Vasaloppet Skiing Exchange Conference in Changchun
Vasa loppet International Skiing Exchange Conference was held on New Years Day 2009. The exchange and cooperation between the Swedish, USA, Japanese and Chinese Vasaloppet has been very fruitful, and benefitted many young people in the host countries. Topics of this years conference was how to attract new target groups and non-skiers to become interested in cross country skiing.
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Skiers arriving in Changchun for Vasaloppet
Participants for Vasaloppet China arrived Tuesday 30th to Changchun. One of the groups who comes from Sweden and Norway had some time to first visit Beijing and climb the Great Wall.
Participants will experience some cold days in Changchun as the weather forecast predicts minus degrees aroung -11 to -16 throughout the week. But the weather should at least be quite su...[More]
Two weeks to go to Vasaloppet China 2009
2008/12/18
Christmas is closing in on all of us, and so is the New Year with Vasaloppet in Changchun. Track preparations have begun as well as snow making for the sculpture in Jingyuetan Park which will be 16 m high, more than 120 m long and 14 m thick
On December 20th, the top final 20 girls competing in this years’ Vasa Snow Angel will be in the finals round of competition at Jili...[More]
Vasaloppet China gets seeding race status for Swedish Vasa
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]
Students in training for Vasaloppet China 09
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]
Preparations underway for Vasaloppet China and Tour de Ski in Changchun
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]
Lidingoloppet China becomes official seeding race for Lidingoloppet Sweden
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]
Time for the biggest Ski Event in China this winter-Vasaloppet China
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]
Lidingoloppet China - a great success!
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]
