What a wonderful day! With just a one minute delay, at 09:31 this morning we started the fifth edition of the Bright Equipment Lapland Arctic Ultra with the 20 and 50 km distances.
We will have more photos and news later on. For now I just want to say thank you to all who joined us at the Grand Arctic Resort start line in Överkalix.
The conditions could not have been better. Well, maybe a little bit colder … but with the cold overnight, the trails were solid and it’s of course perfect if the sun is out and it is still cool enough not to sweat too much.
So, it was no surprise that the athletes who wanted to push hard, made very good progress. The overall results of the 20km race are:
1st Wjatscheslaw Sergejew/Sweden (foot) 2h 12min
2nd Sergej Schubin/Sweden (foot) 2h 36min
3rd Linda Eriksson/Sweden (foot) 2h 41min
4th Ida Cedering/Sweden (ski) 2h 57min
5th Martin Lee/England (foot) 4h 29min
6th Jolanda Nijdam/Netherlands (ski) 5h 54min
Congratulations to all!
We had a few more athletes signed who could not join us and Josef Partanen/Sweden (ski) did not reach the finish line.
The 50km were fast, too. Their results:
1st Hilding Cedering /Sweden (ski) 5h 53min
2nd Helga Cedering/Sweden (ski) 6h 29min
3rd Emil Eriksson/Sweden (ski) 7h 27min
4th Mohammed Jabbar/England (foot) and Nic Baldwin/England (foot) 8h 19min
6th Nessa Gibbons/England (foot) 9h 53min
7th Carl Hurkmans/Belgium (foot) 10h 30min
8th Hedwig Kouwenhoven/Sweden (foot) 10h 35min
9th Cody Rokosz/USA (foot) 10h 47min
10th Elin Larsgren/Sweden (Ski) 12h 29min
11th Lucy Bowes/England (foot) 13h 57min
Great job everyone!
We did have one DNS in the 50km and a couple of athletes who could not be with us because they were sick. I hope you get better soon and that we see you at the start line in 2027!
As I write this the first couple of athletes have reached Jockfall – that’s Mathieu Blanchard/France (185km) and John Knapp/England (500km).
Unfortunately, Matt Burgin/England (185km/foot) had to withdraw at Rödupp due to problems with his hip and later on Morten Lund Jacobsen/Denmark (185km/foot) had to scratch because he was exhausted and could not keep warm enough to safely continue.
Laxforsberget CP was amazing and crew still are busy up there. Here at Jockfall it will be a long night, too. Polar Circle Cabin CP is ready and looking forward to receiving the first athlete later today.