64 nations and more statistics for Vasaloppet's Winter Week 2019

On Tuesday (2019-02-19) at midnight online registration closes for Vasaloppet's Winter Week 2019. After that you need to register on location. Yes, you can actually register all the way up until the start if there are places available. As per tradition we will present some geographic registration statistics for Vasaloppet's Winter Week 2019.

Vasaloppet's Winter Week 2019 will have eleven different races. (Additionally there are the Barnens Vasalopp children's races in Sälen on February 23 and Mora on March 2. These two races are not part of the statistics below.)

Preliminary numbers show that 49 percent of the 60,000 registered participants are skiing the whole distance from Sälen to Mora in Vasaloppet, Öppet Spår Sunday, Öppet Spår Monday or Nattvasan 90. 51 percent of participants are registered for the shorter races. Registrants are between ages 7 and 90. The average age is 40.4 years. 63 percent are men and 37 percent women.

Registrants per county in Vasaloppet's Winter Week 2019
Stockholm county is still biggest when it comes to number of registered participants. But Västra Götaland is growing and now has over 10,000 participants. The trend is apparent and Västra Götaland will pass Stockholm to become the biggest Vasaloppet county on March 3.

Stockholm – 11,621 registered participants
Västra Götaland – 10,840
Dalarna – 5,189
Uppsala – 3,004
Östergötland – 2,677
Värmland – 2,625
Skåne – 2,589
Jönköping – 2,339
Gävleborg – 2,219
Örebro – 2,081
Halland – 1,930
Västmanland – 1,581
Södermanland – 1,419
Västernorrland – 1,203
Västerbotten – 1,120
Jämtland – 1,112
Norrbotten – 783
Kalmar – 712
Kronoberg – 684
Blekinge – 322
Gotland – 134

(There are participants from all counties in as good as all eleven races.)

20 biggest nations in Vasaloppet's Winter Week 2019
10 percent of participants represent nations other than Sweden. When last year's Winter Week was summed up we noted a new nation record with registrants from 70 countries (including Sweden). Right now we have 64 nations – from all continents. The number of nations can still increase. (As a comparison: at the 2019 Nordic World Ski Championships in Seefeld there are participants from 62 nations.)

Norway - 1,886 registered participants
Denmark - 1,039
Finland – 780
Germany – 598
Czech Republic – 278
Switzerland – 211
Estonia – 183
Netherlands – 162
Italy – 154
France – 126
Great Britain – 114
Iceland – 111
Austria – 99
Russia – 94
USA – 72
Canada – 49
Belgium – 45
Poland – 41
Spain – 25
Australia – 18

Closing the gender gap
63 percent of registrants in Vasaloppet's Winter Week 2019 are men and 37 percent women. In 1981 only 1.5 percent of participants in Vasaloppet were women. In 2019 it's 16 percent, showing that the trend continues and that more and more women ski Vasaloppet every year. In the two Öppet Spår 2019 races 25 percent are women. Halvvasan is the most balanced race with 50 percent men and 50 percent women registered.

Race by race:
Kortvasan: 59 % men, 41 % women
Tjejvasan: 100 % women
Öppet Spår Sunday: 74 % men, 26 % women
Öppet Spår Monday: 76 % men, 24 % women
Ungdomsvasan: 54 % boys, 46 % girls
Stafettvasan: 70 % men, 30 % women
Halvvasan: 50 % men, 50 % women
Nattvasan 90: 79 % men, 21 % women
Nattvasan 45: 52 % men, 48 % women
Blåbärsloppet: 46 % men, 54 % women
Vasaloppet: 84 % men, 16 % women

Not final statistics – registration open until the start
NOTE! The statistics above are not final. Online registration closes on Tuesday, February 19 at midnight but when direct registration opens on Wednesday, February 20 on location it will be possible to register all the way up until the start. All team members in Stafettvasan, Nattvasan 90 and Nattvasan 45 have not yet been named, so the above statistics are based on the assumption that team members will come from the same counties or nations.

Even more facts about Vasaloppet are available in Vasaloppet's Facts Guide 2019 (in Swedish):
http://www.vasaloppet.se/faktaguide

Upcoming events in the Vasaloppet Arena

Vasaloppet Winter Week 2019
Fri 22 Feb: Kortvasan. 30 km. Start Oxberg.
Sat 23 Feb: Tjejvasan. 30 km. Start Oxberg.
Sun 24 Feb: Ungdomsvasan. 9/19 km Start Eldris/Hökberg.
Sun 24 Feb: Öppet Spår Sunday. 90 km. Start Sälen.
Mon 25 Feb: Öppet Spår Monday. 90 km. Start Sälen.
Tue 26 Feb: Halvvasan. 45 km. Start Oxberg.
Fri 1 Mar: Stafettvasan. 9–24 km. Five-person teams. Start Sälen.
Fri 1 Mar: Nattvasan 90. 90 km. Two-person teams. Start Sälen.
Fri 1 Mar: Nattvasan 45. 90 km. Two-person teams. Start Oxberg.
Sat 2 Mar: Blåbärsloppet. 9 km. Start Eldris.
Sun 3 Mar: Vasaloppet. 90 km. Start Sälen. (FULL 180318)

Vasaloppet's Summer Week 2019
Fri 11 Aug: Cykelvasan Öppet Spår. 94 km. Start Sälen
Fri 11 Aug: Cykelvasasprinten. 1 km. Lindvallen, Sälen (Open qualifier on Thursday)
Sat 10 Aug: Cykelvasan 90. 94 km. Start Sälen
Sun 11 Aug: Cykelvasan 30. 32 km. Start Oxberg
Sun 11 Aug: Ungdomscykelvasan. 32 km. Start Oxberg
Sun 11 Aug: Cykelvasan 45. 45 km. Start Oxberg
Sat 17 Aug: Ultravasan 45. 45 km. Start Oxberg
Sat 17 Aug: Ultravasan 90. 90 km. Start Sälen
Sat 17 Aug: Vasastafetten. 4.5–15 km. Running relay for ten-person teams. Start Sälen
Sat 17 Aug: Vasakvartetten. 19.1–24.2 km. Running relay for four-person teams. Start Sälen

High-resolution photos from Vasaloppet:
http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/pressroom/vasaloppet/image/list

Text and photos may be freely published.

For more information

Per Källgren, Vasaloppet Press Manager
+46 (0)70-745 40 48
per.kallgren@vasaloppet.se

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