Mårten Boström

Mårten Boström (2013)

Mårten Bernt Erik Boström (born August 3, 1982 in Kirkkonummi ) is a Finnish athlete and orienteer . In 2013 he became world champion over the sprint distance in orienteering.

Career

Mårten Boström was born in 1982 as the youngest of four children in Kirkkonummi, southern Finland, into an orienteering family. His brother Mikael Boström , who was twelve years older than him , was runner-up in the Finnish relay team in 1997 and 1999. He had his first contact with orienteering at the age of four.

In 2004, Boström won the bronze medal in the sprint at the European Orienteering Championships. In 2005 he was also the Finnish champion in this discipline. Between 2004 and 2007 he took part in orienteering world championships four times in a row and achieved ninth place as the best result. Then he devoted himself to the goal of qualifying for the Olympic marathon. In 2008, he would have needed a time of 2:15 hours, but he missed it with 2:18:51 hours, set up in the marathon in Ottawa , Canada . Also in 2012 he tried to qualify for the Olympic Games. At the Rotterdam Marathon on April 15, 2012, however, he again exceeded the qualifying time with 2:21:03 h. Then his focus returned to orienteering and the upcoming 2013 home world championships in Finland, where he surprisingly won the sprint distance competition.

Boström is married to the orienteer Matleena Boström (née Ojapalo ). Before moving to the Swedish club IFK Lidingö in 2013, he was a member of the Finnish clubs Lynx and Turun Metsäkivijät . Boström studied geographic information science at Northern Arizona University (B.Sc.) and University of Helsinki (M.Sc.).

Placements

athletics

Finnish Championships:

• 2nd place in cross-country run 2007
• 3rd place in the cross-country run in 2006, in the 10,000-meter run in 2006 and in the 3000-meter obstacle course in 2009

Orienteering

World Championships:

• 2004: 17th place sprint
• 2005: Quali Sprint
• 2006: 13th place sprint
• 2007: 9th place sprint
• 2013: 1st place sprint

European Championships:

• 2004: 3rd place sprint

Finnish Championships:

• 1st place in the sprint 2005
• 2nd place in the sprint 2003 and 2004

Top performances

• 800 meter run : 2: 02.89 min on May 31, 2007 in Helsinki
• 1500 meter run : 4: 03.62 min on July 6, 2010 in Helsinki
• 3000 meter run : 8: 22.53 min on March 19, 2006 in Tempe (Arizona)
• 3000 meter obstacle : 9: 05.44 min on June 30, 2010 in Espoo
• 5000 meter run : 14: 21.76 min on April 13, 2006 in Walnut (California)
• 10,000 meter run : 29: 16.68 min on April 5, 2008 in Palo Alto
• Half marathon : 1:05:59 h on April 20, 2008 in Siuntio
• Marathon : 2:18:51 am on May 25, 2008 in Ottawa

Web links

• Mårten Boström World of O Runners
• Mårten Boström tilastopaja.org