That fate also hit national teammate Sara Hagström, whose IFK Gothenburg was the first in the competition ahead of the final leg. There, the error stamping came at the cluster of distance four (one of four runners on the distance stamped fault).

As a result, the two largest Swedish teams were snowballed away before the decision could be made on Nytorp's meadows. The Swedish national team runners had to make a volt start half an hour later to at least get out and run in the terrain, but without getting any results.

Finnish victory

With the Swedish favorite teams gone, it was free for Finnish and Norwegian teams. Tampereen Pyrintö's Saila Kinni was able to get out over four minutes ahead of Koovee's Svetlana Mironova on the 25th and final stretch. Shortly thereafter, Norwegian Nydalen veteran Ann Margrethe Hausken Nordberg, 43, was shadowed. The Norwegian World Cup runner led Halden to victory in the competition ten years ago.

Kinni ran safely for Tampereen Pyrintö and led the club to the third 25-man victory. Nordberg won the sprint settlement for Nydalen for second place before Mironova's Koovve.

The world champion in relay, Gustav Bergman, in the organizer club OK Ravinen (together with Haninge SOK), ran in the competition and traveled somewhere around 35 km in company with the leader and reported to the organizer in the live broadcast on radio. Wife Helena Bergman, also with world champion credentials, was wreathed.