Vasaloppet China 50 KM is now an official seeding race for Vasaloppet Sweden which is held every year in Dalarna, Sweden. Races with a distance over 40 km and with more than 100 participants are counted as seeding races for Vasaloppet. The distance being 15 km for ”Girls Vasa”. If you want to use your result in Vasaloppet China as seed result for the 85th Swedish Vasaloppet  on the 1st of M...[More]

With the coming of Vasaloppet China, the University students in Changchun began their XC ski training in Jingyuetan Park on the 25th of November, according to the plan. We predict there will be 70,000 student take part in this education project this winter season.      The 4th Jilin Province University Students Cross Country Ski Competition will be held on 24th of December 2008...[More]

                                      Winter has come to Changchun and ski track preparations have begun in Jingyuetan Park. It has already begun to snow in Jilin Province and the temperature is at -5 to –10 degrees. P...[More]

After a meeting between Lidingoloppet Sweden and Nordic Ways-organizer of Lidingoloppet China-it was decided that participants in Lidingoloppet China will from 2009 have the right to use their finishing result time in Lidingoloppet China as an official time for seeding in Lidingoloppet in Sweden. This means that participants can use their finishing result time in Lidingol...[More]

Vasaloppet China will be held in Changchun for the 7th time this winter. The date is set for the 2nd January 2009. This is the ski event where everyone can participate! Vasaloppet started in Sweden as a cross country ski event where skiers go 90 km from the town Sälen all the way to the finish in Mora town. Vasaloppet is a participatory event, which means that both elite and a...[More]

2008-06-21 Today was probably the first time the people in Changchun celebrated Midsummer, and it was also the first time they ran Lidingoloppet China. As many as 20.000 participants were running  in the forests of Changchun including the City Mayor, Mr Cui Jie. It has been a beautiful day with blue sky, a great race, and good food. It will be a day to be remembered for sure. Two people ...[More]

Midsummer is getting closer, and with that the people in Changchun is preparing for the big running festival Lidingoloppet China on June 21st. The interest for this event is huge in Changchun, there were 40.000 people registered. However, due to environmental and political reasons, given what has been going on in China the last months, and the Olympics that are coming up, the government decid...[More]

2008-05-14 Today at 13:00 the first press conference for Lidingoloppet China was held in Changchun. The key persons in this conference were Mr Yang Wenjun (Vice Director of Jingyue Economy Development Zone), Mrs Chen Keshi (Director of Jilin Tourism Bureau), Jan-Erik Österström (General Secretary Lidingoloppet Sweden), and Mr Gong Wenbin (General Manager of Jingjuetan Park) Around 30 med...[More]

Lidingoloppet China is a brand new event in China. This Swedish brand has a history of  more than 40 years, and is considered as the largest cross country running event in the world. The Chinese version will just as in Sweden have the longest distance of 30 K in tough terrain.   The event will be held in Jingyuetan park, Changchun located north-east in China in the Jilin province. The ev...[More]