Counties and nations – statistics ahead of Vasaloppet's Winter Week 2024

57,800 skiers – from all 21 counties of Sweden and from 66 other nations across Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, North America, and South America – have registered for one of the 14 races in Vasaloppet’s Winter Week 2024. These statistics are from Wednesday, February 21, 2024 and are thus current but not final.

The registered participants are aged 7 to 89 years. 61.2 percent are men and 38.8 percent are women. The average age of the participants is 42.2 years. (The average age in Sweden is, according to the latest available information from Statistics Sweden, 41.72 years.)

Two races are completely full: Vasaloppet and Öppet Spår Sunday. Registration is still open to all other races.

Masses of experience: 390 of the registered participants for the 90-kilometre races are what are known as Vasaloppet veterans, meaning they have participated in Vasaloppet and/or Öppet Spår/Nattvasan 90 for at least 30 years. Again this year, the veterans will wear a special orange number bib.

222 registered participants are planning to complete Vasaloppstrippeln this year, which includes skiing a race now during the Winter Week, then a mountain bike race and a running race of the same distance in Vasaloppet’s Summer Week in August. Vasaloppstrippeln offers three different distances to choose from: 30, 45, and 90 km.

County by county in Vasaloppet’s Winter Week 2024
Stockholm – 12,301 registered participants
Västra Götaland – 8,053
Dalarna – 4,352
Uppsala – 2,710
Skåne – 2,347
Östergötland – 1,913
Värmland – 1,838
Gävleborg – 1,799
Halland – 1 659
Jönköping – 1,627
Örebro – 1,532
Jämtland – 1,284
Västmanland – 1,232
Västernorrland – 1,150
Västerbotten – 1,100
Södermanland – 1,098
Norrbotten – 667
Kronoberg – 566
Kalmar – 449
Blekinge – 319
Gotland – 121

Not all team members in Stafettvasan and Nattvasan have been named yet, so the preliminary statistics above are based on the assumption that team members come from the same county or nation as the team captain.

Nations 2024
There are a record number of foreign participants this year: 8,408 participants represent 66 nations other than Sweden, making for a total of 67 different countries. From countries like Germany, Italy, and Estonia, twice as many participants are coming compared to last year, and three times as many participants have come from the Czech Republic.

The 20 largest foreign nations in Vasaloppet’s Winter Week 2024 are:
Norway – 1,911 registered participants
Germany – 1,099
Finland – 966
Denmark – 958
Czech Republic – 943
Italy – 392
Estonia – 346
Switzerland – 295
Netherlands – 207
France – 203
Austria – 196
USA – 150
Iceland – 136
United Kingdom – 114
Poland – 89
Canada – 62
Slovakia – 60
Slovenia – 45
Belgium – 37
Australia – 27

Not all team members in Stafettvasan and Nattvasan have been named yet, so the preliminary statistics above are based on the assumption that team members come from the same county or nation as the team captain.

Registration open until start
Note! The statistics above are from Wednesday, February 21, 2024 and are therefore not final.
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