Middle distance is Kirsi’s best distance
Posted on | July 10, 2012 | Category: Arena
Photo: Erik Borg
Even if her trainer talked about a medal fight before the long distance race, Kirsti Nurmi had been thinking about being among the ten best. Now the Finn is Junior World Champion.
“Maybe I can have as my goal to take a medal on the middle distance now”, Kirsi smiles, “middle is the distance I thought I was best at!”
For four years Kirsi has been training well and going hard for orienteering. Last year the soon 20-year-old Finn didn’t qualify for the Junior World Championships and that gave her motivation to train even better during the winter just to qualify for and do well at this years championships.
She has really done that. Her championships started with a fourth place on the sprint in central Košice and continued then with an impressive win on the long distance. The gap was 2.31 minutes to Frida Sandberg from Sweden on the second place.
The Finn navigated very well and says one of her strong points is that she is doing very few mistakes in the forest. She has been training in terrains such as the Slovakian both on training camps and the Finns also had their qualification races before the championships in Slovakia.
Kirsi has not yet decided what to do the upcoming year. She has applied to be a doctoral student in the universities in the Swedish towns Gothenburg and Umeå.
“But I am also thinking about taking a year off of studies and going hard for orienteering”, says Kirsi, who comes from Vaasa on the West coast of Finland.
Kirsi Nurmi won the long distance with a big gap. Photo: Erik Borg
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