Maja Alm

Maja Møller Alm (born July 10, 1988) is a Danish orienteering and Athletics competitor who has won seven World Championships and two World Games titles. She is especially known for her four gold medals on the sprint distance, where she has won the title four years in a row: 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. She is also a medalist from the Junior World Championships. Since 2006 she has been coached by Danish national coach Lars Lindstrøm. Alm is remarkable for her dominant running speed, which gives her a great advantage over other competitors at the sprint distance.

Maja Alm
Alm at WOC 2010
Personal information
Full nameMaja Møller Alm
BornJuly 10, 1988 (1988-07-10) (age 32)
Medal record
Women's orienteering
Representing  Denmark
World Championships
2018 Riga Sprint
2018 Riga Long
2018 Riga Mixed sprint relay
2017 Tartu Long
2017 Tartu Mixed sprint relay
2017 Tartu Sprint
2016 Strömstad-Tanum Sprint
2016 Strömstad-Tanum Mixed sprint relay
2015 Inverness Sprint
2015 Inverness Relay
2015 Inverness Mixed sprint relay
2016 Strömstad-Tanum Relay
2014 Trentino-Veneto Relay
2014 Trentino-Veneto Mixed sprint relay
2012 Lausanne Sprint
2014 Trentino-Veneto Sprint
World Games
2017 Wroclaw Sprint
2017 Wroclaw Relay
2013 Cali Relay
2013 Cali Sprint
World Cup
2010 WC Overall
European Championships
2012 Falun Sprint
2010 Primorsko Sprint
Junior World Championships
2008 Göteborg Relay
2007 Dubbo Sprint
Simone Niggli and Maja Alm in Stockholm 2010.

Junior career

Alm won a silver medal in relay at the Junior World Orienteering Championships in Gothenburg in 2008, together with Ida Bobach and Signe Klinting, and received an individual bronze medal in sprint at the 2007 championships in Dubbo.[1][2]

Senior career

In her early career, she competed for the Danish relay team at the 2007 World Orienteering Championships in Kyiv, where the team finished 8th. At the 2008 European Orienteering Championships in Ventspils, the Danish relay team finished 10th. She won a bronze medal at the European Orienteering Championships in Bulgaria in 2010.

In 2015, she won the first of four sprint gold medals in a row at the World Championships. Alm also won the Relay and Mixed Sprint Relay in the same year.

In 2017, Alm took her first individual forest medal at the World Championships – a silver in the Classic[2] – behind Swedish runner Tove Alexandersson.

In 2018, Alm won her fourth sprint gold medal at the World Orienteering Championship in Riga,[3] and in addition she brought the Danish mixed sprint relay team at the last leg from the seventh position to a bronze medal.[4] She also won a silver medal in the long distance.[5]

Alm runs for OK Pan Århus, and won the Jukola relay for the club in 2013 and 2014.

World Championship results
Year
Age Long Middle Sprint Relay Sprint
Relay
200719———8N/A
200820————N/A
200921393528—N/A
201022171195N/A
201123—645N/A
201224—2826N/A
201325—1047N/A
201426—6322
201527—11111
201628—5121
2017292—1102
2018302—163

Athletics

Alm competed in the 2018 European Cross Country Championships in Tilburg, where she finished 18th.[6]

In 2019, she competed in the senior women's race at the 2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships held in Aarhus, Denmark.[7] She finished in 53rd place.[7]

See also

References
  1. Junior World Orienteering Championships Archived 2007-08-17 at the Wayback Machine – International Orienteering Federation (Retrieved on July 8, 2008)
  2. "Profile: Maja Alm" – World of O Runners (Retrieved on July 8, 2008)
  3. "World Orienteering Championships 2018 Sprint Final – Women" (PDF). woc2018.lv. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
  4. "World Orienteering Championships 2018 Sprint Relay" (PDF). woc2018.lv. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
  5. "World Orienteering Championships 2018 Long – Women" (PDF). woc2018.lv. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
  6. https://www.european-athletics.org/photos/gallery=tilburg-2018-spar-european-cross-country-championships/index.html
  7. "Senior women's race" (PDF). 2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 June 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
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