32 Facts About Tove Alexandersson

Tove Alexandersson was born on 7 September 1992 and is a Swedish foot orienteer, ski orienteer, skyrunner, trail runner, ski mountaineer and skysnow runner.

Tove Alexandersson holds the record for the number of gold medals in a row at the World Orienteering Championships, winning 11 in a row between 2018 and 2022.

Tove Alexandersson has won 10 gold medals at the World Ski Orienteering Championships, and in 2018, she won the Sky Marathon event at the Skyrunning World Championships, in her second skyrunning race ever.

In 2024 Tove Alexandersson won all three events in the SkySnow World Championships in her first such event ever.

Tove Alexandersson competes for Stora Tuna OK in orienteering and Alfta-Osa OK in ski orienteering.

Tove Alexandersson became Middle Distance Junior World Champion in orienteering in 2009.

Tove Alexandersson was 16 years old at the time, running against competitors up to four years older than her.

Tove Alexandersson maintained her Middle Distance title in both 2010 and 2012, with two further gold medals in the sprint and in the relay, two silvers, and one bronze in the long distance.

Tove Alexandersson set a record for the number of gold medals in World Orienteering Championships in a row won, winning eleven in a row for four years between 2018 and 2022, before finally coming sixth place in the sprint at the 2022 World Orienteering Championships following several errors.

Tove Alexandersson won the Venla Relay in 2018 together with Julia Gross, Anna Marsell and Magdalena Olsson.

Tove Alexandersson won the Orienteering World Cup nine times in a row from 2014 to 2023.

Tove Alexandersson won a gold medal in the sprint distance at the 2011 World Ski Orienteering Championships in Sweden.

Tove Alexandersson is one of the few orienteers who participates in both ski orienteering and the more popular foot orienteering.

Tove Alexandersson has been dominant in ski orienteering in recent years; at the championships in Russia in 2017 she won three gold medals.

In 2017 Tove Alexandersson took a surprise victory in the 29 kilometer Limone Extreme SkyRace with a margin of 12 minutes ahead of established skyrunning specialists, and despite taking several downhill running falls that required medical attention to arms, hands and legs.

In September 2018 Tove Alexandersson won a gold medal in the Sky discipline of the biennial Skyrunning World Championships held on the Ring of Steall Skyrace course at Kinlochleven in Scotland.

In October 2018 Tove Alexandersson triumphed for the second year in a row in the Limone Extreme SkyRace, this time by a margin of nine minutes.

In July 2020 Tove Alexandersson won the Salomon 27K Fjallmaraton race in Sweden with a new course record.

In October 2021 Tove Alexandersson won the KM de Chando in Switzerland, where the runners ascend 2,000 vertical meters to the top of Illhorn.

In June 2023 Tove Alexandersson took a silver medal in the 2023 World Mountain and Trail Running Championships World Championship in the Up and Downhill Mountain class.

In March 2024 Tove Alexandersson participated in the first World Championships of the running discipline SkySnow which consists of running on snow at high altitude wearing micro crampons.

Tove Alexandersson had never competed in this sport but nevertheless won all three gold medals up for grabs: Vertical, Classic and Combined.

In November 2019 Tove Alexandersson stated that she would limit her ski orienteering competitions during the upcoming winter, in order to practice ski mountaineering.

Tove Alexandersson said that she intended to participate in five world cup competitions plus the upcoming European Championships.

Tove Alexandersson's best result that year was a fifth-place finish, but the European championships was cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

In February 2021, into her second season of Ski mountaineering, Tove Alexandersson won her first World Cup race, following four second-place finishes.

In March 2021, Tove Alexandersson participated in the World Championships in La Massana, Andorra, becoming the combined world champion, and placing second in the individual event, third in the vertical event, fourth in the sprint event and fifth in the team relay representing Sweden.

Tove Alexandersson would have won the ISMF World Cup Ski Mountaineering overall title in 2021, had she not missed the prize-giving ceremony following the sprint race, held at the world cup final in Madonna di Campiglio.

Tove Alexandersson had finished fifth in the race and, due to a misunderstanding, she was under the impression that only the top three athletes were to attend the ceremony.

In 2024 Tove Alexandersson won the individual race in the European Championships of Ski Mountaineering.

Tove Alexandersson was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in early December 2019.

Tove Alexandersson was awarded "Swedish Sportswoman of the Year 2019".