🇸🇪 Everything ahead of Tjejvasan 2026 women’s ski race – huge interest in participating
On Saturday, February 21, the 38th edition of Tjejvasan takes place – the world’s largest cross-country ski race exclusively for women. Currently, 7,850 participants are registered, the highest number since 2017, ready to take on the 30 km course from the start in Oxberg to the finish in Mora. Anyone wishing to join can still register, including on race day. Tjejvasan is a Challenger event in Ski Classics and it includes competition classes for both seniors (D21) and juniors (D17–20). Sveriges Television will broadcast live. Here is all the key information ahead of Tjejvasan 2026.
Registration can be completed online, or on location at the race office in Mora starting Thursday, February 19 at 12:00. You can also register at the start area race office in Oxberg on Saturday until 11:30. In the leisure class you may participate from the year you turn 11 (born 2015), and in the competition class from the year you turn 17 (born 2009). The youngest participants in Tjejvasan 2026 are 10 years old and the oldest are 84. The average age this year is 41.1. Participants come from all 21 Swedish counties and from 28 nations.
Since the first Tjejvasan in 1988, a total of 208,076 finishes have been recorded!
Elite competitors
Around 5–6% of participants ski in the competition class, while the rest ski in the leisure class. The top ten from Tjejvasan 2025 will start with the same bib numbers in 2026 as their finishing positions from 2025.
The start list includes several of this season’s top athletes from the Ski Classics Pro Tour (see standings below). Each Ski Classics skier may count their best result from the Challengers series during the season. Victory in a Challenger race — such as Tjejvasan — gives 50 points (a Grand Classics victory such as Vasaloppet gives 500 points, a standard long-distance race 300 points, and an ITT race 200 points). Results also affect rankings that determine start positions in Pro Tour races. For those who did not compete in a Challenger roller-ski race last summer or another Challenger race this winter, their Tjejvasan result becomes especially important.
In the senior class we find several of last year’s top finishers, including winner Jenny Larsson, runner-up Louise Lindström, and third-place finisher Julie Kvale Støstad. Alongside top long-distance skiers currently competing in Ski Classics, many additional competitors are entered, such as Moa Lundgren, who finished third the last time she skied Tjejvasan in 2024, and Ida Dahl, winner in 2023. Olympic sprinter Johanna Hagström is also registered.
Around 50 participants are currently signed up to the junior competition class (D17–20), which was introduced in 2022.
More registrations may be submitted right up until the start.
Originally published on 18 February 2026.
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