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Normally, Swedish Championship competitions are not primarily in the focus of the Swedish national team coaches. International championships have priority. But in crown times, this weekend’s Swedish Championship with medium distance on Saturday and long distance on Sunday turned out to be one of the best moments of the season.
The question is whether Gustav Bergman, 29, of OK Ravinen, is in the shape of his life. He convinced with double gold. A mighty climb in the last half hour during the long distance in the Svartedalen nature reserve north of Kungälv, a big hard and grumpy forest, was enough to catch up and get away from the rest.
Much lower odds of gold In the class of women that what Tove Alexandersson had, is probably hard to have, if games have been offered. But after the 28-year gold in middle distance at Säve in Heringen on Saturday, with a margin of more than three minutes, she already felt shortly after the start that something was wrong and decided to break up the race.
– I’m not feeling well, he said and went home.
In Alexandersson’s absence He stepped forward with a little surprise: Sanna Fasth from Eksjö SOK. True, she took silver at the Swedish Long Distance Championship last year, but after a difficult spring with injuries, few had probably counted on her at the top.
She got sparring in the woods from IFK Gothenburg’s Sara Hagström, who had regained her lead in two minutes, but once at the finish, Sanna still had a 17-second margin.
– I didn’t think it would be enough until now, he tells DN later.
Sanna Fasth feels that long distances suit her better than short distances.
– I often feel stressed at medium distances. In races like this, I can allow myself to stand still for five seconds to check the map properly.
The true fast is coming from Boxholm in Östergötland, but switched to the club in Eksjö when he started the orientation high school there. But now she is in the fourth semester of the medical line in Gothenburg. Combining tough studies with maintaining a spot in the woods at the national team level takes its price.
– It’s a puzzle, she says.
– So tonight I need to catch up a bit after this SM weekend. But it was worth it.
