Tjejmilen is a girls-women only,
cross-country running
Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open coun ...
event in
Stockholm,
Sweden. Hosted by
Hässelby SK
Hässelby Athletic Sports Club is a Swedish sports club located in Hässelby within the city of Stockholm. Founded in 1913, the departments it operates include the sports football, athletics and floorball. Their football club, Hässelby SK F ...
and
Spårvägen FK, it is run across a 10 kilometers long course on
Djurgården
Djurgården ( or ) or, more officially, ''Kungliga Djurgården'' (), is an island in central Stockholm, Sweden. Djurgården is home to historical buildings and monuments, museums, galleries, the amusement park Gröna Lund, the open-air museum ...
.
Being annual, the first event was held on 19 August 1984. It often gathers thousands of participants.
Winners
*
1984
Events
January
* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
* January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...
–
Evy Palm
Evy Gunilla Palm (born January 31, 1942 in Lidköping, Västra Götaland) is a female athlete from Sweden, who competes in the long-distance events. She represented her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics, finishing in 24th place in the ...
,
Sweden, 34:21
*
1985
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
** The Internet's Domain Name System is created.
** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...
–
Evy Palm
Evy Gunilla Palm (born January 31, 1942 in Lidköping, Västra Götaland) is a female athlete from Sweden, who competes in the long-distance events. She represented her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics, finishing in 24th place in the ...
,
Sweden, 34:28
*
1986
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
**Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles.
**Spain and Portugal enter ...
–
Evy Palm
Evy Gunilla Palm (born January 31, 1942 in Lidköping, Västra Götaland) is a female athlete from Sweden, who competes in the long-distance events. She represented her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics, finishing in 24th place in the ...
,
Sweden, 33:29
*
1987
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–
Malin Wästlund,
Sweden, 34:20
*
1988
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–
Evy Palm
Evy Gunilla Palm (born January 31, 1942 in Lidköping, Västra Götaland) is a female athlete from Sweden, who competes in the long-distance events. She represented her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics, finishing in 24th place in the ...
,
Sweden, 34:09
*
1989
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–
Evy Palm
Evy Gunilla Palm (born January 31, 1942 in Lidköping, Västra Götaland) is a female athlete from Sweden, who competes in the long-distance events. She represented her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics, finishing in 24th place in the ...
,
Sweden, 34:09
*
1990
File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of humanity on Earth, astrophysicist ...
–
Grete Waitz
Grete Waitz (, 1 October 195319 April 2011) was a Norwegian marathon runner and former world record holder. In 1979, at the New York City Marathon, she became the first woman in history to run the marathon in under two and a half hours. Waitz wo ...
,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...
, 33:49
*
1991
File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phi ...
–
Midde Hamrin,
Sweden, 34:34
*
1992 –
Sara Romé,
Sweden, 35:14
*
1993
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–
Gunhild Halle,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...
, 34:25
*
1994
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson ...
–
Sara Romé,
Sweden, 34:35
*
1995
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–
Grete Kirkeberg
Grete Jorunn Kirkeberg (born 3 September 1964) is a retired Norwegian long-distance runner who specialized in marathon races and cross-country running.
She was on the Norwegian team who won the silver medal at the 1994 IAAF World Half Marathon C ...
,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...
, 34:50
*
1996 –
Ingmarie Nilsson,
Sweden, 35,32
*
1997
File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...
–
Grete Kirkeberg
Grete Jorunn Kirkeberg (born 3 September 1964) is a retired Norwegian long-distance runner who specialized in marathon races and cross-country running.
She was on the Norwegian team who won the silver medal at the 1994 IAAF World Half Marathon C ...
,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...
, 35:16
*
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...
–
Marie Söderström-Lundberg,
Sweden, 34:37
*
1999
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–
Susanne Johansson,
Sweden, 36:04
*
2000
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–
Marie Söderström-Lundberg,
Sweden, 33:29
*
2001 –
Lena Gavelin,
Sweden, 33:35
*
2002 –
Janet Ongera,
Kenya
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, 33:22
*
2003 –
Kirsi Valasti,
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
, 33:16
*
2004 –
Lena Gavelin,
Sweden, 34:44
*
2005 –
Lisa Blommé,
Sweden, 34:45
*
2006 –
Ida Nilsson
Ida Nilsson (born February 8, 1981) is a Swedish long-distance runner who also competes in ski mountaineering. In 2003 – 2006 she won a total of ten gold medals in Swedish championships in track & field and cross country running, plus two NCAA ...
,
Sweden, 34:12
*
2007 –
Isabellah Andersson
Isabellah Andersson (born Isabellah Moraa Amoro on 12 November 1980 in Kenya) is a Swedish-Kenyan distance runner. She resides in Vilshult in Sweden, and since May 2009 is a Swedish citizen. She competes for the club Hässelby SK.
Career
Ander ...
,
Sweden, 34:50
*
2008
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–
Lisa Blommé,
Sweden, 33:58
*
2009 –
Isabellah Andersson
Isabellah Andersson (born Isabellah Moraa Amoro on 12 November 1980 in Kenya) is a Swedish-Kenyan distance runner. She resides in Vilshult in Sweden, and since May 2009 is a Swedish citizen. She competes for the club Hässelby SK.
Career
Ander ...
,
Sweden, 33:49
*
2010 –
Isabellah Andersson
Isabellah Andersson (born Isabellah Moraa Amoro on 12 November 1980 in Kenya) is a Swedish-Kenyan distance runner. She resides in Vilshult in Sweden, and since May 2009 is a Swedish citizen. She competes for the club Hässelby SK.
Career
Ander ...
,
Sweden, 33:38
*
2011 –
Isabellah Andersson
Isabellah Andersson (born Isabellah Moraa Amoro on 12 November 1980 in Kenya) is a Swedish-Kenyan distance runner. She resides in Vilshult in Sweden, and since May 2009 is a Swedish citizen. She competes for the club Hässelby SK.
Career
Ander ...
,
Sweden, 33:25
*
2012
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–
Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal
Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal (born 14 June 1990) is a Norwegian middle-, long-distance and steeplechase runner. She won bronze medals for the 10,000 metres at the 2016 European Championships, and in the 3000 m steeplechase at the 2018 Eu ...
,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...
33.14
*
2013
File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fa ...
–
Isabellah Andersson
Isabellah Andersson (born Isabellah Moraa Amoro on 12 November 1980 in Kenya) is a Swedish-Kenyan distance runner. She resides in Vilshult in Sweden, and since May 2009 is a Swedish citizen. She competes for the club Hässelby SK.
Career
Ander ...
, Sweden, 33:42
*
2014
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–
Meraf Bahta
Meraf Bahta Ogbagaber (born 24 June 1989) is an Eritrean middle-distance runner. She represents Sweden in international competitions and specializes in the 1500 metres and 3000 metres.
Biography
She was born in Dekishahay, Eritrea (at the time ...
, Sweden, 32:40
*
2015 –
Webalem Ayele,
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
, 33:28
*
2016
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–
Fantu Tekla,
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
, 32:40
*
2017
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Sara Holmgren, Sweden 34.52
*
2018
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Ayantu Eshete, Ethiopia, 35:06
*
2019
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–
Hanna Lindholm, Sweden, 35:06
*2020 – Cancelled because of the
Corona pandemic
*
2021
File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October 2021 coup in Sudan; Crowd shortly after t ...
–
Meraf Bahta
Meraf Bahta Ogbagaber (born 24 June 1989) is an Eritrean middle-distance runner. She represents Sweden in international competitions and specializes in the 1500 metres and 3000 metres.
Biography
She was born in Dekishahay, Eritrea (at the time ...
,
Sweden, 32.41
*
2022
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–
Carolina Wikström,
Sweden, 33.51
*
2023
Events
Predicted and scheduled events
* January 1
** In the United States, books, films, and other works published in 1927 will enter the public domain, assuming there are no changes made to copyright law.
** Croatia will adopt the eu ...
–
Sarah Lahti,
Sweden, 35.32
See also
*
Tjejtrampet
*
Tjejvasan
Tjejvasan is a cross-country skiing event in Sweden, running from Oxberg to Mora, a distance of 30 kilometers. It is only open to female skiers. Being annual, the first event was first held in 1988.
Winners
Winners throughout the years.
* 1988 ...
References
External links
{{Commonscat-inline, Tjejmilen
official website
1984 establishments in Sweden
Athletics competitions in Sweden
Cross country running competitions
Recurring sporting events established in 1984
September sporting events
Women's sports competitions in Sweden
Cross country running in Sweden
Annual sporting events in Sweden
Autumn events in Sweden