The Demino Ski Marathon (Russian: Дёминский лыжный марафон) is a cross-country skiing marathon in Russia. It has been held since 2007 and was appointed as a Worldloppet event in June 2012.[1] It is the most popular ski race in Russia (1402 participants in 2015).

Demino Ski Marathon
Дёминский лыжный марафон
Demino Ski Marathon, 2015
Statusactive
Genresporting event
Date(s)March
Frequencyannual
Location(s)Rybinsk
CountryRussia
Inaugurated2007 (2007)
Participants1402
Websitehttps://marathon.demino.com/ski

The Demino Ski Marathon has been a member of the Russialoppet since 2008.

The main distance is 50 km free style, in one or two laps. The race is held on Ski Center Demino, near Rybinsk city. The ski marathon is a part of the Demino Cup, which includes also a cross-country cycling marathon and running half-marathon.

The only time the marathon has been cancelled was in 2014 due to lack of snow.

Winners

Year Number of finishers Men Time Ladies Time
2007 86  Russia Alexander Abramov 2:40:55 (52 km)  Russia Irina Semerikova 1:39:56 (30 km)
2008 399  Norway Anders Aukland 2:07:36  Russia Ludmila Tsypulina 1:23:39 (30 km)
2009 1357  Belarus Aliaksei Ivanou 2:11:04  Russia Olga Rocheva 2:19:09
2010 1020  Belarus Aliaksei Ivanou 2:11:41  Russia Natalya Zernova 2:20:00
2011 1192  Russia Sergey Shiryayev 2:03:03,2  Russia Natalya Zernova 2:17:26,10
2012 1291  Russia Vadim Nesterov 2:03:49,0  Belarus Ekaterina Rudakova 2:17:27,2
2013 1645  Italia Florian Kostner 2:28:18  Russia Olga Mikhaylova 2:43:11
2014 cancelled
2015 1402  Russia Sergey Turyshev 01:48:49.6  Belarus Ekaterina Rudakova 01:55:36.4
2016 1585  Russia Yevgeny Dementyev 01:45:01.5  Russia Olga Rocheva 01:54:39.8

References

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  1. ^ "Demino Ski Marathon". Worldloppet. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
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