Julia Henrikson, 22, is Sweden’s enemy queen in Helsinki.
After winning the 100-meter race, she followed up with another impressive 200.
Personal record with 17 percent – in the cold and against the wind.
– I felt it went so fast, but I didn’t think it would go so fast, she says.
Sweden came home with a triple in the women’s 200m, with Julia Henrikson completely outperforming.
She is emerging more and more as Sweden’s new sprint queen.
Now the clock stopped at 23.15 and took it from 10th to 6th in Sweden all the time.
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Julia has a rather unusual background, re-emerging as a fifteen-year-old talent, but then disappearing when she started high school.
I quit athletics completely and didn’t get any results from 2016 or 2017.
I started betting again in 2019
But it wasn’t until 2019 that she began investing in athletics full-time again.
At 100 metres, she already became Sweden’s fifth all-time with 11.37 from a competition in Mölndal last year. But she sees a bigger future in the double distance.
She has a coach who knows how to pass with an accuracy of 200 metres.
77-year-old Kenneth Olsson took Johan Weissmann to the top of Europe and gold at the 200m European Championships in Gothenburg in 2006.
Weissmann is the fastest over a distance in Sweden ever with a 20.30.
For Julia, the goal is to follow in the same footsteps.
– Yes, we are now choosing to bet more on 200. We think I have more potential there. Looking at training, I think I can go under 23 seconds already next season, she recently told local newspaper HD.
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Yes, it seems far from impossible.
In Finnkampen, she beat Lisa Lilja by 34 percent, Lisa who is ranked fifth in the Swedish stats and ahead of Julia by 24.14.
So far, only three girls in Sweden have run under 23 seconds.
Carolina Kluft with her 22.98, Erin Ekelund with 22.92 and record holder Linda Haglund with 22.82.
He’s the oldest Swedish record on the women’s side, turning 43 this summer.
Julia Henrikson could have gone home with three wins, if the relay team had not missed the last change of 4 x 100 metres.