Gävle. On Monday, wrote the 19-year-old Matilda Persson trotting history.
She became the first wheelchair coachman in Sweden running races.
– I’m very pleased. It feels good and start dropping now, I was so very nervous before, says Matilda Persson Sportbladet.
The Girl from Njutånger in Hälsingland has been a hot topic in trotting Sweden for a long time.
the reason: she is the first wheelchair driver with körlicens the great horse.
Matilda disease CPRS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome), which means that she can not straighten his leg and struggling with severe pain.
It has not stopped the fighter.
First, she took körlicensen the great horse.
on Monday was the debut in the races.
Faced with a massive media pull with both newspapers and television in place she drove her partly owned LHAdventure in V4-1, lunch races, the Gävletravet, the majority of trotting the largest profiles.
Before the race, she told Sport Bladet that she was nervous and had trouble sleeping the night on Monday.
Once in the race came the horse away well behind the gate, but was unfortunately hanging out in the third track .
Matilda did not go down somewhere and into the final turn was the horse tired, naturally.
LHAdventure and Matilda tried to hang on to the field, but lost a few laps and crossed the finish as the last horse in the race.
– the horse got a tough race, you can not ask for much more. It goes better next time, says Matilda Persson Sportbladet.
She continues:
– The pace was too tough – the horse is not in itself, and I do not either. Since we were hanging out in the third track for a long time without coming down somewhere.
L.H.Adventure was not heavily backed the game and had rested long before Monday’s start.
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– Trotting is great. All must be involved, says 19-year-old.
Won the race was one of the favorites, 4 Hyperfine Tooma, along with Bjorn Röcklinger.
THE RACE: View Matilda’s debut here [Note: external link]
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