Junior World Orienteering Championships: Gustav knows how to adjust his speed
Posted on | July 8, 2009 | Category: News
Gustav Bergman has grown up with orienteering and always been very eager to train and learn more. He has found out how to run a perfect long distance race.
– I didn’t expect gold, but I hoped for that, Gustav smiles.
He ran incredible well; he had the perfect speed. The difference to the Dane Søren Bobach on second place was 3.24 minutes. Just six seconds after Bobach was Martin Hubmann, Switzerland, taking his second bronze in these competitions.
– I don’t think I ran faster than the others. I won because of the orienteering, 18 years old Gustav says.
Gustav lives in the southern part of the Swedish capital Stockholm and has grown up with orienteering. He is really interested in training techniques and spends a lot of time looking at maps. Just some weeks ago he won the long distance at the Open Nordic Championships. That was in Finland in a terrain very similar to what Gustav has grown up with. In Italy the forest is very different from Stockholm.
– But we had a one-week long training camp here last autumn and now a week of preparations before the competitions. That is how I learned how to run here, Gustav explains.
He says he started the race quite slow to avoid any mistakes, and speeded up towards the end.
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