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In Garmisch-Partenkirchen the Swiss Marianne Abderhalden has announced its decision to stop & rsquo; activity & agrave; racing after this season.
Friday 6 March 2015 5 minutes reading time
The 28-year old Canton of St. Gallen said that his right knee was seriously injured in December of 2011, can not stand pi & ugrave; the load of training and competition. Currently Marianne & egrave; Twenty-sixth in the ranking of the season downhill and try to qualify in the top 25 who will go to the finals of the World Cup of M & eacute; ribel if there riuscir & agrave; the descent of tomorrow on Kandahar 1 sar & agrave; the 76th and final race of the World Cup of his career.
Born on 1 & deg; April 1986 downhill pure with great fluency but cimentatasi in slalom especially in the early years of his career, Marianne Abderhalden March 3 of 2006 won the & rsquo; gold at the World Junior Le Massif, in Canada, beating of 10 cents a certain Anna Fenninger (three years pi & ugrave; young) and earning qualification for the final of specialty & agrave; World Cup in & Aring; re twelve days pi & ugrave; later. However he had to wait two years to return to racing in the circuit more, because of a partial tear to the tendon d & rsquo; Achilles in 2007.
The first placement of its 11 among the top ten in the Cup, all downhill, & egrave; also the first of his five podium finishes, the third-place finish in surprise March 6, 2010 in Crans Montana. In December of & rsquo; following year at Lake Louise in the second jump down the crusaders of the right knee, back to the races l & rsquo; and year after finishing third in the second of their two runs in the resort & agrave; Canadian.
His best season & egrave; was undoubtedly the last, when & egrave; was second and fourth in the two downhills in Lake Louise, a track that is perfectly suited to its characteristics, then on December 21, 2013 comes even victory in Val d & rsquo; Is & egrave; re, then the next month comes second even in Cortina d & rsquo; Ampezzo finishing fifth in the ranking of the season down, fails only at the Olympics in Sochi in 2014, his only edition of the Games held, web surfing does not arrive at the finish line n & eacute; the descent of the super combined n & eacute; in that for the medal & rsquo; gold.
In two editions of the World Cup (the last two) the best result & egrave; the fourteenth place in super combined in Schladming two years ago. In European Cup boasts four third places between 2009 and 2010. Quest & rsquo; year suffers because of knee problems, and the best result & egrave; an eighth place in the & ldquo; his & rdquo; Val d & rsquo; Is & egrave; re that the qualification for the World Championships in Vail / Beaver Creek where it comes from twenty-ninth. Now the decision to say enough. Good luck for your life extra-competitive Marianne!
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