Emma Klingenberg

Career

The junior world championship, and Klingenberg"s victory in the sprint event, has been covered or referred to in news magazines and sports magazines worldwide. But she already has had experience of international events. She has participated in the European Youth Orienteering Championships and she has done orienteering since she was seven years old.

Her club is Oklahoma Pan Århus and she is from the southern part of Denmark.

Achievements

• Emma Klingenberg became Junior World Champion in sprint in Gothenburg in 2008, before Silje Ekroll Jahren and Jenny Lönnkvist, with less than three seconds between winner and third place. She was the youngest person to ever win a junior world orienteering championship. Danish newspapers had more in-depth presentations of the winner. When Emma became Junior World Champion she was only 16 years old.