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He shot home the gold to Sweden in the Olympic relay 2018-just a year later he put the rifle on the shelf.
Now the former biathlete Fredrik Lindström, 35, tells the Sports Bible what his life looks like now.
– It is always fun to learn new things and it has been a great challenge to give up on it, he says.
It had been slow for Swedish biathlon for a while, especially on the men’s side, when suddenly Sebastian SamuelssonThe Jesper NelinThe Peppe Femling and Fredrik Lindström Delivered an Olympic gold in the relay in 2018. In Pyeongchang, Lindström was responsible for the last stretch and finished first by all when the Norwegian Emil Hegle Svendsen Shot away Norway’s chances of victory.
Lindström chose a brand new course
The Olympic gold was undoubtedly Fredrik Lindström’s largest achievement as an elite athlete. He also managed to take bronze in the mass start in the 2012 World Cup and at a distance in the World Cup 2013. Shortly after Guldlyckan, however, the then 29-year-old Ångermanmänning chose to end his active career. Instead, he chose to invest in something completely different.
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In an interview with the Sports Bible, he talks about his life as a married two -child father and dog owner with houses in the hometown of Örnsköldsvik.
– Yes, when I quit I started studying for a doctor. So I have been there for five years and am in the last semester of the medical program. Reads from the top Umeå. So it has been a lot of studies and long days, to commute up there and from Ö-vik where I have my base. It has been a huge change in everyday life, so to speak. From being an elite athlete to being a full -time student. But it is always fun to learn new things and it has been a great challenge to give up on it, he says.
Lindström has long dreamed of the medical profession
He goes on to say that he has long been thinking of becoming a doctor, but that his sports career has constantly postponed the plans.
– There has probably been a little neighbor there in the background even before, but during high school it was so: “Maybe it is something I would like to invest in later”. But sports went very well in that period as well. I took big steps and got the chance to join the national team early and then of course it was full focus on trying it and testing their wings there and seeing how good you could be as a biathlete in the first place, he says and continues:
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– When you saw that the results are starting to decline and the thoughts of what to do then began to emerge more seriously, it came up again. Maybe it’s the doctor to invest in becoming? I have read ten semesters now so this summer I take the doctor’s degree.
The relationship with biathlon today
When the Sports Bible asks him if he has any future dream or a dream workplace in the future, it turns out that he has thought of how fun it would be to be able to link his previous life with the new.
– Yes, I would have liked to have been able to combine these two experiences you have anyway. Working with athletes would have been fucking fun I would think. It feels like it had fit and been interesting.
Are you involved in biathlon in any way now?
– No, I can’t say that. So I am not in the union or the national team or anything like that. But on the other hand, I have children who are starting to stay at that age that they have started to test a little neighbor. I am a little involved at grassroots level and help as a coach at the club I competed for the whole career, Anundsjö. And so it has been a little litter assignment for the media, that you have been some kind of biathlon expert on SVT or other channels.
Has your former elite sports career as a biathlon helped you in any way in medical studies?
– Yes, but I think so. It is clear that it is an performance environment also to take on university studies. And it is clear that experiences from the sports career have been important. To set goals and plan their time. Yes, such things I would say.
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So exciting to hear about your life now, Fredrik. You had a cool career that was topped with an Olympic gold. There are few people spoiled.
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