Junior World Orienteering Championships: Another victory for the Swedes
Posted on | July 10, 2009 | Category: News
The young Swede Tove Alexandersson has for years been amongst the very best in her age group. Now is she also the best junior in the world on the middle distance.
-Why I am doing well? Maybe because I started so early with orienteering. My parents do the sport and when I was seven-eight years old I started to compete.
In the first years she competed against much older girls – she was seven and the others ten. She had tough competitions learned how to do well.
Earlier this year she won gold at the relay at JWOC in ski orienteering. She also got two individual medals.
-I don’t train that much, maybe about six hours a week, but I have quality in my training and I push hard, Tove says. She has every week one rest day without any training.
Good team
This year Sweden has got gold on every individual distance at the Junior World Orienteering Championships. Tove has an explanation to that.
-There are a lot of good juniors in Sweden. We are a good team and have fun together, smiles the World Champion.
She thinks the beginning of the course was quite easy, but it got more difficult in the end.
– I made a mistake that was about 20 seconds in the end and then I pushed what I could, Tove says. She certainly pushed enough. The Norwegian Britt Ingunn Moian Nydal took silver, just 18 seconds after the Swedish winner. Denmark’s Ida Bobach finished third, and has thus got a medal on every individual distance in these competitions.
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