Team Karlsson
Petter & Angela

Sleddog races are one of the most demanding sports in the world. Team Petter Karlsson Sleddogs is a proud breeder and trainer of some of the world’s best Alaskan Huskies.

Petter Karlsson is a multi discipline world top musher since more than twenty years. He has successfully competed in both skijoring and sled sprint, mid-distance and long distance. The last decade he has been one of the worlds best long distance mushers as a multiple times Finnmarksløpet 1200 winner. The secret behind the success is a thorough evaluation of breeding dogs, a constant development of training and racing plans, great knowledge on dog care and a particular work on every detail that matters for the performance of the team.

Petter Karlsson is a competitive dog musher and the breeder of some of the fastest long distance dogs on the planet. He has won Europe’s longest race (Finnmarksløpet, 1200km) four times, and the 650km Femundløpet in record breaking time. He is the World Champion in Longdistance.

Although Finnmarksløpet and Femundløpet are recent high profile successes Petter has been striving to reach a peak of excellence in the sport for many years. Since the late nineties he has excelled at every class of dog mushing. Having found success in sprint racing and then mid-distance, winning theEuropean Championshipamong others, Petter decided to take on the notoriously difficultLa Grande Odyssée2006. La Grande Odyssée is well known as The Tour De France of dog mushing. A stage race in the Swiss and French Alps, it runs through some of the most extreme terrain on earth. He went on to win it in 2008, but not before putting everything on the line to achieve his goal.

In 2016, he made history as the first non-Norwegian to claim victory in Europe’s longest sled dog race, theFinnmarksløpet. The following year saw him triumph in the Femundlopet in record breaking time, and in 2018, he secured another Finnmarkslopet win, crossing the finish line just six minutes ahead of the runner-up team. In 2023 Petter not only clinched his third Finnmarkslopet title but also earned the prestigious title oflong-distance world champion. This triumph wasn’t a one-time feat; he successfully defended his victory at the beginning of 2024.

ANGELA STONE KARLSSON

Hailing from central Sweden, Angela has taken to life in the north and wouldn’t be anywhere else! While juggling work, business management, two raucous young boys and an equally raucous little girl, somehow Angela still finds time to support Petter’s farming and training, and is a cornerstone of the team.