Sweden’s uneven bars star Jonna Adlerteg gave a short interview to SVT Sport about her preparation for Euros.
Translated by Linnea Lindstrom
The injuries got European silver medalist Jonna Adlerteg to only focus on bars and more weightlifting:
“I have gotten stronger and you can tell in training. I am flying higher and the skills feel easier. I am not getting as tired”.
It has been five years since Adlerteg won the European silver medal on bars. She missed Rio due to knee injuries (torn meniscus and ACL) and that resulted in her focusing even more on bars and upper body strength than she did in 2013:
“I was a child back then. Now that I added weightlifting, I have gotten to a new level. I lift weights three times a week on top of the gymnastics training”.
Her coach, Sebastian Melander, commented on that:
“We want the weight training to give her stability and the ability to have a high difficulty for a long period of time. In my opinion, she is better now than she was in 2013. She has more experience and she has gone through a period with difficult injuries that made her stronger”.
Jonna Adlerteg is finally injury-free and has more difficulty than before, but so do her opponents:
“I am trying to keep my expectations low, I am focusing on my performance. The goal is to hit my routine and that is my focus”.
European championships is a major competition but also a stepping stone towards the World Championship and the Olympics in Tokyo 2020. Adlerteg wants to show what she is capable of after all of her injuries:
“I want to be in the Olympic bars final, for sure and an Olympic medal has always been my dream”.
