When I just learnt how to walk it was time for me to find new challanges, and that was skating! But not speedskating, I started my ice- career in the smallest figureskating skates you can find. I really loved to skate and dreamed of beeing a skating queen, but I was not too much for piruetts or jumps. When I was
at the age of 9-10 my dad took my two sisters and me to the skating oval in Gothenburg, when we tryied the skates, it was a really strange feeling, but after that visit I was stuck in the sport. And the skates didn't feel as uncomfortable as they were for the first time. The ice training was going smoothly and soon I could

qualify for the Swedish Championships. It was really fun, so I decided to practise my skating so I could come back next year and skate faster and better!
So I did, and still am.
Sport is one thing I really love, ecpecielly ice, so offcourse I have tryied other ice- sports too, Short Track. But the only times I have skated it is on the Swedish Championships, were I came on first place, for the second year in a row. So this is the story about how it all started...

Feel great - Speedskate ! Claudia Wallin