Norway

Saturday, April 17: Yll?s-Levi, 70 km, Yll?s¨CLevi, Finland

VISMA SKI CLASSICS >



The new start and finish

The start this year is at the Tj?rnheden's IP football field. There's then an

uphill slope to the floodlit trail, about a kilometre before the track connects

to the Vasaloppet track. There's then two kilometres left until Vasaloppet's

highest point where Visma Ski Classics Climb is awarded (Tj?rnhedens IP was

also used as the start for Cykelvasan the first two years, 2009 and 2010.)

The finish line has moved to a new finish line portal, a copy of the old one, at

Mora Church's belfry by the roundabout at Vasagatan. This is due to extensive

infrastructure changes in Mora. The finishing stretch will be about 100

meters shorter than previously. The original finish line portal will remain in

its place and during future events it will be part of a so-called medal square.

The total distance of the race will not change significantly given that course

adjustments are made almost annually depending on, among other things,

conditions in the Vasaloppet Arena.

Comeback

At start number 538 we're seeing this year's comeback: Marit Bj?rgen, with

41 Olympic and World Championship medals. Marit has won a race on the

Vasaloppet course before ¨C over half the distance. This was in 2006 when the

World Cup ran a 45 km race and she arrived at the finish line long before her

competitors.

Rewards

The first prize in Vasaloppet 2021 is a blown kiss this year, a gold medal, a

green victory wreath, a 20 kg glass trophy and 75,000 crowns (for both

women and men). The men's class winner will also get the Kranskulla

honorary award, a beautifully embroidered Vasaloppet cushion.

There are seven spurt prizes for both men and women: 10,000 SEK for the

spurt prize in Evertsberg (Hill Prize) and 4,000 SEK at the other six

checkpoints of Sm?gan, M?ngsbodarna, Risberg, Oxberg, H?kberg and Eldris.

(Visma Ski Classics also has prizes at M?ngsbodarna and Evertsberg.)

Vasaloppet's total prize sum in 2021 is 410,000 SEK.

A winner who beats the current Vasaloppet record will, in addition to their

first prize, also get a 50,000 record bonus. This applies to both women and

men.

Kranskulla and Kransmas

This year's Kranskulla is Emelie Brudin (Kranskulla no 97), active in IFK Mora

Orienteringsklubb, while this year's Kransmas is Gustaf Berglund (Kransmas

no 33), active in IFK Mora Skidklubb.

History

It was 500 years ago, in the winter of 1520/21, that Gustav Eriksson's

adventure in Dalarna took place, now a mix of truth and myth. In 1523 he

became king of Sweden. The first Vasaloppet ran on Sunday, March 19, 1922.

This year sees the 97th Vasaloppet, which is the 25th with a competition

class for ladies (started 1997). Since 1948 the race has always run on the first

Sunday of March, except for 2015 when the race was moved to the second

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