Retires, definitely, Claudia Nystad

The 30 Km Oslo-Holmenkollen & egrave; was l & rsquo; last race of the career of Claudia Nystad, also known by the name of Miss K & uuml; nzel, the last bastion of the generation d & rsquo; gold cross country skiing German.

Monday 16 March 2015 4 minutes reading time

Born in 1978, had already Nystad & agrave; abandoned l & rsquo; activity & agrave; racing after the Olympics in Vancouver, returning however two seasons ago with the & rsquo; aim to revive Germany, fresh from the failure of the World Championships in Val di Fiemme. The decision finally hanging up the skis to the nail had been known for some time, so that the 30 Km of Oslo & egrave; was for her a long catwalk during which the Norwegian public has made the dutiful homage to a successful career. & Ldquo; & Egrave; was one of the races that I enjoyed the most & ugrave ;, normally run to get to the finish line as quickly as possible, but today I did not hurry. During the & rsquo; last lap people stopped me to say goodbye and to click pictures with me! & Rdquo; the words of 37 year-old Saxon released yesterday at the end of his latest work. Nystad ends a career during which he contributed along with Evi Sachenbacher, Manuela Henkel, Viola Bauer and their male colleagues Tobias Angerer, Axel Teichmann and Rene Sommerfeldt, to transform Germany into one of the powers of cross country skiing world. In his list included four victories and 28 podium finishes in top-level competitions and 11 individual medals (3 Gold, 7 Silver and 1 Bronze, 2 Individual and Team 9) between Olympics (5) and World Championships (6), numbers that make it the German cross-country skier pi & ugrave; winning the reunification today. His last season, started pi & ugrave; that well with fifth place in the 10 km free technique in Davos best result, & egrave; was subsequently conditioned negatively by the fall and consequent injury sustained during the second stage of the Tour de Ski, so that no & egrave; even been selected for the relay race of the World Falun. Now we will dedicate Nystad & agrave; to the family, but not & egrave; except that it can remain in & rsquo; environment as her husband Trond Nystad & egrave; one of the coaches of the main formidable team of Norwegian cross-country skiing. & Nbsp;

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