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With a long post on Instagram Werner Heel announced his retirement from competitions coinciding with the weekend on the track where he achieved his best results, that of Kvitfjell.
Saturday 2 March 2019 4 minutes reading time
"Hi everyone 😃 I have a message for you 😃 It's time to say goodbye! 👋🻠Once again it is a matter of trusting one's instinct, of abandoning oneself to impulses, of having a feeling for the right timing. Since my debut in the World Cup in Bormio in 2001 I have lived countless breathtaking moments and I met countless inspiring people in the most wonderful places in the world. But now it is time to start a new chapter in life that I can not wait to experience, with joy and hope. After 205 World Cup races, tomorrow (today for those who read, ed) here at Kvitfjell, it will be my last. 🙂 For the last time I will give everything, living the moment with pride and melancholy knowing that it is the right thing to do. I want to take this opportunity to express my deep gratitude to all those who supported me on this adventurous journey. Above all I want to thank my parents and my brothers Sandra, Barbara and Tobias, my partner Manuela (Moelgg, ed), my fan club, my teammates, my coaches and physiotherapists, the ski club SC Passeier, the group sport FISI and the Yellow Flames. And of course all the ski sponsors and producers, without whom I would not have lived the career I had. Thank you very much, I hope to see you all again very soon! Keep your fingers crossed for me once again, as I will for all of you! Your Werner ".
Born March 23, 1982 in Merano and resident in San Leonardo in Passiria, Werner Heel, as he writes, debuted in the World Cup in the descent of Bormio December 29, 2001 and that of today will be his 204th race in the Circus White. It was in Kvitfjell that he placed himself for the first time in the first ten, in the descent of 10 March 2007, after many years of apprenticeship. The following year, the 29th of February 2008, the first victory arrived, always in Kvitfjell and always downhill, in the locality of the Lillehammer Olympics 1994 it will conquer four of its ten podiums total in the Cup. He will win two more races, the super-G in Val Gardena on December 19, 2008 and in Are on March 12, 2009. He finished third in the 2010 descent and second in the super-G in 2009, when he was sixteenth in the general, placement equaled in 2013. Between 2007 and 2015 he participated in five editions of the World Cup and his best placement is a seventh place downhill in Val d'Isere 2009, while at the first of his two Olympic Games, Vancouver 2010, he was fourth in superG only 2 cents from the bronze of the then American carneade Andrew Weibrecht. Good life, Werner!
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