Lidingöloppet

Lidingöloppet is an annual Cross-country running competition held in Lidingö, Sweden. The 30 km run has about 10.000 participants per year and the shorter races several thousands. It is held the last weekend of September each year.

History

The initiative to arrange Lidingöloppet came from Karl Axel Karlberg och Sven Gärderud but the original idea to have a large competion for the average jogger comparable with Vasaloppet for cross country skiers, came from the sports magazine journalist Sven Lindhagen. In the first competition 1965, the number of participants were 644. The number of competitors grow rapidly as well as professional runners and has during the last years stabilized around 30-35 000 participants. In the 2008 competition the number of participants was 34 475. It is a tradition that long distance runners studying at Bosön sports training and education center at Lidingö participiate.

Running track

* [http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/download.php?Number=950267 Lidingöloppet viewed in Google earth. (Requires free software installed).]
* [http://www.lidingoloppet.se/filer/uploaded/lidingo.pdf Map showing the running tracks of Lidingöloppet (PDF-file, 467 kByte).]

Winners

Men 30 km

Women 30 km

Women were allowed in 30 km before 1996 but had no competition class, no winner was selected.

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.lidingoloppet.se/start/invitation_eng.cfm?Rac_ID= Lidingöloppet official website (press flag for English or Finnish)] .