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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.

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 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 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.

Winners

Women 10 km

Stone set up to the memory of the birth of Lidingöloppet 1965 at Koltorps gärde. The stone was set up 1999.
Coordinates GPS, WGS 84:
59°21′36.60″N 18°10′36.01″E / 59.3601667°N 18.1766694°E / 59.3601667; 18.1766694.
Year Winner Nation Time (m:s)
2013 Perine Nengampi  Kenya 34:13
2012 Perine Nengampi  Kenya 35:11
2011 Isabella Andersson  Sweden 35:26
2010 Isabella Andersson  Sweden 35:03
2009 Benita Willis  Australia 34:19
2008 Pauline Njeri  Kenya 34:16
2007 Tigist Tufa  Ethiopia 34:44
2006 Ida Nilsson  Sweden 34:22
2005 Susanne Wigene  Norway 33:27
2004 Nancy Kiprop  Kenya 34:24
2003 Filomena Chepchirchir  Kenya 35:32
2002 Janet Ongera  Kenya 35:06

Women 15 km

Year Name Nation Time
2001 Gunhild Halle Haugen  Norway 56:08
2000 Stine Larsen  Norway 54:47
1999 Annemari Sandell  Finland 54:35
1998 Annemari Sandell  Finland 53:52
1997 Annemari Sandell  Finland 52:19
1996 Sara Wedlund  Sweden 51:15

References

  1. ^ 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
En svensk klassiker
Vasaloppet | Vätternrundan | Vansbrosimningen | Lidingöloppet
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