Junior World Orienteering Championships: Lönnkvist has won in all distances
Posted on | July 7, 2009 | Category: News
Jenny Lönnkvist from Sweden won the Junior World Championships sprint today, and now has a gold medal from all distances.
– The feeling when getting the first gold two years ago was bigger, but it’s always good to win, smiles the Swede. The final-year junior from Tullinge, just 20 kilometres south of the Swedish capital Stockholm, won the middle distance at JWOC in Australia in 2007. Last year she won in long distance and relay in her home country Sweden.
– This time I didn’t really feel it was a World Championships. I’m not so nervous now and I am feeling much more secure in my orienteering, smiles the Swede. She was 28 seconds faster than Tereza Novotna and Ida Bobach who shared second place; that’s a really big gap in a sprint.
– I didn’t make any mistakes, but I had to stop a few times – it was so difficult. Sprint isn’t usually that difficult in Sweden. I think this is the most challenging sprint I have ever done, and I really like it that way, smiles Jenny.
– And now you’re on the way to more golds?
– I am not thinking of going for gold every time. I am looking to run good races. If I do that I will be satisfied, she says.
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