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The former exceptional short track talent Anna Seidel ended her career at just 25 years old.
A famous NHL star is waiting for them in the USA.
Dresden – It's over at the age of 25: After seven European Championship medals and three Olympic participations, short tracker Anna Seidel ended her active career a week before her 26th birthday.
The Dresden native has long been considered an exceptional short track talent.
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Short racker Anna Seidel is finally calling it quits after a year-long break
“I am incredibly grateful for everything I have experienced in my career.
It was an intense but also very nice time,” said Seidel.
“I would especially like to thank my family, my trainers and my partners and sponsors.
Without this great support I wouldn’t have gotten this far.”
The two-time European Championship runner-up in 2021 will not be returning to the ice, her management announced on Sunday.
The 25-year-old took a break from competitive sports last summer, and now the three-time Olympian has announced her retirement.
For a year now, only private snapshots have been visible on her Instagram account; the last picture of Seidel in a racing suit on runners was from the Short Track World Championships in Seoul, South Korea, in March 2023.
Anna Seidel with her boyfriend Moritz Seider.
© IMAGO/Eibner press photo/Alexander Neis
Former exceptional talent (25) ends her career - her boyfriend is a German NHL superstar
It was said that Seidel would move her center of life to the USA.
Her boyfriend, national ice hockey player Moritz Seider, plays in the North American professional league NHL for the Detroit Red Wings.
“Now I’m looking forward to everything new that comes next,” explained Seidel, who will now be permanently reunited with her partner.
Seidel and Seider are considered a winter sports dream couple in the scene: she kept her fingers crossed for him while he wrote German history.
The 22-year-old NHL crack won the silver medal with Germany at last year's Ice Hockey World Cup.
It was initially not known what plans Seidel would pursue in the United States in the future.
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Short tracker was considered an exceptional talent: three Olympic participations and seven European Championship medals
The 1000 and 1500 meter specialist made her World Cup debut in 2013 as a 15-year-old and took part in the Olympic Winter Games for the first time in Sochi, Russia, that same winter.
At that time she was considered an exceptional talent in her sport.
In addition to two silver medals, Seidel won bronze five times at European Championships between 2016 and 2023.
Last September, the 25-year-old announced that she was taking a break due to physical and mental exhaustion.
It was said that she came to the realization that she would not return to competitive sports.
She celebrated her last major international success at the European Championships in Gdansk last year.
There Seidel won bronze over 1500 meters, it was her seventh European Championship medal.
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(ck/dpa)