Alexandersson was Junior World Champion in the middle distance in 2009 and 2010. In 2010 she was named Swedish Orienteer of the Year. At the Junior World Championships in 2011 she was fourth in the sprint, second in the long distance and third in the middle distance. With the Swedish relay she won the gold medal together with Helena Karlsson and Linnea Martinsson . In 2011 she was also appointed to the World Active Championship in Savoie , France . She started the relay and together with Helena Jansson and Annika Billstam won the bronze medal behind the teams from Finland and the Czech Republic. At the end of the 2011 season, she also won her first World Cup race with the Postfinancesprint in Zurich , and in 2011 she won the O-ring stage race . At Swedish junior championships, she won six titles until 2011.
At the European Championships in 2012 in Falun , Sweden , Alexandersson was fifth and fourth in the middle and long distance, with the relay she was third. At the world championships of the same year in Lausanne , she won silver in the middle distance behind the Finn Minna Kauppi . A second silver medal followed with the relay. She also returned from the 2013 World Championships in Vuokatti, Finland, with two silver medals. Both in the long distance and three days later in the middle distance, she was second behind the Swiss Simone Niggli .
In 2014, she screwed her world championship record to six silver and three bronze medals: In the title fights in northern Italy, she was second in the sprint behind Judith Wyder from Switzerland, in the middle distance Alexandersson won bronze behind Annika Billstam and the Danish Ida Bobach , on the long distance she was behind the Russian Swetlana Mironowa . In the season with Billstam and Helena Jansson she was third. In 2014 Tove Alexandersson also won the O-rings for the third time after 2011 and 2013 and with a total of four individual victories she won the overall ranking of the 2014 World Cup season.
Ski orienteering
At the European Junior Ski Orienteering Championships in 2008, she took first place twice. At the Junior Ski Orienteering World Championships in 2011 she won gold and silver in singles and bronze in the relay, in 2012 she won gold in all four competitions. Among the active athletes, she also became world champion in the sprint in 2011. She defended this sprint title in 2013 in Kazakhstan before the Finn Mervi Pesu . Over the long distance she was third behind Pesu and the Russian Tatjana Koslowa, and third in the relay with Magdalena Olsson and Josefine Engström . She won another gold medal in the mixed sprint with Peter Arnesson .
Others
Alexandersson, who starts for the Stora Tuna OK club , became the Swedish champion in orienteering in 2010 (relay), 2012 (relay), 2013 (medium, long, ultra-long and relay) and 2014 (sprint). As of September 15, 2013 she was listed as number one in the world rankings for the first time and thus took the lead from the best orienteer Simone Niggli . However, the world rankings were discontinued at the turn of 2013/14 and replaced by a reformed list.
