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Biathlon surprise: German world champion ends his career - he already has new plans

2021-01-30T11:16:44.706Z


He shaped the German biathlon scene for many years, became world champion and won the Olympic Games. Simon Schempp is now ending his career.


He shaped the German biathlon scene for many years, became world champion and won the Olympic Games.

Simon Schempp is now ending his career.

  • Simon Schempp

    ends his

    biathlon career

    .

  • The 32-year-old Swabian was last plagued by injuries.

  • Now the

    biathlon world champion

    is planning to

    study.

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.

Simon Schempp: Biathlon world champion is breaking up - he is planning to study

“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. "

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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.

Of course, he will remain connected to the biathlon, after all, his

girlfriend Franziska Preuss is

one of the German hopes.

Biathlon world champion Simon Schempp stops - companions contact immediately

The reactions of prominent companions quickly accumulated under his Instagram video.

Ski ace Christof Innerhofer writes, for example: "All the best Simon and congratulations for your successes." The former world-class cross-country skier Tobias Angerer congratulates: "Chapeau for your career Simon."

(Sid / akl)

Source: merkur

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