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Around eight months after Marcel Hirscher, Austrian ski races could lose another figurehead. Anna Veith will announce her retirement from active racing in May. The “Kronen Zeitung” reported Wednesday, citing information from inside circles. There is currently no official confirmation from the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV).
The “Krone” cited private reasons as the reason for the surprising resignation of Salzburg’s only 30-year-old man, who had persistently struggled to stay on top of the world after serious injuries in recent years. Family desire has come to the fore. Veith, formerly Fenninger, married former snowboarder Manuel Veith in 2016, with whom he also runs a hotel in Rohrmoos.
Veit is one of the most successful alpine skiers in recent years. The Salzburg native is an Olympic champion (Super-G 2014), triple world champion (Super combination 2011, Super-G and giant slalom 2015), twice World Cup winner (2013/14 and 2014/15) and was three times the athlete of the year in Austria (2013, 2014, 2015) was chosen.
Suffering begins in 2015
In October 2015, Fenninger fell sharply during training immediately before the start of the World Cup in Sölden, causing a tear of the cruciate ligament and internal ligament and a tear in the patellar tendon in his right knee. Veith had to pause the entire season. He returned in December 2016, but had to stop the season and undergo surgery again due to chronic inflammation of the patella tendon in his left knee.
As a result, he fought fiercely to keep up with old successes, which Veith managed to shore up with Super G silver at the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, when he had to give up Czech Esther Estecka by a hundredth of a second. In January 2019, Veith suffered another cruciate ligament tear. He had to stop the season and missed the World Cup in Aare.
Light at the end of the tunnel
In the last World Cup season, which ended prematurely due to the crown virus, Veith reported. As seventh in Rosa Chutor’s Super-G, she had placed her best position on the World Cup results charts in February 2018. At the time she was seventh in the Courchevel giant slalom and sixth in the Super-G from Lake Louise.
His last podium finish was second in March 2018 at the Super-G in Crans-Montana, his last of a total of 15 World Cup victories on December 17, 2017 at the Super-G in Val d’Isere. Veith celebrates his 31st birthday on June 18.
