Author Archives: Amundsen Race

One of our spanish mushers has his own style: Not many swedish musher would dare to drive without a hat in winter…. Musher: Antonio Parra

Spanish musher Salva Luque is being chased by Bernhard Klammer. Will his previous experiences competing in Mush Synnfjell and Bergebyløpet 650 help him keeping away in this race?

It seems pretty sure that Petra Kunz, Taisto Torneus and Linda Ahnlund are the three ones fighting for the medals at the Swedish championship for the 8 dog team class, but who will get which medal? We’ll have the answer … Continued

Is Håkan Nisula sure to be Swedish champion in the 12 dog class? His 26 minutes’ lead on his closest competitor, Marco Wyss, has now grown to a lot more as Marco Wyss hasn’t left the checkpoint yet. This also … Continued

The teams are now starting to leave the last checkpoint. Opening the way is French musher Daniel Juillaguet, who has participated in the Amundsen Race since 2014. He has made the podium every time, but he has won before. Will … Continued

Rookie Petra Kunz will leave the last checkpoint with a 33 minutes lead on Taisto Torneus, a man with lots of experience. He, himself will be chased by Linda Ahnlund. So far, Petra Kunz has had the fastest runs in … Continued

Our photographers have done a great job during the race. For Youtube channel use the icon button at the bottum of the website or HERE For photos please take a look in our Flickr album under the Media site.   … Continued

We and Racetracker have done a test on all trackers and found the reason why a big part of the trackers don’t work. After an update in the system on thursday some trackers have another sort of SIM-card that does … Continued

The fastest teams in the 12 dog team class are now resting at the checkpoint Norråker 2 before going out on the last stretch of the race leading back to Strömsund, which is 103 km long. An exciting finish awaits! … Continued

During the night the Swedish mushers arrived at Chp. Norråker 1. In 12 dog team it’s Nr 5 Håka nIsula, Nr 18 Martin Gröger and Nr 22 Marco Wyss who’s figthing for the championship. In 8 dog team we have … Continued