Junior World Orienteering Championships: Young winner with a lot of experience
Posted on | July 8, 2009 | Category: News
Growing up in an orienteering family, Ida Bobach has both participated in orienteering races and organised them for other people from early on. Yesterday she won the long distance race at the Junior World Championships.
– We sent her and her brothers early out in the forest to place control flags, smiles the mother Dorthe Hansen. – And they have all the time wanted to participate in orienteering and enjoyed training.
Even if Ida comes from a flat country, Denmark, she knew how to keep the right speed and how to read the map in the very hilly terrain in the valley of Primiero. Ida was 81 seconds faster than Jenny Lönnkvist, the Swedish winner of the sprint distance, and the gap to Marika Teini from Finland was 144 seconds.
Ida follows the footsteps of her brothers: Christian, now a senior, got a bronze medal on the long distance two years ago. Søren won the middle distance three years ago in Lithuania, was twice third last year, and got a silver medal on the long distance yesterday. The parents have also done really well: Both Dorthe Hansen and Erik Bobach were in the Danish national team for a long time. From 1976 to 1983 Dothe was the best female runner in Denmark and she and the Danish team got relay bronze in the World Championships in Hungary in 1983.
The Bobach children were quite young when they started orienteering abroad.
– When I was about ten years old I ran alone in Czech Republic. Earlier I had been in France but only taking part in easy competitions, Ida says.
With her Swedish club Ulricehamns OK Ida has also got the chance to compete on high level in relays. She ran a good first leg in Venla relay this year when Ulricehamns won the competition.
Ida has done well at the Junior World Championships before, too. Last year she was in the Danish team that won a silver medal in the relay.
– But I’m orienteering much better this year, smiles Ida, the world champion.
What a day for the Bobachs: Ida got gold. Søren took silver.
Photo: Erik Borg
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