14-year-old Ronja Wraae Würtz brought home a gold medal to Nuuk from the Danish Swimming Championships.
Before the Danish Swimming Championships, the swimming club went to Reykjavik to participate in the Reykjavik International Games. Ronja Wraae Würtz won gold in the youth competitions in the 50, 100 and 200 meter butterfly. She also qualified for the finals in the categories for all age groups, where she won silver against the event's adult swimmers in the 200 meter butterfly and bronze in the 100 meter butterfly.
Ronja brought home three gold medals, one silver medal and one bronze medal from Reykjavik.
Nuuk Swimming Club represented Greenland by wearing Erfalasorput on swimming caps, jerseys and bags in Reykjavík.
First gold medal
Ronja Wraae Würtz and Ragna Sander Granlien traveled from Reykjavík to the Danish Swimming Championships. Ronja won the Danish Championship gold in the 200-meter butterfly, where she competed against the best Danish swimmers in the same age group. Ronja is therefore the first swimmer from Greenland to take a gold medal home from the Danish Championship.
- We knew that our swimmers were in good training and are in a good place mentally. But we hardly dared to hope for so many good results in Reykjavík and a Danish Championship gold medal, says Ane Wraae Nielsen on behalf of the entire coaching team.
Ronja is motivated to participate in the Island Games, which will be held in the Faroe Islands in 2027, even though it means she has to take another 10 seconds off her current record.
- It was a really cool experience to participate in the Island Games in Orkney last year. There is a very special atmosphere among all the island states. I really want to go again and fight for a medal for Greenland, says Ronja Wraae Würtz.
Good unity
The club is really happy with the medals and the great effort from the coaches and the young people. But just as important is that training camps and competitions provide good unity between the young people. They motivate each other to do more sports by cheering for each other, and by the young people experiencing their own and their friends' development.
- We are happy and proud of what we have built and what the children have learned and achieved. They will carry that with them forever, and no one can take that from them, says Ane Wraae Nielsen.
The trips were made possible with support from the West Nordic Capital Fund, the Greenland Fund at NATA, the Helene and Svend Junge Fund, the Municipality of Sermersooq and the Greenland Sports Federation.
