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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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  • The park has hosted the Changchun Vasaloppet International Skiing Festival and Vasaloppet China annually since 2003. "Changchun Jingyuetan National Forest...
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  • China. Originally held in 2003, it has been a part of Worldloppet since 2014. The competition is named after Vasaloppet in Sweden. The event takes place...
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    Puccio, Giovanni (27 February 2013). "Vasaloppet confirms: H.R.H. Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark skis Vasaloppet again this year". Worldloppet – Ski Around...
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  • who competed from 1993 to 2003. His best World Cup finish was 12th in a sprint event in Sweden in 1997. He won Vasaloppet in 1998 with a time of 3 hours...
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  • (Australia), 1. place 2003 Jizerská padesátka, Bedřichov, 50 km, Czech Republic, 2. place 2003 Vasaloppet, Sweden, 3. place 2003 FIS Marathon Cup, 2. place...
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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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    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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    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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    especially football, swimming, sailing and skiing. In 2003, he completed the historic Swedish "Vasaloppet", the longest cross country ski race in the world...
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  • Gösta Andersson (skier) (category Vasaloppet winners)
    the Vasaloppet ski race in 1944 with a margin of one second before Nils Karlsson (Mora-Nisse). "Historiska segrare" (PDF) (in Swedish). Vasaloppet. p. 2...
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    as an announcer at the Swedish national football team's home matches, Vasaloppet, Royal Palace Sprint and other events. Vacchi was born in Stockholm in...
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    in the arctic and cross-country skiing, having completed the 60 mile Vasaloppet ski race in Sweden five times. Diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2012...
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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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  • Ulrica Persson (category Vasaloppet winners)
    cross-country skier. She won the women's main competition of Vasaloppet in 2001 and 2003. In 2003, she also won Tjejvasan. She also competed in the women's...
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    idea to have a large competition for the average jogger comparable with Vasaloppet for cross country skiers, came from the sports magazine journalist Sven...
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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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    Jørgen Aukland (category Vasaloppet winners)
    WC) 2002 Vasaloppet – 2nd 2003 Vasaloppet – 2nd 2003 FIS Marathon Cup – Winner 2003 Marcialonga – Winner 2004 Vasaloppet – 3rd 2005 Vasaloppet – 3rd 2006...
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  • Pekka Kuvaja (category 2003 deaths)
    the first non-Swede to finish first in the Vasaloppet. "Historiska segrare" (PDF) (in Swedish). Vasaloppet. p. 2. Retrieved 31 January 2021. Olympic 50...
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    Jerry Ahrlin The 2007 Vasaloppet, Oskar Svärd (in black) is still behind Jerry Ahrlin (in blue), when a few hundreds of meters remain. Country  Sweden...
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    Swedish). Vasaloppet. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 March 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2013. "Vasaloppet" (PDF) (in Swedish). Vasaloppet. Archived...
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    the Tour de Ski with 14, and had 29 podiums in total. She also won the Vasaloppet women's edition in 2015. She is a member of cross country ski department...
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    times between 2003 and 2008, all in the sprint event. On 2 March 2014, he won the annual long distance cross-country ski race Vasaloppet in Mora, Sweden...
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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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  • Staffan Larsson (category Vasaloppet winners)
    Larsson competed at an elite level from 1992 to 2005. He took part in the Vasaloppet on numerous occasions, and finished second in 1998 after a late finish...
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    Anders Aukland (category Vasaloppet winners)
    received the Egebergs Ærespris in 2001. On 7 March 2004, Aukland won the Vasaloppet in Sweden, becoming the second Norwegian to accomplish this feat after...
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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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  • Sofia Lind (category Vasaloppet winners)
    1975), is a Swedish cross-country skier. She won the women's race at the Vasaloppet four times, in 1997, 1999, 2004 and 2005. She also had the best time among...
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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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    Jörgen Brink (category Vasaloppet winners)
    won Vasaloppet again, beating Stanislav Řezáč by one second. His winning time was 3 hours, 51 minutes and 51 seconds. In 2012, he set a new Vasaloppet record...
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