Vasaloppet 2021 Sweden 90km 07.03.21 Васалоппет Tord Asle Gjerdalen and Lina Korsgren won Vasaloppet

Tord Asle Gjerdalen and Lina Korsgren won Vasaloppet 2021
Norway then Sweden among the men, Sweden then Norway among the women. Tord Asle Gjerdalen won ahead of Anton Karlsson, taking his first Vasaloppet win at a record time – 50 years to the day after Norway's very first win in Vasaloppet. The women got a new record time too with Lina Korsgren snatching her third win with Marit Björgen in second place.
Women’s class
It was six degrees below zero when 73 women started Vasaloppet 2021 at 07:40, setting off from the provisional start place at Tjärnhedens IP in Sälen. For the first time ever, the women had their own start time in Vasaloppet. Most attention before the race was, of course, on Marit Björgen, making her competition comeback after three years – and competing in Vasaloppet for the first time at age 40. Could the world’s best female skier ever challenge last year’s winner Lina Korsgren? Would Marit’s ski pole training since the summer yield results?
The speed was high from the start and the field extended quickly. Snow had drifted into the ski tracks in the early morning so skiers stayed between the tracks where they could move faster. Lina Korsgren, Marit Björgen and Emilie Fleten were at the front up towards Vasaloppet’s highest point, 528 metres above the sea, 3 km in. Lina got there first, five minutes quicker than last year. She then let Marit Björgen lead the group. In the approach to Smågan, Ida Dahl had also joined up. The four of them took turns driving in the tailwind and Lina took the spurt prize in Smågan.
The Hill Prize in Evertsberg after half the race went to Lina Korsgren, hotly pursued by Ida Dahl, Emilie Fleten, Thea Krokan Murud, Marit Björgen and Katerina Smutná. Two-time Vasaloppet winner Britta Johansson Norgren was behind by about a minute and a half. The elite ladies were five minutes ahead of Vibeke Skofterud’s record time from 2012.
On the long slopes up to the Oxberg checkpoint, Marit Björgen pushed ahead and only Lina Korsgren could keep up. Marit took the spurt prize and the two had gained a lead of 40 seconds.
Lina Korsgren won Vasaloppet with a new record time of 3.52.08 – the first time Vasaloppet has been won in the women’s class in under four hours – 42 seconds ahead of Marit Björgen. Third place went to Ida Dahl. Lina’s win means that she’s now the woman with the second most Vasaloppet wins.
Men’s class
244 men came to the start at 08:00, the start time since 1991. Russian Ermil Vokuev, with the black-and-red chequered climb vest from Visma Ski Classics, took the lead and was first to pass the climb point. His compatriot Maxim Vylegzhanin then took the lead but the spurt prize in Smågan was handily won by Anton Persson, pursued by many.
Emil Persson, in the overall lead of Visma Ski Classics, won the Mångsbodarna spurt prize trailing 40 skiers within ten seconds behind him. The third spurt prize was also snatched by a Swede, Anton Karlsson. The ski tracks, with their drift snow, lay untouched as everyone skied between the tracks.
The Hill Prize was won by Ermil Vokuev, the first Russian man to have his name engraved on the Hill Prize Stone. He was then almost seven minutes ahead of Vasaloppet’s record time from 2012.
After Evertsberg, the group sailed on at high speeds, in sunshine and with fresh winds at their back. And then came the first real breaking point with the four skiers Ermil Vokuev, Tord Asle Gjerdalen, Anton Karlsson and Vetle Thyli pushing ahead. Gjerdalen, in his trademark aviator glasses, was first across the spurt prize line in Oxberg. The larger group in pursuit was then 53 seconds behind the leading four.
Anton Karlsson was first to Hökberg and with 10 km to go, Vetle Thyli had fallen behind. Now last year’s fourth place ”Mr Aviator” (Gjerdalen) pushed ahead hard. Gjerdalen pulled a long spurt of 10 km… When it came down to it, he was the strongest! On the final stretch he could be crowned with his victory wreath and reign supreme.
It was 37-year-old Tord Asle Gjerdalen’s eighth Vasaloppet and he won Vasaloppet 2021 with a new record time, 3.28.18, making him the first man to win Vasaloppet in under three and a half hours! As early as 2005, Gjerdalen was eighth in Vasaloppet.
This is Norway’s ninth Vasaloppet win in a row and the twelvth Norwegian Vasaloppet win in history – and it happened 50 years after Norway’s first Vasaloppet win with Ole Ellefsäter on March 7, 1971.
Anton Karlsson came second in his sixth Vasaloppet, 36 seconds behind Gjerdalen. Ermil Vokuev was third.

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