Fjällmaraton

Fjällmaraton (Literally: Mountain Marathon) is a long distance race, considered the hardest and most important one-day mountain marathon in Sweden. The total route has a length of 43 km (27 mi) with a cumulative elevation gain of 2,100 meters and similar elevation loss. The race takes place between the mountain resorts Vålådalen and Trillevallen in Åre Municipality, Jämtland County since 2005. Until 2012 the race was known by the name Vértex Fjällmaraton, then AXA Fjällmarathon and from 2017 KIA Fjällmarathon depending on varying sponsors.

Over time additional races have been added to the original Fjällmaraton proper, currently:[1]

In 2012-2014 Ottfjället upp was a vertical race to the peak of Ottfjället, but this was replaced by Vertical K to the peak of Åreskutan in 2015.

Winners

The course has changed over time in different ways so course records are not listed here. The fastest male winning times have been under 3 hours 30 minutes and female winning times just over 4 hours, so considerably slower than a normal asphalt marathon race.

Andreas Svanebo has won the race six times in seven starts. On the women's side, Emelie Forsberg and Ida Nilsson have each won three times in three starts. Forsberg's first win in 2009 is widely cited, including on CNN. She had borrowed a backpack from a friend and brought a chocolate mud cake that she had baked. Before the last big ascent, she stopped for 20 minutes and ate the cake, got new energy and won the race. Two years later she was back, did not stop to eat en route and improved her time by 30 minutes.[2][3] In 2014 the by then established world class runner Forsberg was back again and improved her time by another 30 minutes.[4]

Year Country Man Country Woman
2005  Sweden Andreas Svanebo  Sweden Hanna Wikberg
2006  Sweden Fredrik Sätter  Sweden Kicki Fransson
2007  Sweden Andreas Svanebo  Sweden Therese Svensson
2008  Sweden Andreas Svanebo  Sweden Maria Lundgren
2009  Sweden Andreas Svanebo  Sweden Emelie Forsberg
2010  Sweden Anton Sjöholm  Sweden Therese Svensson
2011  Sweden Andreas Svanebo  Sweden Emelie Forsberg
2012  Sweden Andreas Svanebo  Sweden Annika Billstam
2013  Sweden Anders Kleist  Sweden Lena Gavelin
2014  Norway Eirik Haugsnes  Sweden Emelie Forsberg
2015  Sweden Anders Kleist  Sweden Ida Nilsson
2016  Sweden Anders Kleist  Sweden Ida Nilsson
2017  Sweden Andreas Svanebo  Sweden Ida Nilsson

References

  1. ↑ "Races". Fjällmaraton. Archived from the original on 2015-05-15.
  2. ↑ Paul Gittings; Olivia Yasukawa (8 October 2014). "Emelie Forsberg: Running's sky queen with a sweet tooth". CNN. Archived from the original on 2015-07-26.
  3. ↑ "Axa Fjällmaraton" (in Swedish). Runner's World. 14 October 2011. Archived from the original on 2015-10-17.
  4. ↑ "Resultat Damer Solo" (PDF). Fjällmaraton. 9 August 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-06-26.
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