Emma Klingenberg – the dream came true!
Posted on | July 13, 2012 | Category: Arena
Emma Klingenberg won her biggest gold medal ever in the relay at the Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC). With a perfect run on the last leg, she secured gold for Denmark.
“It was a dream that came true”, Emma says.
She took the silver medal in the Sprint, but didn’t reach her goals for the Middle and Long. Therefore she was extremely motivated before the relay.
Stine Bagger Hagner and Emma’s sister Ita ran well on the two first legs, but it looked as though the gap up to Sweden, leading at the end of the second leg and with the double champion Tove Alexandersson on the last leg, was too big. But the Swede made some mistakes, and Emma caught her and passed her.
“When there was about 500 metres of the race left, I saw Tove about 100 metres behind me. I was thinking that she shall not run faster than me”, Emma smiles.
It ended Denmark’s way and Emma got the same medal as she won in her first JWOC start in 2008 when she was just 16 years old. In the first race at JWOC in Gothenburg she beat everybody. “But this time the gold counts much more for me”, Emma says.
In the men’s relay it was Norway with Eskil Kinneberg in front on the way out on the last leg, but here also there were changes. Sprint winner Gleb Tikhonov was fastest again. He caught up those who had started earlier and could get his second gold at the prize-giving. The Russian recipe was to run perfectly all the time. That worked!
So a great week in Košice is now over.
Emma Klingenberg could now be on her way to the World Championships in Lausanne. She has a place on the Danish relay team, but she is not yet sure she will run in Switzerland.
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