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Former world and Olympic champion Anna Veith has surprisingly announced her retirement.
Shutdown, end, finished! Austrian skier Anna Veith ends her career! Veith, formerly Fenninger, will announce his retirement from active sports in May. However, the surprising step leaked out of ÖSV circles on Wednesday afternoon. An explosion in Austrian sports! Veith was the figurehead of the ÖSV women. Eight months after Marcel Hirscher’s resignation, the 30-year-old is the next ÖSV star to leave the big stage. There was no official confirmation at the moment.
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Veith, born Fenninger and married to Manuel Veith since April 2016, is one of the most successful alpine skiers in recent years. The Salzburg woman is an Olympic champion (Super G 2014), triple world champion (Super combination 2011, Super-G and giant slalom 2015), twice winner of the World Cup (2013/14 and 2014/15) and three times the Austrian Athlete of the Year (2013, 2014, 2015).
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Anna Veith’s career in pictures
Anna Veith’s career in pictures
Anna Veith’s career in pictures
Anna Veith’s career in pictures
Anna Veith’s career in pictures
Anna Veith’s career in pictures
Anna Veith’s career in pictures
Anna Veith’s career in pictures
Veith has been injured multiple times in his sole career and has had several major knee surgeries. Over and over again, the Salzburg woman struggled to return to the top of the world. After the last cruciate ligament surgery in January 2019, the big comeback was unsuccessful. The last season was a bitter disappointment for Veith without a podium.
Anna made the breakthrough under her maiden name Fenninger with Kombi-WM-Gold 2011. The year after the Olympic coup, she became double world champion (Super-G, RTL) at the World Cup in Vail 2015, some A few weeks later, the Salzburg woman won the World Cup for the second consecutive time.
Then the deep blow in training: cruciate ligament, internal ligament and patellar tendon rupture in the right knee. After the return, he lost the Olympic gold in Pyeongchang by a hundredth. After another cruciate ligament rupture in January 2019, the runner, Anna Veith since the 2016 wedding, is struggling for the connection. During the crown crisis, he decided to hang up his skis.
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