Lidingöloppet is an annual

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competition held in

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. 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.IAA
"Lidingöloppet – the longest and the largest cross country race in the world"
International Association of Athletics Federations, accessed August 26th 2011 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

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sports training and education center participate at Lidingö. Tata Consultancy Services, a major

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from

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, is currently the primary sponsor of this event.

Winners

Course records with green background.

Men 30 km

Women 30 km

*Note: Although women were allowed to enter the 30 km before 1996, they had no competition class thus no winner was selected.

Women 10 km

Women 15 km

References

;List of winners *Civai, Franco & Fält, Birger (2011-09-28)
Lidingoloppet 30 km + 10 km

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. Retrieved on 2012-01-09.

External links

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
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