Lidingöloppet
Lidingöloppet | |
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Date | September |
Location | Lidingö, Sweden |
Event type | Cross country running |
Distance | Long-distance |
Primary sponsor | TCS |
Established | |
Course records | Men's: 1:33:33 (1998) Women's: 1:51:57 (2019) |
Official site | Lidingöloppet |
Participants | 5,328 finishers (2021) 12,389 (2019) |
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.[1] It is held the last weekend of September each year.
The initiative to arrange Lidingöloppet came from and 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 last years stabilized around 30-35,000 participants. In the 2008 competition the number of participants was 34,475. 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.
Winners[]
Course records with green background.
Men 30 km[]
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Women 30 km[]
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Women 10 km[]
Year | Winner | Nation | Time (m:s) |
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2002 | Kenya | 35:06 | |
2003 | Flomena Chepchirchir | Kenya | 35:32 |
2004 | Nancy Kiprop | Kenya | 34:24 |
2005 | Susanne Wigene | Norway | 33:27 |
2006 | Ida Nilsson | Sweden | 34:22 |
2007 | Tigist Tufa | Ethiopia | 34:44 |
2008 | Kenya | 34:16 | |
2009 | Benita Willis | Australia | 34:19 |
2010 | Isabellah Andersson | Sweden | 35:03 |
2011 | Isabellah Andersson | Sweden | 35:26 |
2012 | Kenya | 35:11 | |
2013 | Kenya | 34:13 | |
2014 | Ethiopia | 35:18 | |
2015 | Ethiopia | 34:29 |
Women 15 km[]
References[]
- ^ IAAF "Lidingöloppet – the longest and the largest cross country race in the world", International Association of Athletics Federations, accessed August 26th 2011
- List of winners
- Civai, Franco & Fält, Birger (2011-09-28). Lidingoloppet 30 km + 10 km. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2012-01-09.
External links[]
Media related to Lidingöloppet at Wikimedia Commons
- Lidingöloppet official website (press flag for English or Finnish).
- Lidingöloppet viewed in Google earth. (Requires free software installed).
- Map showing the running tracks of Lidingöloppet (PDF-file, 467 kByte).
- The event at SVT's open archive (in Swedish)
En svensk klassiker |
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Vasaloppet | Vätternrundan | Vansbrosimningen | Lidingöloppet |
- International athletics competitions hosted by Sweden
- Cross country running competitions
- Recurring sporting events established in 1965
- 1965 establishments in Sweden
- Swedish Classic Circuit
- September sporting events
- Cross country running in Sweden
- Annual sporting events in Sweden
- Autumn events in Sweden