Tove Alexandersson

Tove Alexandersson is a Swedish athlete born in 1992 who competes in foot orienteering and ski orienteering and has also won world titles in skyrunning, ski mountaineering, mountain and trail running and the snow running discipline SkySnow. Her orienteering career began with a run of junior world titles, including the middle distance championship in 2009, 2010 and 2012, followed by several years of silver and bronze medals before her breakthrough in 2016, when she took the top world ranking and won both individual forest titles at the World Orienteering Championships. In 2021 she won gold in all five events of a single championship, a first for any athlete, and she holds the record of eleven consecutive world championship golds between 2018 and 2022. By the 2025 championships she had equalled the record of 23 orienteering world championship golds held by Simone Niggli-Luder. She won the World Cup nine times in a row from 2014 to 2023, and in 2018 she became the first athlete ranked number one in three disciplines by the International Orienteering Federation. Her honours include the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in 2019, the Jerring Award in 2020 and the King's Medal in 2022. She competes for Stora Tuna OK in orienteering and Alfta-Ösa OK in ski orienteering.