2009-07-29   With still plenty of summer left in China, Nordic Ways starts out the fall season with 2 brand new events. Vasa Bike & Vasa Swim Festival, held on August 29th is a kind of “2 in 1” contest where participants ride their bikes in the morning and do open water swimming in the afternoon.   These 2 fun events take part in Jingyuetan Park just outside of Changchun. Jingyuet...[More]

As you might have noticed, another category has been added to the horizontal link bar on Nordic Ways website. Under it lays information about a new and exciting four discipline contest introduced to China in 2009 by Nordic ways. On August 29th 2009, two new competitions will be held for the first time ever which are included in the Chinese Challenge 4 discipline concept. The new bike race Vasa Bik...[More]

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]

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]

    Summer has come for real to northern China, a few days after the May 1 holiday it was “lixia” – “the beginning of summer” in the Chinese lunar calendar. Next month, on the day when Lidingoloppet China is held, it will also be the Chinese “xiazhi” which is the summer solstice. The Swedish midsummer festival is traditionally celebrated around this day in Sweden as a tribute to t...[More]

Since 1982, Lidingoloppet in Sweden has the Guinness World record of being the biggest terrain running event, a record which is not yet broken. Lidingoloppet China however may have a chance to beat that record, only in its second year…   About 20.000 persons took part in the first ever Lidingoloppet China in 2008, but many more were interested.Due to restrains before the Olympics, not everyo...[More]

Vasaloppet on export A conference was recently held in Changchun, China for the organizers of the Vasaloppet races in Japan, USA, China, and of course there were also several representatives of the management of Vasaloppet in Mora on site in Changchun. - It is with pleasure that we can see that the Vasaloppet ambition to contribute to the health-care in society has had a breakthrough in several ot...[More]

The conditions were great for the 7th Vasaloppet held in Jingyuetan Park on the morning of Jan 2, 2009. After an early breakfast, the skiers went by bus to Jingyuetan Park to warm up and make the final preparations. At 9:30, the over 10.000 skiers set out to go either 50 or 16.7 km in the light sunshine and a temperature of about minus 17 degrees celsius. But the temperature rose q...[More]