At twelve hours, Teemu Virtanen had to state that his pace of skiing would not be enough for a new day skiing record.
From Lahti ultra skier Teemu Virtanen54, the ME company was interrupted at the Stockholm Olympic Stadium late Saturday night after twelve hours of skiing.
Virtanen tried to break the people of Pietarsaari Hans Mäenpää in 2018, the world skiing record of 472 kilometers. Before Mäenpää, Virtanen’s official record for day skiing was 433 kilometers in 2010.
Last winter a Norwegian Eirik Asdøl reached 476 kilometers, but it was an unofficial record set without supervisors. Asdøl used mixed technology, unlike Virtanen, who, like Mäenpää, postponed the entire distance.
In Stockholm, however, Virtanen managed to set a new time record for the Swedish 220-kilometer Nordenskiöldsloppet in 11 hours 37 minutes. Nordenskiöldsloppet’s record was Virtanen’s second goal.
Nordenskiöldsloppet had previously skied at its fastest time of 11.44.43.
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