In total, Finland received four medals from the Games: one gold, two silver and one bronze.
Finland’s young orienteers competed successfully when the European Youth Orienteering Championships came to an end in Szczecin, Poland. In total, Finland received four medals from the Games: one gold, two silver and one bronze.
On Monday, the final day of the European Championships, Finland’s 16-year-old girls managed to repeat last year’s European Championship gold, and the 18-year-old boys also won silver.
They competed in the 16-year-old girls’ relay team Lotta Laakso, Anni Jantunen and Iida Koskinen.
– We had a consistently good team, and I believed that the others would also succeed well enough. It was known that the Swiss have a tough anchor who won both individual trips, but I also trusted our own anchor, Lotta Laakso stated in the Orienteering Association’s press release.
The performance on the final day was also to the coach’s liking.
– The message day was excellent, as we got good teams in every series, and many athletes still had a successful performance to this day, rejoiced the national team coach Arttu Syrjäläinen.