Vasaloppet increasingly international – record number of foreign participants in 2015

Vasaloppet's Winter Week February 27 – March 8 2015 will be a ski festival on par with a world championship. 7,615 foreign skiers from 51 nations, and all continents, are registered for the Winter Week! That is a record number of international participants.

When online registration closed on Thursday night, a total of 66,752 participants had registered. Of these, about eleven percent are international. On Wednesday February 25 we open direct registration for the races that still have start places available: KortVasan (30 km), HalvVasan (45 km) and UngdomsVasan. The number of participants can, in other words, go up somewhat.

The trend is that an increasing number of people want to take part in longer races: Of the registered participants 33,800 (more than half) have registered for the whole 90 kilometre stretch from Sälen to Mora – either in Vasaloppet or in Öppet Spår.

The below overview shows how many registered participants there are, so far, from the 15 nations with the most participants (apart from Sweden).

FACTS/ Registered participants, by nation, for Vasaloppet's Winter Week 2015
Norway 2988
Denmark (including Greenland) 1325
Finland (including Åland Islands) 842
Germany 542
Czech Republic 396
Switzerland 321
Italy 150
Estonia 130
Austria 128
The Netherlands 102
Great Britain 95
Iceland 93
USA 87
France 85
Russia 64

Footnote:
Vasaloppet's Winter and Summer Weeks annually generate more than a quarter billion SEK in tourism revenue for the three Vasaloppet municipalities Malung-Sälen, Mora and Älvdalen.

Upcoming events in the Vasalopps Arena:

Vasaloppet's Winter Week 2015
Fri 27 Feb: KortVasan. 30 km.
Sat 28 Feb: TjejVasan. 30 km. (10,000 entries. FULL 6/10/2014)
Sun 1 Mar: UngdomsVasan. 3, 5, 7 or 9 km.
Sun 1 Mar: Öppet Spår Sunday. 90 km. (10,000 entries. FULL 21/5/2014)
Mon 2 Mar: Öppet Spår Monday. 90 km. (8,000 entries. FULL 13/9/2014)
Tue 3 Mar: HalvVasan. 45 km.
Fri 6 Mar: StafettVasan. 24, 24, 14, 9 and 19 km. (8,000 entries. FULL 16/3/2014)
Sun 8 Mar: Vasaloppet. 90 km. (15,800 entries. FULL 16/3/2014)

Vasaloppet's Summer Week 2015
Fri 14 Aug: CykelVasan 30. 30 km. Start Oxberg.
Fri 14 Aug: UngdomsCykelVasan. 30 km. Start Oxberg.
Fri 14 Aug: CykelVasan 45. 45 km. Start Oxberg.
Fri 14 Aug: CykelVasan Öppet Spår. 95 km. Start Sälen.
Sat 15 Aug: CykelVasan 90. 95 km. Start Sälen. (12,000 entries. FULL 1/10/2014)
Sat 22 Aug: UltraVasan 45. 45 km. Start Oxberg.
Sat 22 Aug: UltraVasan 90. 90 km. Start Sälen.
Sat 22 Aug: VasaStafetten. 4.5–15 km. Running relay race for ten person teams. Start Sälen.

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For more information

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Mobile: +46 (0)733-550 620
Email: ola.granfeldt@vasaloppet.se

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