To enjoy the outdoors you can take one of the Sports Tours in Sweden. There are excellent Swedish Sports facilities and sports are an important part of Swedish life. The country is also well known in the international sports arena. Sports Tours in Sweden will make visitors know about the sporting heritage and famous Swedish athletes.
Some of the famous Swedish Athletes includes tennis players like Björn Borg, Mats Wilander and Stefan Edberg. According to the Olympic medals table, Sweden ranks seventh with 550 medals out of which 170 are gold. While taking the Sports Tours in Sweden you can learn about the new sporting stars like Jan-Ove Waldner, Ludmila Enquist, Peter Forsberg, Annika Sörenstam, Pernilla Wiberg and Fredrik Ljungberg.
One of the popular Sports in Sweden is winter sports like skiing, cross country skiing, sledding and long distance skating. Other popular sports include football, ice hockey, athletics, basketball, handball and bandy. Sports Tours in Sweden also features extreme sports like kayaking, white water rafting, rock climbing, peak excursions and glacier climbing.
The country also hosts one of the largest cross country races in the world, Vasaloppet which is 90 kilometers long and attended by over 12,000 participants. A number of world championships are held in Sweden like the Stockholm Open for tennis, Swedish Open in golf and the Stockholm Marathon. You can also discover Sweden on horseback and cycling and mountain biking. The popular biking places include the countryside and around the lakes Vänern, Vättern, Tåkern or Siljan and Gota Canal. Sports Tours in Sweden also features water activities like canoeing, kayaking, sailing, timber rafting and wreck diving.
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