04/11/2021 11:53
Clarín.com
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Updated 04/11/2021 11:53
Jennifer Dahlgren, a benchmark for Argentine athletics, announced on Sunday her retirement from the activity after winning her twelfth hammer throwing title in the National Senior Championship that was held in the Entre Ríos city of Concepción del Uruguay.
Dahlgren, 36, put an end to a 23-year career with a mark of 63.07 meters, ostensibly lower than the 73.74 with which he set the current South American record in the specialty, on April 10, 2010 in Buenos Aires.
"It was my last tournament, I had been processing it for a while but I am obviously moved because I closed a huge stage in my life," she told DeporTV with emotion.
Jennifer Dahlgren, in the field, with her hammer.
"I am happy to do it on top of a podium, I would have liked to retire with more tribune, with my people, but I know that they are accompanying me from Buenos Aires and the United States, where my family is. It is a great moment for me", confessed.
Dahlgren, who in May last year had advanced his idea of retiring after the Tokyo Olympics, finally precipitated his decision by feeling
"a major disconnect"
in the last tournaments he competed.
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"
I didn't have that much fire
anymore," she explained. "Throwing a hammer was the great passion of my life and I'm grateful for everything I went through. I feel lucky to be able to retire when I wanted to."
The porteña, three-time South American champion and bronze in the Rio de Janeiro 2007 Pan American Games, competed in four Olympic Games (Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio de Janeiro 2016), and is the Argentine with the greatest presence in World Athletics Seniors with seven participations: Helsinski 2005;
Osaka 2007;
Berlin 2009, Daegú 2011, Moscow 2013, Beijing 2015 and London 2017.
Source: Télam