Occassional thoughts about orienteering
|
|
| okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering |
|
|
Saturday, July 13, 2002 An interview with AnnichenAnnichen Kringstad is one of the great orienteers. She won world championships in 1981, 1983 and 1985. Before 1987, the WOC was one race -- a classic champs. You had one chance and only one chance. Winning three in a row is amazing.Annichen dominated the world champs she won. In Switzerland in 1981, she won by just over three minutes. In Hungary in 1983, she won by over seven minutes. In Australia in 1985, she won by less than a minute (she started the race in Australia with 5-6 minutes of booms in the first part of the course, then smoked the rest of the course and won). Expressen published an interview with Annichen. A few quotes: "I went my own way. I didn't want it to be at the cost of others, but I understand that I was considered very egotistical. This stuff about 'team spirit' just wasn't my way" "I tried smoking when I was just nine years old. I've never been able to smoke. I've tried several times, but I can't. I cough and feel awful. I guess I'm glad for that." Expressen notes that when she was in high school, she often trained three times a day. As a young junior, she didn't have especially good results -- she was fast, but rarely found the controls right away. "I've got a list of results from a training camp when I was 12. I was last in every race." Expressen notes that she trained hard and trained a lot. "Unfortunately, no one told me that I couldn't train 12 hours a week. So, I trained too much and got injured." A few years later, she got a stress fracture. "They put my leg in a cast. It wasn't necessary except that it would force me not to train." She finished her elite career after three gold medals, when she was just 25 years old. "It finally became so important to win that it wasn't fun." posted by Michael | 2:10 PM 
Comments:
Post a Comment
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
||||
|
|||||
