Volunteer of the Year

2023 Ulric Carlsson In 1981, Lidingöloppet introduced the concept of "blocks" for the different work areas, and the eight individuals responsible for these areas, along with other functions, became part of the race management. In 1996, Ulric Carlsson became responsible for the entire Local Block and was also co-responsible for sanitation. In 1997, Lidingöloppet developed an environmental policy, "The Green Race on the Green Island." At Grönsta, an environmental station was established, and 10 Lidingöloppet officials received training in Säfsen. Lidingöloppet was the first among the Classic Race organizers to take this initiative. Over a series of years, the development of sanitation has continuously improved, and from 2012 there was a restart with the Eco-labeled Event, which had new criteria, guidelines, and support for Lidingöloppet. The person who has contributed most to this development is Ulric Carlsson.

2022 Pia Isaksson No one can be more deserving of an honorary award than a person who has themselves celebrated nearly 4,000 awardees! Therefore, it was only natural that the Officials' Award 2022 is presented to Pia Isaksson - the Lidingö Race's prize responsible, who for 18 years has recognized participants on the big stage!

The mission involves being the cohesive person who enables the celebration over three days of all the awardees' great achievements. Pia has full control over the logistics, both behind, beside, and on stage when awards are presented by various presenters of the Lidingö Race.

With her special calm, security, commitment, and knowledge, Pia spreads harmony around everything she is involved in both on and around the stage, for both awardees and fellow officials.

2021 Anders Rahmqvist Anders was the starting speaker at the Lilla Lidingöloppet since 1980 on Saturday. The day after, he performed the same role at the start of Fågelöudde's 15-kilometer race. After a break for work in Falun, Anders returned to resume his former job as the speaker at the start of the Lilla Lidingöloppet. Since 2013, Anders has been part of the medical team.

When the pandemic took hold of society in the spring of 2020, Anders stepped in as the race doctor to guide Lidingöloppet through a difficult time marked by restrictions and Corona adaptations. During the very limited Elite Race that was held in 2020, a partly new medical organization was tested, which under the leadership of Anders was rolled out on a full scale in 2021. The work in 2021 involved not only the usual race doctor duties but also efforts to recruit and train the medical organization. In addition, the race was adapted in various ways so that both participants and officials would feel safe in taking part in the race, despite the pandemic.

2019 Martin Terry Received the award after becoming the hub of the organization with his 20 years of experience. His experience and expertise have been of great significance for the execution of the Lidingöloppet. He started as a volunteer in 1999 and became a permanent fixture. Since 2004, he has been the race director as well as the technical and IT manager. In addition to this, his areas of responsibility include receiving deliveries, construction, traffic logistics, etc., and if there's anything you want to know, you ask Martin.

2017 Janne Åkerblom Lidingö Race official for 44 consecutive years, Janne started by preparing start envelopes, marking the route from lodging places to the starts.

In the mid-1980s, there was a speaker job by Kyrkviken, well-prepared, both the audience and the runners received interesting information. The assignment was later also expanded to include the Grönsta passage.

At the end of the 1980s, a creative effort followed in the marketing group, with various themes in the four Lidingölopp newspapers, many remember “When did you last give your wife a Lidingölopp start?” “On the way down? Treat yourself to a couple of solid uphill climbs.” As the Lidingöloppet runners' market took shape, his task was to capture the post-race feeling through interviews with the runners.

The award ceremony is an important part of the event, the winners must be highlighted, informed about how the award presentation works, not least to take the three steps forward towards the edge of the stage after receiving their prize to receive the triple Lidingölopp experience.

Editor for Lidingöloppet 365 Live, which started in the anniversary year 2014, meant that from a basic layout of the broadcast, the TV broadcast had to be planned in detail down to ten-second intervals to create a 'running order', which also had to be flexible. The runners do not run equally fast every year. This year, the broadcast was also expanded to include the 15 km race.

2018 Väino Tarandi Started at Banan in 1968. Chief of Finish for nine years between 1981-89.

Head of Participant Division 1988-95, AU 1996-99 and its chairman 98-99. Responsible for the distribution of bib numbers since 2000, where he has been the rock of the operation with the distinguished effort in 2018 when the on-site direct printing of bib numbers became the great challenge and where the professorial merit came into play.

2016 Mikael Tarandi Started at Banan in 1968. Chief of Finish in the 1990s for nine years. In LL's board and management team for 21 years, including four years as chairman. Handled bib distribution for nine years before moving on to the track in 2012, taking over responsibility and meticulously organizing the operations to set an example.

2015 Ann-Marie Hevreng was already involved in the early 1970s at the major start. Later, Ann-Marie has been in charge of volunteer recruitment within athletics. Always helpful with office work for many hours, always in a good mood. In recent years, responsible for volunteer meals at Grönsta.

2014 Lennart Brattgård for his dedicated, knowledgeable, experienced, and tireless work in leading the Lidingöloppet race secretariat. Lennart, who as early as 1973 was involved in compiling the race's results list largely manually to further develop today's advanced computerized technology.

In addition to his work in the race secretariat, Lennart has at various stages been a part of the race's board, competition management, and block leader.

2013, Eva Blomberg received this award for her dedicated work with information activities and efforts with acute illnesses.