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    Vasaloppet (Swedish for 'the Vasa race') is an annual long distance cross-country ski race held on the first Sunday of March. The 90 km (56 mi) course...
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    Marit Bjørgen (category Vasaloppet winners)
    cross-country ski squad Team Ragde Eiendom, with a focus on competing in Vasaloppet in March 2021. On 28 April 2022, she announced the end of her career by...
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    athletics, gymnastics, and football. IFK Mora and Sälens IF own and arrange Vasaloppet together every year. The best known profile in the club is Nils "Mora-Nisse"...
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    Sixten Jernberg (category Vasaloppet winners)
    over 50 km, one over 30 km and three in the 4 × 10 km relay. He also won Vasaloppet twice, 1955 and 1960. He won the 15 km at the Holmenkollen ski festival...
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    woman appointed annually to give the winner of the skiing competition Vasaloppet a laurel victory wreath by hanging it around his neck. A man doing the...
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    caps with FK Bodø/Glimt John Kristian Dahl (born 1981), a three-time Vasaloppet winner List of towns and cities in Norway Nazi concentration camps in...
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    Svetlana Nageykina (category 1965 births)
    Winter Olympics in Calgary for the Soviet Union. In 2000 and 2002, she won Vasaloppet. All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS)....
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    Roberto Vacchi (category 1965 births)
    national football team's home matches, Vasaloppet, Royal Palace Sprint and other events. Vacchi was born in Stockholm in 1965 to Italian parents who had emigrated...
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    intention to participate in long-distance races like Marcialonga and Vasaloppet Dæhlie also participated in long-distance running in his youth, representing...
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    Ole Ellefsæter (category Vasaloppet winners)
    Norwegian to win Vasaloppet. Competing in the 3000 metres steeplechase, he won six national championships in a row, from 1960 to 1965. For his accomplishments...
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    klassiker, the "Swedish Classic" which also includes crosscountry skiing (Vasaloppet, 90 kilometers), biking (Vätternrundan, 300 kilometers) and running (Lidingöloppet...
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    Nils Karlsson (category Vasaloppet winners)
    Karlsson won gold in the 50 km event at the 1948 Winter Olympics and nine Vasaloppet victories. He was born near Mora. He won the Olympic gold medal in the...
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    Lidingöloppet (category Recurring sporting events established in 1965)
    comparable with Vasaloppet for cross country skiers, came from the sports magazine journalist Sven Lindhagen. In the first competition 1965, the number of...
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  • 1964–65. He competed in the 70-kilometre Oslo to Eidsvoll and 90-kilometre Vasaloppet ski marathons in Sweden during this period. After retiring from the Royal...
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  • Canins was Italian champion 15 times and the first Italian to win the Vasaloppet and win 10 times the Marcialonga. She was world champion in mountain biking...
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    Anders Olsson (swimmer) (category 1965 births)
    current world record holder. In 2005 he managed to complete the 90 km long Vasaloppet a crosscountry skiing competition, using a sled. In 2008 he competed in...
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    Assar Rönnlund (category Vasaloppet winners)
    bringing the team from fourth place to victory. Rönnlund also won the Vasaloppet in 1967 and the 50 km event at the Holmenkollen ski festival twice (1962...
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  • having driven up to Dalarna to take part in the cross-country skiing race, Vasaloppet, and then got into his car and turned back towards Stockholm at high speed...
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  • held an "international contest" of "ski running". 1922: start of the Vasaloppet. 1922: Arnold Lunn created modern slalom competitive skiing. 1922: First...
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