Tove Alexandersson

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Tove Alexandersson
Tove Alexandersson JWOC 2010.jpg
Tove Alexandersson at the Junior World Orienteering Championships 2010
Personal information
Birth nameTove Malin Frida Alexandersson
Born (1992-09-07) 7 September 1992 (age 29)
Borlänge, Dalarna County, Sweden[1]
Sport
Sport
  • Orienteering
  • Ski orienteering
  • Skyrunning
  • Ski mountaineering
Club
Medal record
Representing  Sweden
Women's orienteering
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Strömstad–Tanum Middle
Gold medal – first place 2016 Strömstad–Tanum Long
Gold medal – first place 2017 Tartu Middle
Gold medal – first place 2017 Tartu Long
Gold medal – first place 2017 Tartu Relay
Gold medal – first place 2018 Riga Mixed sprint relay
Gold medal – first place 2018 Riga Long
Gold medal – first place 2019 Østfold Long
Gold medal – first place 2019 Østfold Middle
Gold medal – first place 2019 Østfold Relay
Gold medal – first place 2021 Doksy Sprint
Gold medal – first place 2021 Doksy Mixed sprint relay
Gold medal – first place 2021 Doksy Middle
Gold medal – first place 2021 Doksy Relay
Gold medal – first place 2021 Doksy Long
Silver medal – second place 2012 Lausanne Middle
Silver medal – second place 2012 Lausanne Relay
Silver medal – second place 2013 Vuokatti Middle
Silver medal – second place 2013 Vuokatti Long
Silver medal – second place 2014 Trentino–Veneto Sprint
Silver medal – second place 2014 Trentino–Veneto Long
Silver medal – second place 2018 Riga Sprint
Silver medal – second place 2018 Riga Relay
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Savoie Relay
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Trentino–Veneto Middle
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Trentino–Veneto Relay
World Games
Silver medal – second place 2013 Cali Middle
World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2014 WC Overall
Gold medal – first place 2015 WC Overall
Gold medal – first place 2016 WC Overall
Gold medal – first place 2017 WC Overall
Gold medal – first place 2018 WC Overall
Gold medal – first place 2019 WC Overall
Gold medal – first place 2021 WC Overall
Silver medal – second place 2013 WC Overall
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Jeseník Middle
Gold medal – first place 2016 Jeseník Long
Gold medal – first place 2018 Ticino Sprint
Gold medal – first place 2018 Ticino Long
Silver medal – second place 2016 Jeseník Relay
Silver medal – second place 2018 Ticino Middle
Bronze medal – third place 2012 Falun Relay
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Palmela Middle
Junior World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2009 Trentino Middle
Gold medal – first place 2010 Aalborg Middle
Gold medal – first place 2011 Wejherowo Relay
Gold medal – first place 2012 Kosice Sprint
Gold medal – first place 2012 Kosice Middle
Silver medal – second place 2011 Wejherowo Middle
Silver medal – second place 2012 Kosice Relay
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Wejherowo Long
Women's ski-orienteering
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Tänndalen Sprint
Gold medal – first place 2013 Ridder Sprint
Gold medal – first place 2013 Ridder Sprint Relay
Gold medal – first place 2015 Hamar/Løten Sprint
Gold medal – first place 2015 Hamar/Løten Relay
Gold medal – first place 2017 Krasnoyarsk Sprint
Gold medal – first place 2017 Krasnoyarsk Middle
Gold medal – first place 2017 Krasnoyarsk Relay
Gold medal – first place 2019 Piteå Sprint
Gold medal – first place 2019 Piteå Long
Silver medal – second place 2013 Ridder Relay
Silver medal – second place 2019 Piteå Relay
Silver medal – second place 2019 Piteå Middle
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Ridder Long
Junior World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2009 Dalarna Long
Silver medal – second place 2009 Dalarna Middle
Skyrunning
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Kinlochleven Sky
Ski mountaineering
World Championships [a]
Gold medal – first place 2021 La Massana Combined
Silver medal – second place 2021 La Massana Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2021 La Massana Vertical

Tove Alexandersson (born 7 September 1992) is a Swedish orienteer, ski orienteer, skyrunner and ski mountaineer. She has won a total of 15 gold medals at the World Orienteering Championships and 10 gold medals at the World Ski Orienteering Championships. In 2018, she won the Sky Marathon event at the Skyrunning World Championships, in her second skyrunning race ever. In 2021, she won the combined discipline at the World Championships of Ski Mountaineering. She competes for Stora Tuna OK in orienteering and Alfta-Ösa OK in ski orienteering.[2]

Orienteering[]

Junior World Championships[]

Alexandersson became Middle Distance Junior World Champion in orienteering in 2009.[3][4] She was 16 years old at the time, running against competitors up to four years older than her. She maintained her Middle Distance title in both 2010 and 2012, with two further gold medals in the sprint and in the relay, two silvers, and one bronze in the long distance.

World Orienteering Championships[]

After her success as a junior prodigy Alexandersson took several years to achieve her gold medal, receiving only silvers and bronzes in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 despite being one of the favourites.

She made her breakthrough in 2016, a season which saw her take #1 in the world ranking as well as dominate in the Orienteering World Cup and the World Orienteering Championships, where she won both individual forest titles.

In 2017 she continued to dominate at the 2017 World Orienteering Championships in Estonia, where she won all forest classes (Middle, Long and Relay).

In the 2018 WOC she won the silver medal in sprint[5] and the gold medal in mixed sprint relay.[6]

In the 2019 WOC she won the gold medals in the long and middle distances and also participated in the winning Swedish relay team together with Lina Strand and Karolin Ohlsson.

She also won the Venla Relay in 2018 together with Julia Gross, Anna Mårsell and Magdalena Olsson.[7]

World Championship results[]

Year
Age Long Middle Sprint Relay Sprint
Relay
2011 18 — — — Bronze N/A
2012 19 — Silver — Silver N/A
2013 20 Silver Silver — 4 N/A
2014 21 Silver Bronze Silver Bronze —
2015 22 4 — — — —
2016 23 Gold Gold — 5 —
2017 24 Gold Gold — Gold —
2018 25 Gold DSQ Silver Silver Gold
2019 26 Gold Gold N/A Gold N/A
2021 28 Gold Gold Gold Gold Gold

Orienteering World Cup[]

Alexandersson won the Orienteering World Cup seven times in a row from 2014 to 2021 (there was no World Cup in 2020 du to the COVID-19 pandemic).[8][9][10][11][12]

European Orienteering Championships[]

Alexandersson won both forest European Orienteering Championships titles in 2016.[13] In 2018 she won the gold medals in sprint and long distance and the silver medal in the middle distance.[14]

Ski orienteering[]

She won a gold medal in the sprint distance at the 2011 World Ski Orienteering Championships in Sweden. In 2015, she once again won the women's World Ski Orienteering Championships sprint distance event.[15] Alexandersson is one of very few orienteers who participate in both ski orienteering and the more popular foot orienteering. Alexandersson has been dominant in ski orienteering in recent years; at the championships in Russia in 2017 she won three gold medals. In December 2018, Alexandersson became the first athlete to be ranked #1 in three separate disciplines by the International Orienteering Federation (Ski-O, Foot-O Middle and Long and Foot-O Sprint).[16]

Skyrunning[]

In 2017 Alexandersson took a surprise victory in the 29 kilometer Limone Extreme SkyRace with a margin of 12 minutes ahead of established skyrunning specialists, and despite taking several downhill running falls that required medical attention to arms, hands and legs.[17]

In September 2018 Alexandersson won a gold medal in the Sky discipline of the biennial Skyrunning World Championships held on the Ring of Steall Skyrace course at Kinlochleven in Scotland. She won by more than seven minutes, setting a new course record by 19 minutes on the demanding and technical 29 km (18 mi) course with about 2,500 m (8,200 ft) of climb.[18] Said Alexandersson: "I did not have a big expectation of this race because I am new to skyraces but it was a nice day for me. It was a fantastic course and it feels amazing to be world champion."[19]

In October 2018 Tove Alexandersson triumphed for the second year in a row in the Limone Extreme SkyRace, this time by a margin of nine minutes.[20] This was Alexandersson's third skyrunning race ever, and she remained undefeated.

In July 2020 Alexandersson won the Salomon 27K Fjällmaraton race in Sweden with a new course record.[21] A few days later she won the 43K Fjällmaraton race, again with a new course record.[22] In October Alexandersson won the Skyrace des Matheysins in France.[23] A week later Alexandersson missed victory in a skyrunning race for the first time ever. In the four-day stage race Golden Trail Championship in the Azores she had a huge lead after the first day, but performed increasingly less well over the next three days to finish fourth overall.[24]

In October 2021 Alexandersson won the KM de Chando in Switzerland, where the runners ascend 2,000 vertical meters to the top of Illhorn.[25]

Ski mountaineering[]

In November 2019 Alexandersson stated that she would limit her ski orienteering competitions during the upcoming winter, in order to practice ski mountaineering. She said that she intended to participate in five world cup competitions plus the upcoming European Championships.[26] Her best result that year was a fifth place finish, but the European championships was cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

In Februari 2021, into her second season of Ski mountaineering, Alexandersson won her first World Cup race, following four second place finishes.[27][28] In March 2021, Alexandersson participated in the World Championships in La Massana, Andorra, becoming the combined world champion, and placing second in the individual event, third in the verical event, fourth in the sprint event and fifth in the team relay representing Sweden.[29][30][31][32][33]

Alexandersson would have won the ISMF World Cup Ski Mountaineering overall title in 2021, had she not missed the prize-giving ceremony following the sprint race, held at the world cup final in Madonna di Campiglio. She had finished fifth in the race and, due to a misunderstanding, she was under the impression that only the top three athletes were to attend the ceremony. The mistake resulted in Alexandersson's disqualification and as a consequence the overall title was instead awarded to French competitor Axelle Mollaret, while Alexandersson had to settle for second place.[34][35]

Awards[]

Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal[]

Tove Alexandersson was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in early December 2019.[36]

Jerring Award[]

During Svenska idrottsgalan in January 2020, she received the Jerring Award. She was also awarded "Swedish Sportswoman of the Year 2019".[37][38]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Ski Mountaineering World Championships are held odd years and European Championships even years

References[]

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  2. ^ https://eventor.orienteering.org/Athletes/Details/65
  3. ^ "JWOC 2009 ITA. Trentino, Italy, 5-12 July 2009". International Orienteering Federation. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
  4. ^ "JWOC 2010 DEN. Aalborg, Denmark, 4-10 July 2010". International Orienteering Federation. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
  5. ^ "World Orienteering Championships 2018 Sprint Final Results" (PDF). Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  6. ^ "World Orienteering Championships 2018 Sprint Relay Results" (PDF). Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  7. ^ Carl-Magnus Långkvist (18 June 2018). "Finländska segertorkan fortsätter – Alexandersson förde Stora Tuna till första Venlasegern på över 30 år" (in Swedish). Yle. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
  8. ^ Mårten Lång (30 September 2017). "Toves fjärde raka seger i världscupen" (in Swedish). Svensk orientering. Archived from the original on 1 January 2018. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  9. ^ "Tove Alexandersson vann totala världscupen" (in Swedish). SVT Sport. 4 October 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  10. ^ "Dubbla svenska segrar i sista världscuploppet" (in Swedish). Göteborgsposten. 7 October 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  11. ^ "Tove Alexandersson unbeatable in World Cup". IOF. 29 September 2019. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  12. ^ "World Cup -> Standings". International Orienteering Federation (IOF). 2 October 2021. Archived from the original on 2016-01-17. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
  13. ^ http://runners.worldofo.com/tovealexandersson.html
  14. ^ "EOC 2018 Official results". Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  15. ^ Peter Jonsson (11 February 2015). "Tove Alexanderssons revansch – guld" (in Swedish). SVT Sport. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  16. ^ http://ranking.orienteering.org/PersonView?person=65&ohow=F&event=6388&#list
  17. ^ "Limone Extreme 2017 Summary and Images – Migu Run Skyrunner World Series". Ian Corless. 24 October 2017. Archived from the original on 2018-01-01. Retrieved 2018-01-01.
  18. ^ Bryon Powell (16 September 2018). "2018 Ring of Steall Skyrace Results". iRunFar. Archived from the original on 2018-09-16. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
  19. ^ Bob Smith (15 September 2018). "Kílian Jornet and Tove Alexandersson clinch skyrunning titles with Steall wins". Grough. Archived from the original on 2018-09-16. Retrieved 2018-09-15.
  20. ^ "Limone Extreme 2018 Race Summary and Images". Ian Corless. 13 October 2018. Archived from the original on 2018-10-19. Retrieved 2018-10-19.
  21. ^ "Fjällmaraton – seger och banrekord av orienteringsstjärnan" (in Swedish). Sveriges Television. 25 July 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-07-27. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
  22. ^ "Tove Alexandersson slår nytt banrekord under fjällmaraton" (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. 1 August 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-10-31. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
  23. ^ Fred Bousseau (19 October 2020). "Skyrace des Matheysins, les orienteurs étaient trop forts !" (in French). Trails Endurance. Archived from the original on 2020-11-01. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
  24. ^ "GTC- STAGE 4 / AMERICAN DREAM". Golden Trail Series. 1 November 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-11-02. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
  25. ^ "Egli et Alexandersson remportent la 10e édition des KM de Chando" (in French). Canal9. 19 September 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-10-06. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
  26. ^ "Alexanderssons nya utmaning – skidalpinism" (in Swedish). Svenska Dagbladet. 18 November 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-11-19. Retrieved 2019-11-19.
  27. ^ Work hard, love what you do and have the best team around you. The receipt for success