Local and National media covered Vatternrundan China 2009, here are some reports from CCTV International and a travel story by some Swedish people who took part in the race. Further down you will find some great pictures!
Travel story about Vatternrundan China 2009 (in Swedish. With really nice pictures): http://www.physiochraft.se/china-brev.html
CCTV9 – Sportsscene: http://english.cctv.com...[More]
2009-9-5With welcoming words from Yuxi City Mayor and representatives from Vatternrundan Sweden, about 300 bikers set out for the first Vatternrundan China to go around Fuxian Lake. On the start line were names such as Bernt Johansson, Olympic gold medalist in road bike, Sven-Åke Nilsson, Magnus Lönnqvist, European triathlon champion, Terje Amundsen and Darren Benson.
At 9 am, th...[More]
2009-8-24
Sven-Åke Nilsson, born 13th Sept, 1951 , here seen with his former national team mate Bernt Johansson, was an active professional cyclist between 1977 and 1984. He came 7 in Tour de France in 1980. Sven-Åke comes to China with a group of Swedish tourists to visit Yuxi and take part in Vatternrundan China.
The Swedish group from Svensk-Kinesiska Travel Agency will apart from t...[More]
2009-8-12
Journalists, media, Yuxi government officials and Nordic Ways representatives gathered on the 50th floor at the Capital Club in Beijing for the Vatternrundan China Press Conference on Tuesday.
The first speaker was Mr. Niclas Hellqvist, General Manager of Nordic Ways. He presented some interesting facts about the classic Vatternrundan race in Sweden which is the model for V...[More]
2009.8.10
Now, Vatternrundan has not only the long 175.5km distance around the whole Fuxian Lake to offer. If you feel that going over a 100km is a bit too much for you, you can go about half a lap along the west side of Fuxian Lake. This distance is 78.8km. But, here is something about the route you will be taking. ..
Yuxi is a fast growing city with a population mainly made up...[More]
2009-03-27
Vatternrundan is the largest recreational bicycle race in the world which started in 1965 as a physical experiment.Now, thousands of bikers come every year to the Swedish town of Motala to take part in the ride which goes 300 km around Swedens second largest inland lake-Lake Vattern.The 2009 registration for the Swedish Vatternrundan is already full, over 2 months before the r...[More]
2007-07-17
After two epic mountain bike races, Huangshan International MTB festival in April and Inner Mongolia in July, Nordic Ways now bring you The VatternRundan China Changbai Mountain Road Bike Competition on August 29th to 31st.
The swedish VatternRundan is one of the largest participatory cycling events in the world and Nordic Ways are very proud at bringing this event to th...[More]
May, 24 2007 in Vadstena, Sweden (close to Motala)
Participants
Media
Kanal Lokal (The local TV-station, 2 persons
Östgöta Correspondenten (regional paper),1 person
Motala Tidning (local paper), 1 person
Cyclesport.se (biker webpage), 1 person
Velo.se (biker webpage), 1 pe...[More]
2008-05-01
Vatternrundan China was one of Nordic Ways International AB's new events for the year 2007. We are proud to continue to hold this magnificent August of 2008 as well.
Changbai Mountain is situated in Antu County in the Jilin province at the border to North Korea. Its a dormant Volcano with marvellouse lakes, amazing hotsprings and forests that stretch into the horizon
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