Ski: Schnarf retires, touched bronze twice at the Olympics

Goodbye to the races for Johanna Schnarf, the blue ski veteran who at 35 years of age decided to say enough to the competitive activity. The high South Tyrolean Valdaora (Bolzano) was one of the peaks of the great blue speed, interpreter in 15 years of career at high levels in the World Cup in the specialties of the supergiant, free and combined, has decided to bid farewell to the activity competitive after a career characterized by many injuries.
Schnarf made his World Cup debut in December 2004 in the Lake Louise superg. He took two second places in the "White Circus" (Crans Montana 2010 downhill and Cortina superg 2018). At the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games, where she had been called to replace the injured Nadia Fanchini, she touched the podium finishing the superg race with a bitter fourth place. In turn injured in September 2012 during a training session in Argentina (rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament and lateral meniscus of the right knee), Johanna returned to competitions in the following season, gradually starting to climb the rankings again, obtaining several top ten positions and touching the podium on various occasions. A podium that was often bewitched for "Hanna", as on the occasion of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Games when she ranked 5th in the supergiant at only 5 cents from bronze and 16 cents from gold. Since then other injuries and operations, today the announcement of the farewell, affectionately greeted by the sports group of finance under whose insignia the South Tyrolean skier has always competed.