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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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  • Konrad Pettersson (category Vasaloppet winners)
    cross-country skier. He won Vasaloppet in 1927. He represented Luleå SK in club competitions. "Vasaloppet" (PDF) (in Swedish). Vasaloppet. Archived from the original...
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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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    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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    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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    (in Swedish). Stockholm: Utg. SELIBR 1345344. Petersson, Sven (1974). Vasaloppet: världens största skidtävling (in Swedish). Stockholm: Sveriges Radios...
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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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    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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    Ole Ellefsæter (category Vasaloppet winners)
    silver (15 km) medal, and in 1971 he became the first Norwegian to win Vasaloppet. Competing in the 3000 metres steeplechase, he won six national championships...
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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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    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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    John Lindgren (category Vasaloppet winners)
    November 1899 – 30 January 1990) was a Swedish cross-country skier who won the 1927 world titles in the 18 km and 50 km events. He finished eighth in the 50 km...
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