Sara Christiansson named athlete of the month

Sara Christiansson was yesterday named athlete of the month in Sweden for her performances in november 2017.

Sara had a great cross country season where she was second behind the World Championship finalist in 1500m, Meraf Bahta, at National Cross Country Championships and two weeks later she took a surprising victory at Nordic Cross Country Championships.

Sara is now in Flagstaff, AZ, USA, at a high altitude camp together with Lisa Bergdahl preparing for the summer season 2018. She is the second in the Bannister Running group who is named athlete of the month. In July Andreas Kramer was selected after his perfomances which included gold medal at European Junior U23 Championships and new national record at 800m.