The 2nd Lidingoloppet China took part on a sunny and quite windy day at Changchun Jingyuetan Park. Around 10 000 people had gathered to run in the forest tracks. Except from local people of all ages, there had also come runners from many other parts of the world such as Kenya, Sweden, Australia and so on, just to participate in this race.   In the first row on the start line stood last years ...[More]

2009-6-17   In a couple of days, the time has come for one of the biggest running events in China this summer – Lidingoloppet China. Already, over 10.000 people have signed up for this cross-country running event that takes place under the midsummer sun in the forests of Jingyuetan.   An exciting experience awaits the participants with festivities and Swedish food and beer at the Arena...[More]

Anders Högberg could with his victory in Aershan Stage and his 5th place in Yakeshi take home the trophy of the total winner of Summer Ski Sprint. Norwegian junior Maiken Caspersen Falla made a perfect tournament and became an unthreatened champion by finishing number one in both the sprint stages.   Maiken who finished with the fastest time in the Qualifications, closely followed 3 hun...[More]

2009-6-9 Sweden’s Anders Hogberg continues to reap victories in China. Today，the winner of Tour de Ski China 08/09 took the leading position in Summer Ski Sprint 2009 by winning the men’s competition in the Aershan Stage. The track was 2 laps on a 520 m course and today’s competitions started with a qualification race in which Trond Iversen, NOR was the fastest with 1.13.04, closely followed by ...[More]

A Press Conference was held at the Swedish Embassy in Beijing last Thursday in preparation for Summer Ski Sprint 2009, Aershan Stage. Present were Vice Mayor of Aershan City, Mrs Guo Lingyun, Chief of Xingan League Sports Bureau, Mr Liu Zhichen, Secretary of the Chinese Ski Association, Mr Gao Xuedong, Swedish Ambassador to China, Mr Mikael Lindstrom, founder and honorary president of Nordic Ways...[More]

The 35 year old Swede Thobias Fredriksson who won a World Cup Sprint in Changchun in 2006 has decided to return to China and join his friends from the National Team for Summer Ski Sprint, this time held in Inner Mongolia, June 9th - 11th.    Fredriksson is an experienced skier who started his career in the middle of the 90’s. He is a 3 times Swedish Sprint Champion, 2 times winner ...[More]

Many people had gathered in Jiangnan Universitys gymnasium to see the "Evergreen Tree" Jan-Ove Waldner with his friends Jorgen Persson and Fredrik Hakansson battle against their Chinese opponents.  However, the China-Sweden Table Tennis Challenge which took place on Saturday May 30th was not about fierce competition, but a friendly and relaxed ping-pong show which gave the...[More]

2009-05-21   Nordic Ways has received confirmation from some international top skiers that they will take part in Summer Ski Sprint 2009.   One of them is Hilde G Pedersen, a veteran on the international cross country skiing scene and winner of Summer Ski Sprint in 2008. Others are Swedish skier Bjorn Lind, double sprint Gold medalist in Torino Olympics and Tho...[More]

2009-05-14 Lena Gavelin, 2nd place in the women’s 30km in 2008 years Lidingoloppet in Sweden, and Japhet Kipkorir, 2nd in the men’s 30km are both coming over to China to run in Lidingoloppet China 2009.    Lena Gavelin is born 1974 and she has been competing with the Swedish track and field athletics team for many years. She has a Swedish gold in 10.000 m and is the keeper of the Swed...[More]