Lenzerheide: Former world champion Hannes Reichelt announces the end of his career after 20 years

Reichelt’s greatest success was winning the gold medal in the Super-G at the 2015 World Championships. At the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, she had already won silver in this discipline, three years earlier the little girl. World Cup crystal ball. The Salzburg man has also won the World Cup 13 times, including the 2014 downhill race at the Streif in Kitzbühel. He was on the podium a total of 46 times at the World Cup.

In December 2019 Reichelt tore a cruciate ligament on downhill in Bormio, his attempts to return to his old form this winter did not bring him the desired success.

“It was clear to me that either I would ride at full speed or I would not, I really wanted to try again this season. I think I tried everything after my cruciate ligament tear and I can’t blame myself,” he said.

Reichelt will bid farewell to the last Super-G of the season in Lenzerheide as a precursor to the World Cup. Regarding his future, he said that “he always resolved to go to university after my degree, that still plays a role in my deliberations.” Of course, he also wants to “stay skiing somehow, but I still don’t know exactly how.

(SID)