Sigrid Ekran is the 2010 Femundlopet champion

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She reached Roros 26 minutes before another women Inger-Marie Haaland.

This is the greatest accomplishment of this young and talented musher, who discovered mushing when she was studying arctic wildlife in Alaska.

Last year, Sigrid Ekran, already showed the quality of her team by taking the 3rd place on La Grande Odyssée Savoie Mont Blanc behind Radek Havrda and.. Robert Sorlie. Then,  she took the 3rd place again in the Femundlopet 600 behind... Robert Sorlie and Ralph Johannessen.

Robert Sorlie, who recovered from his thigh wounded during the first stage of La Grande Odyssée Savoie Mont Blanc 2010, was willing to keep his title on the Femundlopet but two women were faster than him this year. A smile on his face, he joked on the finish line: "now, I will be a supporter of separated classes for the women!"

In fact, Mushing is one of the only sport where men and women compete in the same classes. If there were still people believing that women cannot outclass men, Sigrid and Inger-Marie Haaland gave them the most beautiful proof.

We hope sincerely that Sigrid will be back soon on La Grande Odyssée Savoie Mont Blanc and maybe Inger-Marie will join her ? Emil, Radek, Petter and the others will have to struggle even harder then.

It will be really interesting to follow this year's Finnmarkslopet 1000 as Sigrid Ekran, Femundlopet 2010 champion, and Inger-Marie Haaland, Finnmarkslopet 2009 champion, have signed up. Men may be willing to get a revenge...

The LGO mushers have had various fates on the Femundlopet.

On the 600, congatulations to Jean-Philippe Pontier who grabbed a great 21st place in his firts attempt. He arrived a few minutes ahead of Per Olav Gausereide, the 2010 LGO Rookie of the Year. We don't know yet if he was riding his brand new BEWE sled.

Here are the complet results of the LGO mushers:

1 Sigrid Ekran

3 Robert Sorlie

7 Ketil Reitan

21 Jean-Philippe Pontier

22 Per Olav Gausereide

30 Lars Hoffman (He is at the present time between the last checkpoint and Roros)

31 Catherine Mathis (She is at the present time resting at the last checkpoint before Roros)

Have withdrawn: Jack-Gérard Gaspard (340 km), Barbara Inauen (410 km), Daniele Rao (510 km)

On the Femundlopet 400, Arnt Ola Skjerve almost kept his title. He arrived 23 minutes behind the winner Svein Sødahl Kvam. Congratulations to Arnt Ola for a great race.

Congratulations also to Daniel Juillaguet, a Femundlopet veteran, who took the 26th place and especially to Erik Martinez, 2nd in the Trophée Haute Maurienne 2010 (the small LGO), who finished at the 46th in his first attempt with his siberian husky team.

Here are the complete results of the LGO mushers:

2 Arnt Ola Skjerve

26 Daniel Juillaguet

46 Erik Martinez

48 Thomas Verin (Ketil Reitan's french handler)

Have scratched: Radek Havrda (205 km), Salva Luque (205 km)

Congratulations to all the mushers and the dogs, finishers or not.

Photos: Arbeidets Rett, Stéphanie Prades, Helmut Dietz

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Sigrid EKRAN

Sigrid
EKRAN

Norway Norway [30 years old]

Finisher : 2009

Sponsors :

Prize list :
Femundlopet 600 2010 Champion
Gausdal Marathon 2010 Champion
Iditarod 2007 20th Rookie of the year
Iditarod 2008 24th
La Grande Odyssée 2009 3rd
Femundlopet 600 2009 3rd
Finnmarkslopet 1000 2009 8th

Biography :
Sigrid went to Alaska to study biology. She handled for Susan Butcher. In 2007, she ran her first Iditarod and got Rookie of the year. She also took part in Will Steger Expedition in the arctic the same year.

Per Olav GAUSEREIDE

Per Olav
GAUSEREIDE

Norway Norway [41 years old]

Finisher : 2010

Sponsors :

Prize list :
Scandream Finland 1999 2
Pirena Spain 2001 2
ESDRA EC Hamar 2007 1
IFSS WC Italy 2008 3
Alpentrail 2008 4

Biography :
Along with his wife Elisabeth Edland, Per Olav runs a successful kennel. Since 1992 Per Olav participates in Norwegian competitions and since 1998 in international competitions. This year will be his first participation in La Grande Odyssée Savoie Mont Blanc.

Radek HAVRDA

Radek
HAVRDA

Czech Republic Czech Republic [36 years old]

Finisher : 2010, 2009, 2008

Sponsors : HUMI OUTDOOR - EURO HUSKY - VETERINÁR S.R.O.

Prize list :
Trophée Grande Odyssée 2007 1st
La Grande Odyssée 2008 4th
La Grande Odyssée 2009 1st

Biography :
La Grande Odyssée Savoie Mont Blanc is Radek's main goal. He's working really hard on training to get ready. Which doesn't give him the time to learn english.
Radek is the reigning champion.

Barbara INAUEN

Barbara
INAUEN

Switzerland Switzerland [39 years old]

Finisher : 2010, 2009

Sponsors : Swiss Natural Professional Pet Food, BEWE Sleds, Virbac, omis, GLA-WEL, Energizer, SILVA, Dog Vitality, Dyck Carts, LOWA

Prize list :
Finnmarkslopet 500 2008 DNF
La Grande Odyssée 2009 11th

Biography :
A doctor, Barbara runs with her husband Emil a kennel of 40 alaskan huskies. Originally living in Switzerland, they have moved to Norway to get better training conditionsand to get closer from the main long-distance teams. Barbara has been a handler for Emil for years. For 3 years, she has started to race.

Daniel JUILLAGUET

Daniel
JUILLAGUET

France France [43 years old]

Finisher : 2010, 2009, 2008, 2006, 2005

Sponsors : EUKANUBA - ENERGIZER - NUTRYLIS

Prize list :
Finnmarkslopet 500 2003 16th
Finnmarkslopet 500 2004 27th
LGO 2005 11th
LGO 2006 6th
Trophée Haute Maurienne 2007 7th
Femundlopet 2007 26th
LGO 2008 6th
Femundlopet 2008 28th
LGO 2009 8e

Biography :
A physiotherapist, Daniel is one of the best french long distance musher. He entered La Grande Odyssée Savoie Mont Blanc since his first edition.

Erik MARTINEZ

Erik
MARTINEZ

France France [45 years old]

Finisher :

Sponsors : Proplan Ville de Digne les Bains L’enseignerie de Digne les Bains

Prize list :
Alpentrail 2008
Sédivackuv 2009

Biography :
Erik runs a successful mid-distance kennel. He is now moving to Long Distance. He wants to run the Trophée Haute Maurienne Vanoise to prepare his team for the Femundlopet.

Catherine MATHIS

Catherine
MATHIS

France France [54 years old]

Finisher : 2008

Sponsors : Royal Canin

Prize list :

Biography :
She takes care of the dogs, litters and so... She was practicing windsurfing during more than 10 years before to be involved with sleddogs in 1990. She races in 8 dogs class, she is French champion in this class. She likes cinema (very good movies), Thierry used to say"intellectual movies"!! She is graduated from University but no use to practice mushing !!!

Jean-Philippe PONTIER

Jean-Philippe
PONTIER

France France [36 years old]

Finisher : 2010, 2009, 2008, 2006

Sponsors : TONIVET - VETO ONLINE - DERMOSCENT

Prize list :
Femundlopet 600 2010 (21)
LGO 2010 (6)
LGO 2009 (6)
LGO 2008 (8)
LGO 2006 (8)
Champion de France 2004 mi-distance en illimité (12 chiens).
Trophée Haute Maurienne Vanoise 2007 (2)

Biography :
Jean-Philippe is at the present time the best french musher. He has moved to Norway to improve his training conditions.

Daniele RAO

Daniele
RAO

Italy Italy [47 years old]

Finisher : 2010, 2009

Sponsors :

Prize list :

Biography :
Daniele is back after a convincing try in the 2009 race. If you're a careful watcher you might have noticed that he runs La Grande Odyssée savoie Mont-Blanc in sneakers! He's back so that means that he has nort already freeze his toes!

Ketil REITAN

Ketil
REITAN

Norway Norway [49 years old]

Finisher : 2008, 2009

Sponsors : ROROS HOTELL - YX ENERGI - ROROSBANKEN - ROYAL CANIN NORWAY

Prize list :
Yukon Quest 1989
Iditarod 1991, 1992 (10th), 1993, 1994
Hope Nadezhda 1991
Femundlopet 2008 (2nd), 2009 (7th)
Finnmarkslopet 2006 (12th), 2007 (11th)

Biography :
He has been dogsledding since 1978. Educated with a Masters Degree in Fishery Science from the University of Tromsø, specialized in Inuit whaling, he lived in Alaska for 7 years in the village of Kaktovik, an inuit village with a population of 320.

Ketil is member of Team Lapland.
He also runs a sleddog tour business called Alaskan Husky Tour.

Arnt Ola SKJERVE

Arnt Ola
SKJERVE

Norway Norway [27 years old]

Finisher : 2010

Sponsors :

Prize list :
Finnmarkslopet 500 2008 (3) Rookie of the Year
Gausdal Maraton 2009 - Champion
Femundlopet 400 2009 - Champion
Finnmarkslopet 500 2009 - Champion

Biography :
Arnt Ola is a much talented young musher from Norway. His 2008-2009 racing season has been impressive with 3 victories in major races. We'll have to watch him on this year's La Grande Odyssée Savoie Mont Blanc and not only for the Rookie of the Year Award.

Robert SORLIE

Robert
SORLIE

Norway Norway [52 years old]

Finisher : 2009

Sponsors : Eukanuba, Macrogard, intervet, Vi Sees..., Vom Og Hundemat, Princeton Tec., Seleverkstedet, Brynje, Lowe Alpine, Kamik, OT Sleden, MR

Prize list :
Femundlopet champion: 1996 2000 2002 2005 2007 2009
Finnmarkslopet champion: 1999 2001
Iditarod champion: 2003, 2005
La Grande Odyssée 2009: 2nd

Biography :
Robert is the most famous musher in the world. After winning all the major races in Europe, he ran the Iditarod in 2002 and took the 9th place and the rookie of the year award. He came back the following year and won. And 2 years later, he won again. His way to run his dogs slower but really longer has inspired many other great mushers. Robert has taken the 2nd place and the rookie of the year award in his first La Grande Odyssée Savoie Mont Blanc in 2009. He's back in 2010 to win.