He shaped the German biathlon scene for many years, became world champion and won the Olympic Games.
Simon Schempp is now ending his career.
Stuttgart - off, that's it, that's it!
The four-time biathlon world champion
Simon Schempp
has ended his career.
“It was an honor,” wrote the 32-year-old in a farewell message on Instagram on Thursday.
After persistent back problems and some bitter disappointments in the World Cup, the
2017 mass start world champion
drew the line
.
“Of course that was the most difficult decision of my career, but it feels good and just right,” wrote
Schempp
, who won a total of three medals at the
Winter
Olympics.
For some time he has felt “that my body is no longer fully resilient” and his “irrepressible will could not change anything” in this state.
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“Ultimately, I couldn't be the biathlete I was for a long time, neither in competition nor in training,” added
Schempp
: “We went through thick and thin together for 20 years.
It was an incredibly intense, demanding, instructive, but above all a wonderful, successful journey. "
Schempp
celebrated a total of
twelve individual victories in the World Cup.
At the
2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang
, he took silver in the mass start.
In the current season, Schempp was only at the start at the home World Cup in Oberhof, but did not get past places 58 (sprint) and 45 (pursuit).
After his sporting career,
Schempp
wants to concentrate
on his professional training and is aiming for a university degree.