Eleven minutes.
That was how big the margin was when Jenny Rissveds won SM gold in mountain biking.
The star is showing super form with only a week left until the Olympics.
When the Olympics were decided in 2016, Jenny Rissveds was perhaps the most unexpected joy in the Swedish squad. She was only 22 years old when the Rio events were decided, and had largely only competed in U23 events internationally.
Historic Olympic gold
However, Rissveds had shown that she was a super talent when the year before she won every competition in the World Cup for U23, but few would have expected that she would win Olympic gold. She became the first Swedish female cyclist to win Olympic gold ever, and the first Swedish cyclist to win gold since Bernt Johansson in 1976.
Jenny Rissveds became one of Sweden’s most popular athletes overnight, and the following year she was awarded the Performance of the Year at the Sports Gala, the Victoria Scholarship, and HM The King’s Medal. When the Olympics were decided in Tokyo last time, it was not the same success for Rissveds, who then struggled with form. But now, ahead of the Olympics in Paris, she seems to be in great shape.
Is in great shape
The Olympics are now just over a week away, and on Thursday Rissveds competed in the mountain bike SC, and it ended with a huge crash. Rissveds finished first ahead of runner-up Linn Gustafzzon, but it wasn’t that Rissveds won that was remarkable – it was the margin by which she did it.
In the end, the margin of victory was eleven(!) minutes, and to say that Rissveds is in good shape for the Olympics, which opens on July 26, would be an understatement.
– I am in a good place, she says, according to SVT.
The SM gold was Rissved’s eleventh in his career.
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