Lidingöloppet
Sign in to saveLidingöloppet is an annual cross country running competition held in Lidingö, Sweden. The 30 km run has about 15,000 participants per year and the shorter races several thousands, making it the largest cross-country event in the world. It is held the last weekend of September each year.
Key facts
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- Lidingöloppet, Saturday September 27, 2008. Starting group 1A, B och C, 30 km men/women, some minutes after the start 12:30 pm from Koltorps gärde.
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- September
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- Lidingö, Sweden
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- Cross country running
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- Long-distance
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- 1965
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- TCS
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- Men's: 1:33:33 (1998) Isaac ChemoboWomen's: 1:51:36 (2024) Carolina Wikström
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- 8,355 finishers (2022)5,328 finishers (2021)12,389 (2019)
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- Winners
- Men 30 km
- Women 30 km
- Women 10 km
- Women 15 km
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Lidingöloppet is an annual cross country running competition held in Lidingö, Sweden. The 30 km run has about 15,000 participants per year and the shorter races several thousands, making it the largest cross-country event in the world. It is held the last weekend of September each year.
The initiative to arrange Lidingöloppet came from Karl Axel Karlberg and Sven Gärderud but the original idea to have a large competition for the average jogger comparable with Vasaloppet for cross country skiers, came from the sports magazine journalist Sven Lindhagen. In the first competition 1965, the number of participants was 644. The number of competitors grew rapidly as well as professional runners and has during the 2010s stabilized around 40,000 participants. In the 2022 competition the number of participants was 23,265. It is a tradition that long distance runners studying at Bosön sports training and education center participate at Lidingö. Tata Consultancy Services, a major IT company from India, is currently the primary sponsor of this event.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lidingöloppet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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