Four gold medals as target
Posted on | July 4, 2011 | Category: Arena
Ida Bobach runs in to take her fifth Junior World Orienteering Championships gold medal.
Ida Bobach has a very ambitious target for her last Junior World Orienteering Championships: the Dane is aiming for four gold medals. So far, so good!
“There are so many good runners, not least in the Danish team. It will not be easy, but I will try”, Ida smiles. The 19-year-old Dane won the sprint by just 2.3 seconds in front of her team-mate, Emma Klingenberg, who won the sprint gold in Gothenburg two years ago.
In Gothenburg Ida won one medal. The year after in Italy she won four medals including a gold medal in the long distance. Last year she had three gold medals on her home ground in Denmark. She won the sprint, long and relay races, but in the middle distance she injured her foot.
After the first race in Lębork, Poland, about sixty kilometres north-west of Gdansk, she now has nine Junior World Championships medals. “I should have at least ten medals before the Championships are over. No-one has done that before”, she says.
Even though the Championships were in Denmark a year ago, the terrain in the coming races might even be more similar to where she lives in Denmark than last year. “The terrain in the forests here is very similar to Silkeborg where I live.”
How would you compare your level between this year and last year?
“My running skills are almost the same, but maybe I’m a bit more confident in my orienteering”, Ida says.
Emma Klingenberg (left), Denmark, Ida Bobach, Denmark, and Tereza Novotná, Czech Republic, took the medals.
Angela Simpson from New Zealand took a fine sixth place.
Photos: Erik Borg
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